Re: GNOMEPrint, Icons, and shades of InSight..

[JR Tipton <nails maybe net>]

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Soren Harward wrote:
> Well, if someone added vector drawing support to The GIMP -- or wrote an
> equally good vector program for linux (I don't know of any and xfig just
> doesn't cut it) then I'd say this is a very good diea.

I haven't seen xfig, but I agree: I haven't seen very many vector drawing
applications for X (at least no non-commercial ones).

Someone said before that we might want to create a new file format: NO! 
Aargh, in the name of good software design everywhere: stop coming up with
new file formats!  For this kind of thing, EPS (encapsulated postscript)
and derivatives of it would work well as I understand it.

It seems to me that adding Photoshop-like vector drawing to GIMP, while
not trivial, wouldn't be terribly difficult; supporting EPS (or a
derivative thereof) might be a natural extension to such a feature.

william r. tipton