gojo-limitless
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6 months ago Will add it as a task, to revamp the content with more accuracy.
Open abhishekpc opened 7 months ago
gojo-limitless
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6 months ago Will add it as a task, to revamp the content with more accuracy.
You really may want to highlight the distinction between vector and raster graphics. Even then, there are a range of applications.
Many applications can do both (and some can convert, e.g. can traces edges in a photo to render as SVG, rater to vector, and most vector, e.g. illustrator/diagrams, have support for one or more raster (bitmap) formats).
When dealing with raster (bitmaps), there is a distinction often made between drawing programs and photography oriented programs, but there is too much overlap and programs like GIMP and Krita can do either just fine, while more dedicated photo software (e.g. DigKam, KPhotoAlbum, Photoini) may have more filters vs. brushes.
When you talk about vector illustrations you overlap with technical diagrams where CAD software, data exploration/graphing software, chemistry 3D modeling/manipulation, and other specialized software is often needed in conjunction with LibreOffice or LaTeX solutions. Flip through the pages of any bioinformatics, medical, genetics, etc. journal and you can see the burden many of us deal with (a single publication may include diagrams of simple molecules, protein-nucleotide-carbohydrate binding, data plots with regression lines, often w/ multiple scales and types of data, annotated photomicrographs, protein/DNA/RNA sequence diagram, data-flow diagrams, biochemical pathways, and maybe even a snapshot of a graph showing the ontology used to organize data, e.g. using command line DOT to SVG output or KDE ROCS).
KDE rebranded KOffice as Calligra ages ago--and split off Krita, as well as Kexi (database)
Your link to Krita, btw, it out of date and 404's.
Finally, I would suggest when you write these, where everything is always great and sounds the same, its much more useful to explain when you would use one and NOT another, or what the differentiators are. E.g. if you use GNOME, don't use Krita, even though it pulls in a lot fewer KDE dependencies than before, you get a ton of (much better looking) Qt code, which you wouldn't w/ GIMP. Similarly, GIMP looks even uglier w/ KDE or LXQt than normal (its a Miracle that Firefox and LibreOffice render as well as they do--not sure why GIMP has such a problem w/ the Qt/GTK compatibility in KDE--even Java programs look OK these days).
While this is about Linux graphic software, you might have mentioned that LibreOffice/OpenOffice have a vector diagram program that is pretty good, and works w/ the rest of LibreOffice (and has other advantages like LibreOffice's support of OTF/TTF font variation controls, which it of particular interest if you are doing graphic stuff).
Also, several programs (Krita, GIMP) are available as Windows (including portable apps) and Krita is available for MacOS (I think GIMP is too), but not iOS--yet (fingers crossed).
Since you are talking about Linux, it is probably useful to remind people that there are very powerful command line tools (most of which get used in the background of file-manager plugins and GUIs, but are worth knowing about) like the graphviz package, ImageMagick (which is probably the easiest way to convert file formats, once you install a service menu), or good old GNU plotutils.