Message-ID: <683ab63f@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <100le5o$318dd$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1016dr6$1e7od$1@news1.tnib.de> <1016gih$355q7$6@dont-email.me> <1019l0j$3s6rv$1@dont-email.me> <683a690e@news.ausics.net> <101dqb6$tefk$1@dont-email.me> <683a7a0e@news.ausics.net> <101e1p5$ucpf$3@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 31 May 2025 17:56:47 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 36 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On 31 May 2025 13:39:58 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> ... I've tried and dismissed Inkscape and GIMP a long time ago. > > I really don't understand that. Inkscape is a wonderful design tool for > resolution-independent graphics, and its native format is SVG, which is > the standard format for vector graphics online. Too big, complicated, way more than I need as a non-artist. > And GIMP has better support for deep pixels than even Adobe can manage. Dunno what a "deep pixel" is. MtPaint does more than I need already, GIMP does many times what I need to the point that I can't find what I need. > Both have good Python APIs for automation/extension purposes Image editing can be automated with scripts calling ImageMagick, and Xfig can export to Postscript which can be edited using scripts as well. > and so does Blender, of course. > > Blender also now has "Grease Pencil" functionality which is encroaching > into Synfig territory, and possibly Inkscape as well. And it's not limited > to 2D in either case. Umm OK, I don't do animation in the first place. The thing to understand is that I don't aspire to be any sort of graphic artist, so I don't want to learn their tools if I've got easier, smaller, alternatives available. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#