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14 Jul 2025 12:04:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 14 Feb 2008 12:36:57
Message: <47b47c39@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:27:59 +0200, Nekar Xenos wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:47b37404@news.povray.org...
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:56:48 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>> I tried to go down that road. I found too many things I couldn't do
>>> without Windoze. Sadly...
>>
>> Like what?  I do have a couple apps that I need Windows for, and I have
>> a VMware machine for those circumstances.  Like the odd MS Excel XML
>> document that won't open in OpenOffice (had one a couple days ago like
>> that).  Usually they open fine, but every once in a while the converter
>> just seizes up.
>>
>>
> I'm considering Ubuntu but I need to know if there is something free
> available like CorelDraw or Illustrator. I need to be able to export
> vectors to pdf and fonts and I like all the advanced capabillities of
> Corel and Illustrator.

I use Inkscape for that kind of work - the latest version is pretty 
good.  It ain't Illustrator (which I have running in a VM).

Jim


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