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A new graphics library with GPU acceleration? That's a pretty big deal (migrating from Cairo to Skia). No wonder they renamed 6.5 to 7. I'm one of the weirdos w
by themodelplumber 7y ago
A new graphics library with GPU acceleration? That's a pretty big deal (migrating from Cairo to Skia). No wonder they renamed 6.5 to 7. I'm one of the weirdos who uses LO for wargaming maps and other graphics, so it's kind of exciting to see this.
- Paianni 7y agoThey've always gone .0 to .4 and then bumped the integer up, since 4.x.
- hutzlibu 7y agoWow. That is indeed weird. I also kind of started doing graphics with libreoffice, even though that did not exist back then. But ... I switched after I saw, what programs can do, that were designed for graphics .. But if you are happy with it, why change.
- tecleandor 7y agoMy dad used Lotus 1-2-3 almost every day since the DOS days and he's super fast drawing and doing stuff with the keyboard (not so much nowadays with Libre Office or MS Office) and he is used to do almost everything with a spreadsheet: floorplans, leaflets, diagrams... Don't even try to get him to use a CAD or vector drawing software :D
- themodelplumber 7y agolol. Yeah. I have spent a lot of time on other apps. I used to teach Photoshop and Illustrator at the local college. However the complexity of using those apps just felt like a lot. Moreso as I taught students how to make flyers and even simple websites, struggling with tools that would have been easier to use in MS Word. A huge part of the class was teaching the principles of design, which would have been easier had certain tools not been in the way so often. I did encourage my students to try out other software to see if they liked it better. These days I really like the simplicity of LO Draw, for example. Any time I need a new map for a campaign, it's really easy to just add a new page to the main document. And there are zero licensing issues to track along with the many others I already track. Plus the principles of design work the same, so with this "one simple trick" (25+ years of illustration and design experience) I can get superior graphics quality results with the same tools that others think are not so great. There's some nostalgia in there too; I used StarOffice from the moment I heard it was free. Back in the '90s that was kind of a big deal to a poor university student.
- aklemm 7y agoIt's been a while for me, but I found Draw super useful in the past.
- hawski 7y agoDoes anyone know the state of hardware acceleration in Cairo? I remember that gl backend was in development for years. Also AFAIK gtk in future versions is supposed to be done with a scene graph at the bottom of things, will Cairo remain in use by the gtk project?
- grandinj 7y agonote that the new graphics backend is still optional, and exists alongside the existing backends.
- wodenokoto 7y agoCan you share a map you've created in LibreOffice? I can't imagine what such a map would look like, or how you would even go about creating it.