Manipulate objects, rotate in two or three dimensions use sophisticated rendering to create photorealistic images. Draw gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams. 's website says 'Draw anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan. The next part of OpenOffice to explore is Draw. We've even gotten proficient at presentations … well, at least I have, and I hope you have as well. We can do word processing documents and spreadsheets now. Deprecated, LGPL is used instead.Open Office 3.2, Part 5: OpenOffice Draw by Meemaw Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).OpenDraw is available under various licenses Patterns in Inkscape (SVG) aren't restricted to bitmaps.(Indeed, does OpenDraw have any of these, other than a simple Distribute command?) Graph layout: automatic connector routing, node overlap removal, and graph layout functions (0.43+devel) are probably better in Inkscape than OpenDraw.Inset/outset (unique to inkscape? Not unique MacromediaFreehand does it better).It seems that OpenDraw requires converting text to curve first, so one can't edit the text after putting it on a curve. OpenDraw has only 3 boolean operations.'Simplify curve' missing from OpenDraw (unique to Inkscape?).OpenDraw doesn't have mid-markers, only end markers (arrow heads).Apparently OpenDraw can't fill curves with a gradient or pattern.Spirals, stars & calligraphy pen are fairly unique to Inkscape and SodiPodi ( JascWebDraw also has includes spirals).SVG support (Openoffice has some support for exporting SVG).Nevertheless, there are some areas where it's better to use Inkscape: (Please add to this list, I gather there are many others.).Double-clicking the group blurs the other objects, allowing in-group editing. Very intuitive editing of grouped objects (without ungrouping them).Integration with the rest of a Suite has the advantage of getting OpenDraw in the door as well as providing other side benefits.Export to Portable Document Format (PDF).'Convert to', convert objects to and from Paths and other object can be very useful (please rephrase this).OpenDraw currently has more features than Inkscape: Please post links to screenshots and/or insights of this vector graphics application.

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