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1. Introduction
The goal of the KIllustrator project is to create a freely available vector-based drawing program
with an interface comprable to that of Corel Draw® or with Adobe Illustrator®.
1.1 About the author
The author of Killustrator is Kai-Uwe Sattler.
1.2 History of KIllustrator
From the official
KIllustrator home page:
" I have started this project because I am tired of switching to Windows in order to
design illustrations for papers or slides with a modern drawing tool.
Now, for the Linux operating system and of course for other Unixes the Qt toolkit
and the KDE project provide a perfect foundation for this kind of application. "
Revision history:
- 25/03/1998 first preview version released
- 21/04/1998 second preview version released
- 23/04/1998 snapshot 0.2.1 (bug fixes only)
- 02/06/1998 snapshot 0.3 released
- 10/08/1998 snapshot 0.4 released
- 28/08/1998 snapshot 0.4.1 released
- 06/11/1998 snapshot 0.5 released
- 05/01/1999 snapshot 0.6 released
- 29/01/1999 snapshot 0.6.1 (bug fixes only)
- 09/02/1999 snapshot 0.6.2 released
- 24/02/1999 snapshot 0.6.3 released
- 06/04/1999 snapshot 0.6.4 released (bug fixes only)
- 09/04/1999 snapshot 0.6.5 released (bug fixes only)
1.3 About the handbook
This handbook refers mainly to the "stand-alone version" of
KIllustrator. Special information regarding the Killustrator component of
the KOffice package is not considered. However, the information presented here applies
in many respects to the KOffice component also.
This documentation is a translation of the original German text by Hagen Höpfner.
The current version can be found at
http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~hoepfner/kde/killustrator/en/index.html
.
Original German version: Hagen Höpfner, Hagen.Hoepfner@gmx.de
English translation: Ben Skelton, skeltobc@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
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