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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2009 13:34:35 GMT
Hi
I'm interested in creating fantasy railway maps - both geographic and metro-style/schematic. I'm a 100% novice - can anyone suggest a good graphics package to start with, please?
Thanks very much
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2009 13:43:11 GMT
I'm so much a novice that I forgot to specify - I use a PC, not a Mac!
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 25, 2009 22:12:59 GMT
From the look of various comments on here by the mapistas, 'Inkscape' seems to be a good starting point - and it is a free download too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2009 18:55:03 GMT
Thanks very much for that - I'll give it a go and see how I get on.
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Post by Ben on Oct 30, 2009 0:37:33 GMT
Inkscape is pretty good, and considering its free its very decent. Don't bother forking out anything for the bloatware like Illustrator; but then again that goes for any software  |
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 30, 2009 1:17:06 GMT
Inkscape is a new one on me, I've never heard of it. My drawing software of choice is Serif Drawplus which I have been using for almost a decade, cheaper than many of its competitors though expensive in the long term if kept up to date as mine is. Then again I use the entire Serif suite of Drawplus, Pageplus, Webplus, Photoplus, Movieplus and Panoramaplus as well as all the third party plugins, OCR, CAD, wordread and other extras that they supply.
Having said that I am a great believer in free and open source software and use Open Office Org which has a drawing package built in although I haven't actually used it. There seem to be more and more open source free packages being created for Windows users these days and they usually contain many of the features of expensive purchased software though in general terms they will never be quite as comprehensive. cnet and tucows downloads are the places to seek out decent free packages but there are others.
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