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Inkscape 1.4
- billfruit 2y agoHave they added any method of setting a tool style before drawing, rather than adjusting style after drawing?
- ants_everywhere 2y agoIt's always fun to set up your font, then write some text and realize it's in the wrong font and all your work was lost
- fourteenfour 2y agoI just installed 1.4 to check and it now appears to keep the font you've chosen.
- billfruit 2y agoWhat about line style etc? Is is possible to define the style of line you want and then create lines of that style. Presently one workflow to work around it is to consider a small area of the canvas as a palette area and create lines/objects in them and apply the desires styles on them. Then duplicate these palette objects into your main drawing.
- ants_everywhere 2y agothat's great, thank you for checking!
- sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y agoIt can open Affinity Designer files!? That’s something of a buried lede. That could make the path from Designer to FreeCAD a bit easier; FreeCAD still has something of a special relationship with Inkscape SVG files.
- user3939382 2y agoThe prospect of discarding 25 years of muscle memory in Adobe Illustrator is unfathomable to me, as much as I loathe what Adobe has become.
- ltlnx 2y agoIt does have Ai shortcuts to choose from in the settings, if there's problems or inaccuracies with it you can also open an issue at https://inkscape.org/report/ https://inkscape.org/report/ .
- omoikane 2y agoThe one new feature in 1.4 that I appreciated the most is the ability to disable anti-aliasing when exporting from the command line: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5167 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5167 Before this option appeared in Inkscape nightly builds, I had no way of automating a pipeline to rasterize SVGs into black&white PNGs in a pixel perfect way.
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- msarnoff 2y agoI love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.
- thot_experiment 2y agoIs there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a menu, it needs to run at 100+fps when I'm editing paths. EDIT: I installed the latest version (under W10) and while it doesn't degrade to bounding boxes it's still like 10fps and it leaves trailing copies of the item being dragged around the canvas while I'm dragging. Really disappointing.
- wg0 2y agoCan't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.
- thot_experiment 2y agoJust installed under Arch and while performance is better and there are no solitaire style copy-trails when I drag stuff it's still like 15-20fps when I'm dragging even a simple shape around while Illustrator manages 170fps without issue even with complex nested groups.
- wg0 2y agoIllustrator is on Linux too? Could this low frame rate be related to missing drivers? Very less likely though. I think Inkspace probably should have its own UI kit rendered directly on GPU. That's lot of work however.
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- sprucevoid 2y agoUnfortunately 1.4 does not fix command palette issues on Windows (5+ seconds to show, freezes, crashes, several commands accessible through UI buttons not available through palette with same name phrase). Finding the name of an action and how to trigger it (button somewhere or menu/submenu item) is a pain point in Inkscape and a good command palette can help a lot.
- tetris11 2y agoThe more I learn about the SVG spec, the more I understand the rationale of some of the UI decisions inkscape made, and the more impressed I am by how they implemented advanced techniques like shape union and intersection, clipping and masking.
- urban_alien 2y agoCare to elaborate? I'm curious.
- AlienRobot 2y agoFrom the little I know about SVG, I wish there was an open source alternative to Inkscape that didn't support standard SVG but used a proprietary format instead. Almost everything you need to create vector art, SVG doesn't support. Multiple outlines in a single shape? No. Varying thickness in an outline? No. Rounded corners on arbitrary vertices? No. Non-destructive boolean operations? No. I'm not even sure SVG supports paragraphs. Many of these Inkscape implements as live filters, which are saved as SVG extensions in the XML .svg file that nobody but Inkscape can properly load. SVG is ridiculously bad as a creation format. It's a good format to export to, but as a backend and it's just insane. It's like using a single PNG file as a backend for your multi-layer 128bpp raster project. I use Inkscape a lot but I can't help but notice that the best vector art illustration come from Affinity Designer, Corel Draw, and Adobe Illustrator. If you compare the quality of artwork made with proprietary tools to those made with Inkscape, it's very clear that Inkscape severely limits what artists can achieve. You can easily create complex illustrations in other tools that would be a nightmare to manage in Inkscape. Just compare how you clip something in Inkscape to how you do it in Affinity. It's ridiculous how different the two workflows are.
- n3storm 2y agoAre you creatively crippled by not being able to create multiple outlines on a single shape on a file format that can be viewed in almost any device from here to eternity at no cost? Cause you know Michelangelo didn't use procreate in a iPad...do you?
- neves 2y agoI've just bought a Surface Pro tablet. Does Inkscape interface work well in a tablet or with a pen?
- janci 2y agoSome operations are best with keyboard (i.e. moving, zooming, panning, duplicating, acessing panels) and you need modifier keys quite often. You can map one or two to the stylus buttons, but that may not be sufficient
- WillAdams 2y agoIt can be a bit fussy, but works well --- unfortunately, there hasn't really been a vector drawing program focused specifically on stylus use since Futurewave Smartsketch (which became Flash by way of Futuresplash Animator). As noted elsethread: Wick Editor implements some aspects of the vector drawing from Flash: https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ If you're willing to consider a commercial option, Serif's Affinity Designer may suit.
- ltlnx 2y agoI really hope it does, but for now it lacks in the basics such as panning (Krita can hold down a button + move pen to pan the canvas), button support (I don't think there's a way to map pen buttons to specific functions, let alone switch between them), and the drawing tools are still really basic. They are focusing on UX for the next release though, and UX issues can be discussed in the Inkscape UX Gitlab repo.
- WillAdams 2y agoAlso check out the HyVector app mentioned elsethread: https://hyvector.com/ https://hyvector.com/
- bityard 2y agoInkscape has its UI quirks but is really quite a fantastic tool for people who make things. It's my go-to tool for anything that looks like a 2D vector image or plot. I even use it to design vinyl motorcycle emblems: https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2022/June/diy-vinyl-cut-motorcycle-emblem https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2022/June/diy-vinyl-cut-mo...
- prmoustache 2y agoI am always surprised to see people recreating the faded/worn out branding of stuff they own when restoring them. I mean as a consumer I see it as a mark of disrespect from the manufacturer to plaster its logo everywhere. I am paying for the product, not to be an advertising billboard ffs! If you want me to advertise your product, let me negociate the terms and my retribution. This was particularly annoying on road bicycles in the early 2000's where most bike manufacturers would put as many are 7 or 8 logos on the frame and every single component maker would also do the same with loud bright on black logos for every single other part. see this example of a cannodale supersix of that era: https://files.bikeindex.org/uploads/Pu/582923/large_BRD28952_PH1_02.jpg https://files.bikeindex.org/uploads/Pu/582923/large_BRD28952... Bottom line: when I am restoring a bicycle, motorbike, whatever, the first thing to go are usually the branding and logos.
- criddell 2y agoIf you were restoring a classic Lamborghini, you wouldn't keep the bull logo? Most things are ugly though. The stuff people restore (like classic motorcycles) often have pretty great aesthetics and that's part of why they want to restore the object. https://classictwowheels.com.au/1973-norton-850-commando/ https://classictwowheels.com.au/1973-norton-850-commando/
- prmoustache 2y agoI guess it would depend if I have it as an investment or to drive it myself. I would certainly keep the original logos in storage for future sale anyway.
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- anthk 2y agoAdobe might be more impressive wiht AI but wth that your data will be exploited by bigger players. And, in media, in a world of lawsuits, the big media corpos often have better lawyers. If you want your media to be stolen to generate 'new' media, choose Adobe. If you want to own your produced media, choose free software, such as Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Cinelerra-CV, KDEnlive, Blender, Ardour.
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- jgalt212 2y agoIt would be nice if Inkscape supported SVG P/S. We need that for BIMI, and now have to pay someone who has access to Adobe.
- Cyphase 2y agoFor anyone in a similar boat, I just heard of someone using Adobe Illustrator's 7-day trial to generate their BIMI logo file. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-996-notes.pdf https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-996-notes.pdf (page 18) https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/996 https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/996
- jgalt212 2y agoThanks, I'll give it a shot.
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- fractallyte 2y agoYou could just hand-edit Inkscape's plain or optimized SVG file: https://bimigroup.org/creating-bimi-svg-logo-files/ https://bimigroup.org/creating-bimi-svg-logo-files/ (It's really not too difficult.)
- mixmastamyk 2y agoThat site has links to tools at github.
- WillAdams 2y agoThat sort of thing makes me wonder if Inkscape shouldn't have a configurable "Post-processor" option like to that used for G-code, possibly on a per-file basis (add the editing commands needed after saving to a user-editable pane).
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- Dwedit 2y agoWe really need a vector editor that has some of the features of Flash's UI. I haven't seen them in other programs.
- WillAdams 2y agoWick Editor implements some aspects of the vector drawing from Flash: https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ https://www.wickeditor.com/#/
- wwweston 2y agoThey were called Fireworks and Freehand. Sadly, they didn't survive Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia.
- WillAdams 2y agoSerif's Affinity Designer was consciously modeled on Freehand, and Quasado became GraviT which likewise was inspired by Freehand.
- jansan 2y agoI am working on another SVG editor called Hyvector ( https://hyvector.com https://hyvector.com ). It is an SVG editor, but I am trying to hide the strange quirks of SVG from the user.
- jarek-foksa 2y agoI'm working on Boxy SVG which combines vector drawing and animation tools: https://boxy-svg.com https://boxy-svg.com
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- Jerry2 2y agoI love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D vector software that I use and recommend is Graphite [1]. It too is open source. Graphite has nodes and can be procedural in nature. Have them both in your graphics toolbox. [1] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite
- sirsinsalot 2y agoIf you've not, please donate x
- smartmic 2y agoAnother gem in my graphics toolbox is edraw [1], an embedded vector drawing tool for Emacs. I use it to make quick sketches in Orgmode files, and it is highly recommended for any Emacs enthusiast. [1] https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw
- zelphirkalt 2y agoThat is truly impressive. I have a hunch though, that it is not well suitable for proper diagrams, due to all the things like wrapping text that is too long for a line inside a shape, inside the shape onto more lines. Dynamically wrapping text when a node's size changes. Moving edges when nodes are moved. All those things one takes for granted in an actual diagramming tool.
- weinzierl 2y agoInkscape has been a staple in my toolbox for decades. The only gripe I have is that it could have been a bit more stable at times.
- teleforce 2y agoIs there any open source hybrid vector and bitmap drawing tool? I used to use Xara Extreme and it's very fast, intuitive and handy mainly due its hybrid features. It's also used to be open source but not anymore: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
- o1o1o1 2y agoInkscape is one of the best and most important tools in my arsenal. From creating and editing vectors for use with a laser cutter to designing icons when tools like Illustrator are too expensive and alternatives like ChatGPT fall short, Inkscape never ceases to amaze me with its capabilities. It's remarkable how well this open-source, free application performs. Thank you, Inkscape, for being one of the most reliable and impressive apps I know!
- p0w3n3d 2y agoI did a lot of strange things in old Inkscape to achieve the same result as given by this new: Shape Builder You can now tackle quick edits on raster (pixel) images within Inkscape using the Shape Builder tool. Load an image and select sections that you want to isolate.
- rullopat 2y agoIs it only me that, when I open Inkspace, I really cannot get anything done without watching a tutorial or reading docs / blog posts?
- Kuinox 2y agoSame for me, if I want to get something done, I need illustrator (which i don't know well too, but it's way more intuitive)
- ltlnx 2y agoDo you have prior experience with other vector editors? For me it's pretty intuitive (save for some papercuts), but that may be due to my lack of experience with other editors.
- gattr 2y agoI like Inkscape very much and use it for all my (usually quite simple) vector drawing needs. From the get go, it was quite intuitive to use - my first vector editor experience was with CorelDRAW 3 in the early 90s.
- bubblesnort 2y agoThere's an obscured close button in the top right corner. If you want to skip the welcome dialog just click that. The second time it appears, you can uncheck "Show this every time" in the lower left corner and then click "New Document". ...or you could click Save on the first dialog and then click " Thanks!". You'll get the same dialog as above when you'd have closed it with the button in the corner.
- Suppafly 2y agoI think they are implying they can't figure out how to use the program, not complaining about the helpful start screen.
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- ho_schi 2y agoWoo-ha! … bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4. Gtk4. Meanwhile at Gimp? Puh. Maybe they will manage to port to the 14 year old Gtk3 soon. I hope it at least. I’m sure the Gimp developers doing their best and will benefit soon from Wayland and HiDPI.
- fullstop 2y agoThe funny part is what the G in GTK initially represented.
- dustypotato 2y agoWoah . I googled to make sure I read right. It's true!
- account42 2y agoGood. I hope Gimp stays on GTK 3 for as long as possible so I don't have to use GTK 4.
- pxoe 2y agoCalligraphy pen is still unusable, laggy and jaggy. Too slow, not enough setting increments to fine tune it, awfully, almost absurdly angular on even slightly fast motions. 0.92 remains the most responsive version. Welp, i don't know what i expected, since every time i'd check latest version it'd still be like this. Celebrating 4 years of Inkscape breaking calligraphy tool and never fixing it since.