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Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Re: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Post by Varcht »

eponeponepon wrote: post #4

Ah, awesome - Inkscape has got me out of more than a few holes in the past few years, but it's always been juust crashy enough that I haven't truly felt comfortable pushing it at work, so increased stability is definitely welcome! :-)

Never seemed that buggy to me but maybe I am jaded by years of experience using $10k CG apps that crashed a lot more.

Congrats on Alpha!

Re: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Post by interfixus »

I'm equal parts awestruck and puzzled by these bordering-on-eternal beta stages some projects stick to. Inkscape has been in my toolbox for the last fifteen years or so, since around the time it forked from Sodipodi. I have thought of it as release, production ready software for years and years.

Re: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Post by themodelplumber »

Great news. What an awesome team.

Not sure if this might help anyone else but: I recently figured out a really big performance problem here that was causing crazy amounts of lag in Inkscape on multiple systems: "recently-used.xbel" in my home folder was about 300K and when referenced, the system seemed to lag while attempting to reconcile some network drives or unplugged USB drives (I wasn't sure which). I deleted it and the lag problem completely disappeared. So I put together a cron job that deletes the file every once in a while. I was surprised that what I thought was a graphics issue turned out to be a convenience-related one. :-)

Re: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Post by Lio »

jayalpha wrote: post #3

Hands off to the team. The loss of Xara was already bad. Great to have another option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara_Photo_%26_Graphic_Designe...

I never really got into Xara but I absolutely loved ArtWorks back in the day. That was probably my all time favourite graphic app.

For those that don't know ArtWorks was a vector graphic package RiscOS and predecessor of Xara. It had fast anti-aliasing and was optimised for the integer maths on the floating pointless Arm 2 and 3 chips in Acorn Archimedes and Acorn RiscPCs.

When the parent company stopped development it convinced me to try to use FOSS packages like Inkscape in future. It can be always with you on every platform and it will only get better with time.

Re: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

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Post by _underfl0w_ »

interfixus wrote: post #7

I'm equal parts awestruck and puzzled by these bordering-on-eternal beta stages some projects stick to. Inkscape has been in my toolbox for the last fifteen years or so, since around the time it forked from Sodipodi. I have thought of it as release, production ready software for years and years.

The length of the beta is likely a function of the number of features of the given app. I would think that most apps wanting to compete in this space would be up against apps with insane amounts of features - think Adobe software - which would require a certain amount of time to test/fix per "feature". The same might be true of, for example, a Microsoft Office competitor. Lots of legacy functions tucked away in those apps.

Just speculating since I've only personally tried fumbling around in Inkscape <5 times in my life, but it might explain the phenomenon.

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