Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by nkoren » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 2:32 AM UTC

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by pugio » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 4:59 AM UTC

Inkscape is my go to image editor. The UI is reminiscent of the old Macromedia Fireworks, with a paradigm that feels much nicer (to me) than Photoshop et al.

I downloaded the beta pessimistically thinking that they still wouldn't have native OSX Menu support (I've been using the non-updated 0.91+devel+osmenu fork/branch forever), but was pleasantly surprised to see full OSX integration in this beta. Great job guys!

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by hughes » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:07 AM UTC

Oh wow it's finally no longer using XQuartz! This is great!

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by jf » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

Inkscape is fantastic. I used it to convert a taster image to vector art and it exceeded my expectations.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by romwell » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

My go-to graphics packages are still Gimp for raster / Inkscape for vector graphics.

Started using Inkscape in 2007 to illustrate a math paper, and been using it ever since whenever I needed to TeX something up.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by killjoywashere » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:40 AM UTC

pugio wrote: post #2

Inkscape is my go to image editor. The UI is reminiscent of the old Macromedia Fireworks, with a paradigm that feels much nicer (to me) than Photoshop et al. I downloaded the beta pessimistically thinking that they still wouldn't have native OSX Menu support (I've been using the non-updated 0.91+devel+osmenu fork/branch forever), but was pleasantly surprised to see full OSX integration in this beta. Great job guys!

Thanks for this comment. I will probably download for that reason alone. That said, my goto vector editor is InkPad on an iPad Pro. It's everything I need and nothing I don't.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by jazzyjackson » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:52 AM UTC

So excited to try out the native mac os support, I use inkscape for everything but I often have to unplug my second monitor to get it to show up thanks to XQuartz!

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by Theizestooke » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:56 AM UTC

pugio wrote: post #2

Inkscape is my go to image editor. The UI is reminiscent of the old Macromedia Fireworks, with a paradigm that feels much nicer (to me) than Photoshop et al. I downloaded the beta pessimistically thinking that they still wouldn't have native OSX Menu support (I've been using the non-updated 0.91+devel+osmenu fork/branch forever), but was pleasantly surprised to see full OSX integration in this beta. Great job guys!

I thought Inkscape was an alternative to Illustrator and other vector drawing programs, didn't know people were using it for photo editing.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by tmikaeld » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:56 AM UTC

pugio wrote: post #2

Inkscape is my go to image editor. The UI is reminiscent of the old Macromedia Fireworks, with a paradigm that feels much nicer (to me) than Photoshop et al. I downloaded the beta pessimistically thinking that they still wouldn't have native OSX Menu support (I've been using the non-updated 0.91+devel+osmenu fork/branch forever), but was pleasantly surprised to see full OSX integration in this beta. Great job guys!

I'm used to Affinity Designer, unfortunately Inkscape is very slow for even just ~10 layers of medium complexity shapes on MacOS :-/

While on Affinity, I can have hundred layers without noticeable performance issues.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by yuchi » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:58 AM UTC

hughes wrote: post #3

Oh wow it's finally no longer using XQuartz! This is great!

I’m overly excited for this fact!! I’ve been an avid user of Inkscape for some time, but abandoned it because the UI was unbearable. So so so happy