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Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by misterdoubt »

cies wrote: post #17

Inkscape is my go-to example of why FLOSS is great: * Learn how to use it once * Keep using it for a life time * Not completely changing interface every major release * Keeps getting better (some commercial software seems to bloat beyond repair) * Available on many platforms * All of the above for FREE Now I dont need to do vector graphics every week, not even every month. But for those couple of times a year it's go…

I want to mess with vector graphics about twice a year, and I do essentially zero visual work beyond that.

Every time I'm pleased at how easy Inkscape makes it. And it's completely smooth on both Linux and Windows.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by misterdoubt »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #14
romwell wrote: post #5

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.

Me too. I only recently came across TikZ which is an even more epic way to TeX up fancy diagrams (you "program" them). Still use inkscape for most stuff though.

I learned enough TikZ for a project to create a pretty wide range of generic flowcharts/diagrams.

Now I'm no longer using TeX daily and kind of regret boxing myself in.

I find that I'm either working with teams that are 100% "TeX all the way" or 0% "please no."

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by Finnucane »

jordache wrote: post #108

Free is not free when said product results in reduction of productivity. I've tried to make Inkscape work, after ending my Adobe subscription. Conclusion - Inkscape is not worth it. Just pony up $50 for Affinity Designer. Great app. Facilitates tremendous productivity

It's too bad Affinity is probably never going to port to Linux. Esp. Affinity Publisher would be great. There's no good layout application for Linux.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by ken »

rubidium wrote: post #103
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, this 'not completely changing interface' has a side effect: it fails to evolve and become better. I am a long-time user of Inkscape (since 2007 at least), and it is sad how poor it looks now next to Sketch/Figma. Their vector tools are better, their layer tools are better. It's a million little things that make drawing a similar shape in Sketch 50x faster than in Inkscape.

It doesn’t need to be any better to satisfy this user. I also pull it out 2-4 times a year and am happy that everything has more or less stayed the same for 8+ years.

This is the message I hear very consistently about Inkscape. The people who love it most are the occasional users. It's good enough for small, infrequent work.

They seem to keep pushing it as a professional alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but no matter how many individual features they add, it just doesn't seem designed for that kind of user.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

Theizestooke wrote: post #8
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.

yeah, this is super weird, it's a vector graphics editor, come on people, use GIMP or photoshop for images.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by interfixus »

Inkscape is still in beta? Yes, I know it is, but I can't quite wrap my mind around it. Have been using this awe-inspiring tool for more than a quarter of my life. And I was born before the first human spaceflight.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by TomMasz »

As a Mac user looking to avoid Illustrator, this is a gift from the gods. XQuartz has issues with mouse movement, making it difficult to keep the drawing on the screen. Now it looks and acts like you'd expect.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by ken »

bildung wrote: post #60
tmikaeld wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not on MacOS but find Inkscape pretty snappy in general, even with big projects. Perhaps it's not the Layers but the effects? Blur in particular is pretty slow. Have you tried reducing the displayed filter quality? This doesn't effect the image itself, only the display in Inkscape. It's in the render tab in Inkscape preferences. At View -> Display Mode you can also toggle between full display, display without fil…

The very first item on Affinity Designer's feature list [1] is "Pan and zoom at 60fps". You don't generally accomplish this by accident. They apparently wrote the engine from scratch to use hardware acceleration, and be usable on an iPad with a very small amount of available RAM [2].

There's no reason blur, in particular, must necessarily be slow. Everybody (and their phone) has a GPU that's more than fast enough to do that in real-time. I wonder if the (cross-platform) interfaces that Inkscape are using on macOS aren't hardware accelerated. Or if it's using some syscall which is cheap on some platforms and expensive on others.

I haven't done any testing but I agree that Inkscape feels much slower than Affinity Designer.

[1]: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/full-feature-list/ [2]: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/18079-what...

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by cxcorp »

> Pinch-to-zoom

> On supported hardware (trackpad, touchpad, multi-touch screen), the canvas can be zoomed with the two-finger pinch gesture.

Thank god! As a macOS user, this is really one of my pet peeves because I'm so used to pinch-to-zoom that I almost forget it exists until I use a program that doesn't support it.

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