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Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by SquishyPanda23 »

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…

Xfig is open source and has barely changed since 1991, but I don't think that's a feature.

Learning to use updates to a UI is relatively cheap. Having a bunch of tools that are outdated is expensive.

Inkscape is great for what it is, but it could definitely use a well thought out interface refresh.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by billfruit »

I hope a minor annoyance in the UI which has been nagging me has been fixed in the recent versions:

To draw lines with arrows, one needs to draw a line then select the arrow style, where as a the natural flow would be to set the style before drawing the line. Imagine if you have 20 lines of the same style, it is painful to draw 20 standard lines and then go back to change each of their appearance individually. It would be better if one could define a style of line, then create lines of that style as many number of times as required.

Having such stylesheets will for example change the width of all lines of the given style easily later.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by jayalpha »

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…

"* Learn how to use it once * Keep using it for a life time"

Yeah, right. Like Xara XL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara_Xtreme_LX

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by hevsuit »

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.

The Latex plugins really make things interesting. The LaTeXText package [1] allows formula rendering and editing from within the Inkscape canvas.

For tidy circuit diagrams the CircuitSymbols plugin [2] produces exquisite results by hooking into Latex's circuitTikz package and dumping the rendered result on the canvas. Typically I generate a bunch of circuit promitives and then connect them afterwards using snaps and the line tool.

[1] https://inkscape.org/~seebk/%E2%98%85latextext-render-latex-...

[2] https://inkscape.org/pt-br/~fsmMLK/%E2%98%85circuitsymbols

edit: wording

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by misterdoubt »

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

$50 is not $50 when it also requires Windows or Mac to even function.

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by colejohnson66 »

Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #77
atoav wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am an extensive user of Premiere and After Effects and didn’t experience a single crash that was to blame on Adobe within the last 12 months. The crashes I had were due to 3rd party plugins. I am slowly replacing AE with Blender now, but for certain stuff I still like it.

My crashes were definitely due to Adobe. It was latest updated Windows, Nvidia card with latest drivers, latest adobe, plenty of free space and RAM, etc. It crashed even without any plugins. Also as an additional thought, is it really that good that they make such a big software that can be crashed because of a plugin? They know there will be a plugin Zoo out there, they know the plugins sometimes have to use GPU on…

LinusTechTips had a weird bug with some Adobe product (I think Premiere) where, IIRC, it crashed if the project was read off the disk too fast

Re: Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

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Post by bcholmes »

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

Huh. My experience differs. I have both Illustrator and Inkscape, and for certain tasks (e.g. stuff I want to be native SVG or making icons), I always go back to Inkscape because I find it faster/easier.
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