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Inkscape 1.1

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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by amelius »

TchoBeer wrote: post #8
chris_wot wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so?

Maybe I'm wrong, I'm a very causal user, but I think the only way to do it is to create a shape that covers the part you want to keep, and then do object -> set -> clip or something like that; it's not exceedingly awful, but it's not as smooth as clicking "crop" and dragging borders.

But the upside is that you can crop to any shape, not just rectangles.

Also, there are not 2 workflows, one for rectangles and one for arbitrary shapes, which is a good thing.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by effable »

While I am by no means an expert user, and I have a lot to learn on how to properly use inkscape, I used it for creating some figures for my thesis and it really came in handy. Congratulations on the release!

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by kleer001 »

Looks like some nice improvements.

I'd be great if they supported direct use of CMYK in addition to the default screen-space RGB mode.

And yes, I understand Inkscape is more illustration than Desktop Publishing, but still...

Until then there's Scribus.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by theiz »

Tried working with Inkscape on my MacBook this weekend. It keeps freezing up unfortunately. Like to work with it, but it does not seem to be stable enough to do production work with that.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#15

Post by suyash »

Can someone port this amazing free design app to the iPad and make it work with Apple Pencil please? It will free us from Adobe's bubble.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by osrec »

theiz wrote: post #14

Tried working with Inkscape on my MacBook this weekend. It keeps freezing up unfortunately. Like to work with it, but it does not seem to be stable enough to do production work with that.

For what it's worth, it's extremely stable on Linux.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by SilverRed »

suyash wrote: post #15

Can someone port this amazing free design app to the iPad and make it work with Apple Pencil please? It will free us from Adobe's bubble.

You wouldn't want to port it. There are a billion icons and toolbars which won't fit on the ipad. The whole thing would have to be redesigned from the ground up with a UI similar to procreate that keeps the main canvas free from UI.

And if you put in that much effort, you are going to want to charge for the app. Understandably, iPadOS doesn't have a thriving open source / free culture.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by rahimnathwani »

je42 wrote: post #10

MMh. I couldn't see any notes on performance improvements ? I like inkscape but i find it quite sluggish to work with on MacOS.

As of 1.x, Inkscape no longer uses XQuartz so, if you tried it over a year ago, it's worth trying again.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by themodelplumber »

theiz wrote: post #14

Tried working with Inkscape on my MacBook this weekend. It keeps freezing up unfortunately. Like to work with it, but it does not seem to be stable enough to do production work with that.

I think I ran the Windows version with Wine after my first attempts on my MB. It worked fine from that point on, might be worth a try.
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