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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by megameter »

amelius wrote: post #11
TchoBeer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You could "just" crop by subtracting shapes manually every time, too. Rectangle crops are extremely common so it makes sense to have a tool for that even if it just generates the underlying concept(as with shape-to-path).

If I were approaching the problem fresh, though, I would look into the presentation of the modal functions as the root of the issue. The source of a lot of complexity in image editing software is confusion over layers, masks, groups, and selections - they have some conceptual overlap and can be applied modally(e.g. shape as rendering element OR mask OR selection). If the UI buries the difference it just adds to the confusion.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#32

Post by montroser »

themodelplumber wrote: post #26
mavhc wrote: post #4

Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of images

Well, I guess for every guy using MS Paint and GIMP for maritime 3D cutaway illustrations, there's another person using Inkscape for cropping. No judgement. http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20i...

It's not that you use Inkscape _for_ cropping, but sometimes you're laying out a graphic that includes photo content here and there...

But anyway, that's quite the trip with the submarine cutaways!

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by danellis »

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#34

Post by ddingus »

danellis wrote: post #33

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

I use it a lot. Plenty good for me

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#35

Post by gugagore »

amelius wrote: post #11
TchoBeer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

I think having a unified workflow is a good thing, and that that can exist along side important special cases.

A tool like inkscape gets a ton of "casual" once-in-a-while use and some amount of frequent power-user use. It's tricky to facilitate both kinds of use, but I think that should be a goal.

What you wrote is not ridiculous like the following statement, but consider "Yeah, you have to draw by using your text editor on an SVG file. There are not two workflows, one for drawings and one for text, which is a good thing."

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by themodelplumber »

danellis wrote: post #33

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

For our friends the "is it good enough for me to use, oh and BTW what I mean is can you name a selection of random impressive graphics people, because even better if they use this tool at work" software meta-evaluators out there--I really recommend tightening up the spec a bit and figuring out what kind of project or workplace you want to see it used in to determine whether it's "good" for example.

You could even send out free evaluation copies and see if it sticks in your favorite impressive industry. :-)

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by LasEspuelas »

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.

If you are doing drawing, you should give this a chance: https://concepts.app/en/ free version is very good on Windows. But their main platform seems to be Apple devices.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by marcodiego »

acabal wrote: post #25

Very excited for the command palette. I wish something like that was accessible in every app. I know there's Plotinus but it feels kind of hacky--high-level support at the toolkit/HIG level for the whole desktop would be incredible.

Ubuntu had this on all gtk and qt apps in 2012.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by ArekDymalski »

danellis wrote: post #33

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

I've used it for years as a go-to solution whenever anythhing vector based was needed. It's a solid tool.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by pmoriarty »

danellis wrote: post #33

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

I've found that Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita pretty much fill all my graphics-creation needs, and have never felt the need to use a commercial application instead.

If you have a specific need that you can't figure out how to achieve in Inkscape, then asking how to do that specific thing would be much more productive.

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