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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by crazygringo »

I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web.

When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file.

In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc.

Felt like a pretty shocking invasion of privacy to me. When I throw up an SVG on the web, I don't want it to contain potentially personally identifiable information.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#42

Post by egypturnash »

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 am an artist. Illustrator is my main tool, and has been for about twenty years now. And I've never felt much desire to switch when I look at Inkscape's features.

Apparently it still doesn't do CMYK, never mind deal with spot inks: https://inkscape.org/learn/faq/#how-create-graphics-cmyk-col... - that was a deal-killer the last time I looked at it, probably something like a decade ago, and it's still a deal-killer for me now.

I dunno if that's me saying "it's not any good" or not but it sure isn't me saying I'm willing to spend a few days fucking around with something that can't do something my work requires on a regular basis.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#43

Post by bla3 »

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 well over a decade, I'm very happy with it.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#44

Post by marcodiego »

Inkscape is good enough for most cases. And it has been for a long time. Like audacity, like firefox, like musescore, like vlc, like krita, like blender... You don't need to be the best, you just need to be good enough and eventually people will help or pay developers; given enough time it may eventually become the most popular on its category.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#45

Post by simondotau »

chasil wrote: post #24

I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF. The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import. Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd…

I must say that as someone who is a very occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.

It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.

I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#46

Post by ubavic »

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.

It is far away from the "Blender of vector graphics" status, and I think that only clunky UI is stopping it to become that.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #19
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.

Inkscape slowness on mac was never an XQuartz problem. All GTK (or maybe it's Cairo) apps are just terribly slow on macOS (even scrolling in meld is janky as hell and meld doesn't exactly do very much), and the new Inkscape is no exception. In fact, by some accounts the XQuartz version was if anything better in this regard.

There's a long discussion about it here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614

@je42: It becomes usable though if you Get Info on the Inkscape application in Finder and then check the "Open in Low Resolution" checkbox.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#49

Post by wlesieutre »

simondotau wrote: post #45
chasil wrote: post #24

I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF. The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import. Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd…

I must say that as someone who is a very occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator. It’s still too expensive for me at full…

At $25 on sale (which it currently is), a permanent license for Affinity Designer is cheaper than one month of Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe likes to advertise it as $20.99/month, but that's only with a 12 month commitment, and you can't cancel early without paying. Renting Illustrator for a single month will really cost you $31.41.

Even at full price ($50), Affinity Designer costs less than two months of Illustrator.

Not a professional artist and don't use it often, but it's enough of a value that hobbyists like me can actually use it. Any of Adobe's products, not so much.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by sirshmooey »

crazygringo wrote: post #41

I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web. When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file . In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc. Felt like a pretty shocking invasio…

Excellent tool for removing all the fluff: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
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