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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by girvo »

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…

Affinity Photo and Designer are brilliant. I'd second their recommendation.

Also, the Apple Photos integration for Affinity Photo is pretty damned handy :)

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by zxzax »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #48
rahimnathwani wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 @j…

There was recently a bug related to this on the gtk issue tracker too: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3714

I don't think there is going to ever be much interest in getting this fixed in GTK3, but apparently performance has improved in GTK4, which should be hardware accelerated on macOS now: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/12/15/gtk-4-got-a-new-...

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by efortis »

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…

How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations.

You can clear yours:

File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default

===

At any rate, for the web use:

File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by _carbyau_ »

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...

That link. Wow. Kudos to the guy for perfecting his art. I love the end result and I love those kind of engineering cutaways in general.

If coming new to the game, I feel that using Blender to make it in 3D would give you reusable parts that could be resized, coloured and posed from any angle. Allowing the next "similar engineering object" to be made much faster.

But for someone who has already so clearly mastered their process I suspect that the time taken to master Blender and the frustations involved would detract too much from the joy of their work.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by pessimizer »

ubavic wrote: post #46
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.

Color management i.e. CMYK and spots weren't working last time I checked. You can use Scribus to convert colors based on a profile, but color should be handled from the beginning.

If its color management was good and it imports from/exports to pdf well, I wouldn't need Illustrator anymore. I honestly hate illustrator, would be glad to switch, but I'm more likely to move to Affinity than to Inkscape.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by easrng »

osrec wrote: post #17
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.

In my experience it is less stable on Linux than Windows (Not sure about Mac) but that may be because I'm on an older version from the Debian repos.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by crazygringo »

efortis wrote: post #63
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…

How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations. You can clear yours: File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default === At any rate, for the web use: File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG

Just the .dmg from their site. No idea why your defaults would be different from mine.

Why is it even a "feature" in the first place? It's not the kind of thing I'd expect to even have to worry about whether it defaulted to on or off.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by yeko »

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…

> I was able to open a .ai file,

Actually it doesn't, Affinity open the embbded pdf in Ai file, some metadata like textframe/alignment does not exist in pdf.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

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 remember using inkscape for laser cutting, something that, I think, should be basic - a few lines a circles, some red, some black. It would crash like every two hours.

I have no real arts skills and this was on Windows, but I walked away with an inpression that it's not a tool I would want to use proffeshionally. That was about 2 years ago

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by efortis »

crazygringo wrote: post #67
efortis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations. You can clear yours: File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default === At any rate, for the web use: File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG

Just the .dmg from their site. No idea why your defaults would be different from mine. Why is it even a "feature" in the first place? It's not the kind of thing I'd expect to even have to worry about whether it defaulted to on or off.

Probably for copyright and license. It's a common feature, MS Office documents include even more metadata, such as how many times the file has been saved.
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