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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by zmmmmm »

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 for lots of stuff, but I have to say, at least the Mac version gets unusably slow in some situations - not even highly complex ones (large hi dpi imported bitmap graphics, etc).

But is it good? Hell yeah. Learn the keys and the quirks its like the vi of vector graphics - your fingers can dance on the keyboard and work at twice the pace you get from mouse driven point and click type workflow. You will note nearly all the "complainers" are people saying "I tried it for 5 minutes and gave up because of X" - if that's you then, yeah. But you probably wouldnt like vi either.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by crazygringo »

efortis wrote: post #70
crazygringo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My problem isn't with quantity of metadata. It's with personally-identifying data. And I can't imagine what the filepath could ever have to do with copyright or license.

I don't see how this is a common feature at all.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by mattkrause »

crazygringo wrote: post #72
efortis wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My problem isn't with quantity of metadata. It's with personally-identifying data. And I can't imagine what the filepath could ever have to do with copyright or license. I don't see how this is a common feature at all.

You can include links to other resources (e.g., an image) in an SVG file. Perhaps it's meant to help resolve those paths?

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by efortis »

crazygringo wrote: post #72
efortis wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My problem isn't with quantity of metadata. It's with personally-identifying data. And I can't imagine what the filepath could ever have to do with copyright or license. I don't see how this is a common feature at all.

The only way I can reproduce your scenario is by inserting an image using "Link" instead of "Embed".

Other than that, was it part of the original/downloaded file?

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by SubjectToChange »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #69
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

"It would crash like every two hours."

You'd hope Adobe was better than this too.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by mixmastamyk »

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.

Have you donated? Made a merge request? Bluntly, there’s your answer. ;-)

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by xvilka »

egypturnash wrote: post #42
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 f…

Is CMYK used anywhere except printing still? Nowadays print media become rare, thus the need for its support is less. Just my non-expert opinion.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by simondotau »

yeko wrote: post #68
simondotau wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Good to know, this probably explained why the notionally transparent artwork was imported with a white background. But the fact that it’s not a true .ai import I don't think this is ever going to be a concern to me because I never use SVG to typeset flowing blocks of text. The main things I'm concerned about are:

1) Path and style integrity

2) Artboard dimensional integrity

3) Export file quality

In my testing, I was able to open a file I had edited and saved in Illustrator, export it as an SVG, it was an utterly pixel-perfect drop-in replacement for a previously exported SVG. I was also able to confirm that all of the SVG files I care about can be opened directly, edited and exported with no errors. That's enough for me to confidently say goodbye to Illustrator forever. It's robust enough that I know I can deal with the occasional import glitch if it ever does happen.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by Apofis »

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's shot on 4k-8k resolutions even with the most basic vector documents.
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