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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by colanderman »

waiseristy wrote: post #51
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…

Preferences -> Input/Output -> SVG output -> Path Data -> Path String format (relative) Does that do what you want?

That has nothing to do with filenames. That is referring to the format of linestring paths; whether each point is specified relative to the last.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by colanderman »

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…

I haven't upgraded yet, but with 1.0 on macOS, I see a relative path in the sodipodi:docname attribute of the root element (not an absolute path, so either something changed in 1.1 or behavior differs between OSes). This is where you are seeing it correct?

Saving as "Plain SVG" does not include this (or any other sodipodi namespace elements, by design). Not great that the default save format includes this, but FWIW best practice is to save as "Plain SVG" for interoperability.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by marcodiego »

xvilka wrote: post #78

I hope soon we will finally see GIMP 3 as well.

Plugin API isn't stable yet[0]. After this work is done, plugins will have to be ported to the final API. This will still take some time. I don't it will happen this year.

I'm looking forward to gimp 3.2 which will have non-destructive editing that is one of the last remaining pieces before it will be more acceptable for professional photography.

GIMP has the potential to become even a powerful compositor[1].

[0] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/

[1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by themodelplumber »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #64
themodelplumber wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

I've done both Blender and GIMP-only methods and TBH the GIMP method is nice in that you are stuck with one camera shot decided in advance. Eventually in full 3D I start fiddling with camera angles think about all the animation possibilities and it's downhill from there, time-wise. :-)

Though I have also found that it's sometimes nice to block things out with Blender so that the camera perspective is easy to work out quickly and the main shape lines are all blocked in...

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by egypturnash »

xvilka wrote: post #77
egypturnash wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

CMYK is only for print - but a pro artist is gonna send a lot of stuff to print. Even in this age of a lot of digital distribution:

Someone's gotta do the packaging for almost everything you buy at stores.

Go to a convention: someone designed all the signage for the con, the badges, as well as the individual booths and any amount of what they may be selling. Plus all the fliers and stickers whatnot people want to hand out.

Gotten anything shipped lately? Did it come in a box with more than one color on it? Those are probably a couple of spot inks, rather than CMYK. That's a thing where instead of mixing a color from little dots of the primaries, you load up a tank in the printer with ink mixed to a very specific color.

Got a collection of Pokemon cards? Pull out those extra-rare ones with the foil and gloss and stuff. The precise process for actually putting those on the card varies and may not involve anything resembling "ink" at all but a lot of those are specified as spot inks too.

I could probably come up with more examples but there is a cat milling about my ankles who is very vocal about her need for some playtime. :)

Automated RGB-to-CMYK translation has gotten better over the years but if you are a pro, you will probably have had enough nasty surprises when that fails that you know how to do it yourself, maybe you're even like me and work in CMYK to begin with as a rule so that you never have to fuck around with finessing that translation.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by [deleted] »

lostgame wrote: post #88
pmoriarty wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What OS do you use? As an iOS dev for a living and a mainly MacOS user I have unfortunately found the UI/UX experience of Inkscape and GIMP (especially) to be kinda rough to use, I feel like maybe it’s better on Linux?

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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by musicale »

marcodiego wrote: post #44

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.

Blender might be the biggest winner in that list.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by tannhaeuser »

Congrats to the Inkscape contributors! I'm particularly looking forward to try the new dialog docking as the old one tends to hide the thing that I'm after, worked against spatial memory IMO, and would also frequently not take or offer to "apply" my changes.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by asddubs »

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…

you probably saved it as an inkscape svg instead of an optimized svg. it is a bit confusing, but the former is basically the equivalent to the inkscape-native file format, and the latter will remove things specific to inkscape

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by asddubs »

musicale wrote: post #97
marcodiego wrote: post #44

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.

Blender might be the biggest winner in that list.

vlc is pretty big too
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