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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.
Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of images
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I’m curious as to if other commenters share the pet peeve of, particularly design software that wouldn’t present itself properly in Retina? For a while Unity didn’t support it and it was definitely one of ‘those things’ about using it I hated until they perfected it. (There was a limited beta window for it as I believe an ‘experimental’ option?) Design software should definitely ideally match the DPI it’s supposed to…
I think in this case the problem is that Inkscape's rendering pipeline is just extremely computational inefficient on macOS. It's not that things don't show properly, it just takes too long to draw all the pixels. MS Excel for Mac actually has the same problem if you fullscreen a spreadsheet on a 5k external display unless you put the display in low res scaling mode. If I remember correctly, which I probably don't, i…
I think it’s more either “lazy” or “pragmatic” (depending on your view) programming to avoid various issues you can get with non integer scaling.
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.
We added the feature recently in kde apps: https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcomm...
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…
There has to be a better way than dealing with EPS files in 2021 though. It's a pretty archaic format, and poorly and incompletely supported by most programs. Can you use PDF for the embedded image instead? That's what I do when generating PDFs with PDFLatex and friends.
I love Inkscape. I used it for all the drawings in my books and website.
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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 :)
Bunch of great little products.
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.
Inkscape is probably not the best nor most convenient vector drawing tool, but it's probably the most affordable and usable to the majority of the planet's population, so it has my fondness and respect.