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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by fractallyte »

simondotau wrote: post #79
yeko wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

There are some really annoying things about Designer, though - like how it insists on rasterizing Gaussian blurs, even though SVG supports them as a vector operation...

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by cies »

I love Inkscape. Taught my self how to use this 15+ years ago. Use it 2-10x per year since.

It's always there. It does not change UI much between releases. I dont have to download a cracked version of some commercial tool because I'm to stingy to buy expensive software for a simple task at hand.

Inkscape (and Gimp) have helped me a lot in this regard.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by dvh »

Inkscape is garbage. I downloaded SVG map of the world from Wikipedia. Used bucket fill to change color of one country, it failed (it created new shape that barely resembled country but was inaccurate, as if someone traced it by hand). I mean what's the point of vector graphic app of it cannot do basic operation after two decades of development. It's not like I wanted to do something obscure.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by yiyus »

dvh wrote: post #114

Inkscape is garbage. I downloaded SVG map of the world from Wikipedia. Used bucket fill to change color of one country, it failed (it created new shape that barely resembled country but was inaccurate, as if someone traced it by hand). I mean what's the point of vector graphic app of it cannot do basic operation after two decades of development. It's not like I wanted to do something obscure.

You did it wrong. In a vector drawing program, you do not change colors using the bucket fill. You should learn to use a tool before complaining it does not work.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by qwerty456127 »

sirshmooey wrote: post #50
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/

Nice. But it still is crazy it's put there in the first place. why in the world would it need to?

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by Symbiote »

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…

It looks like the relevant attribute is:

  inkscape:export-filename="/home/symbiote/Documents/drawing.png"
To get this, create a new drawing and draw a shape. Export the whole drawing as a PNG, then save as an Inkscape SVG.

[1] is a bug report, but only part of the problem seems to have been resolved.

(Tested in this new release.)

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168958

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by DominikD »

dvh wrote: post #114

Inkscape is garbage. I downloaded SVG map of the world from Wikipedia. Used bucket fill to change color of one country, it failed (it created new shape that barely resembled country but was inaccurate, as if someone traced it by hand). I mean what's the point of vector graphic app of it cannot do basic operation after two decades of development. It's not like I wanted to do something obscure.

Vector images are nothing like bitmap images. You can't take bucket fill and use it like you would in Paint. What you did, it seems, is you used a bucket fill on a group of objects, setting their fill to the same color.

For what it does, Inkscape is one of the very few usable, large open source tools. It has the same problems other OSS projects do (suboptimal UI being one) but it's not tool's fault you expected behavior that's at odds with vector graphics.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by DominikD »

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 by far the best open source vector editor out there. Whatever that means varies from person to person. I don't do vectors for publishing so CMYK support is never on my mind. But other people do and if and how this works in Inkscape can be a no-starter.
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