I draw all of the illustrations for my side-projects and books with Inkscape. This is an amazing project.
Using it on Windows or Linux is a pleasure.
Inkscape 1.2 released
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#12I so wish I could use Inkscape with my GCC Mercury III laser engraver/cutter. Right now it only works with Corel Draw (or AutoCAD).
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#13Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
That's not exactly a FOSS problem, though. Nothing stops an open source project from offering the same collaborative features as proprietary solutions.
It just seems that people who work on FOSS value privacy, ownership and freedom more than braindead ease of use and monetization.
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#14Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
I don’t think IMing a link is the main competition so much as “is there an companion app”
For the hobbyist/small business though these regular desktop tools are still a godsend
Re: Inkscape 1.2 released
#15I was using Scribus for multi page documents but, as a fully fledged DTP solution, it is often overkill, I'm glad I can now use Inkscape for smaller jobs, thanks to the new Page tool. Inkscape is truly the Swiss Army knife of the open source graphics ecosystem, I use it more often than any other application.
Yes, totally agree. The somewhat dated Scribus UI can be quite non-intuitive unless one uses it regularly and takes the time to learn how to work around its quirks.
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#16I want to like Inkscape, but the macOS version seems sluggish and buggy.
Probably because it's single threaded going through multiple slow compatibility APIs.
Re: Inkscape 1.2 released
#17Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
"FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust"
What does your TV or car boot?
Design space ... what do you use day to day - I'd love to see your blog/show piece?
Re: Inkscape 1.2 released
#18Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
That's not exactly a FOSS problem, though. Nothing stops an open source project from offering the same collaborative features as proprietary solutions. It just seems that people who work on FOSS value privacy, ownership and freedom more than braindead ease of use and monetization.
That seems to be an unfair dismissal of these products. The vast majority of everything built with these tools will be public facing. Marketing designs, UI design, etc.
Design is a very collaborative process, especially with remote work which has made having everyone see and edit the same thing at once critical. It's not "braindead" to work in a team, its a requirement. I really want to see FOSS succeed but its hard to see how the open source benefits translate over to this kind of software where you no longer run the software locally and consistency is needed so others have the same version of the tool as you.
Re: Inkscape 1.2 released
#19Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
Good employees find ways to collaborate no matter what. That’s to say that real-time collaboration is a luxury feature. Also, many projects have only one designer. Not to mention, it’s rare to find designers that work in tandem.
Also, from a dev perspective having designs updates without some process is undesirable.
Re: Inkscape 1.2 released
#20Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…
"FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust" What does your TV or car boot? Design space ... what do you use day to day - I'd love to see your blog/show piece?
I'm not talking about low level infrastructure, but the user facing software. Offline desktop tools have rapidly started to become obsolete. Products like Office had to scramble to pivot because Google Docs was replacing them. Its been a while now since I have been emailed an actual office file instead of being sent a link to the live version.
A while ago it was common for Photoshop or illustrator to be used for UI designs and then it would be thrown over the wall to you as a PNG which you had to make sure you had the latest version of. These days everywhere I have worked has used a tool like Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, and gives out a link which is always up to date, which you can fiddle with, write comments on, etc.
The market is rapidly shifting and I'm just not sure how FOSS is going to stay relevant in this space.