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Inkscape 1.2

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Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by themodelplumber »

Congrats to the team! One really interesting hidden aspect here is that Patreon is helping Martin Owens bring a lot of new Inkscape features to life as "your Inkscape Programmer".

His latest update--"What You Want Me to Work On" (Posted 4 June):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSOmxV9rWI

"I am your Inkscape Programmer" intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsHqxYfY_k

https://www.patreon.com/doctormo

Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by billfruit »

Does anyone know if it supports a work flow which involves setting a style and then drawing lines, shapes etc with that style, instead of drawing a shape and then tweaking its style as is normally done in Inkscape?

Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by the_af »

uneekname wrote: post #26
xyproto wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krita is nice, but not as mature as GIMP, and it can be a bit crashy.

FWIW, I can't recall Krita ever crashing on me this past year. I do agree it's a younger/less mature project though.

It crashes a lot on me on both the latest macOS and on Ubuntu 18.04.

That said, I'm not one to lose patience on FOSS and know it can and will improve.

Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by __mharrison__ »

Inkscape is awesome!

I wrote a plugin for Inkscape that exports anything below rectangles as png images. I use this all the time for creating marketing material.

I also used Inkscape for creating images for my recent book, Effective Pandas. (Actually scripted the images with SVG then used Inkscape to convert to png).

Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by senthil_rajasek »

carreau wrote: post #30
thamer wrote: post #15

I loved using Inkscape when I was running Linux, but since switching to a Mac it’s one of the programs I found to be running a lot worse on that platform compared to what I remembered. I get that it’s a GTK application so not running with native UI components, but is there something that can be configured or installed to make it more responsive? Just opening Inkscape with a blank document and resizing the window is i…

Seeing your edit: Then please consider dropping a kind word to the dev: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/7050

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Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by bombela »

thamer wrote: post #15

I loved using Inkscape when I was running Linux, but since switching to a Mac it’s one of the programs I found to be running a lot worse on that platform compared to what I remembered. I get that it’s a GTK application so not running with native UI components, but is there something that can be configured or installed to make it more responsive? Just opening Inkscape with a blank document and resizing the window is i…

It is slow for me on both Linux and Windows on very recent hardware. It takes seconds to open. Moving around and resizing drawings lags pretty badly.

With that said, Inkscape is a really good software.

Re: Inkscape 1.2

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Post by jcelerier »

the_af wrote: post #35
uneekname wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I can't recall Krita ever crashing on me this past year. I do agree it's a younger/less mature project though.

It crashes a lot on me on both the latest macOS and on Ubuntu 18.04. That said, I'm not one to lose patience on FOSS and know it can and will improve.

Don't really know about macOS, but Ubuntu 18.04 is a distro with, what, 6 years old packages ? There have been a lot of bugfixes to the whole stack since then which will never make it to older Ubuntus - remember than the "stable" in linux distros means "does not change", not "does not crash".
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