Inkscape 1.3

#1

Post by Reventlov » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 6:32 AM UTC

Inkscape 1.3
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Re: Inkscape 1.3

#2

Post by NoMoreNicksLeft » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:13 AM UTC

Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#3

Post by Freak_NL » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:25 AM UTC

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #2

Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.

A fun thing they show in the animations is how you can do basic arithmetic in the size fields. So if you've setup your document in millimetres (I do this for woodworking designs) and you have a shape with width 5mm you can do this:

    5.000 + 2mm

Or:

    5.000 + 0.2cm

I don't know when Inkscape started doing this, but I just gave it a go one day because it felt like something I would put in (and to their credit, they did).

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#4

Post by flas9sd » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:27 AM UTC

if you use Inkscape in print workflows, two thing stand out: rewritten pdf import and page margins and bleed.

To clean up path tracings from surplus edges, a changed "node deletion logic" is also welcome.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#5

Post by Freak_NL » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:29 AM UTC

There is a lot in this release that I'll readily use. Pinned colours and font collections in particular seem useful, but I'm looking forward to seeing how the improved node deletion logic works too. Deleting nodes used to have unintuitive effects on the path; not in terms of its shape, but in the distribution of the nodes on the section where you deleted one.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#6

Post by jldugger » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:47 AM UTC

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #2

Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.

Most of them seem fine but that first one is pure "chip away at everything that doesn't look like David."[1]

[1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/22/chip-away/

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#7

Post by Hamcha » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:47 AM UTC

As an Affinity Designer user, it's insane too see how close we went from only Illustrator having Shape Builder to both Designer and Inkscape releasing it so close together. It's super handy and happy to see it as an option everywhere now.

Honestly if they focused on cleaning up the UI I could see myself trying out Inkscape more seriously!

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#8

Post by itronitron » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:57 AM UTC

Yay, that shape builder tool looks awesome.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#9

Post by AdamBelis » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 8:07 AM UTC

Hamcha wrote: post #7

As an Affinity Designer user, it's insane too see how close we went from only Illustrator having Shape Builder to both Designer and Inkscape releasing it so close together. It's super handy and happy to see it as an option everywhere now. Honestly if they focused on cleaning up the UI I could see myself trying out Inkscape more seriously!

We are slowly working also on that

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#10

Post by AdamBelis » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 8:08 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #3

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #2

Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.

A fun thing they show in the animations is how you can do basic arithmetic in the size fields. So if you've setup your document in millimetres (I do this for woodworking designs) and you have a shape with width 5mm you can do this: 5.000 + 2mm Or: 5.000 + 0.2cm I don't know when Inkscape started doing this, but I just gave it a go one day because it felt like something I would put in (and to their credit, they did).

its been there for a very long time