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Re: Inkscape 1.3

#13

Post by atoav »

flas9sd wrote: post #4

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.

If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#14

Post by nicopappl »

Yes!

I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work.

It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new interface for linecaps & line dots, amazing!)

Almost all the features in this release seem to solve a major frustration I had with Inkscape.

* The node deletion behavior, it was so annoying, how you delete a node on a straight line and suddenly you get some soup.

* The awful color palette. You had to manually edit text files to get your own palettes, couldn't edit them in Inkscape. I, in fact, never managed to create a custom palette. Pinned colors seem to solve this.

* Lasso selection. It was soo fiddly to select a group of nodes. One missclick and you had to start from scratch, clicking on the tinny controls.

* Multithreaded rendering. The single-threaded software renderer is a misery for complex projects, or just zooming in. Now Inkscape is going to be 12 times faster on my machine

* Font selection was utter garbage, the new UI seems promising

* Patterns was also a constant source of frustration, looks like this release improves it.

This is exciting. I'm looking forward to use this new release.

Now please give me a dialog for key rebinding, similar to Krita. And better key binding discoverability.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#15

Post by berkes »

atoav wrote: post #13
flas9sd wrote: post #4

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.

If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support

For me, above that, is multi-page support.

I understand why it's not there, though. But for me, an accidental "need to design this quick" amateur, I really don't like juggling 01_cover.svg, 02_inlay_left.svg 03_inlay_right.svg and so on. Designing a booklet, folder, or even business-card is frustrating.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#16

Post by pxoe »

calligraphy pen remains unusable, after being made worse in pretty much every regard in 1.x. it's slow, quality of strokes is terrible, and it's been that way ever since 1.0 betas with zero improvement https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1473#note_1128... welp, still using 0.92.5, where the pen is actually responsive and creates good results.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#17

Post by fareesh »

Since Figma has gotten better and better, I have significantly reduced my usage of Inkscape, however, when dealing with SVGs I find that Inkscape is really good for solving bugs with the SVG exports from Figma.

This seems to be my only use-case currently. It also has several very useful features like crop-to-content for SVG.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#18

Post by flas9sd »

atoav wrote: post #13
flas9sd wrote: post #4

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.

If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support

true, but that'd be not part of the 1.3 release notes.

You still need scribus in the loop to get to cmyk, it's not a seamless workflow yet.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#19

Post by JZumun »

berkes wrote: post #15
atoav wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support

For me, above that, is multi-page support. I understand why it's not there, though. But for me, an accidental "need to design this quick" amateur, I really don't like juggling 01_cover.svg, 02_inlay_left.svg 03_inlay_right.svg and so on. Designing a booklet, folder, or even business-card is frustrating.

I think they added multi-page support in the previous point release[0]. I only use inkscape to make graphics though, so I'm not sure how user friendly the implementation is.

[0] https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#20

Post by AdamBelis »

nicopappl wrote: post #14

Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new interface for linecaps & line dots, amazing!) Almost all the features in this release seem to solve a major frustration I had with Inkscape. * The node deletion behavior, it was so ann…

you still cannot create color pallets easily/user-friendly , we did not implemented this yet.

you can expect some performance gains but not really 12x it does not scale lineri .

you can edit SOME keyboard shortcuts in preference - Interface -keyboard .

Some (a lot) of actions are still not migrated to actions so you cannot change shortcuts easily. But this is ongoing process.

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