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Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by sprucevoid »

myfonj wrote: post #31
andrea76 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now please give me a dialog for key rebinding, similar to Krita. And better key binding discoverability. Krita is using the default KDE key binding dialog box. I don't know is there something similiar in GTK.

As for discoverability (of keyboard shortcuts as well as commands), few versions back Inkscape introduced `View > Command Palette`, by default bound to "`?`" key: https://inkscape.org/doc/keys-1.3.x.html#idm734 It allows you to search for command by name and "tooltip description" and displays their assigned shortcuts. This is IMO the one of the few recent features that should be implemented in all applications. In In…

The command palette in the Windows version of Inkscape is inexplicably slow very often, not only on first run. 5 seconds to open slow. Is it spending time making fancy command predictions? Does it request and rebuild a list of existing commands each time? It is also missing some commands, like the Shape Builder tool. I'd rather have a stupid static list of all possible commands that opens instantly and filters super quickly as you type.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by lol768 »

Does the PDF import work for anyone? I've struggled with it since version 1.1

    Thread 1 "inkscape" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    0x00007ffff5194a34 in GooFile::size() const () from /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/inkscape/../libpoppler.so.118
I suspect it requires a specific version of libpoppler? I have no idea which version I'm supposed to be using, can't see any mention in the release notes.

Edit: having looked a bit more into this:

      ~ libtree /usr/bin/inkscape | grep poppler
    
    │   ├── libpoppler-glib.so.8 [runpath]
    │   │   ├── libpoppler.so.124 [ld.so.conf]
    │   ├── libpoppler.so.118 [runpath]
Perhaps this is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023159?

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by finchisko »

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!

which version of designer have it? i didn’t upgrade to latest yet.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by RicoElectrico »

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!

I bought Designer and Photo just a few months before 2.0 came out, and just before the window for free upgrade for existing customers begun.

I have to say it's more performant than Inkscape, clearly geared towards artists, but there are still stuff that are more easily done in Inkscape. These mostly relate to automation. To add insult to the injury there is NO plugin system for Designer. I think this is a huge oversight on Serif's part, people would be so happy to fill the gaps.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by nforgerit »

I vividly remember "designing" (with my light skills) a T-Shirt using Inkscape for a sports team back at university in ~2008. It was organized as a competition with the winner getting a free shirt.

IIRC it took me about 6h, the Inkscape UI was frustrating at first but eventually I got better at it and won the contest. Such a fun seeing other people running around the city of Karlsruhe (Germany) wearing my shirt.

Thank you Inkscape team! I'm seeing as much potential as with Blender in kicking some commercial vendor's butts!

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by wtarreau »

I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subtract the radius and the line width. And in general, I find everything related to movements, alignments and such particularly difficult, to the point that generally you have to find a video showing a trick to proceed efficiently.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by camel-cdr »

_s_a_m_ wrote: post #36
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…

The UI is garbage. It's like GIMP. I'm more than happy to pay for software especially when it has a well designed (user first) UI. It is not only the UI, it is the UX generally. It's weird and nerdy and thinks it must be "better" somehow.

Whats bothering you about it? I probably lack perspective because I haven't used other software, but I'm really happy using both for whenever I need to do something.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by afandian »

parasti wrote: post #39
afandian wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Inkscape but for as long as I can remember it's always been laggy on a Mac. IIRC at one point there was a disclaimer on the website that the Mac version wasn't well maintained. I'm running Inkscape 1.1 on an M1 Pro. I just measured time between clicking a plain rectangle and it being selected. It takes about 460 ms. New 1.3 version takes 216 ms, about twice the speed. It looks a lot more usable!

How did you measure this?

Quicktime screen recorder! Then count the frames with ffmpeg.

https://superuser.com/questions/542989/getting-the-video-fra...

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by planede »

wtarreau wrote: post #46

I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subt…

You can adjust the radius of a circle when the circle tool is selected. You can also place circles centered around a specific point by holding down shift while drawing them.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by ixxie »

Looks like a great release - kudos to the team. I grew up with Illustrator and use Inkscape exclusively since a few years. Overall I am quite happy with the features, the UI and the UX.

My main pain point is drawing vector curves. I cannot seem to get the intuition on how to rapidly draw curves, and it seems I need to switch tools to remove anchors and modify curvature. In Illustrator I used one tool and a few keyboard shortcuts and could trace fast.

Maybe it's just that I never fully learned the Inkscape way. It's a major issue since this is the main thing I want to do in Inkscape. Am I missing something?

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