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).
I implemented it as part of a GSoC project a decade ago, which was first included in the 0.91 release in 2015.
I like this application. The major thing it is missing is a tool that lets you cut shapes arbitrarily. I know there is something akin to masking, but it leaves the original shape data in the file.
As an example. Say I wanted cut a semicircle out of a square.
If I'm missing something that already exists, let me know.
> I do this for woodworking designs Can you talk more about it? What kind of things are you designing? How detailed are the designs?
Nothing professional; just sketches for personal projects in and around the house. Usually fairly detailed, but mostly useful to get a sense of proportion and to design the basic layout of things like built-in closets. Inkscape's snapping, aligning, and layering features make it a good tool for this as long as you need nothing more than 2D views. I also use Inkscape to prepare the (plywood, MDF) sheet sawing instruct…
That's awesome, thank you. Built-in closets and simple shelves is what I'm looking for. And maybe a french cleat system for organizing tools. A 2D view should be enough.
I'm using draw.io for floor plans to get a basic sense of spacing for bigger projects. Inkscape looks like a good fit for smaller ones.
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: h…
If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support
I expect that having SVG as the native Inkscape format makes this somewhat difficult.
It really does not. SVG is not sRGB-only. You can embed an ICC profile that describe a CMYK-based color space and use colors available in that color space, in native CMYK markup, with sliders and stuff.
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.
2.0 and up.
Honestly you better save your money if you can live without it. I've been using 1.x for years and they never asked for more money so I upgraded to show my support but I don't really think it's worth forking that much amount of money yet if you're happy with 1.x
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 oversi…
Indeed, another annoyance I have with Designer is how not purely vector it is.
I mean it's great and makes it a breeze to make documents but it really sucks for making web-targeted SVGs. Both Inkscape and Illustrator support using SVG as the project file and I never have to guess if the feature I'm using is going to actually export as vector or just rasterized and embedded as a base64 PNG (which is true for fancy gradients and some of the more advanced masking, not even just the raster persona stuff).
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.
translation: the UI is not exactly like im used to, and is not a duplicate of the product I wish to replace with another product for [reasons], therefore the world must know that it is garbage
I like this application. The major thing it is missing is a tool that lets you cut shapes arbitrarily. I know there is something akin to masking, but it leaves the original shape data in the file. As an example. Say I wanted cut a semicircle out of a square. If I'm missing something that already exists, let me know.
ytou can do that with boolean operations in path menu or with new shape buuilder tool
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 dont need to do mental math you can chang your bbox calcuations to use geometry preferences- tools - bbox geometry