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Inkscape 1.4

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Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by omoikane »

The one new feature in 1.4 that I appreciated the most is the ability to disable anti-aliasing when exporting from the command line:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5167

Before this option appeared in Inkscape nightly builds, I had no way of automating a pipeline to rasterize SVGs into black&white PNGs in a pixel perfect way.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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omoikane wrote: post #2

The one new feature in 1.4 that I appreciated the most is the ability to disable anti-aliasing when exporting from the command line: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5167 Before this option appeared in Inkscape nightly builds, I had no way of automating a pipeline to rasterize SVGs into black&white PNGs in a pixel perfect way.

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Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by msarnoff »

I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by sprucevoid »

Unfortunately 1.4 does not fix command palette issues on Windows (5+ seconds to show, freezes, crashes, several commands accessible through UI buttons not available through palette with same name phrase). Finding the name of an action and how to trigger it (button somewhere or menu/submenu item) is a pain point in Inkscape and a good command palette can help a lot.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by tetris11 »

The more I learn about the SVG spec, the more I understand the rationale of some of the UI decisions inkscape made, and the more impressed I am by how they implemented advanced techniques like shape union and intersection, clipping and masking.
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