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Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by Tagbert »

crazygringo wrote: post #67
efortis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations. You can clear yours: File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default === At any rate, for the web use: File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG

Just the .dmg from their site. No idea why your defaults would be different from mine. Why is it even a "feature" in the first place? It's not the kind of thing I'd expect to even have to worry about whether it defaulted to on or off.

Inkscape probably treats the source SVG differently than an optimized output SVG and includes additional data to make editing the file better. Other apps use a proprietary format for their source files that contains this additional information and have to export to an open format for output.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by defulmere »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #60
stayux wrote: post #59

In the old times I have used Inkscape from curiosity and to free my self from Adobe. After initial interface hick-ups I found it very useful for shape blocking. Nowadays Affinity Designer is 90 percent of my graphic design and part time UI workflow. The rest is in Figma. I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os, the quartz version was frustrating to work with.

> I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os It's not. Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot.

> Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot.

I never knew about this trick. Just tried it and it bumped Inkscape's performance on my 2015 MBP from "not quite usable" to "usable enough" for my occasional design needs. Thanks!

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by prokoudine »

crazygringo wrote: post #41

I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web. When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file . In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc. Felt like a pretty shocking invasio…

As soon as you export your project, Inkscape retains the path to the exported file so that you could overwrite that file when exporting whenever you reopen that project rather than going once again through the whole process of pointing the program to the right folder and submitting output file name.

How is any of this a shocker?

Re: Inkscape 1.1

#144

Post by prokoudine »

spoiler wrote: post #126
skhr0680 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gimp is underrated in my opinion. Most of the complaints I've seen about it boil down to it not being a 1:1 clone of Photoshop

I agree that it's a bit underrated, but I disagree about the complaints. People don't complain about it not being a Photoshop clone. People complain about the UX/ergonomics of gimp being decades behind compared to Adobe's tools. It doesn't need the same workflows as Photoshop, but it definitely needs to improve them I will add that copying Photoshop would be an easy all-around win because Photoshop has engineered the…

> People don't complain about it not being a Photoshop clone.

Actually, no. As the person doing tech support for GIMP, I can tell you with 100% assurance that people do complain about GIMP not cloning Photoshop's UI. Quite a lot, in fact.

> It doesn't need the same workflows as Photoshop, but it definitely needs to improve them

Agreed.

> I will add that copying Photoshop would be an easy all-around win

It wouldn't be easy. Nor would it be a win. You would be stuck in the cycle of always following whatever changes Photoshop developers make. And dealing with the same criticism Photoshop devs get. Why would you want that?

And why would you, in your spare time, continuously copy someone else's work? There's no money in this. And it's not fun for sure. So why? Low self-esteem?

> cheaper alternatives to Photoshop... Gravit ... not exactly photo manipulation

Mhm, how about... Not photo manipulation at all and not alternative to Photoshop at all? :)

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by prokoudine »

mkl wrote: post #105
chasil wrote: post #24

I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF. The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import. Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd…

The upside down behaviour sounds like failure to convert coordinate systems: SVG has its y axis going down from the top left (like pixel coordinates) but EPS and PDF have their y axis going up from the bottom left (like maths plots). There has to be a better way than dealing with EPS files in 2021 though. It's a pretty archaic format, and poorly and incompletely supported by most programs. Can you use PDF for the emb…

You can flip Y coordinate in Inkscape since v1.0. Unsure how it affects EPS exporting though.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by prokoudine »

asddubs wrote: post #102
mavhc wrote: post #4

Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of images

just draw a square, select it and hit "resize viewport to selection"?

Just draw a rectangle (or any path) above the image, select both, right-click, and apply clipping path :)

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by xsmasher »

larschdk wrote: post #129
crazygringo wrote: post #41

I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web. When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file . In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc. Felt like a pretty shocking invasio…

I feel like the main mistake here is that Inkscape uses the .svg extension for what it basically it's own format. While it is essentially .svg compatible, it includes many extensions and metadata necessary for Inkscape to function. You should really save as optimized or plain .svg before publishing anything made in Inkscape.

If it saves an absolute path, not a relative one, won't it break when you move the project to another machine? Or even move the containing folder to another location?

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by cies »

snoopen wrote: post #136
cies wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it definitely needs to improve Gimp is FreeSoftware (FLOSS), this puts the word "need" in a context where it does not really work like that. > because Photoshop [in contrast to Gimp] has engineered their UX This is straight up condescending to the Gimp devs. Sure PS has put more money in UX design, but your saying Gimp dev did not (or cannot) do any of that. Please be kind when you get something for free.

I read the criticism as fair and constructive, not condescending at all.

Every UX is engineered. Maybe not by someone with a lot of experience in it. Maybe not by a team. Maybe not up to your standards. But it _is_ engineered. Basically, saying Gimp did not is not very nice then, especially know the engineer produce it for you for free.

Re: Inkscape 1.1

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Post by asddubs »

prokoudine wrote: post #146
asddubs wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just draw a square, select it and hit "resize viewport to selection"?

Just draw a rectangle (or any path) above the image, select both, right-click, and apply clipping path :)

right, i guess cropping is kind of an ambiguous description for an operation
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