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Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by danielvaughn »

LegitShady wrote: post #79
danielvaughn wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same about GDocs. And GSheets is just insane . I have mixed feelings about Google but they knock it out of the park with their drive tools.

gsheets is hilariously slow compared to excel, once you start getting into larger files.

gsheets lets me collaborate with others in real-time and share with others very easily. When you think about “performance”, you have to consider more than just the immediate steps taken while in the application. If you think about the entire end-to-end experience, gdrive is so much faster and seamless.

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by cxr »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #109
cxr wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we haven't solved getting people a server easily It doesn't help that Sandstorm focuses on apps that are architected with a devops-heavy mindset. Many apps don't really need anything more complicated than PUT and DELETE (no POST special handling required), esp. since they're already doing so much on the client, anyway. This really calls for an auth-protected document store more than it does what Sandstorm tries to…

I really don't agree. I think loading a bunch of client-side crud from a random web server and storing it in opaque browser buckets is super untrustworthy. I think to some degree modern web app development has gone off the rails a bit.

Why are you moving the goalposts (ignoring the premise)? Sandstorm apps (like e.g. Etherpad, advertised right on the front page) aren't already doing lots of client-side work (locally), like I originally said?

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by jawarner »

transfire wrote: post #12

I so wish I could use Inkscape with my GCC Mercury III laser engraver/cutter. Right now it only works with Corel Draw (or AutoCAD).

That's fascinating; I'm not familiar with this use case. Is there anything stopping you from using the SVG output of Inkscape?

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by underdeserver »

progman32 wrote: post #115

Amazing, just two days ago I was searching for a polar arrangement tool in Inkscape. FOSS tools are often worse from a UI/UX perspective, sure, but I contend that they usually provide something consumer commercial tools often don't: respect for users. I'm not necessarily talking about welcoming communities here - respect can take the form of, say, not engaging in hostilities like: - The sword of Damocles that is rent…

I'm just left wondering whether you ended up finding a polar arrangement tool in Inkscape or not.

It did make me read your whole post without skimming, so kudos on that.

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by GiovanniP »

Gigachad wrote: post #10

Great to see the project moving along, but it's been a persistent feeling of mine that FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust. The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market. Even a lot of the big name proprietary tools are finding themselves becoming rapidly obsolete in a world where people…

> The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools

TeXmacs has an online collaboration tool, although as far as I know it is still experimental :-)

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by r2222 »

mattl wrote: post #7

Big, big fan of Inkscape. The latest release was horribly broken on my M1 Mac (every keyboard shortcut didn’t need the modifier so typing a Z was Undo, etc) I’ll download this and try it out.

Tell how it goes please.

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by esrauch »

efortis wrote: post #35
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #30

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"That’s to say that real-time collaboration is a luxury feature." So were toilets once upon a time. I am not a fan of webapps, but this line of argument doesn't hold water

I rather have a toilet than saving two clicks. —- real-time collab is not exclusive to webapps.

Do you use source control or do you email zips with the source files between you and the other developers? The collaboration here is exactly the same as that distinction in workflows.

It's obviously not just "two clicks", it's "Text copy 2 final final alt reviewed.doc" and then you get a new person email their suggested updates to you as "Text copy 2 final 2.doc" and you have to somehow merge those suggestions in with the head version.

With Word at least there's the ability to do suggestions rather than direct edits to let you collaborate against nonsynced docs at all, but with Inkscape when that happens you'll literally just get a different svg and you can't actually merge at all, instead you'd need to conceptually understand what edits were made and then make them again manually to the "head" version, which is completely redundant work.

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by cheeseface »

meibo wrote: post #69

Inkscape definitely needs an UX refresh like Blender had one. It's very hard to pick up, lots of weird/arcane behavior that doesn't match other tools in the space. Happy to see that work is still being done.

I have the opposite experience. I've tried Illustrator and some Corel products, but Inkscape has been the most easy-to-approach tool for me.

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by johnsea »

acomjean wrote: post #85
CharlesW wrote: post #50

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> If I look at the horrible experience, which is Google docs or MS Office 365, especially their word processing parts, they lack behind soooo much compared to a tool like Libreoffice. You cannot even properly use styles… As a reasonably serious user of Office 365 and someone who's desperately wanted to like LibreOffice, I'm not sure what you could mean by "properly use styles". I'm guessing this is specifically a cri…

Libre office is pretty much the only game in town on Linux. Well excepting the web based office suites. I really like it, especially for csv files which it works great for.

FreeOffice works great on Linux. Same as on Windows and the Mac.

(https://www.freeoffice.com/en/)

Re: Inkscape 1.2 released

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Post by r2222 »

ant6n wrote: post #155
l8rlump wrote: post #154

This is the obligatory post suggesting Affinity Designer. It also appears they're running a 50% off sale: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ (No affiliation. I just notice it comes up in a lot of conversations here about Inkscape)

Why should one use this over Inkscape?

Probably the biggest difference is that Designer is a combo of a raster and a vector editor, while Inkscape is a pure vector editor. Also Affinity suite supports more color spaces, like CMYK for print stuff. Affinity apps are also very well optimized for Mac and M1, while Inkscape I hear is not.

But there’s probably many reasons against choosing Designer over Inkscape too.

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