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Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by marcodiego »

IshKebab wrote: post #23
dobladov wrote: post #4

I love Inkscape, but really the performance in mac is completely insufficient, each action takes at least 1 second to load. Probably is not their fault or main target OS, but is so hard to find a free or open source alternative with the same functionality for mac.

Does anyone know why it is so excruciatingly slow? I always just switch to Windows to use Inkscape but it would be good to know the reason.

I think it has something to do with gtk3 under mac. This will probably be fixed with the gtk4 port.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by hashtag-til »

It is my favourite vector tool on Linux and Mac. Once you get the hang of the alignment tooling and the export formats, you can get very professional results.

Interested to know where somebody here has experience contributing to the project with code, on how friendly is the project and team?

I see the sources are at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by jofer »

jjoonathan wrote: post #14
dobladov wrote: post #4

I love Inkscape, but really the performance in mac is completely insufficient, each action takes at least 1 second to load. Probably is not their fault or main target OS, but is so hard to find a free or open source alternative with the same functionality for mac.

Yeah. I have absolutely no right to complain for the price, and even without dividing by zero Inkscape is still extraordinary, but it doesn't work for my workflow. I like to snap pictures of things (mechanical assemblies or circuit boards, typically) and annotate them. Inkscape chugs hard with even a modest image in the background, so I stick with an old CS6 illustrator license or iPad apps.

One thing that might help: try linking the image instead of embedding it.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by oblio »

Does anyone have a solution for HiDPI scaling on Windows, without making the icons huge?

The UI is either too small, or it kind of looks ok except that the icons on the toolbars become huge and make the toolbars themselves take up a third or even half of the screen :-(

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by heliodor »

hashtag-til wrote: post #32

It is my favourite vector tool on Linux and Mac. Once you get the hang of the alignment tooling and the export formats, you can get very professional results. Interested to know where somebody here has experience contributing to the project with code, on how friendly is the project and team? I see the sources are at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape

I found GravitDesign for OSX and haven't touched Inkscape since.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by jjoonathan »

jofer wrote: post #33
jjoonathan wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I have absolutely no right to complain for the price, and even without dividing by zero Inkscape is still extraordinary, but it doesn't work for my workflow. I like to snap pictures of things (mechanical assemblies or circuit boards, typically) and annotate them. Inkscape chugs hard with even a modest image in the background, so I stick with an old CS6 illustrator license or iPad apps.

One thing that might help: try linking the image instead of embedding it.

The rendering chugs, I mean -- evidently, it's still entirely CPU-side and doesn't do so great with camera-sized images. I should also specify that I'm on Windows, but have tried Linux too. I think it's probably just a matter of putting enough dev time into the GPU renderer.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by joeberon »

dobladov wrote: post #4

I love Inkscape, but really the performance in mac is completely insufficient, each action takes at least 1 second to load. Probably is not their fault or main target OS, but is so hard to find a free or open source alternative with the same functionality for mac.

Yep, the mac performance got so bad that I was forced to buy Affinity Designer, which is just a much better experience anyway.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by wombatmobile »

baybal2 wrote: post #27
wombatmobile wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe is a W3C member and played a lead role in drafting the 1.0 spec, which was edited by Adobe’s Jon Ferrailo. If you are going to even hint that an Adobe product produces non-compliant SVG, please detail your claim so others can assess it. To not do so would be the first step towards a rumour, and might invite FUD that might devalue SVG’s status as an open standard supported enthusiastically in web and vector grap…

And Adobe was the one to sink the SVG 1.2... because of Inkscape

I'm not familiar with what you are referring to. Could you point me towards more information or discussion?
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