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Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by ltlnx »

neves wrote: post #10

I've just bought a Surface Pro tablet. Does Inkscape interface work well in a tablet or with a pen?

I really hope it does, but for now it lacks in the basics such as panning (Krita can hold down a button + move pen to pan the canvas), button support (I don't think there's a way to map pen buttons to specific functions, let alone switch between them), and the drawing tools are still really basic. They are focusing on UX for the next release though, and UX issues can be discussed in the Inkscape UX Gitlab repo.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by mediumsmart »

prmoustache wrote: post #81
tetris11 wrote: post #8

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.

Speaking of SVG spec, is there a guide on how to create SVG files with Inkscape that will render well on most web browsers supporting SVG? I have failed a number of times producing an SVG file that would render the same on browsers and in Inkscape editor window. This is frustrating.

fwiw I make everything a path, make it small and edit > crop to selection, then save as optimized svg - open with a Webbrowser - Show source - copy - paste into html - remove width and height (handled in the css) add the title etc and done I think.

yay for Inkscape but please make dialog modals when multiple tabs are open come to the front and show themselves on macOS - don’t be shy

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by ltlnx »

prmoustache wrote: post #80
Gigachad wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A proprietary format would allow doing anything, without having to worry about how other programs will support it. There’s a conflict between what is needed to simply display images, and what is needed for an ideal editable document. A web browser doesn’t need the complexity of non destructive Boolean operations, but an editor program does. It can all be exported to SVG at the end once it doesn’t need to be edited an…

You don't have to have a proprietary format to do that. You are doing the mistake of associating open format with standard format, which really are orthogonal concepts. Open format means the format specification is published under an open license. A standard format is one whose specification is maintained by a standards organization/body/consortium. It happens that most open formats are or end up being maintained by…

The problem with SVG is the different demands between browser vendors and graphic editors. Browsers for example don't need pages to be in SVG, but it's unavoidable for proper graphic design tools. That makes the advancement of an open format a lot harder, and AFAIK Inkscape devs have thought of extending SVG into their own format (in a talk at LGM).

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by bubblesnort »

Jerry2 wrote: post #57

I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D vector software that I use and recommend is Graphite [1]. It too is open source. Graphite has nodes and can be procedural in nature. Have them both in your graphics toolbox. [1] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite

Thank you. This is the first time I've heard of the Graphite editor.

I think it could benefit from availability in package reposirories and looking at the license, it appears the program itself is free under the Apache license but the artwork is non-free. It cannot be modified and commercial use is prohibited.

When combined, Graphite as a whole is non-free so I won't be compiling this until the artwork is gone. I'll look into providing some dummy files and see where it goes.

The other packing problem is that there's already a server monitoring program also named Graphite. But given the above, a change of name and new icons would solve both problems.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by ltlnx »

allenu wrote: post #28
msarnoff wrote: post #5

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.

I love Inkscape as well. It took some getting used to at first, but now I can sketch things rather quickly with it. The lag on macOS and non-standard UI behaviors are really frustrating though. For example, for the longest time, if you put the cursor in a text field and then hit cmd-A to select all text, it would interpret that to mean select all objects in the canvas instead. Another thing is that sometimes when I c…

Inkscape has a lot of additional problems on MacOS, like dialogs appearing below the main window making it look like it's frozen, occasional text rendering issues, interference with input methods (on Windows too), and other problems that cannot be reproduced on Linux. To be fair a big part of it can be attributed to GTK, the underlying UI toolkit.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by ltlnx »

user3939382 wrote: post #84

The prospect of discarding 25 years of muscle memory in Adobe Illustrator is unfathomable to me, as much as I loathe what Adobe has become.

It does have Ai shortcuts to choose from in the settings, if there's problems or inaccuracies with it you can also open an issue at https://inkscape.org/report/ .

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by skeptrune »

Gigachad wrote: post #64
smitelli wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ve historically been quite open about needing help on the macOS front. For example, https://inkscape.org/news/2021/06/22/seeking-macos-dev-contr...

I’d imagine there just isn’t a huge group of people who work on foss software, and use Mac. I’ve noticed that just in general foss apps which work great on Linux, are often broken on macOS.

+1. It's frustrating me right now, because newer members onboarding to our team are having all kinds of issues with Element amongst other software.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by bubblesnort »

rullopat wrote: post #85

Is it only me that, when I open Inkspace, I really cannot get anything done without watching a tutorial or reading docs / blog posts?

There's an obscured close button in the top right corner. If you want to skip the welcome dialog just click that.

The second time it appears, you can uncheck "Show this every time" in the lower left corner and then click "New Document".

...or you could click Save on the first dialog and then click " Thanks!". You'll get the same dialog as above when you'd have closed it with the button in the corner.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by gattr »

ltlnx wrote: post #89
rullopat wrote: post #85

Is it only me that, when I open Inkspace, I really cannot get anything done without watching a tutorial or reading docs / blog posts?

Do you have prior experience with other vector editors? For me it's pretty intuitive (save for some papercuts), but that may be due to my lack of experience with other editors.

I like Inkscape very much and use it for all my (usually quite simple) vector drawing needs. From the get go, it was quite intuitive to use - my first vector editor experience was with CorelDRAW 3 in the early 90s.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

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Post by [deleted] »

Jerry2 wrote: post #57

I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D vector software that I use and recommend is Graphite [1]. It too is open source. Graphite has nodes and can be procedural in nature. Have them both in your graphics toolbox. [1] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite

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