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Congratulations for the launch. Looks nice. For those that are cautious uploading sensitive PDFs, you can always just open them with Inkscape, and start editing
by x32n23nr 6y ago
Congratulations for the launch. Looks nice. For those that are cautious uploading sensitive PDFs, you can always just open them with Inkscape, and start editing pretty much anything in a document.
PS: I was once forwarded an application for someone who was supposed to replace me, and I had to interview them. The expected salary was hidden by placing a gray rectangle over it. I removed it using inkscape and saw the expected salary was 30% higher than what I made.
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- Flashtoo 6y agoI'm curious how that interviewing situation worked out for you. Did you use it to negotiate a higher salary there or at your next employer? No pressure if you don't feel like sharing that, of course.
- x32n23nr 6y agoOnce you put an employee in a position where the only way to get a salary hike is to change employers, there is no way back - you change employers. It worked out well for me, and AFAIK the role is not filled yet in the previous company.
- lowwave 6y agoInkscape to Illustrator is what GIMP is to Photoshop. Glade someone brought it. For most common tasks is there really a point even using Photoshop and Illustrator now days? Especially with the cloud direction they are moving towards.
- maaarghk 6y agobecause GIMP sucks, maybe, and also because most people are required to interoperate with the rest of the profession. i am very disappointed that photoshop et al cannot be run under WINE :(
- AbuAssar 6y agoI use GIMP regularly and find it more than enough for all my needs. I don't agree with you that it sucks.
- emayljames 6y agoI have done/still do complex composition and editing in both GIMP and Photoshop, and there is really no missing features in GIMP. If you go into using GIMP expecting it to be PShop, you will always be disappointed, but in reality that is only a good thing.
- pacamara619 6y agoIt doesn't suck. It has nearly all features you could possibly need, and then some. People who expect GIMP to be identical to Photoshop suck.
- lowwave 6y agoFor sure. If one (and myself included) use the to nicety of Photoshop Illustrator GIMP's user interface is left much to be desired. However, from a open platform perspective, do I really want many hours of editing work to be tight to a cloud platform to a proprietary format? Think not just about now or one year from now, but 10 years, 20, 50 years from now, 100 years? Open format and open source software is much desired for creation based software. There is the paradox of the making money for the open source software, and I don't have an answer for that. Seems like some kind of sliding scale payment will be needed for these software. May be also some kind of sliding scale payment for eventual money earned form the software up to a limit.
- citizenkeen 6y agoI've been incredibly happy with the Affinity Suite. Smoother and cleaner than GIMP/Inkscape/Scribus, and a desktop app for $50 ($25 during Covid), which makes it more palatable to me than the Adobe options.
- alok-g 6y agoIs this referring to Affinity Designer, to Affinity Publisher, or a bundle of the three apps (Photos, Designer, Publisher)?
- flak48 6y agoBut the candidate's expected salary can be anything, right? Or is the fact that the company is going ahead with interviewing them, a sign that they may be willing to pay that figure?
- agumonkey 6y agoqpdf also helps peeking safely