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> It's funny because GIMP is one of the tools I hate the most. You've obviously not tried to replace Adobe Illustrator with Inkscape ;) (edit: a flippant comm

> It's funny because GIMP is one of the tools I hate the most. You've obviously not tried to replace Adobe Illustrator with Inkscape ;) (edit: a flippant comment backed by much frustration. If you're creating SVGs for laser cutting then the inability to nicely use mm as a unit of measure is infuriating.)

mkl 6y ago
I use purely mm for most Inkscape projects (not for laser cutting, but some are for my plotter). Set the units in Document Properties and it just works, IME.
- riidom 6y ago
  Yes. I get when people criticize Inkscape for it's UI (personally I find it annoying to re-arrange the side windows), but feature-wise there is nothing left to be desired (except maybe CMYK not sure about that). But whenever I need something to be printed, it goes into Scribus anyway, and there we have CMYK.
  - Shish2k 6y ago
    > there is nothing left to be desired Pretty much every time I’m working with vectors, my shapes have borders, and I want to control whether the borders are inside, on top of, or outside the shape (similar to eg box-sizing in CSS terms). As far as I can tell, inkscape still doesn’t support that :(
    - riidom 6y ago
      Good point, that seems indeed not to be implemented. I get the use case for inner borders, could probably be tricked via clipping. But yes, that's definitely another exception.
  - jfengel 6y ago
    There is a major hole in its lack of support for animation.
tripzilch 6y ago
> If you're creating SVGs for laser cutting then the inability to nicely use mm as a unit of measure is infuriating. I do this all the time (for my mechanical plotter). InkScape is an incredibly useful tool that can do some things that Illustrator chokes on (doesn't always load standards compliant SVG correctly and/or does weird proprietary shit) -- and vice versa, but I think there could actually be reason to install and use both.

mkl 6y ago

I use purely mm for most Inkscape projects (not for laser cutting, but some are for my plotter). Set the units in Document Properties and it just works, IME.

riidom 6y ago
Yes. I get when people criticize Inkscape for it's UI (personally I find it annoying to re-arrange the side windows), but feature-wise there is nothing left to be desired (except maybe CMYK not sure about that). But whenever I need something to be printed, it goes into Scribus anyway, and there we have CMYK.
- Shish2k 6y ago
  > there is nothing left to be desired Pretty much every time I’m working with vectors, my shapes have borders, and I want to control whether the borders are inside, on top of, or outside the shape (similar to eg box-sizing in CSS terms). As far as I can tell, inkscape still doesn’t support that :(
  - riidom 6y ago
    Good point, that seems indeed not to be implemented. I get the use case for inner borders, could probably be tricked via clipping. But yes, that's definitely another exception.
- jfengel 6y ago
  There is a major hole in its lack of support for animation.

tripzilch 6y ago

> If you're creating SVGs for laser cutting then the inability to nicely use mm as a unit of measure is infuriating. I do this all the time (for my mechanical plotter). InkScape is an incredibly useful tool that can do some things that Illustrator chokes on (doesn't always load standards compliant SVG correctly and/or does weird proprietary shit) -- and vice versa, but I think there could actually be reason to install and use both.