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Inkscape 1.1

446 points by RaitoBezarius 5y ago

canadianfella 5y ago
> Collecting does not transform us and always postpones learning and transformation to the future. Collecting creates debt that we >promise to pay back in some future that never arrives. The collection allow us to imagine ourselves in the near future as a person >who has read and understood the collected material. This makes us feel good. We like that person.
ExcavateGrandMa 5y ago
that broken hearth :/
mavhc 5y ago
Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of images
- chris_wot 5y ago
  Why so?
  - TchoBeer 5y ago
    Maybe I'm wrong, I'm a very causal user, but I think the only way to do it is to create a shape that covers the part you want to keep, and then do object -> set -> clip or something like that; it's not exceedingly awful, but it's not as smooth as clicking "crop" and dragging borders.
    - amelius 5y ago
      But the upside is that you can crop to any shape, not just rectangles. Also, there are not 2 workflows, one for rectangles and one for arbitrary shapes, which is a good thing.
      - megameter 5y ago
        You could "just" crop by subtracting shapes manually every time, too. Rectangle crops are extremely common so it makes sense to have a tool for that even if it just generates the underlying concept(as with shape-to-path). If I were approaching the problem fresh, though, I would look into the presentation of the modal functions as the root of the issue. The source of a lot of complexity in image editing software is confusion over layers, masks, groups, and selections - they have some conceptual overlap and can be applied modally(e.g. shape as rendering element OR mask OR selection). If the UI buries the difference it just adds to the confusion.
      - gugagore 5y ago
        > Also, there are not 2 workflows, one for rectangles and one for arbitrary shapes, which is a good thing. I think having a unified workflow is a good thing, and that that can exist along side important special cases. A tool like inkscape gets a ton of "casual" once-in-a-while use and some amount of frequent power-user use. It's tricky to facilitate both kinds of use, but I think that should be a goal. What you wrote is not ridiculous like the following statement, but consider "Yeah, you have to draw by using your text editor on an SVG file. There are not two workflows, one for drawings and one for text, which is a good thing."
    - montroser 5y ago
      Yeah, I want this to be easier all the time, and I haven't found a better way that what you described.
- vanattab 5y ago
  Cropping of vector graphics is more complex by nature then cropping raster graphics
  - SilverRed 5y ago
    Inkscape already has the math for it as part of the boolean tools. This sounds like a UI problem
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  Well, I guess for every guy using MS Paint and GIMP for maritime 3D cutaway illustrations, there's another person using Inkscape for cropping. No judgement. http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20in%20MS%20Paint.html http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20i...
  - _carbyau_ 5y ago
    That link. Wow. Kudos to the guy for perfecting his art. I love the end result and I love those kind of engineering cutaways in general. If coming new to the game, I feel that using Blender to make it in 3D would give you reusable parts that could be resized, coloured and posed from any angle. Allowing the next "similar engineering object" to be made much faster. But for someone who has already so clearly mastered their process I suspect that the time taken to master Blender and the frustations involved would detract too much from the joy of their work.
    - themodelplumber 5y ago
      I've done both Blender and GIMP-only methods and TBH the GIMP method is nice in that you are stuck with one camera shot decided in advance. Eventually in full 3D I start fiddling with camera angles think about all the animation possibilities and it's downhill from there, time-wise. :-) Though I have also found that it's sometimes nice to block things out with Blender so that the camera perspective is easy to work out quickly and the main shape lines are all blocked in...
  - montroser 5y ago
    It's not that you use Inkscape _for_ cropping, but sometimes you're laying out a graphic that includes photo content here and there... But anyway, that's quite the trip with the submarine cutaways!
- asddubs 5y ago
  just draw a square, select it and hit "resize viewport to selection"?
  - prokoudine 5y ago
    Just draw a rectangle (or any path) above the image, select both, right-click, and apply clipping path :)
    - asddubs 5y ago
      right, i guess cropping is kind of an ambiguous description for an operation
- esarbe 5y ago
  I think there's a new filter for that[0]. [0] https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.html#Filters https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inksc...
  - mavhc 5y ago
    Excellent, thanks
randomhodler84 5y ago
I love Inkscape!! Congrats on the 1.1 release
mastazi 5y ago
I just downloaded and tried the new welcome screen, I like the preview icons at the bottom when you change UI theme. Inkscape is improving with every new release!
je42 5y ago
MMh. I couldn't see any notes on performance improvements ? I like inkscape but i find it quite sluggish to work with on MacOS.
- rahimnathwani 5y ago
  As of 1.x, Inkscape no longer uses XQuartz so, if you tried it over a year ago, it's worth trying again.
  - BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
    Inkscape slowness on mac was never an XQuartz problem. All GTK (or maybe it's Cairo) apps are just terribly slow on macOS (even scrolling in meld is janky as hell and meld doesn't exactly do very much), and the new Inkscape is no exception. In fact, by some accounts the XQuartz version was if anything better in this regard. There's a long discussion about it here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 @je42: It becomes usable though if you Get Info on the Inkscape application in Finder and then check the "Open in Low Resolution" checkbox.
    - zxzax 5y ago
      There was recently a bug related to this on the gtk issue tracker too: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3714 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3714 I don't think there is going to ever be much interest in getting this fixed in GTK3, but apparently performance has improved in GTK4, which should be hardware accelerated on macOS now: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/12/15/gtk-4-got-a-new-macos-backend-now-with-opengl/ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/12/15/gtk-4-got-a-new-...
    - je42 5y ago
      Thanks !
effable 5y ago
While I am by no means an expert user, and I have a lot to learn on how to properly use inkscape, I used it for creating some figures for my thesis and it really came in handy. Congratulations on the release!
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  I swear there's a non-artist thesis-figures testimonial in every good Inkscape release thread :-)
kleer001 5y ago
Looks like some nice improvements. I'd be great if they supported direct use of CMYK in addition to the default screen-space RGB mode. And yes, I understand Inkscape is more illustration than Desktop Publishing, but still... Until then there's Scribus.
theiz 5y ago
Tried working with Inkscape on my MacBook this weekend. It keeps freezing up unfortunately. Like to work with it, but it does not seem to be stable enough to do production work with that.
- osrec 5y ago
  For what it's worth, it's extremely stable on Linux.
  - easrng 5y ago
    In my experience it is less stable on Linux than Windows (Not sure about Mac) but that may be because I'm on an older version from the Debian repos.
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  I think I ran the Windows version with Wine after my first attempts on my MB. It worked fine from that point on, might be worth a try.
suyash 5y ago
Can someone port this amazing free design app to the iPad and make it work with Apple Pencil please? It will free us from Adobe's bubble.
- hossbeast 5y ago
  Are you a contributor to the project?
- SilverRed 5y ago
  You wouldn't want to port it. There are a billion icons and toolbars which won't fit on the ipad. The whole thing would have to be redesigned from the ground up with a UI similar to procreate that keeps the main canvas free from UI. And if you put in that much effort, you are going to want to charge for the app. Understandably, iPadOS doesn't have a thriving open source / free culture.
- moron4hire 5y ago
  Wacom has some much cheaper Cintiq displays these days. I think it's $350 for the 13" and $650 for the 16". I got the 16" recently to update from an old Intuos that finally gave up the ghost after 15 years. The texture of the stylus on the display is a lot better than an Apple Pencil on an iPad, even with a silicon tip (which I also have).
  - LegitShady 5y ago
    Just bear in mind that the cheaper Wacom displays are not glass screens. I have the 16" cintiq (not pro) and the screen has a few scratches in it already. The biggest advantage for me is the actual Wacom pen, which was designed to be held and used for a long time comfortably. The apple pencil is ok but I need something with a thicker grip and putting a pencil grip on the apple pencil covers the two touch buttons and stops you from recharging it. I still have and use an iPad pro with apple pencil 2 but the Wacom pen is 1000x better.
- specktr 5y ago
  That’s a pretty big ask on a technical level, i’d be very surprised to see that happen anytime soon. If you’re looking to get out of the adobe ecosystem i’ve had a pretty positive experience using Affinity Designer on my ipad (no affiliation with either company).
chasil 5y ago
I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF. The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import. Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code. Complain as I may, I didn't have to buy Adobe Illustrator.
- simondotau 5y ago
  I must say that as someone who is a very occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator. It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago. I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    At $25 on sale (which it currently is), a permanent license for Affinity Designer is cheaper than one month of Adobe Illustrator. Adobe likes to advertise it as $20.99/month, but that's only with a 12 month commitment, and you can't cancel early without paying. Renting Illustrator for a single month will really cost you $31.41. Even at full price ($50), Affinity Designer costs less than two months of Illustrator. Not a professional artist and don't use it often, but it's enough of a value that hobbyists like me can actually use it. Any of Adobe's products, not so much.
  - jdhendrickson 5y ago
    I bought all of their products the minute I found out they were still pursuing that oh so old fashioned idea of allowing you to OWN the software you buy from them.
acabal 5y ago
Very excited for the command palette. I wish something like that was accessible in every app. I know there's Plotinus but it feels kind of hacky--high-level support at the toolkit/HIG level for the whole desktop would be incredible.
- ognarb 5y ago
  We added the feature recently in kde apps: https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcommandbar-delivers-ludicrous-mode-productivity/ https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcomm...
  - fartcannon 5y ago
    This is the most fantastic addition Ive seen to KDE in years! Wow! Is it a bit like AutoCAD?
    - ognarb 5y ago
      I don't know how AutoCAD works but it's similar to how jetbrains tools works.
  - mkl 5y ago
    They don't seem to explain how to activate this "how do i activate" search. Apparently it's Ctrl-Alt-I: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/niqx0n/this_week_in_kde_kcommandbar_delivers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/niqx0n/this_week_in_...
- marcodiego 5y ago
  Ubuntu had this on all gtk and qt apps in 2012.
- buovjaga 5y ago
  It was recently added to LibreOffice and is currently being polished. Will be in version 7.2.
danellis 5y ago
This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.
- ddingus 5y ago
  I use it a lot. Plenty good for me
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  For our friends the "is it good enough for me to use, oh and BTW what I mean is can you name a selection of random impressive graphics people, because even better if they use this tool at work" software meta-evaluators out there--I really recommend tightening up the spec a bit and figuring out what kind of project or workplace you want to see it used in to determine whether it's "good" for example. You could even send out free evaluation copies and see if it sticks in your favorite impressive industry. :-)
- ArekDymalski 5y ago
  I've used it for years as a go-to solution whenever anythhing vector based was needed. It's a solid tool.
- pmoriarty 5y ago
  I've found that Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita pretty much fill all my graphics-creation needs, and have never felt the need to use a commercial application instead. If you have a specific need that you can't figure out how to achieve in Inkscape, then asking how to do that specific thing would be much more productive.
  - toastal 5y ago
    Slap in Hugin and Darktable (or Rawtherapee) for photography and I would say I've not had issues ditching Adobe after CS6 and switching to Linux. (With a massive exception for no color management in Wayland)
crazygringo 5y ago
I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web. When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file. In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc. Felt like a pretty shocking invasion of privacy to me. When I throw up an SVG on the web, I don't want it to contain potentially personally identifiable information.
- efortis 5y ago
  How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations. You can clear yours: File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default === At any rate, for the web use: File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG
  - crazygringo 5y ago
    Just the .dmg from their site. No idea why your defaults would be different from mine. Why is it even a "feature" in the first place? It's not the kind of thing I'd expect to even have to worry about whether it defaulted to on or off.
    - efortis 5y ago
      Probably for copyright and license. It's a common feature, MS Office documents include even more metadata, such as how many times the file has been saved.
      - crazygringo 5y ago
        My problem isn't with quantity of metadata. It's with personally-identifying data. And I can't imagine what the filepath could ever have to do with copyright or license. I don't see how this is a common feature at all.
marcodiego 5y ago
Inkscape is good enough for most cases. And it has been for a long time. Like audacity, like firefox, like musescore, like vlc, like krita, like blender... You don't need to be the best, you just need to be good enough and eventually people will help or pay developers; given enough time it may eventually become the most popular on its category.
- musicale 5y ago
  Blender might be the biggest winner in that list.
  - asddubs 5y ago
    vlc is pretty big too
    - sprkwd 5y ago
      Krita too.
  - musicale 5y ago
    VLC and Krita are both great and popular, but I'd guess that VLC is a closer analogue to Blender as far as market share vs. commercial alternatives (e.g. Maya and Cinema 4D in the case of Blender.)
fabiensanglard 5y ago
I love Inkscape. I used it for all the drawings in my books and website.
- robertlagrant 5y ago
  Any work we could see? I'm sure the Inkscape team are always proud when they see what their tool made.
stayux 5y ago
In the old times I have used Inkscape from curiosity and to free my self from Adobe. After initial interface hick-ups I found it very useful for shape blocking. Nowadays Affinity Designer is 90 percent of my graphic design and part time UI workflow. The rest is in Figma. I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os, the quartz version was frustrating to work with.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
  > I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os It's not. Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot.
  - lostgame 5y ago
    I’m curious as to if other commenters share the pet peeve of, particularly design software that wouldn’t present itself properly in Retina? For a while Unity didn’t support it and it was definitely one of ‘those things’ about using it I hated until they perfected it. (There was a limited beta window for it as I believe an ‘experimental’ option?) Design software should definitely ideally match the DPI it’s supposed to be presented in. That’s almost a make or break for myself.
    - BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
      I think in this case the problem is that Inkscape's rendering pipeline is just extremely computational inefficient on macOS. It's not that things don't show properly, it just takes too long to draw all the pixels. MS Excel for Mac actually has the same problem if you fullscreen a spreadsheet on a 5k external display unless you put the display in low res scaling mode. If I remember correctly, which I probably don't, it's partly also because the macOS display process involves painting something like 2-4x as many pixels as the screen actually has and then downscaling the result because that looks prettier than just drawing the exact pixels directly. But I'm probably misremembering that part.
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xvilka 5y ago
I hope soon we will finally see GIMP 3 as well.
- marcodiego 5y ago
  Plugin API isn't stable yet[0]. After this work is done, plugins will have to be ported to the final API. This will still take some time. I don't it will happen this year. I'm looking forward to gimp 3.2 which will have non-destructive editing that is one of the last remaining pieces before it will be more acceptable for professional photography. GIMP has the potential to become even a powerful compositor[1]. [0] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ [1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/
tannhaeuser 5y ago
Congrats to the Inkscape contributors! I'm particularly looking forward to try the new dialog docking as the old one tends to hide the thing that I'm after, worked against spatial memory IMO, and would also frequently not take or offer to "apply" my changes.
dsign 5y ago
I've been a huge fan of Inkscape for over twenty years, and some of its tools are still unmatched by Affinity Designer. Though, I find Affinity to be way better with the features I need 98% of the time, and more responsive too. But now I can afford to pay for Affinity Designer. Before Affinity, Inkscape was my go-tool for vector drawing, because Illustrator is certainly not an option, even now. Inkscape is probably not the best nor most convenient vector drawing tool, but it's probably the most affordable and usable to the majority of the planet's population, so it has my fondness and respect.
- jazoom 5y ago
  I liked using it too, but it's not on Linux and I don't use Windows anymore.
cies 5y ago
I love Inkscape. Taught my self how to use this 15+ years ago. Use it 2-10x per year since. It's always there. It does not change UI much between releases. I dont have to download a cracked version of some commercial tool because I'm to stingy to buy expensive software for a simple task at hand. Inkscape (and Gimp) have helped me a lot in this regard.
- skhr0680 5y ago
  Gimp is underrated in my opinion. Most of the complaints I've seen about it boil down to it not being a 1:1 clone of Photoshop
  - cies 5y ago
    If it was a 1:1 clone, it would have to change it's UI as much as PS does. I dont even know PS UI: Gimp was always there for me. Gimp is much better than PS for my use case. And not having to pay some sick subscription is a big reason to stay away from them.
  - spoiler 5y ago
    I agree that it's a bit underrated, but I disagree about the complaints. People don't complain about it not being a Photoshop clone. People complain about the UX/ergonomics of gimp being decades behind compared to Adobe's tools. It doesn't need the same workflows as Photoshop, but it definitely needs to improve them I will add that copying Photoshop would be an easy all-around win because Photoshop has engineered their UX. I'd say it would be pretty hard to come up with better alternates than what Photoshop has probably. There are cheaper alternatives to Photoshop that get their UX much better than Gimp. To name two: Gravit (£3/m) or Krita (FOSS), but they're not exactly photo manipulation, though.
    - cies 5y ago
      > it definitely needs to improve Gimp is FreeSoftware (FLOSS), this puts the word "need" in a context where it does not really work like that. > because Photoshop [in contrast to Gimp] has engineered their UX This is straight up condescending to the Gimp devs. Sure PS has put more money in UX design, but your saying Gimp dev did not (or cannot) do any of that. Please be kind when you get something for free.
dvh 5y ago
Inkscape is garbage. I downloaded SVG map of the world from Wikipedia. Used bucket fill to change color of one country, it failed (it created new shape that barely resembled country but was inaccurate, as if someone traced it by hand). I mean what's the point of vector graphic app of it cannot do basic operation after two decades of development. It's not like I wanted to do something obscure.
- yiyus 5y ago
  You did it wrong. In a vector drawing program, you do not change colors using the bucket fill. You should learn to use a tool before complaining it does not work.
- DominikD 5y ago
  Vector images are nothing like bitmap images. You can't take bucket fill and use it like you would in Paint. What you did, it seems, is you used a bucket fill on a group of objects, setting their fill to the same color. For what it does, Inkscape is one of the very few usable, large open source tools. It has the same problems other OSS projects do (suboptimal UI being one) but it's not tool's fault you expected behavior that's at odds with vector graphics.
- martyvis 5y ago
  And just another FYI, but you need to remember that an SVG is a structured document, where the structure may or not be obviously reflected in how it is rendered. I'm not sure which SVG you were playing with, but for instance if I grab https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Political_map_of_the_World_%28January_2015%29.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Politica... and then ungroup the top level (or 2nd level on some objects) I can easily select whole countries "colour" and manipulate and change them. And that particular file has grouped non-contiguous nations like Indonesia or Australia properly associating the islands. But as others have said here - your issue is nothing to with Inkscape but the SVG you have chosen and how you expect it to behave.
thenoblesunfish 5y ago
I love Inkscape, and even more so now that I found the included tutorials. A pleasure to use. Can’t wait until it works again on the latest OS X! (Not whining, to be clear - I fully understand how little Apple cares about making it easy to support this type of software across upgrades).
greyhair 5y ago
So many tools save metadata in the files. This is really common. Is it what you want? Maybe not, but it happens a lot. A few years ago, there was somebody scraping the web for headshots, and an amazing number of them where photoshop crops that still had the full original image embedded in them, and a number of them were nudes. He posted the more 'interesting' ones. It was part of an article about the dangers of file metadata. I wish I had the link right now, but it was years ago.
- greyhair 5y ago
  Note: In the shots that he posted, he 'blurred' the faces and identifying tattoos. He wasn't trying to dox people, just trying to alert people to be careful about what you post and share.
vort3 5y ago
I love Inkscape, but since 1.0 there's this problem, where everything is too big on Windows 10 (at least on my laptop). Icons, menus, button etc. have unnecessary padding and UI takes up like 60% of my screen. I still couldn't find a way to scale down UI. This bug needs to be fixed, otherwise it may not be usable on some PCs. Otherwise, Inkscape is really great.

446 points by RaitoBezarius 5y ago

> Collecting does not transform us and always postpones learning and transformation to the future. Collecting creates debt that we >promise to pay back in some future that never arrives. The collection allow us to imagine ourselves in the near future as a person >who has read and understood the collected material. This makes us feel good. We like that person.

ExcavateGrandMa 5y ago

that broken hearth :/

mavhc 5y ago

Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of images

chris_wot 5y ago
Why so?
- TchoBeer 5y ago
  Maybe I'm wrong, I'm a very causal user, but I think the only way to do it is to create a shape that covers the part you want to keep, and then do object -> set -> clip or something like that; it's not exceedingly awful, but it's not as smooth as clicking "crop" and dragging borders.
  - amelius 5y ago
    But the upside is that you can crop to any shape, not just rectangles. Also, there are not 2 workflows, one for rectangles and one for arbitrary shapes, which is a good thing.
    - megameter 5y ago
      You could "just" crop by subtracting shapes manually every time, too. Rectangle crops are extremely common so it makes sense to have a tool for that even if it just generates the underlying concept(as with shape-to-path). If I were approaching the problem fresh, though, I would look into the presentation of the modal functions as the root of the issue. The source of a lot of complexity in image editing software is confusion over layers, masks, groups, and selections - they have some conceptual overlap and can be applied modally(e.g. shape as rendering element OR mask OR selection). If the UI buries the difference it just adds to the confusion.
    - gugagore 5y ago
      > Also, there are not 2 workflows, one for rectangles and one for arbitrary shapes, which is a good thing. I think having a unified workflow is a good thing, and that that can exist along side important special cases. A tool like inkscape gets a ton of "casual" once-in-a-while use and some amount of frequent power-user use. It's tricky to facilitate both kinds of use, but I think that should be a goal. What you wrote is not ridiculous like the following statement, but consider "Yeah, you have to draw by using your text editor on an SVG file. There are not two workflows, one for drawings and one for text, which is a good thing."
  - montroser 5y ago
    Yeah, I want this to be easier all the time, and I haven't found a better way that what you described.
vanattab 5y ago
Cropping of vector graphics is more complex by nature then cropping raster graphics
- SilverRed 5y ago
  Inkscape already has the math for it as part of the boolean tools. This sounds like a UI problem
themodelplumber 5y ago
Well, I guess for every guy using MS Paint and GIMP for maritime 3D cutaway illustrations, there's another person using Inkscape for cropping. No judgement. http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20in%20MS%20Paint.html http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20i...
- _carbyau_ 5y ago
  That link. Wow. Kudos to the guy for perfecting his art. I love the end result and I love those kind of engineering cutaways in general. If coming new to the game, I feel that using Blender to make it in 3D would give you reusable parts that could be resized, coloured and posed from any angle. Allowing the next "similar engineering object" to be made much faster. But for someone who has already so clearly mastered their process I suspect that the time taken to master Blender and the frustations involved would detract too much from the joy of their work.
  - themodelplumber 5y ago
    I've done both Blender and GIMP-only methods and TBH the GIMP method is nice in that you are stuck with one camera shot decided in advance. Eventually in full 3D I start fiddling with camera angles think about all the animation possibilities and it's downhill from there, time-wise. :-) Though I have also found that it's sometimes nice to block things out with Blender so that the camera perspective is easy to work out quickly and the main shape lines are all blocked in...
- montroser 5y ago
  It's not that you use Inkscape _for_ cropping, but sometimes you're laying out a graphic that includes photo content here and there... But anyway, that's quite the trip with the submarine cutaways!
asddubs 5y ago
just draw a square, select it and hit "resize viewport to selection"?
- prokoudine 5y ago
  Just draw a rectangle (or any path) above the image, select both, right-click, and apply clipping path :)
  - asddubs 5y ago
    right, i guess cropping is kind of an ambiguous description for an operation
esarbe 5y ago
I think there's a new filter for that[0]. [0] https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.html#Filters https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inksc...
- mavhc 5y ago
  Excellent, thanks

randomhodler84 5y ago

I love Inkscape!! Congrats on the 1.1 release

mastazi 5y ago

I just downloaded and tried the new welcome screen, I like the preview icons at the bottom when you change UI theme. Inkscape is improving with every new release!

je42 5y ago

MMh. I couldn't see any notes on performance improvements ? I like inkscape but i find it quite sluggish to work with on MacOS.

rahimnathwani 5y ago
As of 1.x, Inkscape no longer uses XQuartz so, if you tried it over a year ago, it's worth trying again.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
  Inkscape slowness on mac was never an XQuartz problem. All GTK (or maybe it's Cairo) apps are just terribly slow on macOS (even scrolling in meld is janky as hell and meld doesn't exactly do very much), and the new Inkscape is no exception. In fact, by some accounts the XQuartz version was if anything better in this regard. There's a long discussion about it here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 @je42: It becomes usable though if you Get Info on the Inkscape application in Finder and then check the "Open in Low Resolution" checkbox.
  - zxzax 5y ago
    There was recently a bug related to this on the gtk issue tracker too: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3714 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3714 I don't think there is going to ever be much interest in getting this fixed in GTK3, but apparently performance has improved in GTK4, which should be hardware accelerated on macOS now: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/12/15/gtk-4-got-a-new-macos-backend-now-with-opengl/ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/12/15/gtk-4-got-a-new-...
  - je42 5y ago
    Thanks !

effable 5y ago

While I am by no means an expert user, and I have a lot to learn on how to properly use inkscape, I used it for creating some figures for my thesis and it really came in handy. Congratulations on the release!

themodelplumber 5y ago
I swear there's a non-artist thesis-figures testimonial in every good Inkscape release thread :-)

kleer001 5y ago

Looks like some nice improvements. I'd be great if they supported direct use of CMYK in addition to the default screen-space RGB mode. And yes, I understand Inkscape is more illustration than Desktop Publishing, but still... Until then there's Scribus.

theiz 5y ago

Tried working with Inkscape on my MacBook this weekend. It keeps freezing up unfortunately. Like to work with it, but it does not seem to be stable enough to do production work with that.

osrec 5y ago
For what it's worth, it's extremely stable on Linux.
- easrng 5y ago
  In my experience it is less stable on Linux than Windows (Not sure about Mac) but that may be because I'm on an older version from the Debian repos.
themodelplumber 5y ago
I think I ran the Windows version with Wine after my first attempts on my MB. It worked fine from that point on, might be worth a try.

suyash 5y ago

Can someone port this amazing free design app to the iPad and make it work with Apple Pencil please? It will free us from Adobe's bubble.

hossbeast 5y ago
Are you a contributor to the project?
SilverRed 5y ago
You wouldn't want to port it. There are a billion icons and toolbars which won't fit on the ipad. The whole thing would have to be redesigned from the ground up with a UI similar to procreate that keeps the main canvas free from UI. And if you put in that much effort, you are going to want to charge for the app. Understandably, iPadOS doesn't have a thriving open source / free culture.
moron4hire 5y ago
Wacom has some much cheaper Cintiq displays these days. I think it's $350 for the 13" and $650 for the 16". I got the 16" recently to update from an old Intuos that finally gave up the ghost after 15 years. The texture of the stylus on the display is a lot better than an Apple Pencil on an iPad, even with a silicon tip (which I also have).
- LegitShady 5y ago
  Just bear in mind that the cheaper Wacom displays are not glass screens. I have the 16" cintiq (not pro) and the screen has a few scratches in it already. The biggest advantage for me is the actual Wacom pen, which was designed to be held and used for a long time comfortably. The apple pencil is ok but I need something with a thicker grip and putting a pencil grip on the apple pencil covers the two touch buttons and stops you from recharging it. I still have and use an iPad pro with apple pencil 2 but the Wacom pen is 1000x better.
specktr 5y ago
That’s a pretty big ask on a technical level, i’d be very surprised to see that happen anytime soon. If you’re looking to get out of the adobe ecosystem i’ve had a pretty positive experience using Affinity Designer on my ipad (no affiliation with either company).

chasil 5y ago

I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF. The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import. Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code. Complain as I may, I didn't have to buy Adobe Illustrator.

simondotau 5y ago
I must say that as someone who is a very occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator. It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago. I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.
- wlesieutre 5y ago
  At $25 on sale (which it currently is), a permanent license for Affinity Designer is cheaper than one month of Adobe Illustrator. Adobe likes to advertise it as $20.99/month, but that's only with a 12 month commitment, and you can't cancel early without paying. Renting Illustrator for a single month will really cost you $31.41. Even at full price ($50), Affinity Designer costs less than two months of Illustrator. Not a professional artist and don't use it often, but it's enough of a value that hobbyists like me can actually use it. Any of Adobe's products, not so much.
- jdhendrickson 5y ago
  I bought all of their products the minute I found out they were still pursuing that oh so old fashioned idea of allowing you to OWN the software you buy from them.

acabal 5y ago

Very excited for the command palette. I wish something like that was accessible in every app. I know there's Plotinus but it feels kind of hacky--high-level support at the toolkit/HIG level for the whole desktop would be incredible.

ognarb 5y ago
We added the feature recently in kde apps: https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcommandbar-delivers-ludicrous-mode-productivity/ https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcomm...
- fartcannon 5y ago
  This is the most fantastic addition Ive seen to KDE in years! Wow! Is it a bit like AutoCAD?
  - ognarb 5y ago
    I don't know how AutoCAD works but it's similar to how jetbrains tools works.
- mkl 5y ago
  They don't seem to explain how to activate this "how do i activate" search. Apparently it's Ctrl-Alt-I: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/niqx0n/this_week_in_kde_kcommandbar_delivers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/niqx0n/this_week_in_...
marcodiego 5y ago
Ubuntu had this on all gtk and qt apps in 2012.
buovjaga 5y ago
It was recently added to LibreOffice and is currently being polished. Will be in version 7.2.

danellis 5y ago

This is a blunt question, I know, but is Inkscape actually good yet? I just don't hear anybody talking about it, and I hear more about people moving from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. It doesn't seem like it's become the Blender of vector graphics.

ddingus 5y ago
I use it a lot. Plenty good for me
themodelplumber 5y ago
For our friends the "is it good enough for me to use, oh and BTW what I mean is can you name a selection of random impressive graphics people, because even better if they use this tool at work" software meta-evaluators out there--I really recommend tightening up the spec a bit and figuring out what kind of project or workplace you want to see it used in to determine whether it's "good" for example. You could even send out free evaluation copies and see if it sticks in your favorite impressive industry. :-)
ArekDymalski 5y ago
I've used it for years as a go-to solution whenever anythhing vector based was needed. It's a solid tool.
pmoriarty 5y ago
I've found that Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita pretty much fill all my graphics-creation needs, and have never felt the need to use a commercial application instead. If you have a specific need that you can't figure out how to achieve in Inkscape, then asking how to do that specific thing would be much more productive.
- toastal 5y ago
  Slap in Hugin and Darktable (or Rawtherapee) for photography and I would say I've not had issues ditching Adobe after CS6 and switching to Linux. (With a massive exception for no color management in Wayland)

crazygringo 5y ago

I installed Inkscape the other day to try to rescale and save an simple SVG for the web. When I took a look at the text saved in the file, I was pretty shocked to discover it saved the entire path of the file in the file. In other words, it saves a directory structure that could contain your username, the name of the project you're working on, what company you're working for, etc. Felt like a pretty shocking invasion of privacy to me. When I throw up an SVG on the web, I don't want it to contain potentially personally identifiable information.

efortis 5y ago
How and where did you install it? The .dmg from their site, and Arch's pacman didn't add user metadata to my installations. You can clear yours: File -> Document Properties -> Metadata (clear all fields) -> Save as default === At any rate, for the web use: File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG
- crazygringo 5y ago
  Just the .dmg from their site. No idea why your defaults would be different from mine. Why is it even a "feature" in the first place? It's not the kind of thing I'd expect to even have to worry about whether it defaulted to on or off.
  - efortis 5y ago
    Probably for copyright and license. It's a common feature, MS Office documents include even more metadata, such as how many times the file has been saved.
    - crazygringo 5y ago
      My problem isn't with quantity of metadata. It's with personally-identifying data. And I can't imagine what the filepath could ever have to do with copyright or license. I don't see how this is a common feature at all.

marcodiego 5y ago

Inkscape is good enough for most cases. And it has been for a long time. Like audacity, like firefox, like musescore, like vlc, like krita, like blender... You don't need to be the best, you just need to be good enough and eventually people will help or pay developers; given enough time it may eventually become the most popular on its category.

musicale 5y ago
Blender might be the biggest winner in that list.
- asddubs 5y ago
  vlc is pretty big too
  - sprkwd 5y ago
    Krita too.
- musicale 5y ago
  VLC and Krita are both great and popular, but I'd guess that VLC is a closer analogue to Blender as far as market share vs. commercial alternatives (e.g. Maya and Cinema 4D in the case of Blender.)

fabiensanglard 5y ago

I love Inkscape. I used it for all the drawings in my books and website.

robertlagrant 5y ago
Any work we could see? I'm sure the Inkscape team are always proud when they see what their tool made.

stayux 5y ago

In the old times I have used Inkscape from curiosity and to free my self from Adobe. After initial interface hick-ups I found it very useful for shape blocking. Nowadays Affinity Designer is 90 percent of my graphic design and part time UI workflow. The rest is in Figma. I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os, the quartz version was frustrating to work with.

BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
> I hope new version of Inkscape is more responsive under Mac Os It's not. Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot.
- lostgame 5y ago
  I’m curious as to if other commenters share the pet peeve of, particularly design software that wouldn’t present itself properly in Retina? For a while Unity didn’t support it and it was definitely one of ‘those things’ about using it I hated until they perfected it. (There was a limited beta window for it as I believe an ‘experimental’ option?) Design software should definitely ideally match the DPI it’s supposed to be presented in. That’s almost a make or break for myself.
  - BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
    I think in this case the problem is that Inkscape's rendering pipeline is just extremely computational inefficient on macOS. It's not that things don't show properly, it just takes too long to draw all the pixels. MS Excel for Mac actually has the same problem if you fullscreen a spreadsheet on a 5k external display unless you put the display in low res scaling mode. If I remember correctly, which I probably don't, it's partly also because the macOS display process involves painting something like 2-4x as many pixels as the screen actually has and then downscaling the result because that looks prettier than just drawing the exact pixels directly. But I'm probably misremembering that part.
    - 5y ago

xvilka 5y ago

I hope soon we will finally see GIMP 3 as well.

marcodiego 5y ago
Plugin API isn't stable yet[0]. After this work is done, plugins will have to be ported to the final API. This will still take some time. I don't it will happen this year. I'm looking forward to gimp 3.2 which will have non-destructive editing that is one of the last remaining pieces before it will be more acceptable for professional photography. GIMP has the potential to become even a powerful compositor[1]. [0] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ [1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/

tannhaeuser 5y ago

Congrats to the Inkscape contributors! I'm particularly looking forward to try the new dialog docking as the old one tends to hide the thing that I'm after, worked against spatial memory IMO, and would also frequently not take or offer to "apply" my changes.

dsign 5y ago

I've been a huge fan of Inkscape for over twenty years, and some of its tools are still unmatched by Affinity Designer. Though, I find Affinity to be way better with the features I need 98% of the time, and more responsive too. But now I can afford to pay for Affinity Designer. Before Affinity, Inkscape was my go-tool for vector drawing, because Illustrator is certainly not an option, even now. Inkscape is probably not the best nor most convenient vector drawing tool, but it's probably the most affordable and usable to the majority of the planet's population, so it has my fondness and respect.

jazoom 5y ago
I liked using it too, but it's not on Linux and I don't use Windows anymore.

cies 5y ago

I love Inkscape. Taught my self how to use this 15+ years ago. Use it 2-10x per year since. It's always there. It does not change UI much between releases. I dont have to download a cracked version of some commercial tool because I'm to stingy to buy expensive software for a simple task at hand. Inkscape (and Gimp) have helped me a lot in this regard.

skhr0680 5y ago
Gimp is underrated in my opinion. Most of the complaints I've seen about it boil down to it not being a 1:1 clone of Photoshop
- cies 5y ago
  If it was a 1:1 clone, it would have to change it's UI as much as PS does. I dont even know PS UI: Gimp was always there for me. Gimp is much better than PS for my use case. And not having to pay some sick subscription is a big reason to stay away from them.
- spoiler 5y ago
  I agree that it's a bit underrated, but I disagree about the complaints. People don't complain about it not being a Photoshop clone. People complain about the UX/ergonomics of gimp being decades behind compared to Adobe's tools. It doesn't need the same workflows as Photoshop, but it definitely needs to improve them I will add that copying Photoshop would be an easy all-around win because Photoshop has engineered their UX. I'd say it would be pretty hard to come up with better alternates than what Photoshop has probably. There are cheaper alternatives to Photoshop that get their UX much better than Gimp. To name two: Gravit (£3/m) or Krita (FOSS), but they're not exactly photo manipulation, though.
  - cies 5y ago
    > it definitely needs to improve Gimp is FreeSoftware (FLOSS), this puts the word "need" in a context where it does not really work like that. > because Photoshop [in contrast to Gimp] has engineered their UX This is straight up condescending to the Gimp devs. Sure PS has put more money in UX design, but your saying Gimp dev did not (or cannot) do any of that. Please be kind when you get something for free.

dvh 5y ago

Inkscape is garbage. I downloaded SVG map of the world from Wikipedia. Used bucket fill to change color of one country, it failed (it created new shape that barely resembled country but was inaccurate, as if someone traced it by hand). I mean what's the point of vector graphic app of it cannot do basic operation after two decades of development. It's not like I wanted to do something obscure.

yiyus 5y ago
You did it wrong. In a vector drawing program, you do not change colors using the bucket fill. You should learn to use a tool before complaining it does not work.
DominikD 5y ago
Vector images are nothing like bitmap images. You can't take bucket fill and use it like you would in Paint. What you did, it seems, is you used a bucket fill on a group of objects, setting their fill to the same color. For what it does, Inkscape is one of the very few usable, large open source tools. It has the same problems other OSS projects do (suboptimal UI being one) but it's not tool's fault you expected behavior that's at odds with vector graphics.
martyvis 5y ago
And just another FYI, but you need to remember that an SVG is a structured document, where the structure may or not be obviously reflected in how it is rendered. I'm not sure which SVG you were playing with, but for instance if I grab https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Political_map_of_the_World_%28January_2015%29.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Politica... and then ungroup the top level (or 2nd level on some objects) I can easily select whole countries "colour" and manipulate and change them. And that particular file has grouped non-contiguous nations like Indonesia or Australia properly associating the islands. But as others have said here - your issue is nothing to with Inkscape but the SVG you have chosen and how you expect it to behave.

thenoblesunfish 5y ago

I love Inkscape, and even more so now that I found the included tutorials. A pleasure to use. Can’t wait until it works again on the latest OS X! (Not whining, to be clear - I fully understand how little Apple cares about making it easy to support this type of software across upgrades).

greyhair 5y ago

So many tools save metadata in the files. This is really common. Is it what you want? Maybe not, but it happens a lot. A few years ago, there was somebody scraping the web for headshots, and an amazing number of them where photoshop crops that still had the full original image embedded in them, and a number of them were nudes. He posted the more 'interesting' ones. It was part of an article about the dangers of file metadata. I wish I had the link right now, but it was years ago.

greyhair 5y ago
Note: In the shots that he posted, he 'blurred' the faces and identifying tattoos. He wasn't trying to dox people, just trying to alert people to be careful about what you post and share.

vort3 5y ago

I love Inkscape, but since 1.0 there's this problem, where everything is too big on Windows 10 (at least on my laptop). Icons, menus, button etc. have unnecessary padding and UI takes up like 60% of my screen. I still couldn't find a way to scale down UI. This bug needs to be fixed, otherwise it may not be usable on some PCs. Otherwise, Inkscape is really great.