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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.

by 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.
    - fredoralive 5y ago
      The scaling issue is that Apple only uses integer scaling factors. So any res that isn’t an exact multiple of the notional “1x” value gets rendered at a higher res and downsampled. I think it’s more either “lazy” or “pragmatic” (depending on your view) programming to avoid various issues you can get with non integer scaling.
- defulmere 5y ago
  > Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot. I never knew about this trick. Just tried it and it bumped Inkscape's performance on my 2015 MBP from "not quite usable" to "usable enough" for my occasional design needs. Thanks!

by stayux 5y ago

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.
  - fredoralive 5y ago
    The scaling issue is that Apple only uses integer scaling factors. So any res that isn’t an exact multiple of the notional “1x” value gets rendered at a higher res and downsampled. I think it’s more either “lazy” or “pragmatic” (depending on your view) programming to avoid various issues you can get with non integer scaling.
defulmere 5y ago
> Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot. I never knew about this trick. Just tried it and it bumped Inkscape's performance on my 2015 MBP from "not quite usable" to "usable enough" for my occasional design needs. Thanks!