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Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released
- cies 5y agoI absolutely love this program. Few times per year I need a vector tool. After some toying with proprietary vector tools (Illustrator), I learned Inkscape (as it was readily available in my Linux envs). I never looked back. It does the job. I never have to look for cracked software in order to open my old files or use my acquired skills. It just works.
- lopis 5y agoI just wish designers were more familiar with the SVG format and its caveats. Several times I've wanted to do some quick change in an SVG that was exported from Adobe Whatever and Inkscape was incapable of rendering it correctly, if at all. I'm pretty sure Adobe has been pushing the boundaries of SVG in the last years, while other tools stick to the basics.
- dccoolgai 5y agoBy "pushing the boundaries" do you mean "violating SVG standards" or is it the other editors who aren't keeping up with SVG2.0 etc?
- prox 5y agoIf Adobe changes the spec, they can, simply by being the market leader (bit like Chrome is) Not nice, but there you have it. It would be great if there was an Adobe SVG format in those cases perhaps.
- wombatmobile 5y agoAdobe is a W3C member and played a lead role in drafting the 1.0 spec, which was edited by Adobe’s Jon Ferrailo. If you are going to even hint that an Adobe product produces non-compliant SVG, please detail your claim so others can assess it. To not do so would be the first step towards a rumour, and might invite FUD that might devalue SVG’s status as an open standard supported enthusiastically in web and vector graphics ecosystems. We don’t want that, do we?
- baybal2 5y agoAnd Adobe was the one to sink the SVG 1.2... because of Inkscape
- wombatmobile 5y agoI'm not familiar with what you are referring to. Could you point me towards more information or discussion?
- duped 5y agoThe last I heard there wasn't a single rendering engine that passes the entire W3C test suite, let alone any two renderers that have the same coverage. I'm not sure if that is still the case. In my experience using SVG for portability is a minefield.
- jatone 5y agoyup. resvg is the best atm i think.
- m_st 5y agoI also had some issues with SVG exports from Inkscape not being drawn correctly when used as toolbar icons for Windows apps. The solution was Affinity Designer. Too bad, but at least it's an easy purchase rather than a subscription.
- angst_ridden 5y agoAffinity Designer is a great tool for those of us willing to use commercial/non-free software (and who hate Adobe). It's relatively inexpensive, and the company tries very hard to make users happy. I've used it for numerous projects requiring vector output, ranging from bespoke posters to feeding the laser cutter. It will output a lot of formats, but in combination with Inkscape, you can convert the output to pretty much anything you would need.
- mytdi 5y agoInkscape saves with two different options: "Inkscape SVG" and "Plain SVG", did you try both?
- ygra 5y agoThey shouldn't really matter, except for file size. They won't magically use different SVG markup. All Plain SVG does is strip away Inkscape's XML namespaces and custom attributes/elements. There's a fair number of SVG features that are poorly-supported, broken or with a number of gotchas in various renderers, however and you're kinda expected to work around those yourself. For icons and similar you can often go back to the most basic things: Filled paths with solid colors and gradients. That should render pretty much everywhere where there's at least some SVG support.
- doctormon 5y agoThis is the opposite of reality for SVG. Inkscape is the only tool pushing the SVG standard forward right now. Mesh gradients, SVG2.0 text flow, and much more besides. None of it supported by Adobe, Chrome, Firefox or librsvg. Only found in Inkscape and it's not like Inkscape broke the standards, we went to the w3c and got involved in setting the spec and then implemented it. If you have broken svg files, report them to https://inkscape.org/report https://inkscape.org/report
- m_st 5y agoI mostly agree, though for me it's 'winget install inkscape' right now :-)
- matsemann 5y agoFor me it's the opposite. Things just are so much harder than they need to be. Rotating and moving stuff ends up with lots of transforms in the svg. Copying something in from another file wreaks havoc if both files used classes to style things. So many surprises all the time. I want to like it and Gimp, but end up with paid options every time.
- slig 5y agoDoes anyone knows if it works fine on macOS yet?
- adrianN 5y agoI have been using Inkscape on mac for years now and never had problems.
- colanderman 5y agoInkscape is slow as molasses on macOS for many people, and has been as long as I can remember. It's faster to run it remote on my Linux server (SSH tunnel + X11 forwarding) than native on macOS. It's a shame because it's very responsive on native Linux.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoBack when I had a Mac, there used to be an unstable OSX port with native GUI named native-menu or so. Isn't there anymore?
- DrJohanson 5y agoMuch better than the previous version but still very slow. But now it's usable on Mac at least!
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- dobladov 5y agoI love Inkscape, but really the performance in mac is completely insufficient, each action takes at least 1 second to load. Probably is not their fault or main target OS, but is so hard to find a free or open source alternative with the same functionality for mac.
- pryelluw 5y agoI run an older 2012 Mac and don’t experience that often.
- solarkraft 5y agoI have an M1 mac and on standard configuration it’s unusably slow. I’m talking about 1 FPS. In low resolution mode (removing the high res flag from the manifest) it’s just usable (and still painful). I have yet to try it, but maybe there’s a way of going through XQuartz, which might help. I hear they recently switched to GTK’s direct Quartz backend, which I can imagine is causing the problems.
- wyldfire 5y ago> I have an M1 mac and on standard configuration it’s unusably slow. Is that using a native build or via Rosetta?
- solarkraft 5y agoBoth.
- jjoonathan 5y agoYeah. I have absolutely no right to complain for the price, and even without dividing by zero Inkscape is still extraordinary, but it doesn't work for my workflow. I like to snap pictures of things (mechanical assemblies or circuit boards, typically) and annotate them. Inkscape chugs hard with even a modest image in the background, so I stick with an old CS6 illustrator license or iPad apps.
- Prestoon 5y agoI am so happy this was finally released. This update fixed a few major memory leaks they were having in the last release. I love Inkscape but that was unbearable. There was a problem with the color droplet tool, simply moving it around increased your memory usage by folds. A smaller one that became annoying overtime was simply dragging objects around on the grid. The nightly build had that one fixed awhile back but my OS didn't seem to want to play ball with it so I just ended up having to deal with these issues, now I hopefully don't have to.
- jawarner 5y agoThat's great news that they fixed the memory leaks. Inkscape used to be dangerous to leave open because it would randomly hang your system.
- dangrossman 5y agoProbably my favorite piece of open source desktop software these days. I do all my design for laser cutting in it.
- Klasiaster 5y agoI hoped to see CMYK support in the release notes. There is an extension that provides PDF export with a hack but it would be great to see native support. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExportPDFCMYK https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExportPDFCMYK
- riidom 5y agoif you want to print, I'd recommend adding Scribus to the toolchain, it has cmyk support and you can replace inkscapes rgb colors inside scribus with cmyk ones.
- hahamrfunnyguy 5y agoI'll have to try this. Lack of CMYK support is what's kept me using Adobe Illustrator for the final step of the process.
- cosmic_quanta 5y agoInkscape is great. I used it to make schematics and diagrams for my phd thesis. Highly recommended.
- jhgb 5y agoI kind of ended up relying on IPE specifically for technical drawings. It's specifically designed for that, and has good LaTeX integration as well.
- teleforce 5y agoThe 2nd edition of the definitive book on Inkscape has just been released: https://nostarch.com/inkscape2E https://nostarch.com/inkscape2E
- akeck 5y agoI adore Inkscape. If you haven't tried it, painting with the marker tool and a pressure sensitive tablet is really fun. Drawn look but infinitely scalable. Good for "cell" style art.
- barrenko 5y agoNeed to try this, thanks.
- akeck 5y agoIt's a little tedious, but I prefer to do one color per layer. After drawing a color, select everything in the layer and then do a union and remove all the interior points. That makes the file much smaller. Otherwise, you have overlapping "brush strokes" that have hundreds of points each.
- cphoover 5y agoWhat a great piece of software.
- one_comment 5y agoLove the program as well, but the CSS support, while much better than in the past still makes me open the files in an editor afterwards
- mekkkkkk 5y agoInkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issues with Adobe products as well. A really awesome thing about Inkscape for me is how it uses standard SVG as its default file format. It makes a lot of sense and makes the raw artwork highly exportable and flexible.
- toastal 5y agodarktable + Hugin have me covered for photography. I just want better Wayland support. Specifically I'm waiting for Wayland to get color management merged--even if it only supports standard definition and old ICC profile formats as a stop-gap.
- siver_john 5y agoNever had seen Hugin before, I was wondering how people did that open source recently. And with respect to color management and Wayland with the rumored next release of nvidia drivers potentially supporting Wayland that's about the only thing that would stop me from switching on all my machines. I know there is an open issue for working on that in both the Wayland official protocols and wl-roots so hopefully soon.
- toastal 5y agoHugin has gotten me great results in the past. My most popular panorama (https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX), you can't even find the seams despite being quite wide at 5 × 3 shots. It handled 16-shot panoramas well too (https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh), even though Flickr won't render those resolutions. I've even used it for focus stacking (https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX) to keep a narrow depth-of-field on an object that needed 2 focus points to stay sharp.
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- hashtag-til 5y agoIt is my favourite vector tool on Linux and Mac. Once you get the hang of the alignment tooling and the export formats, you can get very professional results. Interested to know where somebody here has experience contributing to the project with code, on how friendly is the project and team? I see the sources are at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape
- heliodor 5y agoI found GravitDesign for OSX and haven't touched Inkscape since.
- oblio 5y agoDoes anyone have a solution for HiDPI scaling on Windows, without making the icons huge? The UI is either too small, or it kind of looks ok except that the icons on the toolbars become huge and make the toolbars themselves take up a third or even half of the screen :-(
- DarkWiiPlayer 5y agoInkscape is such a great tool. I loved it before getting to know SVG, on its merit as an editor alone; but after digging into the SVG format because of web-related stuff, I appreciate inkscape so much more. It exposes many of the more technical aspects of SVG without making things too complicated. It's nice to see all the new features that are being added; they really feel like the project might be going from niche tool for SVG fanboys to actually usable by a wide variety of graphics people. So far I've used inkscape for almost anything, from animated web graphics to 3D-Printing (OpenSCAD lets you import SVG files directly and extrude them into 3D). I'd almost like to call it "the blender of 2D"
- tonis2 5y agoAwesome the user interface has improved a lot, since I last tried Inkscape. Hope they keep up the good work.
- pier25 5y agoPerformance in macOS is still really bad. On my iMac 5K it seems to run at 1-2 fps. I click and drag and nothing happens for at least 1 second.
- iFire 5y agoContext: Rendering SVG and Lottie from like Inkscape. Was amazing contributing as an open source contributor to the Samsung team at https://github.com/Samsung/thorvg https://github.com/Samsung/thorvg and https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie. `rlottie` is used in Discord and telegram for animated stickers and `thorvg` is the work-in-progress next generation animated vector / static vectors technology. Hope that animated vectors is important to more people.
- hyperstar 5y agoWhat's the best resource for learning to use Inkscape?
- m-p-3 5y agoDoing image editing and design isn't what I'm making a living from, but for what I do it does cover everything I need from vector-based editing. Thank you to all contributors :)
- billfruit 5y agoIts a great tool. One feature I missed in earlier versions was the ability to define styles (like line styles) and select the style before drawing an element, rather than draw an element then setting its style afterwards. If that was possible I could select a line style and draw like any number of elements of that style, instead of going to each drawn element and changing its style. Is it possible to use that workflow in present versions? Another nice feature would have been to have an integrated library of shapes, to use in your own diagrams.
- s1291 5y ago> Another nice feature would have been to have an integrated library of shapes, to use in your own diagrams. Inkscape has Symbol libraries. (from the menu : Object > symbols). You can create you own library. PS: there is also this project: https://github.com/PanderMusubi/inkscape-open-symbols https://github.com/PanderMusubi/inkscape-open-symbols
- BitwiseFool 5y agoCan anyone recommend a good training course for Inkscape? I'm normally okay at teaching myself things but for some reason art software is just not grokable for me unless I have a teacher or some lesson plan.
- ruslan 5y agoSadly, neither Inkscape nor GIMP still supports CMYK color space natively which makes these tools difficult to use for commercial printing purpose. Beside that Inkspace is pretty cool piece of software.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoI love Inkscape, but I wish it's interface wasn't stuck in 2005. Since that time a lot of apps appeared that did greatly improve user interfaces, making the user 100x more productive using them. Of course, I'm talking mostly about Sketch that pioneered an approach with a lot of tiny things done right. When transitioning to Sketch from tools like fireworks or Inkscape, I was amazed how right they did the work with coordinates, half-pixels and masks, and various copy-duplicate mechanics. Guys, it is OK to steal interface innovations from Sketch! Figma did it all the time, and so can you!
- MrDresden 5y agoSince I haven't seen it mentioned; If Inkscape is useful to you, or you like the idea of it being available free of charge for others, please consider donating to the contributors. Inkscape has information here https://inkscape.org/support-us/fund-contributors/ https://inkscape.org/support-us/fund-contributors/