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This should have a (2019) in the title. If I'm not wrong, somewhere between 2019 and now Inkscape 1.0 was released. And now the betas have numerous new features

This should have a (2019) in the title. If I'm not wrong, somewhere between 2019 and now Inkscape 1.0 was released. And now the betas have numerous new features and UI changes, most notably the introduction of multiple pages in a single document. Besides, framing Inkscape as a "free — but arguably less featureful — alternative to Adobe Illustrator. You can use it for designing flyers and logos ~~like in the picture below~~, but it’s also a powerful tool for drawing mathematical figures" seems poor and rather unfair to it. Its compliance to the SVG standard makes it the best tool to produce scalable graphics for the web and it's extensively used to develop icon systems and theming in multiple FOSS software.

dang 5y ago
Year added above. Thanks!
akeck 5y ago
Heh. I must have missed the introduction of the multiple pages feature. I used to hand-write math homework in Inkscape with a Wacom tablet. I found it unusually effective, but the single page limit always made longer problems a bit unwieldy. (Note: I could never get my head around doing problem sets directly in LaTeX, although I did mostly OK using it for proofs in my analysis classes.)
flobosg 5y ago
Multiple pages? Finally! I started making slide presentations in Inkscape, and the option of exporting to multi-page PDFs will come in handy! More info: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.2#Page_tool https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes...
geokon 5y ago
But have any of the issues the article addresses been smoothed out? The guy basically built a whole macro layer to make inkscape less clunky
- syntheweave 5y ago
  The UI is getting fixed up in piecemeal fashion, gradually moving around elements or consolidating them. If you want to see the full details, the devs stream and record video showing progress and reviewing major new versions. Specific to this article, the alignment tools have recently gotten a pass of updates - something which everyone doing technical drawings can make use of. Layers and objects have been merged into one panel and the update performance of the panel uses a more scalable algorithm now, making it easier to navigate the document in outline form and reducing some of the burdens of object manipulation that the author calls out to external code for. Styling still needs improvement but IIRC there is work in progress on swatches that might address that. It's now possible to use a command bar to type in commands (as is the trend with every complex app) which addresses some of the use of macros. Shortcut binding is in need a pass to improve assignability; that would eliminate a second source of pain.

dang 5y ago

Year added above. Thanks!

akeck 5y ago

Heh. I must have missed the introduction of the multiple pages feature. I used to hand-write math homework in Inkscape with a Wacom tablet. I found it unusually effective, but the single page limit always made longer problems a bit unwieldy. (Note: I could never get my head around doing problem sets directly in LaTeX, although I did mostly OK using it for proofs in my analysis classes.)

flobosg 5y ago

Multiple pages? Finally! I started making slide presentations in Inkscape, and the option of exporting to multi-page PDFs will come in handy! More info: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.2#Page_tool https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes...

geokon 5y ago

But have any of the issues the article addresses been smoothed out? The guy basically built a whole macro layer to make inkscape less clunky

syntheweave 5y ago
The UI is getting fixed up in piecemeal fashion, gradually moving around elements or consolidating them. If you want to see the full details, the devs stream and record video showing progress and reviewing major new versions. Specific to this article, the alignment tools have recently gotten a pass of updates - something which everyone doing technical drawings can make use of. Layers and objects have been merged into one panel and the update performance of the panel uses a more scalable algorithm now, making it easier to navigate the document in outline form and reducing some of the burdens of object manipulation that the author calls out to external code for. Styling still needs improvement but IIRC there is work in progress on swatches that might address that. It's now possible to use a command bar to type in commands (as is the trend with every complex app) which addresses some of the use of macros. Shortcut binding is in need a pass to improve assignability; that would eliminate a second source of pain.