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Inkscape Developer Reacts to Affinity Being Acquired [video](youtube.com)
10 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
There is also Graphite ( https://graphite.rs/ ) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
> Inkscape is passable but aspects like filters are obtuse to use and that's largely because it's trying to be a good compliant SVG editor and not necessarily a good vector graphics editor. It is actually possible to build an i
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
For any non-trivial editor you will need an object model that abstracts away the low level drawing functions and manages state. I think fabric.js is worth checking as its source code is well organized and documented. It's not a small p
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
> I wish Inkscape could do it or there was an Inkscape-like animation tool, that does not hide but rather embraces the underlying SVG code. This is basically what I'm trying to achieve with Boxy SVG project: a vector graphics editor
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
For pure SVG-based animations you should take a look at Boxy SVG: https://boxy-svg.com/blog/21
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
SVG animation elements are now mostly supported by all modern browsers. You can even use `transform-origin` and `transform-box` CSS properties to control the origin point (this was a major pain point in the past). I think "paced"
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
I used it to implement the "Sketchify" generator in Boxy SVG ( https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/23 ). It is especially nice that Rough.js has very few dependencies and can run inside a web worker.
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
Firefox support is tracked on https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/227/firefox-browser-support , I think it will be added next year.
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CSS Wrapped: 2023(developer.chrome.com)
6 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|1 comments
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
There is also Boxy SVG ( https://boxy-svg.com ) which combines both designer and developer oriented functionality and uses SVG as its native file format. Unlike Illustrator/Sketch/Inkscape it can also create and manipula
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Startup productivity in the age of AI: automate, deprecate, delegate(calacanis.substack.com)
1 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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Harmony: Accessible UI Color Palette(github.com)
1 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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Designing an Icon for Your App(blogs.gnome.org)
4 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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Standardize tooltip styling and expose as ::tooltip(github.com)
1 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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Boxy SVG editor v4 released, now supports SVG animations(boxy-svg.com)
2 points by jarek-foksa 3y ago|0 comments
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by jarek-foksa 3y ago
I'm currently working on WebKit support in Boxy SVG ( https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/95 ) and SVG rendering performance seems to be actually better than in Inkscape - especially when transforming many objects simultaneo
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High Definition CSS Color Guide(developer.chrome.com)
5 points by jarek-foksa 4y ago|0 comments
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Status of the new SVG engine in WebKit(wpewebkit.org)
3 points by jarek-foksa 4y ago|0 comments
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Life of a Pixel – a tour of the internals of Chromium's rendering architecture(youtube.com)
5 points by jarek-foksa 4y ago|1 comments
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A vector format for Flutter (and beyond)(docs.google.com)
6 points by jarek-foksa 4y ago|0 comments
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Inkscape 1.2 released(inkscape.org)
505 points by jarek-foksa 4y ago|228 comments
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
Given the current circumstances, why is this the top story on HN? Panslavism is basically Russian imperialism in disguise.
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
Check Boxy SVG for an SVG-focused vector graphics editor. Its UI is heavily inspired by Inkscape and the Linux version is available for free (you just have to run "snap install boxy-svg").
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Image Kernels(setosa.io)
129 points by jarek-foksa 5y ago|1 comments
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
There is the standard event.getModifierState() API, but the most reliable solution I found was to listen for "keydown", "keyup", "blur", "pointerdown", "pointermove" and "pointerup&quot
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
Last time I checked Firefox didn't support Native File System API, Constructable Stylesheets API and HTML Dialog API which are used extensively by Boxy SVG.
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
I'm using electron-builder too. Things get more complicated when you want to publish your app on different app stores. I was unable to build a Snap Store package for arm on an amd64 machine. Canonical provides their own remote build se
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
> Finally! one that can import PDFs, a must have for tuning. For example, "Print to PDF" from the browser and import it in an editable format. To be honest Boxy SVG is not the best tool for manipulating PDFs. It should be able
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by jarek-foksa 5y ago
Thanks, I will check it out. I didn't know GitHub Actions could be configured to run on proprietary operating systems.

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