[HN Gopher] Inkscape 1.1
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Inkscape 1.1
Author : RaitoBezarius
Score : 118 points
Date : 2021-05-24 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (inkscape.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (inkscape.org)
| ExcavateGrandMa wrote:
| that broken hearth :/
| mavhc wrote:
| Only thing I find annoying in Inkscape is doing simple crops of
| images
| themodelplumber wrote:
| 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%20i...
| chris_wot wrote:
| Why so?
| TchoBeer wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| vanattab wrote:
| Cropping of vector graphics is more complex by nature then
| cropping raster graphics
| SilverRed wrote:
| Inkscape already has the math for it as part of the boolean
| tools. This sounds like a UI problem
| randomhodler84 wrote:
| I love Inkscape!! Congrats on the 1.1 release
| mastazi wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| As of 1.x, Inkscape no longer uses XQuartz so, if you tried it
| over a year ago, it's worth trying again.
| effable wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I swear there's a non-artist thesis-figures testimonial in
| every good Inkscape release thread :-)
| kleer001 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| For what it's worth, it's extremely stable on Linux.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Are you a contributor to the project?
| SilverRed wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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).
| chasil wrote:
| 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.
| canadianfella wrote:
| > 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.
| acabal wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| We added the feature recently in kde apps:
| https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcomm...
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