[HN Gopher] Inkscape 1.1 ___________________________________________________________________ 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-24 23:00 UTC)