Inkscape 1.0 Released (betanews.com) 68
Inkscape, the free and open-source vector graphics editor, has released version 1.0 for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It comes after three years in development and over 16 years after Inkscape's initial release. BetaNews reports: "Built with the power of a team of volunteers, this open source vector editor represents the work of many hearts and hands from around the world, ensuring that Inkscape remains available free for everyone to download and enjoy. In fact, translations for over 20 languages were updated for version 1.0, making the software more accessible to people from all over the world. A major milestone was achieved in enabling Inkscape to use a more recent version of the software used to build the editor's user interface (namely GTK+3). Users with HiDPI (high resolution) screens can thank teamwork that took place during the 2018 Boston Hackfest for setting the updated-GTK wheels in motion," explains the developers.
The devs further explain, "The extensions system has undergone some fundamental changes in version 1.0. Over the years, Inkscape users have become used to working with third-party extensions, such as various ones used for laser cutting and exporting to file formats which are not a native part of Inkscape. While outreach to extension developers was undertaken as Inkscape migrates towards Python 3 and a more logical and fully tested extensions API (now hosted in a separate repository), not all third-party extensions have been brought forward to be compatible yet. This will mean that 1.0 may not allow some users to continue with their normal extensions workflow." The blog post, official release notes, and download page are available at their respective links.
The devs further explain, "The extensions system has undergone some fundamental changes in version 1.0. Over the years, Inkscape users have become used to working with third-party extensions, such as various ones used for laser cutting and exporting to file formats which are not a native part of Inkscape. While outreach to extension developers was undertaken as Inkscape migrates towards Python 3 and a more logical and fully tested extensions API (now hosted in a separate repository), not all third-party extensions have been brought forward to be compatible yet. This will mean that 1.0 may not allow some users to continue with their normal extensions workflow." The blog post, official release notes, and download page are available at their respective links.
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I just loaded it up in like 1.5 seconds on an eight year old computer.
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You didn't say what kind of drive that was from. Conventional platter or SSD?
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It's not Inkscape's fault if you're still using a spinning disk.
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I just loaded it up in like 1.5 seconds on an eight year old computer.
Your 8 year old computer likely has an SSD and 16GB of RAM like my 8year old computer. That doesn't change the fact that starting InkScape is an exercise in disk thrashing.
Now in it's defense, so is Adobe Illustrator.
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Yes, it does, but you could also buy a used computer with those specs for less than a couple months of paying for Adobe.
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No, it never took forever to load. Not even on my system with thousands of fonts. Either you have some corrupted files or it's finally time for you to upgrade from that 486.
Also, why isn't this story linked to the actual news post on the Inkscape site [inkscape.org] instead of to that fat, money-grubbing sack of shit "Brian FAGioli"?
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For a brief period I did network (IT) diagrams in Prezi as their image search was shockingly good at the t
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Lawrence Systems (YouTube) posted a nice run-through of productivity apps they use for day-to-day business:
"Linux Apps I Use Daily on Pop_OS!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
The (networked?) list includes:
Gsuite, Solarwinds / ScreenConnect (both), InvoiceNinja, Local Apps, KmyMoney, Draw.IO/Diagrams.net, Shutter, Signal, Keybase, Mumble, Wireshark, Geany, VIM, TMUX, OpenVPN, Syncthing
Also for Video editing there are mentioned:
GIMP, Kdenlive, OpenBroadcastStudio, Audacity
I think the network diagram tools ba
Re:There goes the neighborhood (Score:5, Informative)
For video editing, see Shotcut http://shotcut.org/ [shotcut.org].
I've been using it a few years and the stability has improved considerably. Development continues at a good pace with regular updates. As you'd expect for FSOS, the back end is pretty sophisticated, with lots of codecs and advanced capabilities. But some users/developers have recently introduced animated titles which are surprisingly powerful if you know HTML/CSS.
Free competitors also for Linux/Mac/Windows include Olive, Open Shot, and Kdenlive.
Re: There goes the neighborhood (Score:2)
For video editing, I was told to have a serious look at Blender. I know, that's not what they're famous for, but apparently a big chunk of 3D production deals with video editing, so reportedly Blender is good at that, too... (?)
Re:There goes the neighborhood (Score:5, Informative)
Inkscape vector graphics (not equals) Krita raster graphics
Both are excellent graphics software. Several manufacturers of CNC machines endorse Inkscape as the preferred design software for use with their products as of a few years ago (2018).
As of 2020 Adobe Illustrator remains the standard for vector graphics as Adobe Photoshop is for raster graphics. However the reason for this is weaker now and mostly concerns CMYK color space and people who are familiar with and/or already pay for Adobe Illustrator as part of their software rental fee. See the following for an excellent and well-reasoned explanation of Inkscape 1.0 against the current industry standard Adobe Illustrator:
"Illustrator VS Inkscape: A Complete Comparison"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Linus Tech Tips did an interesting video about trying to move away from Adobe products recently.
https://youtu.be/L9VysWRHPdI [youtu.be]
They mostly looked at other commercial software rather than open source, but the basic issues were that Adobe is well known and thus easy to hire for without re-training, and that Adobe products all integrate really well which makes the workflow a lot smoother.
Nothing against Inkscape, I use it a lot and love it, I'm just pointing out why people keep paying Adobe large sums of money to
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The last time we tested InkScape, we had issues where it would not render EPS files identically to Illustrator: it'd move objects around. By small amounts, but it was noticeable enough to not want to replace Illustrator.
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We are a research lab. We use a small subset of the features but one thing we need is the PDF format. We use it for figures in latex when preparing articles. Inkscape neither opens Illustrator PDF files nicely nor exports PDF correctly.
Since Adobe has revamped their licensing terms I can no longer afford them, but I am still looking for a replacement vector editor for our scientific graphics.
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We are a research lab. We use a small subset of the features but one thing we need is the PDF format. We use it for figures in latex when preparing articles.
I can't imagine why you need Inkscape for that; can you explain the workflow a bit?
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We prepare nice-looking engineering graphics for research articles. That includes data plots, charts, diagrams that include both vector and bitmaps. The data plots are often generated in another software (usually Matlab) then have to be edited in the vector editor to reach the final appearance and style. This article https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.049... [arxiv.org] has a good mix of examples what we do.
The articles are prepared in LaTeX, which is the sole standard way of preparing scientific publications. It takes either
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OK. What is it about Inkscape's PDF that causes problems? I've not tried to embed it before, just print it or view it and I've never had any issues.
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It did not export masks, such as clipping a bitmap to a rectangular shape. These have resulted in spurious radial gradients appearing over the bitmaps.
Also we could not open a PDF created in Adobe Illustrator while preserving the layer structure. The content of all the hidden layers has become visible.
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Here is an example: http://www.vad1.com/example-in... [vad1.com]
The bottom four images should not have the whitish gradients over them. It does not import back into inkscape correctly. This is an export from SVG source, which does not have the gradients. The gradients are connected to the clips over the images. When I remove the clips, the problem disappears.
Re:There goes the neighborhood (Score:5, Informative)
Krita is a raster graphics painting tool. Inkscape is a vector graphics tool. Different tools for different purposes.
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I've always found Krita unusable...or at least more difficult to use than Gimp, though I've just looked at it and they've changed the GUI, so that may no longer be true.
My sincere thanks to Inkscape dev team (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: My sincere thanks to Inkscape dev team (Score:1)
I've used Inkscape since early 2000s also. Won multiple "poster" & "t-shirt" design awards.
Thanks amazing devs!
Re:My sincere thanks to Inkscape dev team (Score:5, Informative)
The power of Free Software in action. It started as a fork of Sodipodi, a useful but somewhat crashy and incomplete vector drawing program. It's come a long way since then.
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Inkscape has become one of those indispensable tools that I have come to need as part of both my professional work as a developer and my hobby projects.
It's fast, flexible, scriptable, embeddable with versatile, multi-functional tools. For a while I was doing some drawing as a hobby and I found Inkscape's calligraphy tool to be the best suited for my (admittedly bad) drawing style. Here's a comparison I did back in 2008 when I was switching to Inkscape from Manga Studio [rulez.org]. (You might need a translation tool
Exciting (Score:3, Interesting)
I have missed my favorite vector illustrating program since Corel killed Micrografx Designer. Inkscape is maturing into something powerful.
Re: Exciting (Score:1)
The old Corel tools were pretty rad. I kinda miss staring at the hot air balloon while loading for many minutes.
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Do they have a website where you can actually see the tool, or just a page full of popover cookie-walls and advertisements, and a giant red Buy button and a drawing of an iMac that says, "Wrong"?
This is hideous. Front and center should be a UI screenshot.
If you force me to work just to see what your product looks like, fuck you, not buying.
Also, it's commercial and we're discussing open source, kthx.
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I'm happy for the open source application's achievement, but in exchange for a couple of hour's earnings per application (I've bought licenses for all three apps during sales) the Affinity suite gives you raster, vector and layout applications. I've got rapid workflows that save me far more than the cost of the software.
While Affinity are not matching Adobe on fea
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That program doesn't even work in Linux. Pass.
UI looks similar to Inkscape to me anyway.
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I have Illustrator, but also use Inkscape. I like it specifically when I need to do graphics that will be delivered as SVG, as the ability to edit the document DOM directly is helpful. I also like some of the path tools for cleaning up paths that I will eventually cut on a vinyl cutter (blade).
However, one thing that neither Inkscape or Affinity Designer do that Illustrator DOES is handle spot color separations. They have CYMK separations, but not the ability to separate to spot color. This is absolutely re
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Unless it's improved a lot since the version in Debian stable, I would say that it has a tracing tool which is a convenient starting point from which to edit to a useable path. It's certainly better than nothing, but that's partly because I find the path editing tools in both Inkscape and the GIMP extremely painful, to the point that a text editor is my preferred tool for creating SVGs.
Extension Slaughter. (Score:3)
There are a lot of old extensions that will never be re-written.
Looking through the extensions, that's a good thing. They're beta/alpha quality.
The ones with high demand will be ported. Hopefully during the Python2->3 migration they get documentation, typing and other things that have also developed in the last ~5 years.
I haven't read up on the "API" but hopefully it's a lot better than just e-mailing zips around and trying to find the 'latest' version on some obscure forum or any of the 'unofficial forks' that people just add stuff to.
Case in point: http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/v... [cnc-club.ru]
Amazingly useful when it works but the codebase leaves a lot to be desired.
Been using Inkscape gratefully for 15 years. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Been using Inkscape gratefully for 15 years. (Score:5, Informative)
Thank you, this is amazing. I never thought a 1.0 would happen. So exciting. With Inkscape 1.0, a new blender interface and a better GIMP gui, this has been a banner year. Don't rent software folks. Own your machine.
Damn straight. These are exciting times for open source software. As more of these fundamental tools become available for free more people can use computers for productivity. The software-as-a-service fad is fine for solutions that need to be tailored for a specific customer, but Adobe's general-purpose software has always been ridiculously overpriced. Projects like Inkscape and GIMP are evidence of that. I'm not against proprietary software, nor am I against profiting from software, but free general-purpose applications are good for pretty much everybody except Adobe and Microsoft.
People have mocked the Linux desktop for years (hell, in my /. history you'll find me mocking it), but if ever there was a time to recommend desktop Linux to people it is now. Unless you're doing something specialized that cannot escape Windows like XML structured authoring, it's really a great time to start taking advantage of all the mature open source software out there.
Shead a tear for Freehand (Score:2)
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I second that, I really liked Freehand.
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Something to be learned in the slog, I suppose (Score:2, Funny)
...and over 16 years after Inkscape's initial release
GNU-Hurd Inkscape.
Re:Something to be learned in the slog, I suppose (Score:4, Funny)
I hear there's a port to Systemd in the works.
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They key difference is, for the past 16 years, Inkscape has been a real piece of software.
Thank you for Inkscape! (Score:1)
Now, I'm dreaming of a animation plugin... that would replace Adobe for me....Inkscape seems allmost capable of this...!
My needs are simple, but there is no decent 2D animation package (FLOSS or otherwise) for simple, 2D vector animation...
There was talk once of including in to Inkscape... still in the works somewhere?
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Great for what it is - but lacking for pros (Score:2)
A completely free open source vector drawing tool is a beautiful thing and for many, this is all they'll need.
I've used it on and off over the years, as I mainly work with raster images - it's come in handy for the occasional vector manipulation, converting etc. - but all too often I find myself struggling with a lack of features and a very confusing interface.
I'm sure there are those who find it simple and I guess if I used it enough I'd get the hang of it.
I've pointed pro designers at the tool when hearin
Hope Its better (Score:2)
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selecting multiple objects not working.
I'm going to have to say that the problem there is you......
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Re: Hope Its better (Score:2)
Inkscape is up there ... (Score:3)
... with Blender when it comes to professional FOSS creation tools. Good work.
I've been using Sodipodi and then Inkscape ever since. Love it.
Thank you team! (Score:3)
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Seconded, Inkscape is a wonderful vector graphics software and I deeply appreciate the work of its developers!
File Format Famine (Score:3)
I really appreciate having an open source vector image editor, but what made me stick with CorelDraw was the lack of file formats Inkscape could save in. SVG is tough to deal with and very few of my vendors accept it as print-ready art.
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I came here to find that out, too. I have used a LaTeX package for that (actually, for UML diagrams) for some years, but it can be painful and slow. I'd love to be able to grab boxes with their internal contents (preferably without drawing a circle around them with my mouse, or some such) and drag them around and see the changes instantly, not after re-compile. But I'm not about to plop down $280 in the Ms store for Visio, which I would use a couple-three times a year.
Guess I should look at articles like
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This happened four days ago (Score:2)
This happened four days ago.
Someone's asleep at the switch.