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  darknavi
  I have my first contribution to Inkscape in this release I think. It's quite a minor feature though, so I don't see it in the changelog. It allows the user to set their default saved file name. I was tired of drawing.svg :)
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  pxoe
  Calligraphy pen/tool is still unusable, messy and less responsive (lower resolution, more angular, etc), much worse than in 0.92, and it's been this way ever since 1.0. It also now requires windows ink to be on, and they removed devices panel so you can't even tell if your device is recognized properly. It's bad with a tablet, but it's still just as bad and much worse in comparison even with the mouse. It's kinda disappointing to see this bad of a regression to just linger there for years. Here's the issue for this problem on their gitlab https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items/1473#note_...
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  robinsonb5
  Inkscape is awesome - I use it regularly for extracting design elements from PDFs and vectorising bitmaps.It works surprisingly well for simple CAD tasks, too - I've used it in combination with TinkerCAD to produce some 3D-printed parts.I just wish its CMYK handling was better. When I need CMYK or spot colour / overprint output I generally save as EPS, open in a text editor and adjust the source accordingly, but it would be nice if CMYK and Spot were first class citizens. (A friendlier workaround is to import the SVG into Scribus and modify the colours there.)
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  faangguyindia
  Inkscape is really good for products with no budget for designers. Let me explain why.One of the apps I am working on hit 10,000+ active users (per Playstore dashboard), and Inkscape has a role to play in this.Since the app is free and doesn't even have a backend, there is no budget for the designer.I looked for a few tools online, but most of them failed to generate icons/logos.I ended up using Inkscape to make logos for my app.Without Inkscape, this workflow is difficult.Though I am not able to intuitively use it well from the GUI. The thing is, you don't even need the GUI anymore!But Claude or Codex is able to write SVG line by line (so you can make changes incrementally) and use Inkscape via CLI to generate icons, logos, and graphics for your app.Here's my app for those who are curious: https://macrocodex.app/I am pretty sure some designer will come and say "you did a bad job at this," which is fine. My experience is in writing backends, not mobile apps or design.Every app is saying they use "AI for smart recommendation,” while I went the opposite route, of “no, our product does not use AI for any suggestion.“ It’s entirely deterministic.
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  pugworthy
  Some of the plugins for it are pretty interesting. We have a Brother embroidery machine in our work Makerspace, and it ends up there's an Inkscape plugin (called Inkstitch) to create command files for the machine. It's like working with a slicer for 3d printing, but more about changing thread than filament, plus how stitches should be oriented and such.
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  tasuki
  Ah, the tool I love and hate. Mostly love though. Let me tell you about the single thing I hate:I open a simple hand-crafted SVG and want to make a simple change. It messes up all my formatting and uses its own weird formatting, with line breaks between attributes. I'd rather it at least put newlines between elements rather than between attributes. Ideally there'd be a "save with minimal edits from the original" button.Literally everything else about Inkscape is amazing! Congrats to the team!~~~Maybe this is also the right time & place to plug my favourite SVG path editor? https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/ - free as in both beer and freedom, a tool to craft minimalistic well-behaved SVG paths.
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  0x69420
  inkscape has had a long and quiet ascent from quintessentially janky foss creative software to genuinely pleasant to use. i still wish it were a little easier to edit the individual portions of deeply nested clip/mask operations, but if you need to crank out some icons, you can use inkscape and not hate your life, which is something i'd have called someone insane for telling me a decade ago.
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  amelius
  I wish Inkscape would add constraints, as found in CAD tools.
• refset
  > Fixed a crash when starting Inkscape with a graphics tablet plugged inGreat news! Having to reconnect the USB cable each time is no fun.
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  uzidil
  I love Inkscape! My game Enalim was made with Inkscape. (https://uzudil.itch.io/enalim)I'm glad this project keeps going.
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  throwa356262
  I love Inkscape.But their UX is getting worse with each release. I think they need another Blender-style overhaul
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  transitorykris
  Love inkscape and wish it could get some engineering love around MacOS. For quick work I'll use it on MacOS, but anything deep I switch to Windows.
• thot_experiment
  Wow, I think they finally fixed the awful lag just in time for me to have completely moved my practice to https://graphite.art/
• Beijinger
  Inkscape is great but I wish Xara Xtreme for Linux had not died.
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  brcmthrowaway
  Where is the Inkscape MCP?
• stefantalpalaru
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  aborsy
  Is there a reason to consider Inkscape instead of Tikz?It seems to me Tikz does the same but programmatically.