Inkscape 1.4.4

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 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_...

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.

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.)

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!

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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.

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.

> Fixed a crash when starting Inkscape with a graphics tablet plugged in

Great news! Having to reconnect the USB cable each time is no fun.

Inkscape is great but I wish Xara Xtreme for Linux had not died.

I love Inkscape.

But their UX is getting worse with each release. I think they need another Blender-style overhaul

I love Inkscape! My game Enalim was made with Inkscape. (https://uzudil.itch.io/enalim)

I'm glad this project keeps going.

Wow, I think they finally fixed the awful lag just in time for me to have completely moved my practice to https://graphite.art/

Where is the Inkscape MCP?

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Is there a reason to consider Inkscape instead of Tikz?

It seems to me Tikz does the same but programmatically.