Comments on: Inkscape 0.45 Released

By: Early Ehlinger

Early Ehlinger — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:06:10 +0000

I'm somewhat surprised that nobody has floated the idea (here at least) that Blender be modded to support Inkscape drawings as texture maps. Would be an obvious thing to do IMHO, especially if Inkscape has a "libSVG" or something to handle drawing its markup programatically.

For its original purpose of doing 2D illustrations/layout, Inkscape still needs:

1) lots of nice noise functions
2) some more simple effects, like drop-shadows
3) multi-page support.

In all, it's great software!

By: Mariano

Mariano — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:34:48 +0000

Great! Love this app.
Im in a VERY low end machine and inkscape works like a charm.
Thanks for the news.

By: 86point5

86point5 — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:09 +0000

"I try inkspace about once a year to see if I can stand to use it. I’m a professional Illustrator user, and it just hasn’t convinced me yet, not even for personal use."

I know what you mean for some stuff. However, I do have to admit that the node editing tools are actually nicer in Inkscape than in Illustrator. It's easier to modify multiple nodes at one time in Inkscape (convert to/from cusp/smooth/symmetrical)

"I was unable to get simple SVG (a rectangle with the default gradient fill) from Inkscape to open properly in Illustrator."

Unfortunately, Illustrator's ability to open SVG is somewhat lacking. It tends to export them OK (with a lot of extra overhead) but the import is shoddy. I haven't tried the EPS export in Inkscape to see how well it plays with Illustrator. The lack of spot color support in Inkscape has kept me from using it day-to-day and has kept my interaction as more of a "check on its progress periodically" level.

That said, it is good to see how it is shaping up. I can see it as a useful tool for many as it currently is.

By: Hannes B.

Hannes B. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:01:51 +0000

"I was unable to get simple SVG (a rectangle with the default gradient fill) from Inkscape to open properly in Illustrator."

This is most likely not an Inkscape problem but an Illustrator one since (in my experience) Illustrator doesn't handle well SVG. Still I wished Inkscape had the sophisticated layer menu Illustrator does offer.

By: TroutMask

TroutMask — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:36:23 +0000

"I try inkspace about once a year to see if I can stand to use it. I’m a professional Illustrator user, and it just hasn’t convinced me yet, not even for personal use."

i'm also a professional illustrator user and feel more or less the same way. I am impressed by the rate of progress, however, and still check in on it from time to time.

I'd be very surprised if the blur effects would RIP properly. Also, in my informal testing of the previous version, I was unable to get simple SVG (a rectangle with the default gradient fill) from Inkscape to open properly in Illustrator.

By: mattie

mattie — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:45:00 +0000

inkscape rules :) (at least for me ;))

By: dazzler

dazzler — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:01:09 +0000

great to see inkscape's getting vecter blur but you can't change basic brightness/contrast/gamma of bitmaps (like imports of your 3d pics). will be better when a few filter effects are added. Soon I think SVG will be ditched, but its a good program anyway.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:44:03 +0000

@Alexander: 1000 windows is just a mac thing. Put an empty desktop up and you'll be fine.

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:37:17 +0000

@Alexander: same argument, posted twice? You *are* boring.

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:04:31 +0000

I know this has been discussed to death, but I still can't understand people who are enchanted by an application that:

1) Needs 10 windows and clutters your taskbar (unless you use the grouping feature)
2) Forces you to de-iconify 10 windows when you want to switch to it (not everyone uses workspaces)
3) Forces you to re-arrange all 10 windows if you open a image with a different size or a different zoom level (and thus a different image window size)
4) Doesn't even remember the positions and sizes of the 10 windows between sessions (or did I overlook that?)

I mean, dude, it would already be an advantage if the windows at least *snapped* to each other and to the screen edge, but not even that… (and no, Windows doesn't have such features in it natively :)