Denman RookeSep 12, 2024

Been really enjoying learning #Inkscape over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.

Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.

It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.

#FOSS for the win!

Show threadEyelit 👁️‍🗨️Sep 14, 2024
@denmanrooke as a developer, I hate it when designers provide me with svg generated by adobe tools. Don’t know which adobe cs thing specifically, but some are bloating svg with useless xml.
The stuff created from #Inkscape is usable out of the box. Even if they are not exported, the svg is lighter and better to integrate, without much need of xml cleaning. So designers picking up #Inkscape makes me happy :)
Show threadDenman Rooke
@Eyelit great to hear! As an artist I have no idea what the benefit of .svg really is, but it's great to hear it's good in a pipeline.
Sep 14, 2024 at 1:59pmWeb
Show threadJonathan NeuhauserSep 14, 2024
@denmanrooke @Eyelit Apart from being good in a pipeline, there is a very tangible advantage: being an open standard, there is no lock-in, ever. If Inkscape disappeared tomorrow, your file would still work in browsers and most other design software.
Sadly, advanced features like pages, variable-thickness strokes, and even proper multiline text never made it into the SVG standard. So Inkscape has do „dumb them down“ on saving. This breaks the promise of an open standard a bit.