I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.
Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.
If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.
Are you an #Affinity Designer user? Are you an #inkscape user too? Do you want to help the community?
Well do I have a job for you!
I've made a How To guide for building a keyboard shortcut profile and if you make one for #AffinityDesigner I will add it to Inkscape and millions of people will get the option of using a keyboard preference more comfortable to their existing Affinity habits.
Blender HQ is hosting the annual #Gimp developer workshop "Wilber Week". And two #Inkscape developers joined. Pictures are of today's session on aligning the color pipeline between our apps. #b3d
#opensource chat server Rocket Chat decided to make their latest upgrade plain abusive. If you run your own, you are now required to enrole in a trial of their premium proprietary nonsense and it's likely the server is spying on it's admins and users.
great
Looks like #inkscape is going to have to move chat systems. There's just no way to regain trust in an upstream that is abusive. Not without forking away from the abusers.
That is, everything to do with the rounded corners, tapered stroke, super pen/pencil, clones, etc etc you get the idea. It's the one part of the code that I think is at a high risk of crashes and regressions.
You can report bugs to the usual place. I can help if you get a crash and aren't seeing a crash report screen.
#inkscape Bug accelerator program starts today for me. That's where the Inkscape project pays some of the maintainers to focus time on fixing bugs for the next release. (Tav, me and Vaibhav this release) 🎉
If you do testing for Inkscape, make sure your issues are tagged (and tested against) for 1.4.x and prioritized. I'm only contracted to fix things in that list!
@inkscape has quickly become one of my favourite design tools. The "Power stroke" live path effect allows you to turn a simple curvy stroke into a dynamic, sweeping form.
Draw a curvy line using the pencil or the pen tool
From time to time I get private messages from people who want help, and I have to let them down because I can't provide private #inkscape help without a paid contract.
But the below response shows the persistent confusion about what #opensource projects are and what responsibilities the people who work on them have to the general public. (i.e. a commons with people in it and practically none at all)
How we educate people about what #oss / #foss is and have support for folk is an open question.
This week's #inkscape update video is out and you can find out how well I did in 2023 trying to program #opensource by taking in money directly from users instead of any large corporation for this year: