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Read about how free software for art and multimedia like #Inkscape gives design studios more independence and freedom:

notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/free-

Pass the word!

#artwithopensource

25 Oct 2022 at 20:51 | Open on mastodon.art
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Inkscape

@ghedin And thank you for that article! It is a long read, but it is worth it!

30 Oct 2022 at 20:32 | Open on mastodon.art
❄️ freezr ❄️

@inkscape

To me is more interesting to understand why to Adobe is allowed to annihilate the competition; was not exactly the latter the essence of capitalism innovation? :flan_think:

25 Oct 2022 at 22:05 | Open on bsd.network
oFALVEsh

@inkscape Good to hear! Some apps have been found to be better than commercial or paid softwares. And as being a Free&Open-Source only user, they will have nothing but thumbs up. Let this words spread to the world!

26 Oct 2022 at 4:28 | Open on mastodon.art
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@inkscape Well, after I had to bury GeoWorks, I grew up with Quark XPress, Freehand and Photoshop (legal in school and at work, pirated at home). Tried several others on the side, like Corel, Pagemaker, Illustrator, several shareware apps (e.g. PublishIt!Easy).
Quark didn’t care about their (European) users. Then Adobe came up with InDesign (and listened to the users in the beginning), and like many others I switched happily at v2.0.
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26 Oct 2022 at 8:34 | Open on literatur.social
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@inkscape ...
I stopped updating Adobe CS with 5.5 and switched to Serif’s Affinity series when I had to upgrade MacOS – no, Scribus can’t compete, and GIMP is too idiosyncratic for me as a professional print media designer.

I like Inkscape, and since the latest release, the GUI is actually usable (even if you dropped the “add borders when setting the page size to image size” feature). I mostly edit SVGs from a CAD system with it.

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26 Oct 2022 at 8:39 | Open on literatur.social
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@inkscape ...
Still missing in the open source world is a replacement for Acrobat Pro.

Last year I did a survey and research on PDF viewers for Linux and MacOS, and the result is really sad, since most open source viewers seemed to have stopped development and bugfixing years ago. Mozilla’s pdf.js is one of the best (supports forms as well as presentation mode), but can’t print properly.

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26 Oct 2022 at 8:44 | Open on literatur.social
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@inkscape ...
But as a prepress professional, I need e.g. “box” editing (crop box, trim box, bleed box), reliable color conversion, downsampling and PDF/X checking.

There are commercial alternatives, even on Linux, like PDF Master Editor and PDF Studio Pro, but they’re lacking in these features.

I do most of my typesetting with #TeX (#ConTeXt) and love GNU LilyPond, I can code in a few languages and use shell scripts a lot. But for cover design or image-centered layouts I use Affinity.

26 Oct 2022 at 8:49 | Open on literatur.social
Inkscape

@fiee That sounds like you want to give Scribus a try (if you haven't yet).

As for Inkscape, I've (Moini) only recently read those terms in the devel chat channel, so maybe there's hope :)

30 Oct 2022 at 20:29 | Open on mastodon.art
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@inkscape Well, I tried Scribus several times since about 2001(?), and it could never do what I needed. The GUI felt clunky (like Corel Draw end of the 1990s), but the latter was also true for Inkscape until recently. I should try it again on Linux (can’t on my Mac since that has to stay on 10.14).

30 Oct 2022 at 20:38 | Open on literatur.social
Estúdio Gunga

@inkscape We love Inkscape, it is one of our daily drivers! Getting better with every release! <3

27 Oct 2022 at 1:40 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alex

@inkscape Indeed. In my experience inkscape has been highly vaulable for the generation of figures of scientific articles, such as schemes or other artworks. It deserves more recognition.

3 Nov 2022 at 13:21 | Open on fosstodon.org
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