@inkscape ... I stopped updating Adobe CS with 5.5...

@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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Like 26 Oct 2022 at 8:39 | Wall-to-wall | Open on literatur.social

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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