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Martin believes everyone should have access to free quality software.
Thanks so muchπ
Inkscape is a pleasure to use; as powerful as you need, and you can use it with almost no learning curve and add power features as you need them. It's a wonderfully designed program with a well-thought out UX.
Gimp really could learn a lot about UX design from Inkscape. As much as I like Gimp, while uncommon things are possible but hard, simple things are also possible but hard.
This is the truth, right here. GIMP's user interface is an entire F5 tornado's worth of bullshit and it always has been. I always put it forth as the poster child of precisely how not to do it with any open source productivity software of any stripe and it's consistently never failed to serve as an example for nigh-on decades.
If the GIMP people would just suck it up and broadly copy the layout of... well, pretty much anything, even MS Paint, it'd be a massive improvement to usability and would probably confer a tenfold increase to the number of users willing to try it out. Or at least stick with it for more than five minutes.
I'm sure it's a perfectly capable program that's able to do many things. I just can't be bothered to put up with it. And this is coming from somebody who willingly uses FreeCAD.
Somehow in the transition from the bunch-of-disparate-floating-toolbar-windows paradigm to the current all-in-one design they've managed to make it slightly worse. GIMP's feature discoverability is basically nonexistent, and the uninitated have no hope of figuring out how to do anything with it other than doodle with the preset brushes without resorting to tutorials.
I can't believe the dockers ("dockable dialogs") still take up so much space yet somehow there isn't room to put title bars on them describing what they do even when you have one of them open and not just tabbed with an inscrutable icon at the top, nor is there any discoverable way to dismiss any of them once you're done with them because that option is buried in a flyout menu for some reason.
I could go on forever. Don't get me started.
I am a FOSS nerd for sure but GIMP sucks and it's awful. I'd rather individually plink pixels into a bitmap manually from the command line with Imagemagick than use GIMP.
Thank you, Mr. Owens. From the bottom of my heart. InkScape is my favourite graphics tool.
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How many of those millions went to his bank account? I'm guessing not many.
Inkscape user here. Thanks Martin!
I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years now. I had no idea the man behind it wore a bowler hat and now I will never use another vector program again.
Inkscape is good but it can't replace illustrator, especially for the needs of someone willing to pay $1000/year for it
Maybe the affinity suite is more appropriate (ROI in just 2 months of adobe subscription)
I don't use Inkscape, but that is a good hat.
I urge you to watch his update videos, he's such a neat guy, and he rocks a ska/dandy style
Any Inkscape pros know the best way to combine two pdfs using it? The page creation menus are clunky to me, and it's hard to keep the pages in order.
Do you really need inkscape to do it? Because you can just use pdfsam.
or pdfarranger works well, too.
Or pdftk or pdfunite. Lots of different options
Is Mr Owens British perchance?
inkscape is great, I use it all the time
I made nearly all the 2D assets in my game with Inkscape. It wouldn't have been possible without it.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Some wear bowler hats
