Inkscape in the Design Industry - Interview

[@TechieSewing]

This size limitation mentioned at the start made me remember a story about 'Inkscape bug' ;) There are some PDF sewing patterns that would open in Acrobat fine, but in Inkscape they are 10x smaller than expected. Of course, people blame Inkscape. But what really happens is the patterns were made in Illustrator and it can't handle a canvas bigger than a certain size, so there is a workaround. It makes the design 1/10 of the size and puts a flag that other Adobe products recognise and automatically scale the design 10x. Among third party PDF viewers, some would do it too, but most will not.

[@victorwestmann]

Interesting

[@TheTOBroShow]

I like how they talk about using inkscape for mapping out projects. I literally use inscape to figure out what lunch box had more room I had to choose between one of two models. All I did was draw scaled versions of the lunch boxes and figure it out which one was the best for a travel I had to do. Plus I save so much money

[@victorwestmann]

Can you give us one example?

[@rolandixor]

I'm using Inkscape for world domination, personally

[@sael_elu]

Same! hahaah

[@alexandrekarvalhooficial]

Parabéns ao dois, vcs são feras. Acredito que quando o suporte a cmyk do Inkscape estiver pronto, a indústria gráfica vai aderir ao inkscape em massa, pois, até onde sei se usa o corel na grande maioria das gráficas.

[@victorwestmann]

Corel DRAW é muito famoso no Brasil mas os motivos pra isso são um mistério.

[@alexandrekarvalhooficial]

@@victorwestmann Ele é um software muito bom assim como o inkscape, o grande problema infelizmente é qua a grande maioria das pessoas não se conscientizam de que não é legal usar software pirata, eu usei o corel algum tempo, mais depois que conheci o Inkscape nunca mais usei o corel, são duas ferramentas excelentes assim como o gravit, illustrator e etc.

[@nzlemming]

I use Inkscape for theatre lighting designs.

[@victorwestmann]

Wow! Could you kindly share a small sample of your work with with us? No idea this was even possible!😅

[@nzlemming]

@@victorwestmann It's not lighting design visualization, just a map of where the bars are, where the waylines terminate, and then I add standard symbols for each type of instrument (including watts) and note what channel controls it, as part of my documentation (which includes LOTS of spreadsheets). So it's simple 2D work. I only design for small, community theatres (~100 seats) . Layer 1 has the floorplan, layer 2 the grid, layer 3 the waylines, and so on. All the instruments (lights) are on one layer and I lock the other layers while I'm working on one layer (floorplan never changes, grid might if I add extensions). It's pretty much the same as drawing it on paper, only tidier. I print it out on A3 paper (29.7 cm x 42 cm or 11.7 in x 16.5 in) in colour and hang it on the wall of the lighting box so that the operator (usually me) can refer to it if something happens to one of the instruments during a show.

[@arerayace]

Anyone knows where can we have a peek at Chris Rogers works?

[@victorwestmann]

Great question!❤

[@richardmaayir3419]

I wish there is feature in Inkscape this allow users to connect Inkscape to online storage platforms like google drive, one drive etc

[@projeto84ae]

good video!

[@GaryParris]

awesome, totally agree!

[@tebicap]

Clones are one of the most powerful tools for me, I'm just missing an like-illustrator lasso tool to select nodes and objects freely, with that and with cmyk and a gpu acelerated canvas inkscape will be the best vector editor

[@doctormo]

Inkscape does have a lasso tool for selecting objects and nodes. Though it might be hidden. The key is ALT. In the node tool this will cause a lasso selection. In select tool, it's a lasso only if you have no objects selected, otherwise it will move the existing selected objects.

[@tebicap]

@@doctormo thanks for your answer! yes, I use that feature a lot for objects, didn't know that feature was available for nodes in newer versions (now I tested it in the latest stable version and it's perfect, so need to wait my system to upgrade from inkscape 1.2.2). As I understand, in the select tool, the lasso still need to touch the objects, should be useful to choice the behavior between selecting the touched objects or selecting the enclosed objects (like pressing SHIFT key while drawing the lasso line)

[@matthiasfeist3042]

working in print and getting used to all the Adobe crashes just to fix a small thing is really annoying. Inkscape runs much more stable. So I often edit and create an object and just import the SVG. It often is much faster and prevent those crashes.

[@victorwestmann]

Chris Rogers released a super nice book to learn Inkscape. Can anyone please help me get the link to it? ❤

[@doctormo]

Sure can: inkscape.org/learn/books/

[@slizgi86]

Inkscape is great, for sure more people will move to it when the CMYK feature land in final form. Krita and Blender are awesome too, FreeCAD is going better and better, only little funny goblin there is Gimp, that is moving so sloooow, and is so behind photoshop... I truly believe sooner we will get missing functionality in Krita than Gimp will introduce what is lacking from Photoshop :)

[@creapte]

I think Inkscape has taken a huge leap forward recently and is still much easier to learn than Illustrator. If I may, I'm missing a component to indicate which corner or center should remain fixed when entering a new size

[@doctormo]

I did add this. You can click on one of the resize handles (don't drag) and you will see a faint cross at that corner. This indicates that you can change the size in the toolbar and it will be fixed on that point.

[@creapte]

Okay, I see the change in the control panel. I noticed the cross in 1.3.2 but did not understand why it was there.

[@marcuspollio75]

Hi @@doctormo, please note there is an issue with scaling (issues/1172) both with the Center of Transformation and the faint cross you mentioned. Scaling behavior is not consistent between the Tool Control Bar and the Transform panel. Is there really a usecase to have a Center of Transformation for every transforms and another one for scaling (Width & Height) via the faint cross ? Can't the latter be removed and the Center of Transformation bettered ? Great interview by the way ! Thank you

[@richardmaayir3419]

Chris Rogers started a KZbin channel which was helpful but he doesn’t post anymore.