Inkscape CMYK Update, How are we doing?

[@WagnerOshange]

Martin I just want to say: Thank you, I'm graphic designer and I know very well how sometimes can be annoying some missing features in softwares, but for myself I haven't complains, you and all people behind Inkscape have made a really good work as far now, make everything made so far it's not easy, and we have to thank

[@Kaycii.Austine]

I'm so happy with Inkscape 1.4. And very excited hearing or seeing CMYK is coming to Inkscape sooner than expected. Thank you, Martins Owen, for this great software.

[@Artiick]

Keep going🎉🎉🎉. Inkscape shall dethrone Adobe 😂

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

I certainly hope so too 😁

[@ferviron97]

Thanks for addressing the "typical CMYK questions"! I've been asking them myself but never dared to bring them forth :)

[@AngeloRosa]

We are glad for all your massive work Martin, greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@RenanMayrinckDesign]

Very nice to see there's progress on the CMYK implementation. Hope to see it live soon.

[@altrogeruvah]

Thank you all for developing Inkscape, it has become my favorite software to use this past year, even for soft raster work. I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I would love to donate some amount to Inkscape, you have done amazing work and Inkscape feels so fluid and easy to use.

[@EuSouLucasBrandão]

Martin, thank you for your commitment. God bless you and the entire team.

[@marlanjn.baptiste8715]

Well, Inkscape started as a small project. No one knew it would be so big stuff like CMYK got swept under the carpet.

[@ritageraghty3261]

Thank you for all your contributions to Inkscape.

[@imadsaddik]

Martin, we appreciate your work man. Thank you.

[@jdrsant0s]

Thank you, Martin for your generosity and hard work.

[@vintprox]

Massive work, going as far as upstream libraries in C++. Glad that you are not compromising on an exporter, this is huge!

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

Yo! I never knew Inkscape had this sort of dev log style KZbin channel. That's pretty sweet, I'll definitely sub to that! I might as well gush about this for a little, but I've been using Inkscape along with Krita for a good couple of years now to draw all my art, and I've gotten pretty decent at finding neat optimizations in Inkscape. In fact, I even made a little bash script that allows me to easily convert what I did in Krita into a quick & dirty svg file (with the help of Potrace) that can then be manipulated by Inkscape (just because I found it a little tedious to trace every layer I exported one-by-one). Though, I am planning on making a proper version of that code in Rust to make it more cross-platform friendly and 10 times faster. I just love how powerful Inkscape is, and it only makes me more excited to see what comes next to make it even better for professional use. Keep it up!

[@doctormo]

If you can develop an integration directly from a running Krita instance, they will hail your name from the mountains for decades to come.

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

@@doctormo Oh, I believe it. I felt that power as soon as I made my little script convert like 30 or so layers into a legible svg file ready for colouring all in around 5 or so seconds. No way I'm keeping all that power to myself. For now my bash script only works along with Krita's export layers script. Basically I export all the layers as PNGs all grouped-up in folders, I convert them all to bitmap for potrace, then tell potrace to trace them all, and finally I use text manipulation to cobble all the svg files and folders into one (the folders get converted to groups). It has a lot of limitations, and you need to manually number everything, but it's still better than doing it one-by-one in Inkscape. However, for this Rust conversion I want it to take the Krita file directly, and covert that to an svg. It'll be more of a headache to code, but it'll make it so much easier to use in the long run, and it'll have less limitations like the 10k x 10k resolution limit that Krita has with the export layers script for some reason.

[@donaldklopper]

I don't know many (any?) other projects (open or close source) with this level of transparency directly from the devs. Thank you Martin.

[@adrielfilipedesign]

Thanks for you work Martin

[@SteveMacSticky]

You are doing the work of so many other people. In proprietary companies they have huge teams. No one must complain about inkscape. The vector features by far surpass other proprietary apps. I am intricately familiar with about twenty proprietary apps. Inkscape surpasses them in features.

[@governadorinterativo3171]

Martin Parabéns, a você e a toda equipe envolvida, o Inkscape é fantástico e só melhora, eu espero que nós usuários entendamos que não depende só de vocês, mas, também do nosso apoio, principalmente financeiro e que mais pessoas possam colaborar, já que todos queremos uma ferramenta superior as demais ou no mesmo nível (pra mim já é), porém, nós não nos esforçamos tanto para isso. Se cada usuário que baixasse o Inkscape doasse 1 dólar, eu tenho certeza que ajudaria e muito.

[@lidsondesign]

Sou do Brasil e por aqui estamos na torcida para que o Inkscape receba o CMYK com sucesso

[@luciox2919]

fingers crossed and thank u

[@shahadeltayeb9693]

Thank you for explaining all this ,and thank you for your hard work

[@rolandixor]

Thank you for the detailed insights. Inkscape is stands well poised to expand in the market once this lands.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Hello again, Martin. Firstly, THANK YOU for all the hard work you do. I know how difficult it must be. Yes! I have reported bugs & will continue to do so. A few of my viewers have reached out with some bugs and I have requested that they, of course, report them directly. For example, a viewer said that a fresh install of 1.4 started in outline mode which is very confusing to me but I digress. Yes! There are bugs, nothing in life is perfect after all but I continue to use Inkscape every day & I will never go back to Adobe. Keep up the great work my friend & #StayCreative

[@CelticOneDesign]

Last style used is definitely an issue with "casual" users. That also applies to view modes and various other settings. Last style used should only apply to the current session. You would be amazed at the number of posts I have seen at Reddit, Facebook groups and even at the Inkscape forum where a casual user will start a new session and attempt to draw something simple and don't understand that the last style used (or view mode) in a session two weeks earlier is giving them a headache.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

@@CelticOneDesign As we have discussed in the past my friend, I think we just want Inkscape to be the best it can be but most users give blanket statements like "Too buggy" with no explanation. This is why comments like yours, Celtic, are invaluble to the devs.

[@CelticOneDesign]

@@ButtonPressGraphics lol - I have a vested interest making damn sure Inkscape is a success and stays around for another twenty years. Having said that - the Windows version really needs some tinder loving care. It really has become very unstable with the lastest version.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

@@CelticOneDesign Honestly, I haven't had nearly as many problems as what I have heard fromn others. I have found it to be very stable BUT that does not mean it is stable for everyone & the devs need to cater to the majority. At least the devs listen unlike...other applications lol

[@psytoolkit]

Thank you for explaining this.

[@klaushjerrild]

Thank you for all your effort...much appreciated.

[@vmisev]

🖐 I feel so called out 🤭 Thanks for your hard work!!!

[@AdemKernel]

I am LOVING ❤ the latest 1.4 version of inkscpae . It made so much stuff easier to do . ❤

[@ltlnx]

Heh, so that's what all the CapyPDF discussions flying around actually means. Glad to see a new library, and thanks for your work!

[@vanntile]

C - Python bindings are a hell into themselves. Good work, keep it up, Martin!

[@derpderp9281]

This is great! Thank you so much for your hard work :D

[@JonHaa87]

1.4 had been working great for me. Happy to see the PDF/CMYK stuff is progressing. "Until the end of the year" doesn't sound too bad (until merged of course, a release will obviously take longer).

[@aliencreation8744]

love your work martin i had been wondering about the scribus code, that does make sense thanks.

[@nzlemming]

Thanks for the update, Martin.

[@lpanebr]

Thank you so so so much.

[@user-ev6fj5up9w]

Inkscape 🔥🔥🔥

[@Open5to6]

Great work! Any idea when this work might make it to a released version? Just wondering general timeframe so I can build an intuition for projects like this. I find this stuff to be super inspiring.

[@AdemKernel]

Can we please have Dual view in Inkscape 😢

[@doctormo]

This already exists as both open document in new window and split view.

[@AdemKernel]

@doctormo (english is not my mother lang) I ment when i am working on something and i zoom in to change a small part of it i keep zooming in and out to see how it look from a far after i made the change . I found on other app a feature where you have a second preview window opend with fixed view while you make your changes and it change real time . 😅 sorry i don't know if that explain what i ment .and thank you for your awesome hard work again .

[@jmutterer]

@@AdemKernel You can use View>Duplicate Window

[@IbrahimSalimOmari]

Greetings. Is it possible to have the tile clone feature implement precise spacing rather than percentage spacing? For instance, I create business cards on a 10x10 grid on A1 paper. That's 100 business cards per sheet and the use of cloning is vital. But I don't see how to clone, for instance, an object that is in the exact same position on each card without massive tweaking. It would be nice to be able to clone an object to the exact same location on each card on the 10x10 grid. I hope I'm explaning myself clearly

[@rolandixor]

Hiiiii 🎉 Lol okay, continuing to watch the video now 😂

[@Skeleman]

it's been a few years since i've used inkscape and i think it would be great if there was a video comparing it to illustrator specifically in terms of workflow. i'm sure that there is probably a huge parity between the two now for what most people use them for. if anyone has any videos like that please send them my way. i'm hoping to transition off of adobe.

[@sabgfx1]

There is no update available ribbon.

[@vincebaker3384]

I just upgraded from version 1.3 x to 1.4 now all of my sVG files when I open them briefly everything is pixelated and blurry and then displays as normal i've never had this problem with any of the previous versions. And also it seems like with each new version the application opens slower and slower that is also true with this version. I am running windows 10 and 11 16 gigs of RAM do you have any suggestions?

[@texaradodesigns]

More RAM

[@doctormo]

Windows is a particular problem with startup times, we've seen that as reported. It's a hard problem to fix, even as the program gets faster on linux. The pixelation is a problem which was fixed for 1.5, it's a discontinuity in the way the updates are processing the size of the window. I'm not sure if we have a fix for 1.4.1 for this yet.

[@vincebaker3384]

@@doctormo I thought 1.3 was the current version if not I will try 1.5 & see if the pixelation goes away

[@CelticOneDesign]

I had that issue as well because in my default document I use grids. You not going to like my solution though. Disable "Save and Restore dialogs status" In Preferences>Interface>Windows. This will speed up the loading of a document.

[@CelticOneDesign]

@@texaradodesigns I have 32Gb and rarely would I see Inkscape use more that 3% with documents that have thousands of paths, filters and gradients. The problem is Windows and the fact that Inkscape is really not optimized for the latest Microsoft snafu.

[@WanderleyDesigner]

In the new version 1.4 we created HiperLink in Inkscape, however, when saving the file in PDF, the document loses the Link. My name is Wanderley (Brazil)

[@doctormo]

This has been fixed and fill be released in 1.4.1

[@HerbieBancock]

People who work in CMYK tend to know as much about print production as this guy knows about dressing himself.

[@desodimindgraphics]

I don't know if it's just me, but with inkscape 1.4 every time i perform an action on an object like moving it or select it, the program starts flickering, im using it as it is btw

[@doctormo]

Have you reported it to the issues tracker? It's not something I've heard of yet, so I don't have any advice atm.

[@desodimindgraphics]

@@doctormo No i didnt use the bug tracker, can i send you a video via mail to show you what I mean?

[@desodimindgraphics]

​@@doctormo I think I solved the problem, previously I had activated the "Enable OpenGL" option to see if I could improve the performance even more, but looking at gitlab, I noticed that the opengl support is still being improved, now I disabled the option and it seems that it doesn't do it anymore, it also performs better.

[@lunaumbra5179]

I've never heard this blind alley analogy and I don't fully get it. Is it blind because you didn't realize you were going in there? Or because you can't see what you're doing in it? Is it an alley because you can't make any turns? It because they are scary and you can get hurt in them?

[@Jahzaradesignstudio]

Hi there!

[@doctormo]

Hey neighbour!

[@projeto84ae]

🚀

[@libredisenotutoriales]

Hi Martin! Links and anchors created in Inkscape are not transferred when exporting to PDF. The thing is that it worked fine in the beta, it would be good to fix it for v1.4.1 Other than that, everything is great! My congratulations and thanks for the good work. Regards!

[@doctormo]

Yeah that bug turned out to be the size of the links, they're tiny tiny and not in the right places on the PDF. It's been fixed, I just need to double check it's being backported to 1.4.1

[@doctormo]

Ah yes here it is: gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6779

[@mikhailhumphries]

Let's start developing animation for inkscape. I'm a c# developer and a user

[@sabgfx1]

animations?

[@mikhailhumphries]

@sabgfx1 animation timeline for objects

[@craigsparks1442]

why no CMYK colour profiles... why is there an obsession with PDF

[@doctormo]

You can have CMYK colour profiles in Inkscape. My work this year has been entirely about that. PDF is the next task.

[@craigsparks1442]

@doctormo then I'm even dumber than I thought, is this under the document settings?