Inkscape 1.5 is a brutal middle finger to Adobe Illustrator, finally delivering the devastating blow that trapped, exploited designers have been praying to see for decades.
Inkscape is built on the blood, sweat, and shattered mental health of a handful of exhausted visionaries. They are stretching themselves to the absolute breaking point,
If you understand C++, join the fight
Don’t let Inkscape developers alone in the trenches — step up, fuel the resistance, and help them drive a stake through the heart of Adobe’s monopoly
I hate C++ but I hate Adobe more
That’s the spirit
Unlike Gimp (that I appreciate too) Inkscape is an amazing no drama project.
Giimp+Inkscape+Scribus are the freedom trinity that I’ll always support.
And if Dia hadn’t died it’d be right there.
Don’t forget Krita
I’m hoping Graphite matures enough to add to that list as the FOSS motion graphics editor.
I’m banking on https://friction.graphics/
It’s Inkscape, Krita, Scribus (and Blender) for me 😸
I’m not in the niche of Krita, Blender (iffy decisions lately tho), and Darktable but they’re good projects too.
Rip dia
What’s the drama with GIMP? I only know it took forever to port to GTK3.
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As you have said, the amount of time the porting took.
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A nothing burger to me but it was made pretty clear by others affected by US defaultism that the name is annoying to them.
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The main thing: they were sitting on fat by FOSS standards contributions in crypto for years before finally doing something with the money.
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Gotta love a call for contribution that makes you want to paint your face blue and attack Adobe with a sword lmao
I love Inkscape so much today. When moving from Adobe photoshop I went initially to gimp. While gimp is fine. It’s not a vector based editor. I knew about Inkscape for dozens of years, yet only in the recent years I finally discovered the power and moving out of my comfort zone.
Anybody who is in the same position as I was. Just move to Inkscape. Especially for logos etc.
moving out of my conform zone
lol, im stealing that
@melroy @daniel_callahan
I couldn’t agree more! It is fantastic software! Literally one of my top favourite FOSS projects of all time - right up there with #icecast.
i used inkscape for a project recently and was amazed how far it has come since the last time i used it, somewhere around 15-20 years ago. then it was quirky and homely, now it feels pretty professional. i was still able to crash it doing some normalish stuff though, so make sure to save your work often :-)
I’d love to get involved, but first drop C++ for new code and use Rust.
Takes a while to get into the code, but I love the project so it’s worth it. I’ll probably send money first. Can’t commit too much time right now.
alas I’m of zero use but I love and use Inkscape, so thank you
Does inkscape get larger doantions from companies?
It doesn’t look like it:
Then it’# far from being a brutal middle finger for adobe
Neither sure why it would only be if they get large donations nor if it has to be …
Link to article?
