The incoming version of Inkscape is a brilliantly engineered masterpiece designed to punch Adobe Illustrator in the face.

The scale of Inkscape 1.5 is hard to put into words.

  • A full port from GTK 3 to GTK 4
  • A new rendering engine
  • The Unified Font Browser becoming default,
  • Document Tabs being introduced,
  • Many long-standing issues finally being addressed,
  • New and changed dependencies across multiple target platforms.
  • UI/UX improvements

GTK 4 unlocks several possibilities, but it also exacts its own costs. This transition is definitely being felt in the amount and complexity of the work the developers have had to undertake.

Inkscape developers have been pouring their nights and weekends into 1.5 but they are currently feeling overwhelmed.

If you’re a C++ developer, particularly with graphics experience, Inkscape could use your help in pushing 1.5 forward.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items

Adobe has unlimited ressources. Inkscape relies on us

🙏🙏🙏

  • Slashme@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I primarily zoom in incscape in two ways:

    1. Using the mouse - it zooms to mouse position, so control-scroll is brilliant - even for navigating: scroll out until you see where you want to go, put the mouse there and scroll in.

    2. Using the keyboard (this is incredibly powerful):

    • 3: Fit selected object in the window
    • 4: Fit all objects in the window
    • 5: Fit the page in the window
    • 6: Fit page width.
    • 1 and 2: I seldom use these, but they’re for 50% zoom and 100% zoom.
      • and -: They zoom in and out.

    So often, I’ll click on an object, then press 3 to fit in in the window, and then hit - a few times to see the context better. Perfect.