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More on Inkscape 0.40

Submitted by Eugenia on Wed, 2004-12-01 20:33. Inkscape

OSNews has more information about what's new on Inkscape 0.40, coupled with screenshots.

Inkscape

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-12-04 17:56.

I really would like to use it, but I am unable to link with the next error:

`typeinfo for SPRepr' referenced in section `.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTIP6SPRepr' of widgets/libspwidgets.a(layer-selector.o): defined in discarded section `.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTI6SPRepr' of widgets/libspwidgets.a(layer-selector.o)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1

After I solved that I will let you know what I think of the application!

Beautiful

Submitted by reformist on Fri, 2004-12-03 09:31.

This is I think the most beautiful and promising looking program OSS software has, particularly in the artist space. If I were meeting this program for the first time, I know I'd be impressed by how intuitive the manipulation icon images are -- look at the icons for manipulating an object's Z order or rotating it -- just from that you can see how much care and thought was put into this program.

Keep it up

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-12-02 19:36.

Yay! Keep it up.

Sadly, while this release adds many new features, zero of them are features that I need in a vector drawing program.

- Wacom support
- Pixel preview
- Save-for-web
- Layers (by which I mean, the ability to see at a glance what layers there are, what objects are in which layer, and drag layers around to play with their order, none of which the current "layers" popup does)
- An interface I can figure out (it's great that they want to not be tied down to the limitations of Illustrator/Gimp, but they're also making it different for no apparent reason; after 5 minutes with the Illustrator manual, Illustrator made sense to me -- I've gone through all the Inkscape tutorials twice and tried using it for real work, and it doesn't get any less awkward with use or studying)

So I'll stick with Illustrator. But at this rate they have 60 more releases before they hit 1.0, so my fingers are crossed. :-)

To about half of your request

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-12-03 04:48.

To about half of your requests, I could answer, "This is already possible (though maybe not exactly as you expect)." But, if you want the application to develop, why don't you submit your wishes to the RFE tracker with more specific details, or better yet discuss them in the inkscape-devel mailinglist.

I'd be especially interested in your critique of the interface. We take this seriously. Please try to list the specific things which you find awkward and why. You can post your list here or to inkscape-devel. TIA.