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

🙏🙏🙏

  • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    I love the idea of inkscape but can’t get into it due to a continent sized papercut:

    I can’t put my cursor on part of the image then scroll to zoom in or out, not even holding a button while scrolling.

    The only zoom it lets me do is drag a box on the screen (which is useless for fine details, or annoying when I only want to zoom in a few %), or zoom in/out by a large fixed amount then need to pan to find where I wanted to focus on in the first place.

    I sure hope the new version fixes that.

    Otherwise, I’m holding out for graphite

    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      32 minutes ago

      That is weird ive always zoomed with i think ctrl+scrollwheel its almost my main way of navigation: zoom out from cursor move cursor where I want to zoom and then scroll back in

    • Slashme@lemmy.world
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      33 minutes 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.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      Not sure I understood your problem well and I don’t have Inkscape in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure Ctrl+scrollwheel does zoom?!