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Martin believes everyone should have access to free quality software.
Thanks so muchπ
Hitchhikers Guide on the bookshelf, nice.
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I see Pratchett, Making Money up there, too. I like this guy.
Why is his Ubuntu book in Chinese?
Making Money, the best Moist Von Lipwig book. Even better.
He's a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.
The only time I used Adobe Illustrator was when it was brand new, in 1987. I may have used early versions of Photoshop, but never as my "daily driver." So I might not be the most knowledgeable about Adobe software.
But the thing I MOST resent Adobe for was buying and killing Macromedia... I really really liked Macromedia Fireworks (raster, vector, and object graphics editor). Fireworks could do a lot of the things Adobe software could for a fraction of the price AND without having to use multiple applications to get the job done.
Inkscape is remarkable, and maybe someday someone will merge some raster image object tools into it, and then it might begin to resemble the Fireworks of 20 years ago when Adobe killed it.
Kudos to Mr. Owens and all Inkscape developers. Inkscape is a masterpiece.
So the website is super summy, finally found the "real" download button which took me to the MS app store. Ok fine, but now its been 10 minutes and it actually hasn't started downloading yet...
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Inkscape is goated and so is Martin, respect π«‘
Thank you, Mr. Owens. From the bottom of my heart. InkScape is my favourite graphics tool.
Open source software does not cause a loss of $ it causes everyone else gain.
Any Inkscape pros know the best way to combine two pdfs using it? The page creation menus are clunky to me, and it's hard to keep the pages in order.
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Inkscape is one of my favorite applications out there. I use it almost daily, both for my day job and hobbies. Thanks Martin!
Is Mr Owens British perchance?
Inkscape is a pleasure to use; as powerful as you need, and you can use it with almost no learning curve and add power features as you need them. It's a wonderfully designed program with a well-thought out UX.
Gimp really could learn a lot about UX design from Inkscape. As much as I like Gimp, while uncommon things are possible but hard, simple things are also possible but hard.
This is the truth, right here. GIMP's user interface is an entire F5 tornado's worth of bullshit and it always has been. I always put it forth as the poster child of precisely how not to do it with any open source productivity software of any stripe and it's consistently never failed to serve as an example for nigh-on decades.
If the GIMP people would just suck it up and broadly copy the layout of... well, pretty much anything, even MS Paint, it'd be a massive improvement to usability and would probably confer a tenfold increase to the number of users willing to try it out. Or at least stick with it for more than five minutes.
I'm sure it's a perfectly capable program that's able to do many things. I just can't be bothered to put up with it. And this is coming from somebody who willingly uses FreeCAD.
Somehow in the transition from the bunch-of-disparate-floating-toolbar-windows paradigm to the current all-in-one design they've managed to make it slightly worse. GIMP's feature discoverability is basically nonexistent, and the uninitated have no hope of figuring out how to do anything with it other than doodle with the preset brushes without resorting to tutorials.
I can't believe the dockers ("dockable dialogs") still take up so much space yet somehow there isn't room to put title bars on them describing what they do even when you have one of them open and not just tabbed with an inscrutable icon at the top, nor is there any discoverable way to dismiss any of them once you're done with them because that option is buried in a flyout menu for some reason.
I could go on forever. Don't get me started.
I am a FOSS nerd for sure but GIMP sucks and it's awful. I'd rather individually plink pixels into a bitmap manually from the command line with Imagemagick than use GIMP.
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I don't use Inkscape, but that is a good hat.
Inkscape user here. Thanks Martin!
I urge you to watch his update videos, he's such a neat guy, and he rocks a ska/dandy style
I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years now. I had no idea the man behind it wore a bowler hat and now I will never use another vector program again.
How many of those millions went to his bank account? I'm guessing not many.
he looks happy and his room looks full of fun
that's worth a million dollars if you ask me
- bowler hat
- face that works with a bowler hat
- window with view of nature
- healthy looking indoor plant
- awesome book collection
- sweater of medical higher education he is obviously proud about.
- intact and healthy conscious (presumably)
This guy is rich as fuck. No wonder the billionaire class is so pissed.
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