Over at #Inkscape, we are currently reverse-engineering the file format of Adobe #Illustrator so that we can natively read those files. We’re making good progress, but let me tell you…
.ai files are by a wide margin the most convoluted, confusing, redundant mess I have had the displeasure of working with.
But that‘s what you get when you have 40 years of historical cruft, with no conscious effort of maintaining consistency. We should not make the same mistake with our additions to #SVG.
Did some app icon design work for the first time in a while today. Haven't gotten feedback on either of these yet, but regardless of whether they'll actually end up being used, I'm happy with how they turned out 😁
#GNOME #AppIconDesign #Inkscape
They said #XMPP was connected to #xampu, so I made some! 😇
Hair is personal. Messaging should be too 
The owner of Beeja Botanicals is my former classmate, and she's used the shampoo herself, so I know it's good! The first batch is ready and will be available for purchase at #PravConf (or will be, once I've finished wrapping it all 😅)
PS: flyer designed with #Inkscape, and photo taken with #Megapixels on #Mobian on the #PocoF1! 
![Flyer. Full text follows, along with a description of accompanying images:
[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for "eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/643550 "Flyer. Full text follows, along with a description of accompanying images:
[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for \"eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol\". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.")
Now I get to find out if anyone is interested in #Boston to learn about how to use #inkscape to design their homes/physical spaces.
My workshop at the Boston Resource Center just dropped. I'm nervous how a non-physical skill will be received by the community. Will anyone attend? I'll have to find out...
eventbrite.com/e/use-inkscape-…
Create drawings of your spaces from your sketches as you plan for renovations using the open-source tool Inkscape.Eventbrite
Mario E. Fuente está haciendo su doctorado; estudia la metalurgia prehispánica, y para su tesis está digitalizando códices a mano, en #Inkscape.
Chequen sus imágenes aquí - commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.…
(Es de las personas que me encantaría que se vinieran de Twitter para acá...)
Does anyone fancy testing an #inkscape node editing branch?
One of Inkscape's most important features is node editing. I really believe we're better than Illustrator, Affinity et al at this specific feature. So with this GSoC adding functionality I need people with Inkscape experience to test it and make sure it's not breaking workflows:
gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-…
You can see animations in the description about what it's doing. Comment there or here if you try it. And THANKS!
This is part of my GSoC proposal Refs: https://gitlab.com/SK1PPR/inkscape-gsoc-proposal Node mode Icons Smooth...GitLab
Permissions, please?
For #Workbench by @sonny & friends
#GNOME #Inkscape #Illustration #AppIllustration
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I complained that a very large #python contribution to #inkscape was poorly formatted and I felt embarrassed about pushing back and asking them to run a linter over it?
Yeah I'm not fucking embarrassed now, I'm furious. 🤬
Update: Apparently they meant a small section of it was, not the whole MR. I'm annoyed, but I'll have to take them at their word.
#llm #oss #foss #mergerequest
We are currently developing import functions for #Affinity Designer & Adobe #Illustrator files.
Would you like to help? 🤝
Donate your files (.ai or .afdesign) until the 19th here:
office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/…
⚠️ Only upload files for which you own the rights. ⚠️
They will be used for #Inkscape development by the project's contributors and will not be published.
Question to the lovely #opensource crowd.
I'm using #inkscape and needing to limit my colors for screenprinting. Is there any #libre #openSource software that takes an svg design and does something akin to the Newsprint plugin in #gimp to prep for screenprinting with 4 colors? docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/plug-in-…
Ideally preserving the SVG format?
Absent that, what's my best process here?
die #technikfreunde #Saarlouis veranstalten am Samstag 08.06.2024 wieder RETROFUN.
Details auf dem Plakat bzw in der Bildbeschreibung
www.technikfreund.org
#retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retroflohmarkt #flohmarkt #saarland #inkscape
Should there be a desktop font service for the libre desktop? barefootliam.blogspot.com/2024…
Thinking especially of graphic design and page layout uses.
#fonts #linux #gnome #kde #gimp #krita #inkscape #libreGraphics #scribus #openType
Today, each application, and each toolkit, offers font selection. But fonts have become gradualy more complex, and none of the interfaces se...barefootliam.blogspot.com
Inkscape‘s development version has now switched to GTK4 ✨ , the current version of the underlying UI framework.
This is a huge architectural 🏗️ improvement for Inkscape, and will enable proper graphics acceleration ⏩ in the future.
This quick transition - only about 9 months - was made possible by donations, as we’ve invested approx. $80,000 towards it.
Support our development:
Other than the fresh new default, 46 will come with a fresh set of wallpapers to pick from. Ready for some new pixels?
blog.jimmac.eu/2024/gnome46-wa…
#gnome #gnome46 #release #inkscape #blender3d #python
Random musings of a semi-sane designer from lesser Europe.GNOME 46 Wallpapers | Jakub Steiner
Actualización sobre el libro “Esperanto y cultura esperantista”:
Ya casi tengo ISBN y, en principio, la portada sería esto: el título arriba, la autora abajo y, en medio, dos tiritas cruzadas. Una verde para el Esperanto y una lila para la igualdad lingüística. Es la primera cubierta que diseño con solapas :)
Pensad que los colores que se ven en web no son los que se imprimen. Serán un verde y un lila menos fluorescente. En fin, a ver qué sus parece.
Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".
It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome
Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlB…
This is a off the cuff discussion which is a response to some other videos about the whole RedHat news more recently. But looking at it from a the thousand m...YouTube
Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
inkscape.org/news/2023/04/17/i…
#cplusplus #cpp #gtk #gtkmm #inkscape
inkscape.orgInkscape is hiring a senior C++ developer with GTK experience to accelerate the migration to GTK4.
GO NOW! WATCH FUNNY FOSS VIDEO!
youtube.com/watch?v=mCXhM8gxPL…
(please boost)
#inkscape #foss #bug #alpha #testing #freesoftware #opensource #project #crash #advert #informercial #parody
Remember friends:https://inkscape.org/testerthatshttps://inkscape.org/testerYouTube
We’ve worked hard to develop our latest #Inkscape innovation ...
introducing Inky the AI Assistant 
🤖 !
Prepared to help you with your drawing needs.
It recognizes basic shapes and can offer quick improvements to your designs.
Inky is here to save the day!
A talented coder in the Los Angeles area labors away late into the night, unaware that his coding handiwork --- in the open source Inkscape program -- lights up the lives of children in Kenya. techlitafrica.org/software @joncruz
@inkscape @BrideOfLinux @volkswagenchick @clive @Npars01 @sanjaysharma
@mairin @mgifford @grwster
@jancborchardt
@pikurasa
@michelamarie
@scrwd @Aradayn #Inkscape
The greatest philanthropists do not give money.
They give caring and code.
One world.
Tools for Teaching Effective Digital Skills - Self-Efficacy, Troubleshooting, Internet Skills - Offline and Secure Tools for EducatorsTechLit Africa
3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in #LibreOffice , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using #FreeDOS, #InkScape and #GIMP. It turned out great!
#BASIC #programming #RetroComputing
Inkscape 1.2 highlight 💡 of the week:
Did you know that we added alignment snapping for nodes in #Inkscape 1.2?
media.inkscape.org/media/doc/r…
Finally calling this vector art piece finished! It's based on the June #inkscapechallenge, whose prompt was ice cream.
I haven't done vector art in a really long time, and this is probably the most complex vector art piece I've done so far. I'm definitely still more of a painter than a vector artist - painting is a lot more intuitive; I kept switching between drawing freehand shapes and toggling bezier curve nodes with this but it was still a fun piece and I like how it turned out.
It's Shan Shan and her friends enjoying some dessert at the beach. The dessert they're ogling at is a delicious Southeast Asian shaved ice dessert called cendol, topped with a scoop of coconut ice cream (of course!)
Cendol (also spelt chendol) is a dessert made out of shaved ice topped with the eponymous green pandan-flavoured jelly, sweet red beans, gula melaka (coconut palm sugar, which is a rich brown color) and coconut milk. It's delicious enough on its own but ice-cream is always a plus ;)
#MastoArt #VectorArt #inkscape #ArtWithOpenSource #ChildrensBook
The June Inkscape Challenge has started!
We challenge you to draw some ice cream.
Wether it's a sundae or a popsicle, let's have a frozen treat! What is your favorite choice?
Everyone is invited to join in!
Post your finished artwork at
inkscape.org/forums/competitio…
All entries to be submitted by 31 June 2022.
Please do spread the word!
#inkscapechallenge #artwithopensource #inkscape
An #inkscape interview while I'm on holiday
I'm away this week, so I've prepared for you all this video interview from a few weeks ago with the really nice French biologist and data image analyst Jerom...YouTube
#Intro 1/4
hellooo! I'm Evel, an #autistic and disabled #Indigenous Person of Color, and everything I do is through that lens. Been on this planet-ride round the sun for near 40 years. also i'm #dyslexic so typos incoming!
#art/#design
i'm a graphic designer who used to think they were an artist. i do most things in #inkscape and insist on calling gnu image manipulation program GNU Imp! all my arty work is done on linux.
sometimes i post #publicDomain things here -> freesvg.org/by/evel
Since I woke up, and there's new users here, #introduction
I am Joel, #Mexican, 21, studying #Mechatronics but I enjoy learning other things online instead
I like #FOSS and styling my stuff, such as #android, #linux or my #blog
I like meeting new people, my attempts at humor are terrible, my #origami posts get kinda famous, I enjoy getting into new #hobbies
Interests: #gamedev #inkscape #blogging #vim #selfhosting #raspberrypk #coding #podcasts #manga #anime #reading #citypop #daftpunk
And you can get the #Inkscape source SVGs for all the artwork I showed off in this toot (and more) on my site in the posts filed under the propaganda tag :)
