Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

Inkscape 1.4 released on Sunday as the newest version of this cross-platform, open-source vector graphics editor...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-1.4-Released

[gnarlin]

People say that Gimp isn't nearly good enough to replace Photoshop. I can believe that. However, when people say that Inkscape can't replace Illustrator I'm more sceptical.
Does anyone here know if anyone who uses Illustrator professionally has made up a list of specific features that they feel are missing from Inkscape before they'll consider using it professionally? Maybe it's more workflow habit and eco system lock-in or am I just indulging in wishful thinking?

[primary]

But isn't Krita woke? /s

[mxan]

People say that Gimp isn't nearly good enough to replace Photoshop. I can believe that. However, when people say that Inkscape can't replace Illustrator I'm more sceptical.
Does anyone here know if anyone who uses Illustrator professionally has made up a list of specific features that they feel are missing from Inkscape before they'll consider using it professionally? Maybe it's more workflow habit and eco system lock-in or am I just indulging in wishful thinking?

Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, that's already one major reason it can't be used professionally.
Inkscape was designed as an SVG editor so it never really needed CMYK - it was meant for web graphics, not print.
Illustrator on the other hand has always been about print, being built on PostScript.
Illustrator's only real competitor in the commercial space was FreeHand, which Adobe killed off when they bought it through their acquisition of Macromedia.
There's also CorelDRAW but I don't know anyone who uses it.

[rene]

updated https://t2sde.org/packages/inkscape

[Paper3762]

Still needs gradients to use more color spaces than just sRGB. Interpolation over cubic representations just sucks.

[Jonjolt]

Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, that's already one major reason it can't be used professionally.
Inkscape was designed as an SVG editor so it never really needed CMYK - it was meant for web graphics, not print.
Illustrator on the other hand has always been about print, being built on PostScript.
Illustrator's only real competitor in the commercial space was FreeHand, which Adobe killed off when they bought it through their acquisition of Macromedia.
There's also CorelDRAW but I don't know anyone who uses it.

In the past I've had to take my Inkscape files import into Illustrator and send to printer/sign maker, I always found inkscape more intuitive/easier for my purposes.

[Vistaus]

updated https://t2sde.org/packages/inkscape

Updated: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/inkscape/

[Daktyl198]

Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, that's already one major reason it can't be used professionally.
Inkscape was designed as an SVG editor so it never really needed CMYK - it was meant for web graphics, not print.
Illustrator on the other hand has always been about print, being built on PostScript.
Illustrator's only real competitor in the commercial space was FreeHand, which Adobe killed off when they bought it through their acquisition of Macromedia.
There's also CorelDRAW but I don't know anyone who uses it.

Interesting. I wonder why Inkscape has never added additional color model support? AFAIK it's not horrendously difficult and there's a lot of libraries out there to help with it.

[Francex]

Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, that's already one major reason it can't be used professionally.
Inkscape was designed as an SVG editor so it never really needed CMYK - it was meant for web graphics, not print.
Illustrator on the other hand has always been about print, being built on PostScript.
Illustrator's only real competitor in the commercial space was FreeHand, which Adobe killed off when they bought it through their acquisition of Macromedia.
There's also CorelDRAW but I don't know anyone who uses it.

The real competitor of Illustrator is Serif Affinity Designer rather than Corel Draw. Inkscape mainly lacks a good UI.