I'd like to remind everyone that this is a sticker. lol We will not be placing disclaimers on stickers that we hand out. as the whole point is to draw in new users. If those users want to tell us CMYK is a MUST, that's information we want to hear. The more people who want it, the more likely the project will dedicate time to include it in Inkscape options in some form.
I'm happy to put my extensive portfolio of posters, magazine adverts, cards, package and product design, convention booths, billboards (some of them animated), and web/digital designs up against any done with illustrator/Designer/whatever.
Should Inkscape have better support for CMYK output and multipage? Definitely, and it's likely coming as they have been major talking points on the dev mailing list lately.
Does Inkscape need those things to be a professional tool? No, not at all. No more than Illustrator or Designer needs to have all the advantages of Inkscape to be a "professional" tool. A professional tool is whatever is used by professionals to get the job done. A professional makes most of their money doing the thing that they are a professional at.
There are some sticking points, but nothing compared to what Illustrator inflicted/inflicts upon users when I switched over, or today with their user-hostile subscription requirements.
Disclaimer: I'm a full time graphic designer, and I make all my money using Inkscape / GIMP / Scribus / Blender / Image Magick and GhostScript for CMYK conversions. I am able to do all this on any machine I want with zero cost using GNU/Linux Ubuntu. This leaves my money and time free to help FOSS projects, which benefit the whole world instead of the bottom line of just a few corporations.
My 2p. -C
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Maren Hachmann <maren@...3165...> wrote:
Am 22.01.2018 um 02:00 schrieb Martin Owens:
On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 00:28 +0000, Miguel Lopez wrote:
If we’re going to brand ourself and bring credibility to ourself, the first thing is always to show that burden of the proof via what Inkscape can offer, and it does more to our branding if we can accurately represent our software. I don’t think Inkscape being a professional-level tool
All we need is one person who has ever made money from doing something in Inkscape. And I have :-)
Yes, yes, it's a really loose definition. Verging on meaningless. But your profession may need different features from mine, so it's a professional tool for me, and not for you. "Inkscape, professional vector graphics editor for some, but not all, people" ;-)
problems with other vector graphic softwares. Some short lists of what I notice Inkscape is far better on.
That's always going to be the case.
These are what we can use to support Inkscape being a great tool, and can be used to aid into professional graphics, and these are what I use Inkscape for.
You've got a really great set of concepts for what you can use Inkscape for. It'd be great to have an advertisment like page with graphics that focus on these. (do we have this sort of page already?)
https://inkscape.org/en/about/features/ and https://inkscape.org/en/about/screenshots/
are probably the pages you mean. They're pretty dusty, Inkscape has learnt many new tricks since they were written.
Maren
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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