On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:08:36 -0800 (PST) Inti Alonso <intialonso@...12...> wrote:
Like a designer working for the press industry I will love to see inkscape supporting:
Real CMYK. Spot inks. PDF/X-3 standard. Bleed settings and press marks.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:23 PM, William Adams <will.adams@...3026...> wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Anna Morris wrote:
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
A more efficient interface. It is much faster / efficient working in Macromedia FreeHand. Features which I miss include:
- an easy way to select objects which are not
on top --- Freehand used <Control>click for this
- the ability to do math in measurement text
fields (want an object to be 10 units wider? type +10 after its width and tap enter)
- the ability to move selected node(s) and
compleat object(s)
- the ability to align a selected node against
an object (or multiples)
- It would be nice if InkScape would conform to
industry-standard user interface conventions (usually Shift constrains when dragging, but it's Alt which does that when musing the pen tool)
- wrapping tabs and all other text features
which FreeHand had
- the ability to put text inside a box w/
user-controllable insets all around, to set the fill and stroke for the box separately from the text and to have the box be auto-sizing to match the size of the text
- graphics find and replace
- more control over placement of UI elements
- interactive controls for origin of text when
placed on a path, ability to have a second line on a different part of the path
Basically, just make it work like FreeHand, 'cause it solved the vector graphic interface problem a long while ago, and nothing has improved on it since, save for FutureWave SmartSketch (freeform / distortable paths) and Creaturehouse Expression (skeletal stroke technology).
Interesting bit of reading on FreeHand here: http://www.enrichdesign.com/fhblog/
William
I second the X-3 vote. And if possible PDF X/1-a:2001 would be super. That would require real CMYK of course.