Inkscape 1.3 Released!
Inkscape 1.3 Released!
<p><img alt="Inkscape 1.3 About Screen CC-By-SA 4.0 by Denis Kuznetzky" src="https://media.inkscape.org/media/news/uploads/about-screen-banner-1-3.png" style="width: 30%; float: left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0" title="Inkscape 1.3 About Screen CC-By-SA 4.0 by Denis Kuznetzky" /></p> <p>With version 1.3 o...
Lots of new features in Inscape 1.3
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That is good news. I have to draw a lot of diagrams and I find myself stuck between a few tools, none of which is perfect. Any one of those that improves is a great thing!
- Draw.io is brilliant for quickly creating stuff, but you can't easily reshape shapes
- Visio is ok, but for software that aims to be diagram -focused, compared to draw.io, its connectors are appalling
- Affinity designer is good, and not too expensive, but the lack of (outline+text*) objects (compared to draw.io and visio) quickly becomes a pain with complex diagrams. Plus complete lack of support for variable fonts is a showstopper for me.
- I was really pleasantly surprised by inkscape when I tried it again the other year after many years of not using it. It's really come along and improved. I know its not intended for diagrams, so dynamic connectors and (outline+text*) shapes aren't there. If they were, it would be the perfect tool.
I'm looking forward to trying out the new features of this release.
*When I say (outline+text) I mean a shape with text in it that isn't two separate objects I have to wrangle with careful alignment or grouping etc. If you don't know what I mean, take a look at how easy it is to put text in shapes in draw.io compared to inkscape
Inkscape connectors were much improved last year I remember. Although I never used connectors. And I don't know what you need.
Thank you for letting me know! I didn't realise that it had connectors at all. I'm looking forward to checking it out tomorrow :) Cheers!