Patience, Grasshopper
March 26th, 2008 by heathenxWhat a day yesterday. Not only did I get the news that the latest Inkscape 0.46 was released early for Ubuntu users, but the latest release of my CAD system, Autodesk Inventor 2009, was delivered too. I wasn’t expecting the latter for another couple of months so I was very surprised.
Unfortunately, I cannot install Inkscape until there are proper Windows and openSUSE packages. I already installed it on three of my Ubuntu installs. Love it already. There are so many new features that I know I will start using.
In addition, I cannot install Inventor because I am nearly out of hard drive space on my workstation. Had to order an additional hard drive and now I have to wait a day or two before I can install it. Ships with 4 DVD’s. Who the hell knows what’s on ‘em. Perhaps the first DVD is the application and the last three are the Star Wars Trilogy.
Sheesh…I feel like I have two presents and I’m not allowed to open them. Maybe a donut will make me feel better. Who’s buying?
March 27th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Catch!
Indeed, tons of new features in Inkscape 0.46. I am looking forward to see some new screencasts.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Yeah, me too…oh…wait. Did you expect us to make them?
March 29th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Wow,
Inkscape 046 is great. I installed the Ubuntu Gutsy deb package on my Debian Lenny box without a hitch. I love the on screen gradient editing feature. It’s made an immediate impact on my artwork. I found one little glitch with the fill/stroke dialog box when in “floating dialog” mode and filed a bug report. I’m not sire I like the “dock”, but may give it a try later.
Alpha13
March 30th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I suppose it’s too early to say exactly, but have you thought about when you’ll be switching over to 0.46 screencasts? I’m guessing you’ll wait to at least all the versions are final, but after that?
Cheers
March 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
@Jaws
Hopefully soon. I believe Richard has already switched over to it but I am still waiting for an openSUSE release since that is what I mainly screencast on. I just read that a 0.46pre4-2 was released for Windows. Anyway, it might take a week or two (or more). I definitely would like to screencast some of the newer features. The new filter feature confuses the heck out of me. Once I make heads or tails out of that then maybe I can provide a tutorial or two.
Aren’t new releases exciting? I can’t wait to use 0.46 full time.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
At the moment I am ploughing through the release notes. I must admit that I was also confused at first when experimenting with the SVG filter effects. The way of concatenating filters is not that obvious. But once you get the feeling for it, they are powerful.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yeah, I don’t have a full understanding of why the filter dialog is so complex. It doesn’t feel user friendly to me. Perhaps the developers had good reasons for this…and it is new to this release. Maybe the interface will get better over time.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Just to let you know, PCLOS my distro of choice, has had 0.46 in the repos for about a week now. Tex and the gang are pretty good about pushing through popular applications in PCLOS.
One thing that endeared me to Inkscape was the friendly UI. Doing a cursory look ’round in 0.46, I’m sure all the new features will set me back into full fledged learning mode, not that I’m an expert to begin with. Looking forward to some new features screencasts.
Thanks for fixing the (404 - Not Found).
Cheers