Inkscape 1.4 is Ready! 

Thanks frksilva, are you joining as a sponsor? I remembered to put the links in above.

@@doctormo Hello, yes, I will be offering my support through Patreon. I’m not in a position to be the top contributor, but I’ll do my part. Thank you for your work!

A possible workflow could be to design something in Inkscape, save it as an SVG file and use this SVG file as the source for the vector graphic in Blender. If you want to change the vector graphic later, you simply edit the SVG file and save it. At this point, the vector graphic is automatically updated in Blender.

​@@BahnNachrichtenEuropa You could also make it so that when you want to edite a vector graphic in blender you can eihter use tab key to use benders internal basic vector editor, or you could right click an choose "edite externaly" to utilize Inkscapes vast capibilities.

Yes, custom swatches have been possible for a while, but you have to save the gpl file in the config directory which is not very easy to use. We should improve the UX and then it will become obvious.

Usually yes, though check the model and make sure from other people who have used SVG or DXF for the laser.

@@doctormo I would love a tutorial, as I said my "future" machine, meaning I am still learning. Some people say we don't even need paid tools like lightb..., so if you have any tutorail with inskape I would follow it.

You could just join my Patreon, a lot less blood. Then you get CMYK without the violence. :wink:

I can't see why that's not the case if you set the document to origin bottom-left.

This option has been present for a while, but it may require you to change a value in the Inkscape preferences dialog. It's in the 'Interface' pane, "Origin at upper left with y-axis pointing down" - uncheck that, then quit and restart Inkscape. The origin in the top-left is due to Inkscape's heritage as an SVG editor, and SVG is a largely web-oriented format used in web browsers. On a browser the page starts at the top left and grows downwards, causing a scrollbar to appear if necessary. Switching this option won't actually change the SVG files, so they'll still be based on a top-left origin and be transparently mapped when loaded into Inkscape.

This seems like a bad bug. Are you able to come to chat.inkscape.org and ask there? I think the community will be able to help you.

@@doctormo Hi Martin. I appreciate your quick response. I decided to try it a fourth time, but this time I closed down my Opera browser. It appears that whatever this GDPS.EXE was, must have been part of the Opera processes as it finally worked this time. It's opened just fine and successfully updated. I think this gdps has to do with the python part of installation, but for whatever reason, it worked this time around.

See some of my other videos this year.

@@doctormo Thanks for quick response and for your videos! Please, don’t get me wrong, I’m very much rooting for Inkscape but lack of CMS & and native CMYK immediately turns off any professional user. I’ve been using Freehand, Illustrator and Corel since ’92 (mostly Freehand), but I still don’t get why is so hard to use libs and code like Little CMS and Scribus have? Anyway, thanks for hard work!

@@vmisev If you watch the videos, I go through many, many, many of the problems that getting CMS into proper shape is requiring. I've done almost nothing but CMYK and CMS for more than a year now on inkscape and it is a bit insulting to say that you don't know why it's hard. I know you don't mean this insult, but it hurts all the same. FWIW; Inkscape has supported CMYK CMS for ten years, no one uses it because it's badly designed and you can't use the CMYK svg files in anything else, so what's the point. What you want isn't CMS, it's PDF output and a UX that doesn't suck. Using LittleCMS is the easy part, that's why it was done all those years ago. The best video to watch is the interview I did with the project historian Josh Andler.

@@doctormo Hey, sorry! It wasn’t my intention to hurt you, not at all. I’m not a dev; I know my sh, awk and some basic Python, but that’s it - I’m not trying to look down on your hard work. I said “I still don’t get why is so hard” not as someone who knows how to do it, but as someone who is exporting CMYK EPS (and later PDF) from all kinds of programs on various OSes for more than three decades (yes, I’m PS Level 1 old ;) ). As I said, I very much appreciate any work on OpenSource (I’m FreeBSD user myself), especially for the projects I care about, like Inkscape, so please don’t get offended, my only wish is that Inscape succeeds. To use OpenSource in the reprographics environments/workflows only decent vector editor is needed - Scribus and Krita are very much usable and Little CMS is decent and getting better, and we have a myriad of diff pdf and ps libs. And not only OSS, world in general needs good vector editor, because IMHO there is none since Adobe killed Freehand. I hate only whining, so is it there anything that I, as a non-dev, can help with?

Yes, the standard hasn't changed and we haven't added many new tags. Modular grids won't, but everything else should.

You can always report bugs to inkscape.org/report/ always say which version you are using and test the latest version if you can.

Menu Help>Report a bug There is a page with a wall of text... read the very first sentence (it's the most important one), then the actual link for reporting is in the bottom. You'll need a GitLab account to both search if this bug exists, and to post a new one.