![]() The new editor will provide the user with many more gradient customization options than are currently available, a much needed improvement to Inkscape if you ask me.įinally, there were two huge upcoming alignment upgrades announced for Inkscape. The video showcases new gradient stops like the ones used in GIMP, though the ones demo’d in the video appear to be more user-friendly. ![]() Also announced is an exciting improvement to Inkscape’s Gradient Editor based on a collaboration between contributing developers Mike Kowalski and Adam Belis. This breakthrough is only one of several announced in the same Patreon video. This groundbreaking new feature is set to be released with Inkscape 1.2, which, according to the video, we probably won’t see for another 300 days from now (i.e. Lord goes on to further explain the functionality of this tool: “It will allow you to build a set of simpler, overlapping shapes, and take the overlaps and merge and/or remove different parts into a final composite shape.” As she speaks, the video shows a user dragging a mouse, which is trailed by a red line, across multiple overlapping shape segments, then releasing the mouse to show those segments being merged into a single segment (and leaving the surrounding segments unaffected). On the other hand, other programs, including Inkscape, have been able to implement a more simple “boolean operation” for shape interaction between selected shapes, though this feature isn’t nearly as intuitive or useful as an on-canvas shape builder. This feature to me has always been Illustrator’s bread-and-butter – it’s marquee tool that was exclusive to the program. Currently, Adobe Illustrator is, as far as I know, the only program to offer any kind of on-canvas shape builder that merges or subtracts shapes and shape segments with the clicking and dragging of the mouse over said areas by the user. Inkscape introducing a shape-builder tool would create a seismic shift in the balance of power in the world of vector software. Hold on while I pick my jaw up off the floor. ![]()
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