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Thanks! Inkscape is a wonderful project, I've used it for years - I started around the time those jerks at Adobe took CS into the cloud, and unlike GIMP, I found the UI fairly intuitive if you've studied graphic design AND it played well with the OSX windowing system instead of trying to use GTK or KDE or whatever the hell... the stuff I see when I open up GIMP to slap impact font text onto the images I take with my personal cell phone.

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I've been using inkscape since I learned about it on sourceforge around 2006 or so. Not only for uni in my studies on graphic design but for all my professional career, which has been almost my de facto tool for all things vector (the other being MetaPost), so I literally owe my career to inkscape.

I agree Inkscape is super intuitive and love that is keyboard oriented so it lets you have a quick workflow you cannot reach with any other similar software, and it should be the paradigm for how design and gui apps should be done - and considering pretty much all other GTK apps aren't as complex and not as easy to use as Inkscape, makes it even more underrated.

Glad to donate to it so it can keep growing, and boy it has grown so much.

From the link:

"Note for macOS users:

Do not update to macOS Ventura if you rely on Inkscape! There is an unresolved issue that currently affects all GTK3 based apps on macOS Ventura, making the app unresponsive to certain mouse events."

Issue report: "widgets not reacting to mouse hover/click on macOS Ventura" https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5305

I found pinch zoom to be rather bonky on my current Monterey, so I hope they fixed that. I'll wait until they get GTK3 fixed. I used brew to install 1.2.1.

Sorry I might be mixing it up with a different app - they may have been just… easy to switch from adobe in terms of the the ui making sense.

Sorry I misspoke it’s also been years since I made a vector logo :-)

No need to be sorry–I believe you're generally correct above. It's just that this particular moment in time is a bad one for Ventura users testing the waters.

I looked back at an old diary - I was using it in Linux because my office had a Linux desktop. I never bothered installing it on my laptop because I tried to keep anything from work off my personal devices.

(Both it and GIMP should make macOS native clients like how the KeePass ppl did KeePassXC)

I learned Inkscape before I learned Adobe products and I found Inkscape to be more intuitive.

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