<story><title>Inkscape 1.1</title><url>https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simondotau</author><text>I must say that as someone who is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.&lt;p&gt;It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.&lt;p&gt;I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF.&lt;p&gt;The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code.&lt;p&gt;Complain as I may, I didn&amp;#x27;t have to buy Adobe Illustrator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>At $25 on sale (which it currently is), a permanent license for Affinity Designer is cheaper than &lt;i&gt;one month&lt;/i&gt; of Adobe Illustrator.&lt;p&gt;Adobe likes to advertise it as $20.99&amp;#x2F;month, but that&amp;#x27;s only with a 12 month commitment, and you can&amp;#x27;t cancel early without paying. Renting Illustrator for a single month will really cost you $31.41.&lt;p&gt;Even at full price ($50), Affinity Designer costs less than two months of Illustrator.&lt;p&gt;Not a professional artist and don&amp;#x27;t use it often, but it&amp;#x27;s enough of a value that hobbyists like me can actually use it. Any of Adobe&amp;#x27;s products, not so much.</text></comment>
<story><title>Inkscape 1.1</title><url>https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simondotau</author><text>I must say that as someone who is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.&lt;p&gt;It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.&lt;p&gt;I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF.&lt;p&gt;The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code.&lt;p&gt;Complain as I may, I didn&amp;#x27;t have to buy Adobe Illustrator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>Affinity Photo and Designer are brilliant. I&amp;#x27;d second their recommendation.&lt;p&gt;Also, the Apple Photos integration for Affinity Photo is pretty damned handy :)</text></comment>