[OT] Alternative to Inkscape

[Alejandro Tejada]

After reading again Bug Reports about Inkscape page origin, I noticed that
I was wrong.

That Bug Report have existed for more than 12 years so... read by yourself:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/364036

Al


On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Include SVG-Edit and current versions of these editors:
> https://www.sitepoint.com/6-free-web-based-svg-editors-compared/
>
> I just keep wondering why nobody have forked Inkscape
> and included the most requested feature: a plain simple
> palette that translate page coordinates from bottomleft
> to the topleft of the page.
>
> For more than 10 years, designers have been asking
> Inkscape developers that they should move the page
> origin from bottomleft to topleft (as svg specification
> requires). In fact, someone posted a palette that
> translate the page origin coordinates from bottomleft
> to topleft (without changing or breaking any other
> internal code) but this was quickly shutdown by
> project maintainers.
>
> Probably this explains the glacial adoption pace
> of Inkscape among designers and why SVG 2.0
> specification have been stalled for years and face
> the risk of not being approved with all features
> requested (many of them already in use)
>
> http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/is-svg-2-really-on-life-support
>
> Here is the main reason:
> "there is not enough svg content using those svg features"
>
> While Macromedia and Adobe support pushed Flash content
> presence to an incredible 29% (currently 6% among websites)
>
> https://www.fastcompany.com/3049920/the-agonizingly-slow-
> decline-of-adobe-flash-player
>
> https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-flash/all/all
>
> SVG is only now that is reaching 4.5%
> https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-svg/all/all
>
> That is what I call "The Reluctant Acceptance of SVG"
>
> Maybe in the near future,
> 1) Inkscape developers could fulfill with more frequency
> the most common and reasonable requests of their
> own users.
> 2) SVG new features are used more frequently and
> enough content is posted online using those features.
> 3) Better designed tools appear than allows to use these
> new features without having to use so many workarounds
> and acrobatics...
>  (for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14684846/flattening-
> svg-matrix-transforms-in-inkscape )
>
> Al
>