Same, I’m thankful for the work they are doing

Yeah the monster's horns don't make any sense either and the arms are off too.

I'm gonna guess OP just took an existing image without looking too closely. It happens, unfortunately a lot nowadays with how the internet is being flooded.

I recently started using it for RPG maps. I tried using Krita at first, but it can't snap to a hex grid properly. I got very frustrated working on digital maps until I discovered Inkscape. It has a very different approach where you create individual hex polygons and clone them, but they snap perfectly and the workflow is far more convenient.

For layout or for something more scientific?

Right up there with VLC and GIMP.

A lot of Open Source projects like this will usually have a sponsor button on their GitHub repo where you can choose an amount to give but I think you might need a GitHub account first :)

You can support Martin Owens who is one of the main Inkscape developers directly on Liberapay or Patreon. He has a YouTube channel where he does community outreach and talks about the work he's been doing.

I am not affiliated with the project, but I do have a recurring donation of a few bucks a month to him.

Its hard to be totally prepared until you already have enough experience to know, if you show up and put in work and stick with it youd be shocked how quickly you become one of the "experts" propping the whole thing up 😉

It's open source just send it over or add it to the repository make a pull request. Worst case scenario, it gets ignored and you just did some practice.

Sounds fun! Like how OpenSUSE has music video parody songs :D

this is a nice article about the topic https://tesk.page/2024/06/03/libadwaita-splitting-gtk-and-design-language/

Toolkits don't limit where software will run, it can be used on any distro with any desktop environment.

For 6 years now

That is weird ive always zoomed with i think ctrl+scrollwheel its almost my main way of navigation: zoom out from cursor move cursor where I want to zoom and then scroll back in

Not sure I understood your problem well and I don't have Inkscape in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure Ctrl+scrollwheel does zoom?!

On my system (arch+gnome) the mouse wheel zooms the image.

I primarily zoom in incscape in two ways:

1. Using the mouse - it zooms to mouse position, so control-scroll is brilliant - even for navigating: scroll out until you see where you want to go, put the mouse there and scroll in.

2. Using the keyboard (this is incredibly powerful):

• 3: Fit selected object in the window
• 4: Fit all objects in the window
• 5: Fit the page in the window
• 6: Fit page width.
• 1 and 2: I seldom use these, but they're for 50% zoom and 100% zoom.
• • and -: They zoom in and out.

So often, I'll click on an object, then press 3 to fit in in the window, and then hit - a few times to see the context better. Perfect.

Affinity only works (easily) on Windows and Mac, from what I know it's difficult to get running on Linux.

Affinity was also bought out by a large investment company, so while it may be the better option now, it's virtually guaranteed to become just as enshittified as Adobe if they become popular. Only FLOSS protects us long-term.

I'm not willing to put all my eggs into another proprietary basket. Fool me six times...

Yes, I use it regularly. And it's a very capable program. I use it in conjunction with GIMP.

does anyone also use Affinity?

Nope, only you.