i have gained a new enemy today as i learn that biorender is $100 a month for the privilege of exporting to SVG, making color gradients, and using times new roman.
Inkscape, Johnny, Inkscape. But you know that already 😀
For figure panels, for posters, even for presentations now with its multi-page documents. Works brilliantly. I could not have done my work as a scientist over the last 20 years without #inkscape.
Inkscape has existed for 20+ years and, thanks to the power of open source, will continue to exist for decades to come, when all these and more subscription services have come and gone.
@albertcardona Oh we have some biorender type things in the import clipart functionality. Not many people know about it but it might be worth checking out.
@doctormo I should find the time to populate the Inkscape "Help - Tutorials" menu with tutorials for making scientific posters, for organising manuscript figures and their panels, and more. And one for scripting, for generative art or simply making shapes that are easy to describe mathematically but hard to do by hand. It's been in my agenda for at least a decade – my available time has gone instead towards my family.
May others join me – these tutorials should be community-vetted, and simple yet complete enough to enable an undergraduate to work on the figures and posters of their senior year thesis. Would set them on a career free of subscription software, for starters.
@albertcardona @doctormo I do a Inkscape Gantt chart tutorial in one of my classes that could be contributed. This is mostly to make students see the benefit of letting the software deal with alignment and even distribution. Where would I submit such a tutorial for community vetting?
@lwpembleton artists should get paid but i don't think that the way to do it is to build yourself into the parasitic publishing pipeline and charge $100/month
@lwpembleton we looked into an institutional license at my uni, but they refused to discount anything, so it would have been full price for thousands of people.
Albert Cardona
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Inkscape, Johnny, Inkscape. But you know that already 😀
For figure panels, for posters, even for presentations now with its multi-page documents. Works brilliantly. I could not have done my work as a scientist over the last 20 years without #inkscape.
Inkscape has existed for 20+ years and, thanks to the power of open source, will continue to exist for decades to come, when all these and more subscription services have come and gone.
#academia
Frank Aylward
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •Martin Owens :inkscape:
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •Oh we have some biorender type things in the import clipart functionality. Not many people know about it but it might be worth checking out.
Albert Cardona
in reply to Martin Owens :inkscape: • • •Thank you. Emphasis on clipart imports on cookbooks would be appreciated. It's not for lack of open access SVG libraries online.
Martin Owens :inkscape:
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •What's cookbooks? I don't think I've heard of that before.
Albert Cardona
in reply to Martin Owens :inkscape: • • •@doctormo
A cookbook is a collection of recipes – i.e., a bunch of explained examples.
See for example the cookbook for scipy: https://scipy-cookbook.readthedocs.io/
Far more useful than a manual, which tends to be focused on individual functions.
SciPy Cookbook — SciPy Cookbook documentation
scipy-cookbook.readthedocs.ioAlbert Cardona
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •@doctormo
I should find the time to populate the Inkscape "Help - Tutorials" menu with tutorials for making scientific posters, for organising manuscript figures and their panels, and more. And one for scripting, for generative art or simply making shapes that are easy to describe mathematically but hard to do by hand. It's been in my agenda for at least a decade – my available time has gone instead towards my family.
May others join me – these tutorials should be community-vetted, and simple yet complete enough to enable an undergraduate to work on the figures and posters of their senior year thesis. Would set them on a career free of subscription software, for starters.
Roger Schürch
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •Albert Cardona
in reply to Roger Schürch • • •@schuemaa @doctormo
We could start on an online repository, perhaps on GitLab since #inkscape also uses it?
The one script I have online is for fixing text kerning issues, and is not suitable for an entry-level tutorial on writing small scripts and extensions: https://github.com/acardona/scripts/tree/master/python/inkscape
Also to give here a shout out to the Inkscape Simple Scripting framework, as described https://inkscape.org/~pakin/%E2%98%85simple-inkscape-scripting and available as code to manually install: https://github.com/spakin/SimpInkScr The examples are amusing, and could be adapted: https://github.com/spakin/SimpInkScr/wiki
scripts/python/inkscape at master · acardona/scripts
GitHubAlbert Cardona
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •@schuemaa @doctormo
I've started this:
"Inkscape cookbook for scientists"
https://gitlab.com/acardona/inkscape-cookbook-for-scientists
Currently it's merely a declaration of intentions 😀
#inkscape
acardona / Inkscape Cookbook for Scientists · GitLab
GitLabLuke Pembleton
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •jonny (good kind)
in reply to Luke Pembleton • • •jonny (good kind)
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Luke Pembleton
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Frank Aylward
in reply to Luke Pembleton • • •Luke Pembleton
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