Minor things that bother you

[Scott5114]

Inkscape hogs too much of the screen displaying its buttons, panels or tear-off tabs. The last couple of versions are slightly less bad about it.

This is 100% configurable. Even if Inkscape itself doesn't explicitly allow you to change something in its interface, it actually loads the interface from an editable text file. One day I went into that file and rearranged the buttons so that all of the ones I regularly use are at the top and all of the ones I don't are at the bottom.

I could probably get away with removing most of the buttons if I wanted to, honestly. I've been using Inkscape for twenty years at this point, so I have the keyboard shortcut for pretty much everything I use memorized.

Your version of "production ready" EPS may not be the same as mine. The SVG format doesn't natively support CMYK or spot colors. Is the converted EPS file still RGB or is it bluntly converted to CMYK?

Probably not. The file is still RGB, so we—and I imagine you'll need to lie down for a while after reading this—ordered a sign that was just a whole bunch of color swatches and, using that, my boss figured out what value to use to gamma-correct the graphics on our end to get the intended color from the manufacturer.

Most of our designs use a restricted palette of just a few colors, so we just lean heavily on standard colors we know will come out as intended. If my boss says "make it dark green" I know exactly what color he means.

However, Illustrator is able to run complex scripts. CorelDRAW can too. Illustrator has a well-established plugin architecture.

Inkscape can run Python plugin scripts, but neither I nor my boss know Python. The benefit of writing the scripts outside of the plugin infrastructure is that those scripts would still be good even if for some reason we did switch from Inkscape to something else, or if Inkscape changes their plugin API.

Chances are about 100% the manufacturer is taking the object with the "process magenta" color and changing its values for the actual print/cut work.

Probably. I think they outsource the cut work to a third company that has a plasma cutter, so who knows what their file standards are. I do know that we send them enough work that they keep a bunch of blanks of our most frequently used standard shapes and sizes on hand because they know they'll get used eventually.

[kkt]

Several years ago the USPS slowed long-distance mail down.  Some companies used that to shorten up their deadlines for 'though the Mail' bill paying with their date of paying being recorded as when the payment was received rather than postmarked, turning 'late fees' into a profit center.  A couple of decades ago, I mailed something to someone out west on a Monday afternoon from the downtown Appleton, WI Post Office (54911).  It was received Wednesday (2 DAYS later) in Thousand Oaks, CA.  I was impressed.

Mike

One of the places I worked was for a library ordering books from many places in the world.  If we were in a rush to get a book, it was faster to get it airmail from Switzerland than it was to get it priority mail from a publisher's warehouse in the New York area.  Kind of sad.

[Bobby5280]

This is 100% configurable. Even if Inkscape itself doesn't explicitly allow you to change something in its interface, it actually loads the interface from an editable text file.

I don't know what "library" of user interface elements the Linux version of Inkscape uses, but the Windows version of it copies a lot of application window size labels onto things like tear-away tabs. If I have a panel like "Layers and Objects" or "Text and Font" floating above the document the labels are listed twice in the floating panel. And the top label also lists the document name for some odd reason. I don't need to see that there. I can't collapse the panel into a ribbon size element with only the label visible. It's either all the way open or removed off the screen.

Adobe has its own library of UI elements for things like floating panels. The Mac and Windows versions of their applications look almost identical, except for some minor differences. The scaling of the elements is easy to adjust in preferences. The panels can be collapsed into a small ribbon looking thing or reduced to an icon. I wouldn't say the UI in apps like Illustrator or Photoshop is perfect, but they do work in a more elegant manner than competing applications.

[kphoger]

One of the places I worked was for a library ordering books from many places in the world.  If we were in a rush to get a book, it was faster to get it airmail from Switzerland than it was to get it priority mail from a publisher's warehouse in the New York area.  Kind of sad.

I used to work in the warehouse at a publishing company in the Chicago suburbs.  One day I received a package that had been shipped from Colombia via DHL the day before.

[kphoger]

Public transit systems that, in the year 2025, still don't have an online system map—or even a list of routes.

I've been planning a possible upcoming Mexico trip (still not sure if I'm going) that would involve flying into/out of Laredo and taking intercity buses from Nuevo Laredo the rest of the way down and back.  The intercity bus stations in Nuevo Laredo are 2½ to 3 miles south of Bridge #1, which itself is ¾ mile south of the Laredo transit center.  That would come to a total of 3¼ to 3¾ miles of walking—in the afternoon, in a month when the average high temperature is over 100°F, so I started looking into shaving some of that distance off with a city bus ride in Nuevo Laredo.  I have once taken a taxi between one of the intercity bus stations and the border (and into Laredo from there) but, as I'd be traveling solo, I'm interested in cutting as many costs as possible.

As far as I can tell, Nuevo Laredo's city bus system has zero official online presence.  I'm not 100% certain, but I think this may be because each route operates by its own concession from the state government:  that is, I think each route is its own 'company'/'system'.  However, considering that the Tamaulipas state government has its umbrella over all of them, it still seems to me that at least some semblance of an online presence would be possible.

Instead, I've resorted to paging through comments on Facebook pages to try and tease out any information I can.  One important thing I've learned through this process is that, even though I can find bus stop signs in GSV all along the road the intercity bus stations are on, there hasn't been an active city bus route running that road in years.

Recently, I stumbled across one such Facebook user who made their own maps on footpathapp.com for several routes and shared them in a couple of posts on Facebook.  Five of those routes ended up being useful to me.  So then I decided to build my own map and plot three of them on the map (the other two overlapped entirely with one of those three in the part of the city I'm looking at).  I don't know how frequently they run, but at least I know where they go now.

[roadman65]

I would be surprised if there's anything Adobe Creative Cloud does that can't be done on Linux somehow.

shocker

I say this about all the gossip about high profile couples.  They're ordinary folks like the rest of us, but media outlets portray them as royalty and have to follow them. I'm sure most couples don't like being exploited anyway.

Ordinary folks?  You think Taylor Swift is ordinary folks?  Man, you and I must not hang out with the same sort of people.

Yes they are like you and me. They're human beings and no different than the rest

Plus Travis and Taylor are like any other couple.

Just because they're rich and talented don't mean we have to have a play by play of their personal life every major event.

Look at Princess Diana.  Their obsession led to her death. I'm sure the couple, too, wants their privacy.

[kphoger]

Yes they are like you and me. They're human beings and no different than the rest

Their being human doesn't make them "ordinary folks".  Their being human doesn't mean they're "like you and me".

Plus Travis and Taylor are like any other couple.

Maybe, maybe not.  I don't know what their relationship is like.  But it isn't automatically "like any other couple".

Just because they're rich and talented don't mean we have to have a play by play of their personal life every major event.

I wholeheartedly agree.

[Max Rockatansky]

I would be surprised if there's anything Adobe Creative Cloud does that can't be done on Linux somehow.

shocker

I say this about all the gossip about high profile couples.  They're ordinary folks like the rest of us, but media outlets portray them as royalty and have to follow them. I'm sure most couples don't like being exploited anyway.

Ordinary folks?  You think Taylor Swift is ordinary folks?  Man, you and I must not hang out with the same sort of people.

Yes they are like you and me. They're human beings and no different than the rest

Plus Travis and Taylor are like any other couple.

Just because they're rich and talented don't mean we have to have a play by play of their personal life every major event.

Look at Princess Diana.  Their obsession led to her death. I'm sure the couple, too, wants their privacy.

Dude, it's okay to admit you got a Taylor Swift crush.  You have been bringing her up all friggin week.

[kphoger]

It's just this Travis Taylor stuff is yawn time.

I say this about all the gossip about high profile couples.  They're ordinary folks like the rest of us, but media outlets portray them as royalty and have to follow them. I'm sure most couples don't like being exploited anyway.

By the way . . . If the media don't "follow them", then would they still be "high profile"?

[roadman65]

I would be surprised if there's anything Adobe Creative Cloud does that can't be done on Linux somehow.

shocker

I say this about all the gossip about high profile couples.  They're ordinary folks like the rest of us, but media outlets portray them as royalty and have to follow them. I'm sure most couples don't like being exploited anyway.

Ordinary folks?  You think Taylor Swift is ordinary folks?  Man, you and I must not hang out with the same sort of people.

Yes they are like you and me. They're human beings and no different than the rest

Plus Travis and Taylor are like any other couple.

Just because they're rich and talented don't mean we have to have a play by play of their personal life every major event.

Look at Princess Diana.  Their obsession led to her death. I'm sure the couple, too, wants their privacy.

Dude, it's okay to admit you got a Taylor Swift crush.  You have been bringing her up all friggin week.

Twice I brought it up. All at one time. The rest are rebuttals.

I have no problems with her as a person. Just the media a little hence minor things.

Then again I should remember to this forum a minor thing could be a major thing to some.

[JayhawkCO]

Yes they are like you and me. They're human beings and no different than the rest

Their being human doesn't make them "ordinary folks".  Their being human doesn't mean they're "like you and me".

Having at one point been on a first name basis with Travis, I can honestly give an appraisal that he's not that different from you and me.

[Scott5114]

If you don't like that the media talks a lot about Taylor Swift, stop following the media.

The only reason I've thought about Taylor Swift recently has been because she popped up in this thread.

[Rothman]

One of my staffers has a Taylor Swift calendar hanging in her cubicle.  Brings levity into the office.

[Scott5114]

One of my staffers has a Taylor Swift calendar hanging in her cubicle.  Brings levity into the office.

Because you laugh at her for having a Taylor Swift calendar hanging in her cubicle? Or...

[jeffandnicole]

If you don't like that the media talks a lot about Taylor Swift, stop following the media.

Taylor is one of those people where when she is shown on TV or referenced in the media, people instantly think she is always on TV or in the media, even if she was shown or referenced only once.  In the meantime, they ignored every other person that was also on TV or referenced in the media.

[Rothman]

The ennui that sets in when your vacations are all planned and you're just waiting for time to pass to when they arrive...

[JayhawkCO]

The ennui that sets in when your vacations are all planned and you're just waiting for time to pass to when they arrive...

Fortunately for me, one of mine begins in less than 24 hours.

[thenetwork]

Here's a nit to pick on the roads today.  Here's the scenario:

You're cruising down the interstate at around the speed limit.  The road has 2 or 3 lanes in each direction with a wide right shoulder and a decent left shoulder...

When all of a sudden, the vehicle that was stopped on the right shoulder starts moving.  And instead of signaling. looking for oncoming traffic and getting up to "ramp merge" speed on the shoulder, they just pull out into the right lane *barely* going 25 in a 75 zone and not much in a hurry to pick up the pace!

That goes for those same idiots who do the same thing on regular roadways as well.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Here's a nit to pick on the roads today.  Here's the scenario:

You're cruising down the interstate at around the speed limit.  The road has 2 or 3 lanes in each direction with a wide right shoulder and a decent left shoulder...

When all of a sudden, the vehicle that was stopped on the right shoulder starts moving.  And instead of signaling. looking for oncoming traffic and getting up to "ramp merge" speed on the shoulder, they just pull out into the right lane *barely* going 25 in a 75 zone and not much in a hurry to pick up the pace!

That goes for those same idiots who do the same thing on regular roadways as well.

I see this often enough with people who are RTOR or from a stop sign, they pull out in front of you when they shouldn't leading you to have to brake, then they take their sweet derriere time getting up to speed.

[kernals12]

How, when you think of Philadelphia residents, few stereotypes pop up in one's mind, unlike for residents of the other major northeastern metros.

[thspfc]

How, when you think of Philadelphia residents, few stereotypes pop up in one's mind, unlike for residents of the other major northeastern metros.

Is Philadelphia not just NYC's little brother in most ways?

[kernals12]

How, when you think of Philadelphia residents, few stereotypes pop up in one's mind, unlike for residents of the other major northeastern metros.

Is Philadelphia not just NYC's little brother in most ways?

Hoo boy, you just kicked the hornet's nest

[SEWIGuy]

How, when you think of Philadelphia residents, few stereotypes pop up in one's mind, unlike for residents of the other major northeastern metros.

I think because a higher number of Philadelphians are from there and have lived there most of their lives when compared to places like Washington, New York or Boston. At least that's what I have been told.

[kphoger]

How, when you think of Philadelphia residents, few stereotypes pop up in one's mind, unlike for residents of the other major northeastern metros.

It bothers you to have too few stereotypes? 

[GaryV]

My wife stresses over clearing the snow from the top of our cars, because it might blow off and "blind" a driver behind us. Yet she often misses clearing off the window next to the rear view mirrors, so I'm blinded when I go to change lanes.