• (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    Does it still run in X11 mode?
    Yes. Launching Inkscape first seems to do nothing at all, then after a while the X11 icon appears in the Dock too, and then it takes quite a while longer for an Inkscape window to come up — which has more than once caused me to conclude it hung completely when it probably hadn’t.
    blakeyrat:
    Inkscape was useless at creating documents larger than about 6' by 6'.
    That at least seems to have been fixed. I just tried creating a 10 m × 10 m canvas and it did it right away.
  • (disco) in reply to Gurth

    Wow. I think I might have put in a bug report for that, but I can't remember any longer-- that was back in like 2007 or so. Maybe they actually fixed a bug.

    Of course it wasn't really a bug, but more of a "duuuh we're stupid moron idiot open source developers who have absolutely no imagination and have no idea why anybody would use a vector program to design anything large than the output of a printer! Duuuh!" Protip: don't put stupid arbitrary limitations in your program, or I hate you.

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    don't put stupid arbitrary limitations in your program, or I hate you.
    Like disabling some of the product’s functionality based on how much the purchaser paid for it? :trolleybus:
  • (disco) in reply to CodeSlave
    blakeyrat:
    Wow. I think I might have put in a bug report for that, but I can't remember any longer-- that was back in like **2007** or so. Maybe they actually fixed a bug.
    CodeSlave:
    Robert_Feake:
    The real WTF is that a man shot in **2007** just now died from his injuries.

    Well, it did happen in 2013

    FOSS: now fixing bugs faster than a bullet kills a man.

  • (disco) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    Like disabling some of the product’s functionality based on how much the purchaser paid for it? :trolleybus:

    Panini Scanners are notorious for this. The same physical scanner can be purchased for $300 or $1500, depending on if you want it to scan 30/60/90 documents/minute (edited, originally wrote 'second', that was a mental block), if it will take a feeder, if it will read front/back, if it will take 30 documents at a time or only one at a time, if the ink cartridge endorsement will actually work...all software-controller 'features'.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    Gurth:
    Like disabling some of the product’s functionality based on how much the purchaser paid for it? :trolleybus:

    Panini Scanners are notorious for this. The same physical scanner can be purchased for $300 or $1500, depending on if you want it to scan 30/60/90 documents/minute (edited, originally wrote 'second', that was a mental block), if it will take a feeder, if it will read front/back, if it will take 30 documents at a time or only one at a time, if the ink cartridge endorsement will actually work...all software-controller 'features'.

    Sounds like 2-way radios.

    Of course, when you figure out that there's no checksum on the file that controls this and you may edit it at will, it becomes much easier to not spend money.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    Panini Scanners
    [image] Filed under: [Now I'm hungry]()
  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    Panini Scanners
    These are so you can digitise your football stickers to put into a virtual album?
  • (disco)
    PaulaBean:
    "Believe it or not, I've actually seen less helpful content on StackOverflow,"
    I've seen line noise that had more helpful content than most SO replies.

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