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Inkscape does vector gradients but they are very limited,

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Limited how? The gradient tool in Inkscape is quite detailed. You’ll have to rasterize it once it’s set but you can exert a great deal of control over the gradient before you do.

By contrast you take something like gimp… I think the only feature that it has that Inkscape doesn’t is the one we don’t want in this case: nonlinear gradients. Even then, you can simulate that using multiple stops in your gradient in inkscape.

I’d be curious to know what you think makes Inkscape “very limited”, maybe I just don’t know enough about gradients.

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They work fine for my purposes, except instead of a gradient (where the actual % is not known precisely), I just switched it to a number of filled boxes and playing around with vector fill settings vs. bitmaps.

It’s not much of a priority for me at the moment.

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Or about Gimp (or I do not know Inkscape enough) In Gimp a vector is far more than a line or a border but a structure you can operate many concepts along. The gradient is one I use most to follow the line and thus round the corner that follows the shape, and I dont know how to do that in Inkscape. There are a bunch of other commands that you can shape with a path as well.
Inkscape can arrange copies along a line (and Gimp doesn’t) but that is why I use both.

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