Graphics

Vector work,on a machine of your own

The full desktop Inkscape, on a Void Linux desktop of your own.Draw here, and the SVG lands on the volume as a file.

Inkscape 1.4.32 cores · 4 GBOpens in a browser tab

hub://inkscape

$ dxflow workflow create --identity inkscape hub://inkscape --start --link

01Pick a machinecores, memory and a rate per hour

02Create the workflowpulled from the hub, once

03Run it, then stopstopped when the work is done

The application

Plain SVG,and nothing but

Illustrations, icons, logos and diagrams, in an open format.

Paths and nodes

Draw with beziers, edit every node, and take the union or difference of two.

Plain SVG on disk

It reads and writes plain SVG, the same file your browser reads, no lock-in.

Export from the shell

Convert or export whole folders from the command line, with no GUI in sight.

How you run it

Every defaultis one override away

The session reads its settings from the environment, so you set them on the start line.

VNC_PASSWORDWhat the tab asks for. It ships as dxflow, and everyone reading this knows that.

PANEL and TASKBARBoth hidden, so the canvas has the whole screen. Show either one to get the desktop back.

AUDIOOff here. Turn it on and the desktop sound is streamed beside the picture.

start it your way

$ dxflow workflow start inkscape --override env.app.VNC_PASSWORD=something-long

$ dxflow workflow start inkscape --override env.app.TASKBAR=show --link

The session

The canvasgets the whole screen

Streamed to your browser, with Inkscape already maximized.

6082Browserin the tab, at /vnc.html

5901VNCin a native client

/volumeStorageyour drawings, kept as files

Open it from anywhereStart with --link and the session comes back on an HTTPS address.

Set a password firstVNC_PASSWORD defaults to dxflow, and everyone can read this page.

Good to know

The drawingis a text file

An SVG is markup, which is why Inkscape fits so easily into work that is otherwise automated.

Generated in, edited here

A figure your script wrote opens the same as one you drew. Fix the labels by hand and write it back out.

It has a command line too

Open a terminal in the desktop and convert, export or query a document without touching the canvas.

Work belongs on the volume

Keep the SVG and whatever you export from it under /volume, and the next start opens where you stopped.

The image

Pulled once,then it stays

Inkscape arrives as one image. This is what comes down the first time, and what the disk should have free for it.

399Mamd64compressed, the way the registry counts it

381Marm64compressed, the way the registry counts it

20GOn diskunpacked, with room to work beside it

ghcr.io/dxflow-ai/inkscape:latestPublished from the hub, pulled on the first start and kept for the ones after it.

Either architectureamd64 and arm64 are both published, and the machine pulls the one it runs.

What it asks for

What it wants,and what it needs

The definition asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. The image comes up on less than that, and a start given --fit trims the ask to whatever the machine actually has.

2 cores · 4 GBAsks forwhat the definition writes down

2 cores · 2 GBRuns onthe least the image comes up on

Not neededGPUit works on the cores alone

The ask is not the floorThe definition writes down what suits the work. The image itself starts on less, which is what the second figure is.

--fit caps it to the hostA start given --fit trims each step to what the machine actually has, for that start alone. The definition is never rewritten.

Machines that fit it

Inkscape asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. Cheapest first.

E2 Medium

$0.0419/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

T3 Medium

$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

B2s

$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

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