Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding

Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by jjcm on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:24PM (#33013467)

Don't think of it as 250k layers for a single image. Modern design tools represent many artboards at once on the same page, i.e. https://i.imgur.com/wvWSv4F.png from https://www.figma.com/community/file/1154649549752855805

You're often representing every page on a site, or every component in a design system in the same file. A way to think about it is "If you counted every div on every page of Reddit, how many would there be?". Most modern sites will have around the same order of magnitude of html elements.

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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by petespeed on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:16PM (#33013958)

I see what you are saying regarding artboard view.

But is it necessary? Can't the artboard be visualized in a better way? If such high-level view is desired, won't rasterized details be sufficient till one zooms in?

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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by jjcm on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:40PM (#33014152)

"Can't the artboard be visualized in a better way?" It absolutely can! Caching and optimizations in a zoomed out view are a core part to many design tools today. These are doable when you control the whole stack of how these elements are rendered. Penpot may have to be more clever here though as they rely on the browser to render native elements.

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