Posted
10 months
ago
Google's Summer of Code was announced for 2009 recently and Inkscape is going to answer the call! This year the program will have less participants due to difficult global economical situation and no organization can promise that it will be approved
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to participate, but it still cannot stop us from providing most stunning proposals ever made! Inkscape has been participating at GSoC from the very beginning (2005) and so far we've been extremely successful — quite a number of GSoC code has become solid foundation for various exciting features. If you want to join us and be part of that ever evolving success, we are looking to hearing from you. Even though timeline of the program is not announced yet, the time is right to look at the list of last year's projects ideas or blueprints, some of which have quite verbose descriptions and could make a great start for a project. And of course you are most welcome to suggest your own project! [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
Those Inkscape users who tend to create complex drawings with a lot of blur know that the application easily becomes less reponsive. Recently our former GSoC student Jasper van der Gronde started working on support for OpenMP which is an API for
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programming applications that can make use of several CPU available in a system instead of just one. Jasper started with Gaussian blur which is by far most widely used SVG filter primitive. With OpenMP in use rendering speedup on a dual-core system is reported to be 40-50%. While Inkscape doesn't have a truly threaded design yet, such an improvement will definitely make the application a lot more useful. If you have experience of creating complex threaded applications and willing to help, don't hesitate to do so. Drop to inkscape-devel@ mailing list and let us know. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
Last year a small group of French students from École Centrale de Lyon, mentored by Johan Engelen, implemented stacking of live path effects and several very useful LPEs — both to be part of upcoming v0.47. We are excited to announce that this
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year another group of students from the same university is going to work on Inkscape to implement Spray tool. Their mentor will be Cedric GĂ©my. Stay tuned! [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
Google's Summer of Code was announced for 2009 recently and Inkscape is going to answer the call! This year the program will have less participants due to difficult global economical situation and no organization can promise that it will be approved
... [More]
to participate, but it still cannot stop us from providing most stunning proposals ever made! Inkscape has been participating at GSoC from the very beginning (2005) and so far we've been extremely successful — quite a number of GSoC code has become solid foundation for various exciting features. If you want to join us and be part of that ever evolving success, we are looking to hearing from you. Even though timeline of the program is not announced yet, the time is right to look at the list of last year's projects ideas or blueprints, some of which have quite verbose descriptions and could make a great start for a project. And of course you are most welcome to suggest your own project! [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
In early July 2008 a joint Inkscape and FLOSS Manuals project held a book sprint in Paris sponsored by Google. Half a dozen of contributors from Netherlands, France, USA, Australia and Russia participated at the sprint to create a new user manual in
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English. We were asked to do 14 chapters, but we did 35 chapters. The book is now available on-line free of charge from FLOSS Manuals and for a small fee as hardcopy from Lulu. The income will go to FLOSS Manuals project that provides the infrastructure for collaborative work on documentation and to Inkscape's documentation team for funding future book sprints. The documentation team is determined to update the new manual frequently and invites you to participate at both improving English version and translating it into other languages. We thank Google for funding the book sprint, FLOSS Manuals for providing great infrastructure that finally made collaborative work on the manual a sweet reality, and organizers of Open Translation Tools 2007 conference for bringing FLOSS Manuals and Inkscape face to face! [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
A feature that has been requested for a long time, Angled Guidelines have been implemented by Johan. They will be usable in the next release (0.46) of Inkscape. All guidelines are "angled", horizontal and vertical guidelines being angled at 0 or
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90 degrees. To change to a different angle, just double-click the guideline you want to change and enter the values. You can also create a guideline with another angle by dragging the guideline from the ends of the rulers. You can read the release notes for more information. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
Michael Grosberg has produced a tango themed iconset for Inkscape. We're still bouncing ideas around on the list to optimize them, and there is not yet a consensus favoring switching to them as the default, but we hope to include them as an alternative in the Inkscape release.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
We're nearing string freeze, and here is our current translation status, averaging about 49%: am: 2% az: 5% be: 5% bg: 70% bn: 0% ca: 82% ca@valencia: 71% cs: 72% da: 61% de: 79% dz: 70% el: 9%
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en_AU: 43% en_CA: 5% en_GB: 70% en_US@piglatin: 70% eo: 94% es: 73% es_MX: 10% et: 3% eu: 71% fi: 71% fr: 69% ga: 1% gl: 42% he: 7% hr: 5% hu: 71% id: 3% it: 96% ja: 65% km: 97% ko: 23% lt: 65% mk: 0% mn: 5% nb: 70% ne: 56% nl: 52% nn: 46% pa: 27% pl: 57% pt: 46% pt_BR: 92% ro: 7% ru: 90% rw: 2% sk: 87% sl: 97% sq: 2% sr: 71% sr@Latn: 71% sv: 38% th: 34% tr: 26% uk: 100% vi: 80% zh_CN: 70% zh_TW: 71% [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
For Ubuntu users that would like to get a preview of the new Inkscape, here is a development snapshot of SVN HEAD, as of Jan 4th: Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Gutsy, and Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Hardy.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
The number of translations at 80% or higher has increased from 10 to 12 over the past week. Still quite a bit of work to go to get our average translation ratio up! am: 2% az: 5% be: 5% bg: 92% bn: 0% br: 98% ca: 80%
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ca@valencia: 70% cs: 70% da: 60% de: 78% dz: 69% el: 9% en_AU: 42% en_CA: 5% en_GB: 69% en_US@piglatin: 69% eo: 91% es: 81% es_MX: 9% et: 3% eu: 70% fi: 70% fr: 67% ga: 1% gl: 41% he: 7% hr: 5% hu: 70% id: 3% it: 0% ja: 64% km: 93% ko: 23% lt: 64% mk: 0% mn: 5% nb: 69% ne: 55% nl: 51% nn: 46% pa: 26% pl: 56% pt: 45% pt_BR: 90% ro: 7% ru: 88% rw: 2% sk: 97% sl: 98% sq: 2% sr: 70% sr@Latn: 70% sv: 38% th: 34% tr: 26% uk: 98% vi: 78% zh_CN: 69% zh_TW: 70% Average: 48% [Less]
