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Open Font Library Logo Competition

Posted over 3 years ago

From Ryan Lerch: The Open Font Library (OFL.o, www.openfontlibrary.org) is proud to announce the commencement of the Open Font Library Logo competition today, February 26, 2007. Artists and designers of all ranges are invited to make a logo to help identify the project.

"The open palette: How to use Inkscape's new blur filter"

Posted over 3 years ago

Nicu Buculei has written an article on Inkscape's blur feature For RedHat Magazine. It includes a tutorial of shiny, reflective balls with shadows and specular highlights and other nifty things. :-)

"Linux.com Review: Inkscape 0.45 is the best yet"

Posted over 3 years ago

Linux.com has published a well researched review of Inkscape 0.45. Regarding the Cairo PDF export support, we also have news today that the Cairo team have made it a goal for their 1.4.2 release to focus on solving the issues that have been hampering conversion to cairo for our PDF export. :-)

School childrens' experiences with Inkscape

Posted over 3 years ago

This is pretty cool... A 7th grade class in the UK is creating a video game and uses Inkscape to create the artwork and logo. The students have written up their comments on using Inkscape. Its really easy top use inkscape! and fun i have learnt ... [More] to make stars and lots more things, Also callighrapic writing witch is really cool ! I think its going to be really good when i make my logo ! Cause its a good program, and easy too use :) [Less]

Google Summer of Code 2007

Posted over 3 years ago

Inkscape will again be participating in Google's Summer of Code. Please encourage college students to apply for an Inkscape-related project. For more information see the Google guide.

Inkscape 0.45.1 Released

Posted over 3 years ago

Inkscape 0.45.1 is now officially released and available for download. This is only a bug-fix release so do not expect any shiny new features, but enjoy it like it was a new one. There are several bugs repaired and translations updated in this ... [More] bug-fix release. For more information about changes with respect to Inkscape 0.45, please see the Inkscape 0.45 Release Notes page. [Less]

Checking out the new Open Font Library

Posted over 3 years ago

Linux.com has an article about the Open Font Library. The Open Font Library (OFL) is an offshoot of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL) and Inkscape. Just beginning to get underway, its creation reflects the growing demand for fonts released under a ... [More] free license, as well as the emergence of a free font community of designers in the last year and a half. [Less]

Happy Easter from Inkscape!

Posted over 3 years ago

Hello Inkscape team, Thanks for doing such a nice app. As an illustrator I have a lot of fun with it, and loved it from the first click. :) The amazing new blurring features let me stop using my pixel app for finishing. It kicked all my other illustration apps away too ;) Here is my personal Easter Egg for you. -- Nicole Riske

Google Summer of Code Projects

Posted over 3 years ago

Google is sponsoring seven students to work on Inkscape as part of the Google Summer of Code. The following projects have been accepted: Text Improvements - by Gail Banaszkiewicz, mentored by Richard Hughes Native PDF import capability based ... [More] on libpoppler - by Miklos Erdelyi, mentored by Jon Cruz Live path effects in Inkscape - by Johan Engelen, mentored by Aaron Spike 3D box tool for Inkscape - by Maximilian Albert, mentored by bulia byak UI for SVG Filter Effects - by Nicholas Bishop, mentored by MenTaLguY Raster Functionality in Inkscape - by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance - by Bruno Dilly, mentored by Bryce Harrington The original proposals are in our wiki. [Less]

New Inkscape Features

Posted over 3 years ago

Many users are just starting to enjoy our last 0.45 release, but already a slew of new features have popped into the development version of Inkscape. A new Paint Bucket tool allows you to click in any area bounded on all sides and fill it with ... [More] color. So now you can scan in a pencil sketch, import the bitmap into Inkscape, and quickly fill its cells with vector paint, letting you completely skip the bitmap tracing step. The calligraphic tool has a new mechanism called Engraving for creating old fashion style black and white line art, like was commonly used by printers a hundred years ago with the Wood Engraving technique. This was a very labor-intensive process back in the day, but we've given you some shortcuts for tracing a guide path, tracing backgrounds, and thinnning/thickening with the calligraphic pen that will let you make short work of it. Touch Selection is a new feature for selecting objects by simply drawing freehand over the items to select. Our testers are already finding this handy for selecting objects intermingled with a bunch of others. To use this, hold the 'Alt' key while drawing a rubberband rectangle with the select tool. (Note, you might have to change your windowmanager keyboard shortcuts to not steal the Alt key). Snapping has been seriously reworked, resolving a number of bugs; hopefully it will work more cleanly now. The Grids code has been reimplemented, abstracting the base capability so it should be easier for developers to create new kinds of grids. For command line Inkscape users, new --verb, --verb-list, and --select options will allow a vast range of scripting potential open up, allowing users to automate many actions that used to only be achievable from the Inkscape GUI. And plenty of other little featurettes and bug fixes are in. Please see our Release Notes for a complete list. [Less]