News
Bug Triage Update
Since swapping to Launchpad for tracking bugs late last month, there has been a lot of progress gained on triaging the 1800 or so open bugs. By far the biggest task is reviewing the bugs with the status of "NEW". When we switched to Launchpad, the
The broader Inkscape community is expanding
Recent times has seen rapid expansion of the broader Inkscape community and resources (way beyond the "official" channels of the mailing list, wiki and website). Many individuals are now publishing and participating in blogs, tutorials, forums and
Inkscape enters Chill for 0.46 Release
We're entering the first step of our release process for 0.46. For the Chill phase, we'll be focusing on the following: Development focuses on wrapping up Identify 'make distcheck' issues Triage bug reports Run an About Screen contest
Translation Statistics
Luca Bruno notes, "After a quite long and intense work on 0.45 devel, localization are quite behind. Here below recent stats against make-updated po. (please note that current SVN may contain fewer strings, run make update-po on your own to check)."
Inkscape was SourceForge.net's Project of the Month!
A complete oversight on our part... we forgot to mention that Inkscape was chosen by SourceForge as the Project of the Month in August! A big congratulations and thanks to all who have contributed over the years. Cheers!
Translation Statistics
Luca Bruno notes, "After a quite long and intense work on 0.45 devel, localization are quite behind. Here below recent stats against make-updated po. (please note that current SVN may contain fewer strings, run make update-po on your own to check)."
Inkscape was SourceForge.net's Project of the Month!
A complete oversight on our part... we forgot to mention that Inkscape was chosen by SourceForge as the Project of the Month in August! A big congratulations and thanks to all who have contributed over the years. Cheers!
Inkscape Switches to Launchpad Bug Tracker
We've been talking about upgrading our bug tracker capabilities for some time now, and last night the switch was finally made. We are now using Launchpad for tracking Inkscape bugs, patches, and feature requests. If you'd like to help Inkscape
On Canvas Gradient Editing
One of the powerful new features that has been implemented into Inkscape is the ability to edit gradients on canvas. When the gradient tool is selected, the individual stops of the gradient can be selected and manipulated. It is also possible to
GSoC'07 - Live Path Effects
We forgot to mention one GSoC project in the last news item - Live Path Effects. Johan has been continuing to work on this; LPE's have worked well for quite some time, but they're finally gaining the polish to make them user friendly and comfortable
Google Summer of Code 2007
Thanks to Google's support for the Summer of Code project, some truly revolutionary features have been added for Inkscape: Import PDF. The Open Source community gains Inkscape as not just a powerful SVG editor, but also as a PDF editor! Text
Libre Graphics Meeting followup
Ted wrote an article for Linux.com about LGM, summarizing it from his point of view. An even more complete blog about LGM gives a detailed rundown, with photos.
Donation to OSUOSL
The Inkscape Board voted to send a $200 donation to Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, in thanks for their support providing hosting for our web server. Thanks OSUOSL!
Inkscape 0.45-pre3 Beta Release
Our next pre-release for Inkscape 0.45 is downloadable from the Inkscape SF site. There were a few packaging issues discovered in pre2, and a large number of translations have been updated. There were also several last minute bug fixes. Please try it out, and if there are no further problems we'll put out the final 0.45.0 release this weekend.
Inkscape 0.45 Released
Inkscape 0.45 is now officially released and available for download. This release brings the exciting new features developed by the Google Summer of Code 2006 participants, as well as tons of other improvements across the board. Most notably is
New development work
With the release only a week old, development activity is already purring along. Kees Cook has started reworking the printing dialog -- a long requested feature, but one that's only just become easy to do thanks to Gtk 2.10. Jasper has contributed
"LA hosts laid-back Southern California Linux Expo"
Here's an article with a rundown on this past weekend's SCALE conference: The fifth annual Southern California Linux Expo last weekend at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel brought in more than 1,200 paying attendees. SCALE featured a wide
SCALE Roundup
Ted and others were kind enough to give summaries of their experiences at the Southern California Linux Expo this past weekend. Some interesting observations: 50% of the people there hadn't even heard of inkscape! They must be living under a
Everyone s Inkscape
Happy Valentine's Day! While the press hasn't seemed to get too excited over our latest release, Inkscape 0.45 is seeing a lot of love by the community, and the word of mouth is really bubbling. Lots of signs show that this has been accepted as a
Photorealistic art with inkscape 0.45
Luciano Lourenco, a member of our Brazilian Inkscape community, has produced a rather stunning example of the power of the new Gaussian Blur capability:
Cairoification of Inkscape
Bulia reports good results from an experiment in converting Inkscape's outline mode to using Cairo: ...in about 3 hours I converted our outline mode rendering to cairo. The result of this experiment, after I adjusted the tolerance of cairo to
New Bucket Fill tool
John Bintz has added a new flood fill tool, that performs a bitmap-based fill of a rendered version of the canvas, then traces the result back into SVG. There's a spiffy new bucket icon on the toolbar for accessing it.
Spanish article in Linux Magazine on Inkscape
An article in the Spanish version of Linux Magazine by Juan Miguel Ramirez shows off examples and make an evaluation of the program. Even if you don't speak Spanish, check out the example of a penguin swatting a butterfly! ;-)
Open Font Library Logo Competition
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"
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"
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
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
Google Summer of Code 2007
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
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
Checking out the new Open Font Library
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