Hon na chyby pro Inkscape 0.45

Prosinec 30, 2006

Aktuální kód byl předběžně zmražen a připraven tak pro "Hon na chyby". Naším cílem je uzavřit chyby v celkovém úhrnu za 300 bodů (kritická chyba je za 9 bodů, středně vážná za 6 bodů a za chybu s nízkou prioritou jsou body 3). V současné době jsme přibližně na 50 bodech. Pokud nám chcete pomoci, můžete se zapojit do prohlídky nahlášených chyb v trackeru i zasílat záplaty na tyto chyby.

Problémy webových stránek Inkscape

Prosinec 29, 2006

Omlouváme se pokud jste poslední dobou měli problémy s přístupem na inkscape.org. Problémy způsobila chyba v síťovém modulu Linuxového jádra, kvůli které nebyly spojení na server včas "zapomínány". Velké množství každodenních přístupů na inkscape.org tak nakonec způsobilo dosažení maximálního počtu povolených přístupů k našemu serveru. Toto jsme řešili restartem serveru asi jedenkrát denně aby jsme jej udrželi online.

Nakonec jsme překonfigurovali server aby spojení vypršely rychleji a vypadá to, že problém je tím vyřešen. Snad se nám časem podaří aktualizovat jádro na verzi, která neobsahuje tuto chybu. Díky za odhalení a vyřešení chyby patří Keesi Cookovi.

Wiimote jako myš pro Inkscape

Prosinec 28, 2006

Mrkněte se, Marcan42 zjistil jak IR kamera přenáší data z Wiimote a na tomto videu ukazuje jak lze Wiimote díky tomu použít jako myš v Inkscape i pro jiné účely.

Nativní Inkscape na OSX

7. Listopadu, 2006

Derek Hinchliffe oznámil úspěšné sestavení Inkscape pomocí nativního portu GTK knihoven na OSX. Krátce poté poslal Michael Wybrow sestavovací skript do SVN. Děkujeme oběma za jejich práci na tomto důležitém milníku. Nativní Inkscape na OSX je sice stále daleko od možnosti jeho stabilního vydání, ale komunita už má alespoň základ na kterém stavět.

Falešné síťové gradienty

7. Listopadu, 2006

Je to prakticky nepopiratelný fakt, že neexistuje jiná vlastnost, která by smazávala rozdíl mezi rastrovou a vektorovou grafikou, jako jsou síťové gradienty. Bulia Byak nedávno v poštovní konferenci osvětlil (EN) svůj plán pro tvorbu těchto gradientů při zachování 100% validity SVG dokumentu a to pomocí nového blur filtru v Inkscape a ořezových cest. Postup si můžete prohlédnout na screenshotu. Matematický výkon nutný pro automatizaci tohoto postupu by mohla poskytnout knihovna(framework pro geometrické výpočty) lib2geom, která je vyvíjena pod vedením Nathana Hursta a MenTaLguYe.

Návody v Linux Pratique

Říjen 2, 2006

Většina speciálního čísla Francouzského časopisu Linux pratique byla věnována Inkscape. Toto číslo věnující se svobodným aplikacím pro vektorovou kresbu obsahuje 5 návodů týkajících se Inkscape, což je polovina celého časopisu! Více na http://www.linux-pratique.com/index.php?Sommaires.

Vytváříme kresbu na obálku knihy pomocí Inkscape

Září 15, 2006

Na linux.com se objevil článek poipsující jak použít Inkscape při tvorbě kresby pro obálku knihy(EN).

Inkscape 0.44.1 byla uvolněna - Stahujte!

September 14, 2006

Komunita Inkscape dnes oznamuje vydání Inkscape 0.44.1. Tato verze představuje několik týdnů práce komunity na opravách několika pádů na windows, Mac OS X a na dalších problémech, které se objevily po posledním úspěšném vydání, 0.44, plné novinek jako byly vrstvy, podpora pro ořez a masky objektů a nativní export do PDF schopný exportovat průhlednost.

Celý seznam změn si lze prohlédnout v Poznámkách k vydání(EN).

Novou verzi si můžete stáhnout v podobě balíčků pro Linux, Windows, a Mac OS X. Během stahování se prosím poohlédněte, jestli byste nechtěli pomoct s něčím při vývoji. Také si můžete prohlédnout snímky obrazovek zaslané komunitou.

"Drawing with Inkscape" prezentace v Portlandu

5. Září, 2006

Bryce Harrington bude prezentovat "Drawing with Inkscape" ve čtvrtek 7. září, v 7 hodin odpoledne na Portlandské Státní Universitě ve Smithově Memorial Centru, v místnosti 294, pro Portland Linux/Unix Group.

Prezentace bude obsahovat lekci v tvorbě loga v Inkscape, přehled základních i pokročilých funkcí a přehlídku nejlepších prací vytvořených umělci v Inkscape za poslední léta.

Nová poštovní konference pro francouzsky mluvící uživatele

2. Září, 2006

K dispozici je nová poštovní konference o Inkscape pro francouzsky mluvící uživatele, inkscape-user-fr@lists.sf.net. Záměrem této konference je pomáhat uživatelům v práci s Inkscape a rozšířit francouzsky mluvící komunitu.

Stav překladu Inkscape

9. Srpna, 2006

Matiphas hlásí, že jsou k dispozici dva nové překlady programu: Dzongkha a Bulharština, a že překlady do Dánštiny a Nepálštiny byly zlepšeny z 5% na 99% a z 3% na 91%! Také je zde množství dalších překladů na kterých se momentálně pracuje.

Procento přeložených textů většiny jazyků se snížilo o několik procent z důvodu změn v kódu během vývoje programu, ale nové a vylepšené překlady tuto "ztrátu" více než vyváží. Za poslední dva měsíce se zvýšil počet překladů programu z 38 na 49, počet významných překladů se zvedl z 12 na 22 (!!), a zvýšil se i celkový průměr přeložených řetězců z 55% na 56%.

Falešný virový poplach na Trojan.Zlob

3. Července, 2006

Několik uživatelů nahlásilo že antivirové programy pro Windows (Norton Antivirus a Symantec Scanner) vyvolávají falešný poplach při skenování instalačního balíku Inkscape pro Windows. Tyto programy chybně identifikují v balíčku trojského koně Trojan.Zlob. Koluje nepotrvzená zpráva o špatném zařazení NSIS instalátoru, který Inkscape využívá, na seznam trojských koní výrobci antivirů, ale prozatím to nebylo potvrzeno; ostatní Open Source aplikace využívající NSISu mají také hlášeny podobné problémy.

Tento problém zdá se postihuje jen některé počítače s MS Windows. Nevíme prozatím jak toto obejít, každopádně se přesvědčete že má váš antivir updatovány poslední virové definice (mohlo by to v nich již být opraveno).

Statistiky stažení verze 0.44-stable za první týden

29. června, 2006

Jen jeden týden po vydání verze 0.44 byl náš program stažen více než 54 100 uživateli přes servery SourceForge. Největší podíl na tom mají uživatelé Windows verze, jejich podíl se blíží 38 000 stažení. Druhý nejvyšší počet stažení patří uživatelům Maců s 9 115 staženími. Uživatelé Unix/Linuxu stáhli program 7 104krát.

Inkscape Translation Progress

June 24, 2006

Translators have made serious progress this past month. Compare this to the May 28th numbers!

Welcome Slashdot!

June 23, 2006

Pardon the slow site, particularly the screenshots and wiki, but do please enjoy the newly released Inkscape. Some packages are just starting to become available. See our downloads page or head to the SourceForge file list for the latest uploads. Note that SourceForge has been a bit unreliable lately, so if the links aren't working, please keep trying.

Inkscape 0.44 Release

June 22, 2006

The Release Wardens have blessed the official Inkscape 0.44.0 release tarball. We will be making the official announcement once packagers have had a couple days to build the release packages, but if you're in a compiling mood, please feel free to download the source today! :-)

LGM report in Linux Format Magazine

June 9, 2006

JonCruz reports, "I just picked up the June issue of Linux Format magazine (Issue 80). Their cover this time is on 'Libre Graphics', and is coverage of the LGM. Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and Xara each got two pages. Also, Inkscape people can be seen teeny-tiny on the pic of the lecture hall on the initial page, and then recognizable later on the Xara pages checking it out."

"Oh, and I was personally very excited to see it, as it's the first time I've really been interviewed for anything significant. :-)"

"Oh, and coming up, I hear that issue 81 will probably have a good article by Jon Phillips, covering many things."

Translation Status

June 8, 2006

Matiphas reports the current status on translations:

Translations have been quite improved :
Total number of PO files: 38
Significantly translated locales: (12 with a mean translation ratio of
98%)      ca cs de es fr hu it lt ru sl zh_CN zh_TW
Global average translation ratio has raised from 49% to 55%

Inkscape 0.44 pre3

June 6, 2006

Aaron reports: "The tarball for 0.44pre3 is now available at: at:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre3.tar.gz?download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre3.sig?download

As they become available, binary packages can be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=422874

Let's give a round of applause to our prerelease packagers. Thanks for getting these packages up so quickly. We all appreciate your efforts."

Inkscape 0.44pre2 Released

June 3, 2006

ACSpike has uploaded a 0.44pre2 tarball to Sourceforge.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre2.tar.gz?download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre2.sig?download

We are hurling quickly toward final release. We would encourage everyone to sit down with this package for a good testing session. You can find binary pacakges for your system as they are created at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=422108

Inkscape Translation Status

June 2, 2006

Translators have recently improved the following: ko (8 to 40%), nb (6 to 34%) and nn (64 to 75%) are now ramping up , zh_CN has undergone a BIG boost (5 to 99%), hu is back in the race (72 to 76% and Arpad looks like wanting to commit some other things, but failed due to down svn), lt back in the race too (82 to 90%), and sk has maybe found a new volunteer.

Inkscape Trouble with Debian Unstable

June 1, 2006

A number of Debian Unstable users have reported major problems when using Inkscape. The symptoms vary but usually involve inkscape failing to start up. This appears to affect both Inkscape 0.43, and Inkscape compiled from SVN.

Wolfram Quester, Debian's Inkscape Package Maintainer, reports that currently there are two separate issues. Neither are technically Inkscape-specific nor Debian-specific but are due to related components.

The first issue is a libgc problem. Inkscape 0.43 dead locks with the new libgc 6.7; The new inkscape-pre1 simply segfaults. If you attach to the process using strace, you get millions of:

   futex(0x10679060, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)  = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
   futex(0x10679060, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)  = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
   futex(0x10679060, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL 
   Process 32245 detached

The solution for this issue is to downgrade libgc.

The second issue is seen by KDE users that have the gtk2-engines-gtk-qt package installed. Wolfi reports, 'The package is used for different theming of gtk applications under KDE. You have it if there is an item "appearance-->gtk styles and themes" in your KControl menu. It causes duplicate inclusion of themes via different rc-files. Yuya Nishihara found out that this leads to a crash if the theme uses the smooth engine of gtk. Other applications are affected by this, too.'

Inkscape 0.44 Hard Freeze

May 31, 2006

This past week has seen an intensive focus on bug fixing. After only a week's work, we've already surpassed our goal. The must-fix bugs identified for this release have been addressed.

Due to this achievement, we're now moving into Hard Freeze, in final preparation for release. Translators are hard at work bringing translations up to date, and the Release Wardens (Jon and Aaron) are coordinating final bug fixes and general spit and polish. We hope to have the final release out within a couple weeks or so.

Inkscape 0.44-pre1 Preview Release

May 30, 2006

A new preview (beta) release of Inkscape 0.44.0 is now available. If you aren't already testing 0.44, you'd better hop to it! We're making fast work of our bugs and expect to have the final release within a week or two. At this point, we are especially interested in hearing of installation or packaging problems.

You can download pre-releases from our SourceForge Files Page. Check our Release Notes for details of what's changed, and our Reporting Bugs page for directions on helping to ensure Inkscape 0.44 is solid.

Inkscape Translation Progress

May 28, 2006

Inkscape has now entered 'String Freeze' for the 0.44 release. This enables our translators to focus on bringing all the translations up to date without worry of strings changing at the last minute.

We'd like to give special recognition to Inkscape user Chrisjia, whose work has improved the translation status of zh_CN (Chinese) from 5% to 99%!

Inkscape is translated into many languages, but not all! Check if it is translated well into your language, and if not, please consider working on this. Translation is a very important way to help improve Inkscape, and directly benefits those who share your language. We have documented the steps to doing translation - you don't need to know anything at all about programming! We have an active, fun translation team, that we'd love to encourage other translators to join.

Average translated: 1067 ( 49 %), fuzzy:  458 ( 21 %), untranslated: 616 ( 28 %)

Total number of PO files: 38
Significantly translated PO file count:    9
  Average number of strings translated: 2052 ( 95 %)
  Significantly translated locales:      ca cs de es fr it lt sl zh_CN

Inkscape 0.44-pre0 Preview Release

May 25, 2006

A preview (beta) release of Inkscape 0.44.0 is now available. We're asking that users please download and test it out, and report any bugs they find, and encouraging packagers to provide packaged versions of this release. We're particularly interested in hearing about installation issues, crash or data loss bugs, or problems with any of the new features.

You can download pre-releases from our SourceForge Files Page. Check our Release Notes for details of what's changed, and our Reporting Bugs page for directions on helping to ensure Inkscape 0.44 is solid.

Final Summer of Code Projects

May 22, 2006

Thank you to all the students who sent proposals, and all the mentors who volunteered to participate! Google has announced the final selections based on our rankings. As you can imagine, the selection was tough to arrive at, but we feel these projects will have a transformational effect on Inkscape's power for users:

 Application                                Student            Mentor
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 SVG Filter Effects #1                      Niko Kiirala       Bulia
 Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion    Dale Harvey        David Yip
 PDF Export with Cairo                      Mikos Erdelyi      Ted Gould
 Memory Optimization                        Marina Diezler     MenTaLguY
 SVG Filter Effects #2                      Hugo Rodrigues     Bulia

One of the SVG filter effects projects will focus on implementing the effects in the renderer, the other will focus on the backend SPObject/XML portion.

Status for Inkscape 0.44 Release

21 May, 2006

The latest Inkscape Release Status shows that we are nearly ready for Feature Freeze. We have fixed the date for freezing to the 23rd; there's several efforts that need to wrap up, but hopefully this will give sufficient time.

Next, we will be generating a "Must Fix" bug list, and producing a -pre0 release for people to test. Due to the huge number of new features, we really need to ask the community for help banging on the codebase and looking for issues.

    Apr 23rd - Development continues on the ~24 items identified
               For non-0.44 feature work, please use branches
 
    May 18th - Achieve completion of at least 50% of the items.
               Work continues on the remaining 12.
               Work ceases on any other features.
               Notification to translators
               Begin focusing on bugfixes.
               Identify preliminary "must-fix" buglist
 
    May 23rd - Feature Freeze
               All feature development work ends
               Finalize the "must-fix" buglist
               Issue pre-release packages for testing
               Focus on bug fixes, translations, & docs

   ~May 27th - String Freeze
               All tutorial work finished
               No further changes to internal text

    June     - Hard Freeze
               Translation work finishes
               Final resolution on all "must-fix" bugs
               Issue one or more release candidates
 
    Jun/Jul  - 0.44 Release

New Site Design

15 May 2006

Inkscape.org has a new look. The new site design is based on AJ Ashton's winning entry to the 2005 website design contest on Deviant Art. Special thanks to Josef Vybiral and Dale Harvey for their work crafting the design in CSS and HTML.

Summer of Code Project Ideas

April 30, 2006

The Inkscape team has posted a list of ideas for the Google Summer of Code project.

If you're a student and would like to have a summer job working on Inkscape for pay, this is a great opportunity! You can sign up send in your proposal through the Summer of Code site.

New Translators Mailing List

April 28, 2006

The Inkscape translators have started a new inkscape-translator@ mailing list. This list will be used for discussing translation/localization of Inkscape and its documentation.

Planning for Inkscape 0.44 Release

April 23, 2006

The Inkscape team has started the process of producing the next release. It is expected that it will take us a month or two to work through the process, which means that you can expect 0.44 to be officially released in the early summer.

Here are the milestones to look for in our release process:

    Now      - Development continues on the ~24 items identified
               For non-0.44 feature work, please use branches
 
    May 1st  - Achieve completion of at least 50% of the items.
               Work continues on the remaining 12.
               Work ceases on any other features.
               Notification to translators
               Begin focusing on bugfixes.
               Identify preliminary "must-fix" buglist
 
    May 15th - Feature Freeze
               All feature development work ends
               Finalize the "must-fix" buglist
               Issue pre-release packages for testing
               Focus on bug fixes, translations, & docs
 
    TBD      - Hard Freeze
               Translation work finishes
               Final resolution on all "must-fix" bugs
               Issue one or more release candidates
 
    TBD      - 0.44 Release                 

If you have some time to contribute to Inkscape, you would be more than welcome to join in the making of this release. There are many places you can lend a hand: Certain new features still need some development work. If you good at breaking software, you can be a big help by experimenting with each of the features listed in the 0.44 Release Notes. See if you can find and report defects.

Translation (and updates) to documentation are also very important, so please see our Translation Information and our Tutorials And Help pages.

If you are interested in packaging or providing a mirror of our download areas, these are also excellent ways to help. The Win32 and OSX packages are the most active; please join the discussions on the inkscape-devel mailing list

Icons with Inkscape

April 4, 2006

Dmitri Joukov has written a blog post about using Inkscape for creating Icons.

Graphics Art School uses Inkscape

April 3, 2006

Newsforge is running an article about a graphics art professor that switched his class over from proprietary to open source graphics programs. Beyond just reducing lab fees, this also had the effect of really empowering the students.

One concern raised was that the students were not learning "industry standard" tools. Yet who can say what the industry standard might be in 5 or 10 years?

Libre Graphics Meeting

February 26, 2006

Please everyone in the Lyon, France, EU area come and attend the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting March 17, 18, and 19, 2006. This conference is going to be an excellent place to meet Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library artists and developers (as well as artists and developers from other creative applications).

I (rejon) am presenting primarily about Open Clip Art Library and Creative Commons and will touch upon Inkscape throughout the talk.

Stay tuned for times as well when there will be an Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library meet-up during this conference on March 19, 2006.

New Features since our last release

January 21, 2006

Normally we tend to post news items regarding what new features are showing up in our repository. As people can see, news has been a bit thin for the past couple months... but don't let this fool you. ;)

New Features or improvements added after 0.43 was released:

Outline mode - an oft-requested feature that allows toggling an alternate view mode to see only the outlines of all shapes. That would be as opposed to normal view mode which shows fills an strokes.

Selected style indicator - this indicator is a bit more powerful than implementations you'll see in other software. Inkscape's can give insight into more than color. It can tell you if it's a pattern, radial or linear gradient, if there are multiple styles selected, it can mix multiple flat fill colors, all opacity controls are right there, and much more.

Remove overlaps - a new function in the Align & Distribute dialog to do just what it says, remove overlaps from selected objects.

Snapping improvements - snapping is now more advanced and will allow snapping to paths and nodes. Additionally objects will now only snap to visible guidelines.

Connector improvements - you can now set the spacing value for objects that you designate to be avoided.

Swatches are being moved into the main interface.

Improvements to the Transformation dialog.

Retention of transformation rotation centers between sessions.

Rendering speed improvements, and too much more for us to continue listing.

To see the full list of changes since 0.43, please visit the following link in our wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes

Switch from CVS to SVN

January 15, 2006

Bryce Harrington writes:

"For those of you not on inkscape-devel, note that we've just this morning switched over from using CVS to using Subversion (SVN) for source code management.

For those of you not already highly familiar with CVS, you should probably find Subversion a tad easier.

On the other hand, if you're familiar with CVS already but haven't tried Subversion before, you'll have a bit of retraining to do, but subversion is similar enough to cvs that you shouldn't find it to be too difficult.

Whichever case, you'll see several benefits to this change. With CVS, anonymous CVS checkouts were always delayed by an hour or more, but subversion will allow completely synchronized access. I suspect performance will also be a LOT better than with CVS. The web viewer is also a bit better.

There is a potential cost to this change, beyond the work we each have to do to adapt. This is an experimental service from SF, which means we can expect there may be some occasional outages or other temporary issues; SourceForge promises to be responsive to reports of issues, so please report issues to them. However, the value of switching to subversion is felt to be well worth this risk, so hopefully things will go smoothly and we all will benefit from the new capabilities."

One other piece of information; the SVN Access info SourceForge provides for our repository (if you follow the SVN link in our menu) is incorrect. The correct location is:
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2006

All of the Inkscape developers want to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Inkscape 0.44 is currently under development and will include many great new features, enhancements, and bugfixes.

Regarding development, we could always use more developers or other contributors. Whether you can program or not, if you would like to contribute to the project, we could use your help.

SVG Filters are one of the most requested features that we receive, unfortunately, implementing them is more than a one person job. If you are interested in assisting with this please read this message from our mailing list.