Creating book cover art with Inkscape

linux.com is running an article on using Inkscape to create book cover art.

Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed - Download Now

The Inkscape community announced the release of Inkscape 0.44.1 today. This version represents several weeks of work by the community in order to fix several crashes on windows, Mac OS X, and other packaging issues which have come up from our last successful release, 0.44, which introduced substantial features like graphical layers, clipping and masking support, and native PDF export with transparency.

For a full listing of changes, please see the Release Notes.

Please visit www.inkscape.org and see what you would like to help the project in solving, download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages, and see the community submitted screenshots.

"Drawing with Inkscape" presentation in Portland

Bryce Harrington will be giving a presentation on "Drawing with Inkscape" at 7pm Thursday, Sept 7th at Portland State University in Smith Memorial Center, Room 294, for the Portland Linux/Unix Group.

The presentation will include a lesson in creating a logo in Inkscape, an overview of both basic and advanced functionality, and a slideshow of some of the great work Inkscape artists have done over the years.

New french speaking user's list / Nouvelle liste d'utilisateurs francophones

A new Inkscape user mailing list for french speakers, inkscape-user-fr@lists.sf.net is now available. This new list is intended to assist users in using Inkscape's functionalities and grow its french speaking user community.

Une nouvelle liste de diffusion pour Inkscape est disponible pour les utilisateurs de langue française inkscape-user-fr@lists.sf.net. Cette nouvelle liste a pour but d'assister tous les utilisateurs d'Inkscape le mieux possible sur les fonctionnalités du logiciel et créer ainsi une émulation pour accroître la communauté des utilisateurs francophones !