Statistiche di traduzione

Ci stiamo avvicinando allo string freeze, e queste sono le statistiche attuali, con una media del 49%:

La traduzione dell'interfaccia è un ottimo modo per aiutare Inkscape! Pre maggiori informazioni si veda la pagina Translation Information per sapere come contribuire; ulteriori domande potranno trovare risposta sulla mailing list Inkscape-Translator.

Tema icone Tango

Michael Grosberg ha creato un set di icone tango per Inkscape. Siamo ancora nella fase in cui le icone vengono via via migliorate e corrette; non è ancora stata raggiunta una decisione condivisa sull'usarle o meno come icone predefinite, ma la nostra speranza per ora è di riuscire ad includerle almeno come set di icone alternativo per la prossima versione di Inkscape.

New Feature: Angled Guidelines

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 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.

Inkscape 0.46 Frost Begins

December 21, 2007

We've made huge progress towards the Chill goals, and are now ready to move into the Frost phase.

Development is winding down, although we are granting a few frost exceptions to allow continued work for another week or so in specific areas (see below). 'make distcheck' issues have been sufficiently resolved (thanks Ted and Aaron!) Bug report triaging has gone smashingly well. The About Screen contest has kicked off. We still need to put some attention into the release notes, tutorials, and other docs, but I doubt there's any issues preventing us from moving ahead.

In the Frost phase, our objectives are as follows:

• Complete frost exception development work.
• Focus should be on bug fixes, packaging, documentation, and translation work, all of which may be committed to SVN normally.
• Gain some candidate submissions for the About Screen contest.
• Release Notes should be >90% filled in.
• Bug Hunt (details TBD)
• Post inkscape-0.46-alpha.tar.gz

The length of time we stay in Frost mode is driven by how long the Bug Hunt takes, but is expected to take on the order of a few weeks.

The Frost Exceptions for remaining features are as follows:

1. Angled guidelines, by J.B.C.Engelen (DONE): Underlying code is complete, and guidelines are rendering, but it needs a UI to allow manipulating them.
2. Python module packaging (lxml, numpy) for OSX, by jiho (ETA ___): Needs wider testing. Needs someone to build PPC packages.
3. Compilation of lib2geom on OS X 10.3 (Panther), by John Faith (ETA ___): An error is preventing builds for Panther versions of Inkscape. If this can't be resolved before release, the alternative is to drop support for this OS version.
4. Font Spec Implementation, by Gail Carmichael (DONE). Refactor patch to include some code review changes by Bulia. Also, the patch needs wider testing.
5. Win32 Uninstaller improvement, by Adib (DONE). Fix current installer to not bug user for each changed file.
6. PDF, PS export improvements, by Adib (ETA Jan 3). Implement blur as bitmap, and display a dialog with options for text-to-path, blur-as-bitmap, alpha-as-bitmap. UPDATE: Option dialog for PDF/PS exports using cairo are implemented (PDF1.4 and PS3 only). Text-to-path works, for blur as bitmap need help with converting SPItem from vector to image, alpha as bitmap being done implicitly by Cairo. UPDATE 1/13: Blur as bitmap is still in progress. Dialogs and text as path are now done.
7. Clone Tiling dialog, by Tavmjong Bah (DONE): Add a few options to Shift, Scaling, and Rotation tabs. (TBD: Bug updating blur via Blur/Opacity tab.) (Also, TBD later: some small changes for default values for turbulence and composite filters.)

Feature changes in SVN for things not on this list should be done on a branch. Any feature work not in this list committed to SVN during the Frost period may be reverted by any developer. Bug fixes, translation work, documentation updates, and packaging development may continue to be committed as normal, no permission needed yet.

About Screen Contest

19 Dicembre 2007

Il team di Inkscape e la comunità sono lieti di annunciare l' About Screen contest per la prossima versione di Inkscape (0.46).

Il contest ha inizio il 22 Dicembre 2007 ed il termine ultimo è il 6 Gennaio 2008. Come per le edizioni passate, il contest si terrà su DeviantART. Si possono trovare maggiori informazioni sul sito Deviant Art di Inkscape.

Inoltre, se avete un account DeviantART account, siete pregati di supportare la notizia, sperando di vederla presto promossa nella front page.

In bocca al lupo e buon divertimento! Disegnate in libertà.

Bug Triage Update

December 11, 2007

New Bugs

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 percentage of bugs that were "NEW" was nearly 100%, but at the time of writing, the Inkscape Bug Team has reduced this number to 80%. To the left is a graph depicting the progress of The Inkscape Bug Team's triaging of the "NEW" bugs over the past week.

Open Bugs

Our number of open bugs has also seen a sharp drop, with over 100 bugs closed since we switched; mainly due to bug triagers cleaning out invalid or obsolete bugs. If you're interested in joining the Inkscape Bug Team, please join via Launchpad and read the current list of Triaging Projects on the wiki

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
• First draft of Release Notes
• Update tutorials and other docs

If you're interested in joining in on the release process fun, please join the inkscape-devel@ mailing list or IRC and let someone know what you'd like to help with!

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 other online community groups that are focused on Inkscape and it's use. Below is a quick wrap up of the multitude of resources makes up the broader Inkcape Community:

• Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
• The Inkscape Tutorials Blog
• Nicu's Howto
• screencasters.heathenx.org
• Inkscape Tutorials at pixel2life

• Inkscape Forum
• German Inkscape Forum
• Inkscape Brasil Forum
• French Inkscape Forum

• Inkscape Facebook Group
• Inkscape Mugshot Group
• a Inkscape DeviantArt Group
• another Inkscape DeviantArt Group

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, you are welcome to join the Inkscape Bugs Team. Being on the team gives you added capabilities for managing Inkscape bugs.

Another great way to help Inkscape, even if you're not a technical person, is to participate in bug triaging. It's easy - just review bugs that people have posted, and move them from state 'New' to 'Incomplete', 'Confirmed', or 'Invalid' (or mark as dupes) as appropriate.

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)."

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 insert new stops into a gradient on canvas, simply by double clicking the gradient where you require the new stop. Multiple stops can also be selected and manipulated simultaneously.

These new on-canvas gradient editing features vastly improve the speed and ease of editing gradients in Inkscape. For a simple visual example of how these new features work, check out this screencast. For more detailed information about the new gradient features check out the release notes.

GSoC'07 - Effetti su tracciato

Nell'ultimo report mancava uno dei più importanti risultati del GSoC: gli effetti su tracciato (LPE). Johan ha lavorato alacremente, e continua a farlo, a questa interessante funzionalità; gli LPE sono disponibili ormai da qualche tempo, e finalmente hanno raggiunto il grado di accessibilità necessari per renderli usabili. Recentemente è stata aggiunta la possibilità di cambiare i parametri al volo, rendendo il meccanismo decisamente più intuitivo di prima.

Johan sta continuando il suo lavoro alla caccia dei bug rimanenti, con una particolare attenzione ai miglioramenti dell'interfaccia. Le idee per il futuro riguardano l'implementazione di una pila di effetti e, in collaborazione con alcuni studenti francesi, di un effetto di 'distorsione a busta'. Questo sarà sicuramente un importante passo verso le mesh di distorsione dei tracciati!

Google Summer of Code 2007

Grazie al contributo di Google tramite il progetto Summer of Code project, nuove potenzialità rivoluzionarie sono state aggiunte ad Inkscape:

• Importazione PDF. Inkscape potrà ora essere usato non solo come editor SVG, ma anche come editor PDF!
• Testi. La gestione del testo è sempre stato un punto dolente di Inkscape. Grazie al lavoro di Gail la prospettiva è decisamente migliorata. Questa è probabilmente la più importante delle novità.
• Solidi 3D. È il primo passo concreto all'implementazione di grafica isometrica o con punti di fuga, per coloro che hanno bisogno di uno strumento a metà strada tra Blender e Inkscape.
• Interfaccia grafica ai filtri SVG. Mmm. http://d-s-p.de/files/filter.png.
• Manipolazione raster. Grazie alle estensioni basate su ImageMagick, Inkscape può ora lavorare direttamente con le bitmap.
• Importazione/Esportazione su openclipart.org. Questo significa che ora è possibile condividere e collaborare al lavoro su clipart, in puro spirito Open Source.

Nel complesso, queste aggiunte rendono Inkscape uno strumento ancora più potente. è da sottolineare come molte di queste novità servono ad una migliore integrazione di strumenti liberi già esistenti.

Inoltre, questa è probabilmente la prima volta che tutti i lavori del GSoc giungono ad una conclusione completa e pienamente integrata, grazie anche allo sforzo fatto da Google quest'anno per migliorare le procedure dell'iniziativa.

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!

Article about Libre Graphics Meeting

This article summarizes many of the activities at LGM this past week, including news that Coverity is now providing results from automated static testing of Inkscape and a couple hundred other open source graphics tools.

Libre Graphics Meeting

The Inkscape community is meeting in Montreal this weekend for the Libre Graphics Meeting. In addition to seeing each other face to face with some of us for the first time, we're also meeting developers from other projects like Scribus, Gimp, Krita, and Blender.

Sponsorship was provided to cover developers' travel costs by the LGM conference organizers. Six $250 subsidies for additional costs were provided by the Inkscape board from the funds from Google from last year's Summer of Code project, to Ted, Mental, Bulia, Jon Cruz, John Bintz; thanks go to Software Freedom Conservancy for taking care of the arrangements for this.

The Inkscape presentations at LGM include:

• Ted Gould - the SVG file format
• Bryce Harrington - Inkscape's history, current state, and goals Inkscape
• Alexandre Robin - An Inkscape overview (french)
• Jakub Steiner - Creating photo-realistic artwork based on photo reference
• Benoit St-Andre - An OpenClipart overview
• MenTaLguY and John Bintz - Creating Comics in Inkscape
• Jon Phillips - The Open Content Library: Overview of Open Clip Art Library and ccHost

Hopefully the face-to-face time will make it easy to collaborate on issues and hash through lots of ideas for fixes and enhancements!

"It's a free for all"

Alan Horkan points to an article listing the most essential open source downloads.

What does it do?
It's a vector graphics editor.
[...]
What is it undercutting?
[Adobe Illustrator] and [CorelDraw].
Both have steeper learning curves and larger feature sets than Inkscape.

Alan adds, "This is quite high praise, and the article mentions a little more about the strong focus given to usability, contrast it to the drubbing they give the gimp."

Apple's Top Ten Open SourceDownloads

JiHo reports that in Apple's list of top ten Open Source downloads, Inkscape came in as number 6. Congrats to Inkscape's OSX packagers!

Libre Graphics Meeting

Several Inkscapers will be giving presentations at this year's Libre Graphics Meeting, May 4-6 in Montreal. Users are highly encouraged to come! We'd love to meet you!

New Inkscape Features

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 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 thinning/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.

Google Summer of Code Projects

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 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.

Happy Easter from Inkscape!

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

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 free license, as well as the emergence of a free font community of designers in the last year and a half.

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 bug-fix release. For more information about changes with respect to Inkscape 0.45, please see the Inkscape 0.45 Release Notes page.

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.

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 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 :)

"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. :-)

"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. :-)

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.

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! ;-)

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.

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 match our outline mode quality, is near parity. That is, cairo is about as fast as our own renderer, at least for outline mode (i.e. lots of paths but no gradients or transparency).

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:

Everyone <3'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 very successful release.

Jon Galloway blogs about the release, as does Renaissance Man, #sh, and Planet Beranger. Thank you's to everyone who have helped spread word of the release through their blogs!

We succeeded in getting 0.45 done in time for Ubuntu's feature freeze for Feisty, and it's been incorporated. Already demand is building to see a backport to Edgy.

Also, it's interesting that Apple is now listing Inkscape in their collection of UNIX and Open Source Downloads.

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 rock!! Come on everyone, help us get the good word spread further. :-)
• The inkscape booth easily outdrew the commercial booths nearby.
• David Uhlman's talk on top Linux Desktop Applications is always the most popular talk and this year he cited Inkscape as the best graphics package, due principly to Inkscape's "continual improvement".

"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 range of talks on topics from Inkscape to OpenNMS, and an exhibit hall with about 70 projects and companies from the Linux and open source community.

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 code that implements a faster blur algorithm for the best and better settings, which will hopefully address some of the performance issues users have reported with the new blur feature.

Rilascio di Inkscape 0.45

Inkscape 0.45 è ora ufficialmente disponibile per il download.

Questa versione porta con sè molte novità introdotte grazie ai partecipanti del Google Summer of Code 2006, nonchè molte altre migliorie. La più importante è certamente il filtro gaussiano che permette di sfuocare in maniera naturale e omogenea qualsiasi oggetto in Inkscape, sia esso un testo, una forma, un'immagine o quant'altro.

Per informazioni più approfondite si leggano le Note di Rilascio per Inkscape 0.45.

Rilascio Inkscape 0.45-pre3 Beta

L'ultimo rilascio di test per Inkscape 0.45 è scaricabile da Sourceforge.

Sono stati scoperti alcuni problemi nei pacchetti della pre2 e sono state aggiunte un gran numero di traduzioni. Non mancano inoltre correzioni di bug dell'ultimo minuto. Siete tutti invitati a testare e a segnalare problemi; se non si presentano ulteriori problemi siano fiduciosi di rilasciare finalmente la versione 0.45.0 questo weekend.

Fumetti con Inkscape 0.45

John Bintz ci ha segnalato un suo interessante screenshot che vede inkscape all'opera per la creazione di un fumetto. Sarebbe lieto di ricevere qualche opinione in merito.

Computerworld: "Human touch key to open source success"

There's a mention of Inkscape and the Libre Graphics Meeting in an article at Computerworld.

Speaking of the Libre Graphics Meeting, folks from GIMP, Scribus, CREATE, and other projects are are busy setting up our next get-together in Montreal, Canada. This will be held the weekend of May 4-6, 2007. We strongly encourage all Inkscape developers and users to join us. Last year's conference was an invaluable way to meet and directly work with the key developers from Gimp, Scribus, and Blender on topics of common interest. It also proved to be an excellent way for users to learn new tricks and to share ideas directly with developers.

Stay tuned for more info, but make sure to pencil in May 4-6 on your calendars!

Status delle traduzioni di Inkscape

Ecco un aggiornamento sullo stato di tutte le traduzioni per il ramo stabile.

Inkscape 0.45-pre2 Beta Release

Our next pre-release for Inkscape 0.45 is downloadable from the Inkscape SF site.

Changes since -pre1 are largely updates to translations and documentation. Unless there are any suprises, this will probably be the last pre-release before the final official release. Problems can be reported to Inkscape's bug tracker.

Inkscape 0.45 Hard Freeze

Aaron and I are ready at this time to declare the Hard Freeze for the 0.45 branch.

From this point until the release, please do not commit to the 0.45 release branch; all changes must be posted as patches to the patch tracker for review and integration by the release wardens (Aaron and I) or translation wardens (Arpad and Cornelius).

There are still a number of critical bugs that probably won't be fixed soon. However, we will plan on producing a 0.45.1 release at a later date where we can catch some of this.

We would also like at this time to declare String Freeze, to assist translators in finalizing their translations. If there are any remaining string issues such as non-translatable strings or fixes to existing strings, please send patches in ASAP.

Aggiornamento delle traduzioni di Inkscape

Tutti i traduttori di Inkscape sono al lavoro per completare la traduzione per il rilascio della 0.45. Questo è un quadro dello stato generale, che può essere confrontato con quello precedente del mese di Agosto.

Tra le nuove traduzioni contiamo bg (Bulgaro), km (Khmer) e th (Thai). dz (Dzongkha) e en_US@piglatin (Iglatinpay) hanno visto un notevole progresso rispetto alle precedenti statistiche.

Inkscape 0.45-pre1 Beta Release

A preview source release of Inkscape 0.45 is now available for download.

The purpose of this release is to gain feedback from users about any serious problems that should be fixed for the 0.45 release. Please report bugs to Inkscape's bug tracker.

Inkscape 0.45 stable release branch created

Today we have branched Inkscape into a stable branch for the upcoming 0.45 release and returned HEAD to unfrozen development work.

The stable branch can be checked out via (Line wraps marked »):

svn checkout https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/branches/»
RELEASE_0_45_BRANCH inkscape-0.45-release-branch

SCALE Inkscape BOF

John Taber and other Los Angeles area inkscapers will be giving demos of the new Inkscape at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 2007, located at the Los Angeles Airport Westin, on Feb 10-11.

Inkscape About Screen

Voting has concluded on the Inkscape 0.45 About Screen contest. Congratulations are due to Molumen on his submission.

Also, thanks go out to all of the artists who participated, and who helped break in the new features! :-)

Brazillian Inkscape Site

Yemanja and Popolon pointed out a Brazillian website dedicated to Inkscape, which includes several cool new extensions for Inkscape, two new tutorials (making an animated swirl, and drawing a lightening bolt), and a gallery.

Thrice-Daily Builds

Daniel Diaz reports that the Bleeding-Edge Inkscape Factory is back up and running, producing Windows snapshot builds three times a day.

Final Voting for 0.45 About Screen Contest

A number of excellent About Screen submissions have been submitted through the DeviantArt community. That community has voted the following as the top three:

All developers are encouraged to submit a vote for one of these three images. You can do so by posting to the inkscape-devel@ mailing list. Voting is open to anyone whose name is in the Inkscape AUTHORS or TRANSLATORS file, or who is registered as a member of the Inkscape SourceForge project as of today.

Over Two Million Served

We've passed the 2 million Inkscape downloads mark this week. Thanks go out to all the users who have enjoyed Inkscape and spread the program through word of mouth to all their friends and relatives. And thanks especially go to everyone who has left their mark on Inkscape through bug reports and fixes, new features, documentation, and translations.

Note that this counts only downloads from our website at SourceForge - uncounted more people have gotten Inkscape through Linux distros, magazine CD's, and other sources. It's truly amazing to think how much artwork has come about through all the users of this program.

"A Guide to Inkscape"

Tavmjong Bah has uploaded a new version of his book "A Guide to Inkscape". A downloadable and printable PDF version is also available for $7.50 from lulu.

Buon anno nuovo!

Tutti gli sviluppatori di Inkscape vi augurano un felice e prospero anno nuovo!

Inkscape 0.45 è al momento in freeze, in vista del rilascio. Abbiamo ora più che mai bisogno di utenti disposti a controllare la lista dei bug e vedere se questi sono riproducibili.

Per quanto concerne lo sviluppo, programmatori e contributori sono sempre benvenuti. Anche se non siete in grado di programmare, il vostro contributo verrà apprezzato e usato nel miglior modo possibile.