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.