Inkscape

The non-profit home of Inkscape, Software Freedom Conservancy, is in urgent need of your immediate support! Conservancy must move to a Supporter-driven organization so it can focus on critical free software issues that nobody else is tackling. Inkscape relies on Conservancy and we ask you to donate today: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

Inkscape, being an open source project, saves its files in an open, standardized, highly compatible file format called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to ensure that your art and other work can be displayed and edited using any program that supports ... [More] this standard. This way, your work won't be lost, even if you don't have access to Inkscape anymore, and you can use files created with Inkscape directly on your website, because your web browser manufacturer also has access to and makes use of the SVG standard. One of our developers, Tavmjong Bah, is Inkscape's representative in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) SVG Working Group, which creates the SVG standard. His goal is to improve the standard and to ensure that Inkscape's voice is heard. Aside from weekly teleconferences, several times a year, Tavmjong needs to meet up with the Working Group in person, so important decisions can be made. But travelling is costly - and this is where you can help us! More information and an account of what has already been achieved for Inkscape, its users and the web as a whole is available here. [Less]

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a not-for-profit organization founded to promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects, has been providing an organizational backing to manage Inkscape's funds and ... [More] other assets since 2006. The lawyers and experienced developers from the SFC have given the project their invaluable support, helping us devise a trademark policy, registering our trademarks, defending Inkscape's free software licence, managing our finances, and being the go-to place for our Board and developers for all legal and financial matters. To clarify project procedures and account for SFC's continued commitment to our project, a new Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement has been devised and adopted. The main changes consist of the document now accounting for the fact that the SFC is holding Inkscape's trademark rights, to clarify how Inkscape Board elections work, when the Inkscape Board can be considered quorate and what should be done when a board member is unresponsive for a longer period of time. Inkscape now also supports the SFC's work by donating 10% of our income to them. The Inkscape project is looking forward to continue our good collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy, and is happy to be a part of the member list of the organization. The new FSA document can be found on our website. [Less]

The developers of the Inkscape project (everyone who is listed in Inkscape's 'AUTHORS' file) have been invited to cast their vote in the Inkscape Board Elections. These had become necessary because two valued board members had resigned this spring ... [More] for personal reasons, leaving two empty seats on the Board. Seven active contributors have been nominated by other project members, and four of them accepted candidacy. Preceding the voting period, these four patiently answered questions about how to leverage their position on the Inkscape Board to further the growth of the Inkscape community. If you would like to read the questions and the candidate's replies, you can do so here and here. The election period started on August, 27th and ended on September 10th. The election mode was the 'Single Transferable Vote' system, which is also used by several other Free Software projects, as well as for political elections in several countries of the world. The platform for the election was kindly created and hosted by the Software Freedom Conservancy. It is based on the GNOME Elections software. The source code for the web service is available here. Krzysztof Kosiński and Martin Owens gathered the most votes, and are now the Inkscape project's newest Board members. We would like to thank everyone involved in the elections, be it by voting, making a nomination, organizing the election, helping with the voting platform, asking questions or volunteering as a candidate, and we wish Krzysztof and Martin all the best for their new tasks! [Less]

The inkscape.org website has been upgraded to include a newer version of the django-cms framework. Allowing contributors to this website to update the website's content, keep track of changes and much more. Also in this release is the profile ... [More] page, which now has InkSpaces; user created galleries where files (svg images) can be uploaded to the system. Each user starts off with a small 10MB quota of space in this initial roll out phase. The gallery page provides an overview of all the published artworks so far and allows users to browser other inkscape user's art and download them to see how they were made. This upgrade should also allow release file and Addons/extentions to be hosted directly on the site instead of on sourceforge and other file searching services. Improving inkscape's delivery of pre-built binaries to users. Development on the website continues over on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/inkscape-web [Less]

It's about that time again as we near the release of 0.91! The Inkscape team and community is winding down development and preparing to release Inkscape 0.91. Given that we will be releasing a new version of Inkscape, we need to have a new About ... [More] Screen image for the release. Deadline October 1, 2014 Prize Having your art be the About Screen for the new version of Inkscape and a credit for your work. Judging Preliminary judging will be done by the Inkscape community on DeviantART. The community judging period will be from October 2, 2014 - October 8, 2014. When we have an official “Top 3”, they will then be turned over to the Inkscape developers for final judging. Please note that once turned over to the developers, after they have chosen the winner they may have requests for modifications. More details on how to enter and all the various rules: DevianART journal [Less]

The Inkscape community is proud to announce the stable bug-fix release of Inkscape version 0.48.5. This is the fifth bug fix release for 0.48 and it contains over 60 bug fixes to improve stability and functionality on all platforms (over 190 for OS X ... [More] since our last available package!). Check out the release notes for a summary of some of the fixes and improvements, the milestone page for the full list of closed bug reports, or just jump right to download your package for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X! We will be focusing our efforts on 0.91 (previously 0.49) and are not currently planning any further bug-fix releases in the 0.48 series at this time. [Less]

The Graphical Web conference, formerly "SVG Open", is THE conference for those interested in SVG. SVG is the native, core file format for Inkscape and thus Tav's talk will expand upon the next version of SVG "SVG 2.0" and it's role in both web ... [More] design and graphics art. The topic for this year's conference is "Story Telling" and will take place from August 27th through 30th in Winchester, England. Additional information can be found at The Graphical Web Website [Less]

Both students are making progress on their projects. Tomasz Boczkowski extended the SVG compliance test suite that Inkscape uses. Additionally, he has implemented a TileView widget which will be used throughout the application. He has already put ... [More] it to use in the Glyphs dialog as well as the Swatches dialog. Krzysztof Kosiński is currently working on creating a prototype interface between CGAL boolops and 2Geom. [Less]

The accepted projects for Google's Summer of Code 2014 have been announced. Inkscape will be mentoring two students this summer. The projects are as follows: Krzysztof Kosiński will work on implementing robust boolean and stroking operations for 2Geom. Tomasz Boczkowski will work on improving Inkscape's support for SVG paints.