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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "illustrator"

Inkscape 0.47 is final now

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After a longer developing step and 4 prereleases, Inkscape 0.47 is now available as final. This version ships with huge improvements, to much to describe them here so check out the screens and release notes.
Hopefully this final will be available for ubuntu Karmic soon :smile:

Inkscape 0.47 Pre4

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The 4th and hopefully last prerelease of Inkscape 0.47 is out. This prerelease is focused on stable live path effects.
So test it and send the developers your feedback. The bad news is that there is no prerelease4 package for Ubuntu yet:
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+ppa-packages
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.testers/+archive/ppa

Inkscape 0.47 Pre1

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The 2nd prerelease of Inkscape is available, please test and report any issues you run into.
Check out the roadmap and my older posts about the devlopment of Inkscape 0.47 (here, here and here) to explore the new features.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you will find the older prerelease 0 at the Inkscape PPA.

Inkscape 0.47 About Screen Contest Results

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And the winner is...

Not bad at all but the typography could be improved, it is to thin for my taste.

Other participations can be found at deviantART.

Inkscape 0.47 Development News & Screen Contest

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Since May 15 the Inkscape 0.47 development is in feature freeze and in some days the Hard freeze follows. In mid of June the vector graphics software Inkscape 0.47 will be available. For more details about the 0.47 release check out the roadmap and my older posts about Inkscape:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/2008/05/25/inkscape-0-47-space-optimization
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/2008/07/16/inkscape-0-47-path-effects
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/show.dml/1993194

Of course this upcoming release needs a new About screen. So the typical Inkscape About Screen Contest is announced.

Inkscape development News

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Here is a short summery of what is going on at the Inkscape project:
* GSoC student Jasper van der Gronde started working on support for OpenMP which brings multi processor support to Inkscape
* A spray tool is planed to be integrated based on some GSOC work from 2008
* students are wanted for GSOC 2009 working on new Inkscape features

Nightly Inkscape Builds for Ubuntu

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Hey Inkscape fanboys using Ubuntu (like me :smile:) check out the nightly Inkscape builds for Ubuntu at Launchpad.

Inkscape & CMYK

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John Cruz posted some interesting news about CMYK profiles in Inkscape. It seems the upcoming Inkscape 0.47 would be very interesting for prepress cases too:
* Add a basic UI for linking to ICC profiles
* Integrate ICC profile support into the existing color selectors, incl. gamut warning.
* Improved style and/or CSS support to manage paint types, palettes, etc.
* Basic support for "registration" color/style.
* Coordinate with Cairo team on extending API beyond RGB
* CMYK PDF export

That sounds great so after that it isn't longer necessary exporting Bitmaps and using Gimp to create CMYK PDF documents.

Update
Some more information and mockups at the Inkscape Brazil Wiki (in portuguese).

Inkscape shell mode

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Like GIMP you can run future versions of Inkscape in an interactive shell mode, this is an addition its command line interface.
More about the features of Inkscape 0.47: Path effects, Optimized GUI, Ereaser tool.

Inkscape GSoC summery!

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If the Inkscape project published a status of the Google Summer of Code interim results. All work of the GSoC projects are now in the main development branch of Inkscape or lib2geom. So most of the new features are likely to be seen in the upcoming 0.47 version :smile:.

UniConvertor 1.1.2 Deb Package

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At my post about "Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy tips for design and web development" i mentioned UniConvertor for use with Inkscape to open various kind of vector graphics formats. Many people asked me where to get an up-to-date Deb package, very easy check out the Debian repositories :smile:
Attention: Create as root in /usr/bin a link "uniconv" to "uniconvertor" in the same directory to get it work on Ubuntu.

Inkscape 0.47 Path Effects

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Andy Fitzsimon demonstrates the improved Path Effects of Inkscape 0.47. This is another good step go ahead to the goals of 0.47: improvements, cleanups and code refractoring.

Inkscape 0.47 development news

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After the first features additions to 0.47 and optimizing the GUI space of Inkscape the developers switches partly the code using the Ciaro 2D graphics library - this is hopefully another speedup of Inkscape :smile:

Inkscape 0.47 space optimization

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The roadmap declares that Inkscape 0.47 is a refactoring/ code cleanup. After the last additions now the developers optimised various preferences dialogs taken now less space.

Inkscape 0.47 - first feature additions

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Inkscape 0.46 shipped with a lot of new features, the roadmap declares that 0.47 is a refactoring/ code cleanup. Of course there will be some new features too.
John Cruz give us some screenies about the upcoming eraser tool (and eraser toggle), the enhanced tablet support and new toolbar options - awesome!