Inkscape Wiki

About Inkscape

• Inkscape Homepage
• About Inkscape
• Features
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Project information
• Supported operating systems
• Tools - Supporting Tools and Applications
• Galleries
• Coverage - Awards, articles, presentations, books about Inkscape
• User testimonials
• Popularity
• Contact information - the developers' e-mails and SVN nicknames

User Documentation

• Installation
• International and Local Communities
• Inkscape glossary
• User manual information - where to find the free Inkscape manual and how to contribute to it
• Tutorials
• Inkscape SVG vs. plain SVG
• Output format requirements - what's needed to save in some formats
• Effect requirements - what's needed to use some effects
• Effect reference - what each effect does
• Connector tool tutorial
• Installing fonts
• Emergency save - recovery in case Inkscape crashed
• Release notes
  • for version 0.47 (upcoming)
  • for version 0.46 (current)
• Announcing Releases
• Tricks and tips - miscellaneous advice, may be slightly outdated

Help Inkscape Without Coding

• HelpWanted
• BugTriageProjects
• CreatingDists: how to build packages
• StableBranchUpdates
• Website
• UpdatingTrackerItems
• TutorialsAndHelp
• How_To_Start_A_Page how to use the wiki
• Testing
• Translation information
• AboutScreenContest
• Inkscape Classes
• Conferences

First Steps

• Working with SVN - a quick start on how to use our version control system
• Compilation
• Using Eclipse
• Developer manual - various important information, be sure to read this before coding
• Debugging - random tips to help debug problems
• Project organization - procedures, hierarchy, developer roles and the likes
• Janitorial tasks - small tasks that need doing
• Doxygen documentation

Developer tutorials

• Architectural overview - a high-level look at Inkscape
• Preferences subsystem - creating and using preference values
• XML subsystem (WIP) - how to manipulate the XML representation of a document
• Display subsystem (WIP) - how to make things appear on the canvas
• Tools subsystem (WIP) - how to create a new tool
• Creating a new SPObject
• Extensions
  • Extension subsystem - an overview of the functionality provided by extensions and the possible implementations
  • Script extensions
  • Python modules for extensions - some helpful routines for use in Python script extensions
• Creating Live Path Effects
• Using libsigc++ signals

Miscellaneous

• INX extension descriptor format
• Inkscape-specific XML attributes - documentation of attributes from Inkscape's XML namespace

• Extension repository: an Internet central for Inkscape Extensions
• Related programs

Development Discussion

• Roadmap: the main todo list
• Dependencies - what libs are needed to build Inkscape
• NewFeatureProposals
• ExtensionArchitectureProposals
• Coding Style Discussion
• FileTypes
• ApplicationIcons (Application + Interface)
• Icons
• InkscapeColor
• PrintingSubsystem
• SVG Competitors Plan - MS WVG vs SVG, etc
• SVG Tiny Compliance
• SVG Test Suite Compliance - W3C full test suite
• CSS Support
• OpenDocument proposal
• Googles Summer Of Code
• UI MockupScreenshots
• Swatch Book
• Tablet Dialog
• ViewBoxToDo View box support info

Lib2Geom

• lib2geom
• lib2geom Goals
• lib2geom FAQ
• lib2geom SVN Repository Guide
• WorkingWith2GeomFAQ: real-life questions answered about using 2Geom in real code
• lib2geom py2geom: python bindings to 2geom. With this you can use the power of 2geom in python scripts.

User Interface Discussion

• Translation_information
• AddingInterfaceVerbs
• AccessibleGraphics
• ObjectManager
• DialogsReorganization
• ModalInterfaces
• TextUsability: text tool /dialog dialog
• KeyboardShortcutsToDo
  • KeyboardProfiles: how you can help
• StatusbarAPI
• Animation-(Timeline)
• Free Desktop Graphic Suite

Rearchitecture Discussion

• 0.47 Refactoring Plan
  • SubsystemRearchitecture
  • GtkMMification: replace C boilerplate with gtkmm objects
• PathRepresentation
• Cairoification
• ScribusInteroperability