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Release notes/0.91

2014-05-05T15:49:51Z

Ryanlerch: /* File format support */

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==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Arrange (was rows and columns) ===
- NEW: renamed to 'Arrange'
- NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab)
<http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement>

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Document Properties ===
optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented)

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Text and Font ===
- NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top
- NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection
- NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2)

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).

=== Guides ===
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler
* Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog.
[[File:Labelled-guides.png]]

=== Menu/Access ===

* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Preferences ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* Prefs > Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416)
* Prefs > Interface > Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/outset) (bug #170293)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307)
* Prefs > Behavior > Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193)
* Prefs > Input/Output > SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230)

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New HTML5 Canvas export format
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:40:15Z

Ryanlerch: /* Basic tutorial */

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

= Basic tutorial =
* Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Notes: tutorial good

= Advanced tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** this section on nodes doesnt mention auto-smooth. (do we want to add it here?)
''A node can be made cusp (Shift+C), which means its two handles can move independently at any angle to each other; smooth (Shift+S), which means its handles are always on the same straight line (collinear); and symmetric (Shift+Y), which is the same as smooth, but the handles also have the same length. When you switch the type of node, you can preserve the position of one of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other handle is rotated/scaled to match.''

= Shapes tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** "The snap angle can be changed in Inkscape Preferences (the Steps tab)." --> in the Prefs Dialog, this is now in '''Behaviour > Steps'''
= Bitmap tracing tutorial=
= Calligraphy tutorial=
= Elements of Design tutorial=
= Tips and tricks=
= Interpolate=
* '''Reviewer''' -- ryanlerch
* '''Notes''' -- tutorial good.

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:39:55Z

Ryanlerch: /* Interpolate */

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

= Basic tutorial =
* Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Notes: all the shortcuts and menu items are still the same. tutorial contains no major regressions.

= Advanced tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** this section on nodes doesnt mention auto-smooth. (do we want to add it here?)
''A node can be made cusp (Shift+C), which means its two handles can move independently at any angle to each other; smooth (Shift+S), which means its handles are always on the same straight line (collinear); and symmetric (Shift+Y), which is the same as smooth, but the handles also have the same length. When you switch the type of node, you can preserve the position of one of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other handle is rotated/scaled to match.''

= Shapes tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** "The snap angle can be changed in Inkscape Preferences (the Steps tab)." --> in the Prefs Dialog, this is now in '''Behaviour > Steps'''
= Bitmap tracing tutorial=
= Calligraphy tutorial=
= Elements of Design tutorial=
= Tips and tricks=
= Interpolate=
* '''Reviewer''' -- ryanlerch
* '''Notes''' -- tutorial good.

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:23:30Z

Ryanlerch: /* Advanced tutorial */

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:22:16Z

Ryanlerch: /* Advanced tutorial */

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

= Basic tutorial =
* Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Notes: all the shortcuts and menu items are still the same. tutorial contains no major regressions.

= Advanced tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes''' -- this section on nodes doesnt mention auto-smooth. (do we want to add it here?)
A node can be made cusp (Shift+C), which means its two handles can move independently at any angle to each other; smooth (Shift+S), which means its handles are always on the same straight line (collinear); and symmetric (Shift+Y), which is the same as smooth, but the handles also have the same length. When you switch the type of node, you can preserve the position of one of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other handle is rotated/scaled to match.

= Shapes tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** "The snap angle can be changed in Inkscape Preferences (the Steps tab)." --> in the Prefs Dialog, this is now in '''Behaviour > Steps'''
= Bitmap tracing tutorial=
= Calligraphy tutorial=
= Elements of Design tutorial=
= Tips and tricks=
= Interpolate=

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:18:02Z

Ryanlerch: /* Advanced tutorial */

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

= Basic tutorial =
* Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Notes: all the shortcuts and menu items are still the same. tutorial contains no major regressions.

= Advanced tutorial=
Reviewer -- Ryanlerch
Notes -- this section on nodes doesnt mention auto-smooth. (do we want to add it here?)
A node can be made cusp (Shift+C), which means its two handles can move independently at any angle to each other; smooth (Shift+S), which means its handles are always on the same straight line (collinear); and symmetric (Shift+Y), which is the same as smooth, but the handles also have the same length. When you switch the type of node, you can preserve the position of one of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other handle is rotated/scaled to match.

= Shapes tutorial=
* '''Reviewer''' -- Ryanlerch
* '''Notes'''
** "The snap angle can be changed in Inkscape Preferences (the Steps tab)." --> in the Prefs Dialog, this is now in '''Behaviour > Steps'''
= Bitmap tracing tutorial=
= Calligraphy tutorial=
= Elements of Design tutorial=
= Tips and tricks=
= Interpolate=

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:04:22Z

Ryanlerch:

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T20:00:45Z

Ryanlerch: /* Advanced tutorial */

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T19:59:28Z

Ryanlerch: /* Advanced tutorial */

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T18:03:01Z

Ryanlerch:

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

= Basic tutorial =
* Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Notes: all the shortcuts and menu items are still the same. tutorial contains no major regressions.

= Advanced tutorial=
= Shapes tutorial=
= Bitmap tracing tutorial=
= Calligraphy tutorial=
= Elements of Design tutorial=
= Tips and tricks=
= Interpolate=

0.91-tutorial-review

2014-04-29T17:50:31Z

Ryanlerch: Created page with "This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release: * Basic tutorial -- Reviewer: ryanlerch * Advanced tutorial * Shapes tutorial * Bitmap tra..."

This is a page to track the reviews of the official tutorials for the 0.91 release:

* Basic tutorial -- Reviewer: ryanlerch
* Advanced tutorial
* Shapes tutorial
* Bitmap tracing tutorial
* Calligraphy tutorial
* Elements of Design tutorial
* Tips and tricks
* Interpolate

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-28T14:20:26Z

Ryanlerch: /* Other user interface */ added note about guides changes

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==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Arrange (was rows and columns) ===
- NEW: renamed to 'Arrange'
- NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab)
<http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement>

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Document Properties ===
optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented)

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Text and Font ===
- NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top
- NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection
- NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2)

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).

=== Guides ===
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler
* Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog.
[[File:Labelled-guides.png]]

=== Menu/Access ===

* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Preferences ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* Prefs > Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416)
* Prefs > Interface > Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/outset) (bug #170293)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307)
* Prefs > Behavior > Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193)
* Prefs > Input/Output > SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230)

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

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Release notes/0.91

2014-04-24T20:35:33Z

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==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Arrange (was rows and columns) ===
- NEW: renamed to 'Arrange'
- NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab)
<http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement>

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Document Properties ===
optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented)

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Text and Font ===
- NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top
- NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection
- NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2)

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===

* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Preferences ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* Prefs > Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416)
* Prefs > Interface > Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/outset) (bug #170293)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307)
* Prefs > Behavior > Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193)
* Prefs > Input/Output > SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230)

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-24T20:30:57Z

Ryanlerch: /* Dialogs, etc. */

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==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Arrange (was rows and columns) ===
- NEW: renamed to 'Arrange'
- NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab)
<http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement>

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Text and Font ===
- NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top
- NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection
- NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2)

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===

* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Preferences ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* Prefs > Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416)
* Prefs > Interface > Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/outset) (bug #170293)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307)
* Prefs > Behavior > Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193)
* Prefs > Input/Output > SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230)

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-24T20:24:27Z

Ryanlerch: /* Other user interface */

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===

* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Preferences ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* Prefs > Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416)
* Prefs > Interface > Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/outset) (bug #170293)
* Prefs > Behavior > Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307)
* Prefs > Behavior > Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193)
* Prefs > Input/Output > SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230)

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-24T14:57:59Z

Ryanlerch: change references to 0.49 to 0.91

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.91#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-21T14:04:09Z

Ryanlerch: /* Align and distribute */ added updated note about exchange positions feature. Text is the same as on "inkscape tutorials.wordpress.com" i wrote the text there, so i can copy it here. :)

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called '''Exchange position of selected objects'''. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page.
[[File:Swap-objects.gif]]

* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

File:Swap-objects.gif

2014-04-21T14:02:46Z

Ryanlerch:

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-21T13:33:45Z

Ryanlerch: /* Measurement tool */

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.

[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* New "Exchange position of selected objects" feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

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Release notes/0.91

2014-04-21T13:33:23Z

Ryanlerch: /* Measurement tool */

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing.
[[File:Ruler.png]]

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* New "Exchange position of selected objects" feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

File:Ruler.png

2014-04-21T13:27:51Z

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A screenshot of the new measurement tool

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-16T21:30:40Z

Ryanlerch: /* Find/Select */ updated note about selectsame. Note that this text is similar to what is on inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com. (i wrote that, so pasting it here is no issue :) )

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
New.

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* New "Exchange position of selected objects" feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue.

[[File:Selectsame.gif]]

The new feature is a menu choice under '''Edit > Select Same''' or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type.

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

File:Selectsame.gif

2014-04-16T21:29:32Z

Ryanlerch:

Release notes/0.91

2014-04-16T20:26:23Z

Ryanlerch: /* Node tool */

{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.91}}

==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using "Insert Node at Max Y"

[[File:Add nodes at max.gif]]

=== Measurement tool ===
New.

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* New "Exchange position of selected objects" feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" by Color/Style/Type added to main and context menu

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

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==Inkscape 0.91==

'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning091]])'''

==Release highlights==

Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.

* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters
* C++ code conversion
* Major improvements in the Text tool, typography extensions
* Measure tool
* Type design features
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
* Numerous usability improvements
* Native Windows 64-bit build [http://partha.com/ Partha]
* Native Mac OS X build? (Valerio Aimale?) [http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-x86-64-packaging-of-0-48-4-td4965851i20.html Mailing List discussion]
* See [[Release_notes/0.49#Notable_bug_fixes|Notable bug fixes]]

==Rendering and performance==

Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns
** Patterns containing clipped objects
** Nested clipping paths
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters
** Fonts

===Color display mode===

A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.

==Tools==

=== Node tool ===
The Node tool's toolbar contains new buttons to insert new knots on the selected path segments' extreme values. Click the dropdown arrow next to the insert knots button.

=== Measurement tool ===
New.

=== Text tool ===
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font
* Files with text in em units read correctly
* Font substitution warning dialog

=== Gradients ===
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke

== Dialogs, etc. ==

=== Align and distribute ===
* New "Exchange position of selected objects" feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations

=== Find/Select ===
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute
* "Select Same" by Color/Style/Type added to main and context menu

=== Fill and Stroke ===
* The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document.
[[File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png‎]]

* More compact Markers selectors

=== Layers ===
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu

=== Symbols ===

Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing.
(A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.

Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.

Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same "symbols" directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.

=== Transform ===
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise

=== Markers ===
* Markers now take objects color

=== Trace Bitmap ===
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable

===Live Path Effects===

An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.

====PowerStroke====

Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.
* stroke knots are purple diamonds
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot
* "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).

[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]

====Clone original====
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.

The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit > Clone > Clone original path (LPE)'''.

Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.

Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed.

===Filters===
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].

=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item '''Path > Trace Pixel Art...'''). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.

==Other user interface==

=== General ===
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler

=== Menu/Access ===
* New keyboard shortcut editor
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.
* "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).
* Menu items renamed - Edit->Preferences, Edit->Input Devices, File->Cleanup Document
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View->Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu

=== Dialogs ===
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions
* Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones")
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog
* Preferences dialog cleanup
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties

===Simple calculations in spinboxes===
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: "2 * 3", "50 + 100", or "((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2".
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like "2 + 2 cm". The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.

===Configurable Control Handles===

New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this.

==Translations==
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.
* New UI translation in Latvian.
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.

==File format support==
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].
* XAML export improvements.
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.

===EMF/WMF===
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.

===Gimp XCF===
* The "Save Background" option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.
* New "Resolution" option.
* New help tab.
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.

===PDF===
* "Bleed/margin" : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.

===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.

==Extensions==
===Units: Breaking change===
Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. The unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually "self.unittouu" and "self.uutounit").

===New===
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.
* New isometric grid generator.
* New bitmap crop extension.
* New "Extract text" extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.
* New Merge text extension.
* New HSL adjust extension.
* New Replace font extension.
* New N-Up layout extension.
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.
* New Typography extensions menu.

===Improvements===
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.

==SVG Support==

* The <tt>clip-rule</tt> property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.
* The <tt>color-interpolation-filters</tt> property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify "linearRGB" color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use "sRGB" color interpolation by default.

== Snapping ==
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source

==Notable bug fixes==
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.

==Known issues==
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]

==Previous releases==
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])
* [[Release notes/0.47]]
* [[Release notes/0.46]]
* [[Release notes/0.45]]
* [[Release notes/0.44]]
* [[Release notes/0.43]]
* [[Release notes/0.42]]
* [[Release notes/0.41]]
* [[Release notes/0.40]]
* [[Release notes/0.39]]
* [[Release notes/0.38]]
* [[Release notes/0.37]]
* [[Release notes/0.36]]
* [[Release notes/0.35]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

File:Gradient-fill-stroke.png

2014-04-16T17:03:35Z

Ryanlerch: 0.91 Gradients in Fill /Stroke Screenshot is Licenced CC-0

0.91 Gradients in Fill /Stroke

Screenshot is Licenced CC-0

User:RyanLerch

2012-05-01T00:07:34Z

Ryanlerch:

more info about me can be found at my blog - http://ryanlerch.org

I help out the inkscape community (where i can) in the following areas:

* Writing news - if you have a news idea, shoot me an email via the inkscape mailing list or via a comment on my [http://ryanler.wordpress.com blog]

* Writing tutorials

* triaging bugs and helping to maintain the new [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ bug tracker at launchpad]

Release notes/0.48

2010-03-19T05:38:45Z

Ryanlerch: /* Spray Tool */ fixed typo (independant -> independent)

==Inkscape 0.48==
'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning048]])'''

==Release highlights==

(TODO)

==Tools==

===Node Tool===

During Google Summer of Code 2009, the node tool underwent an extensive rewrite. Along with more maintainable code, it brings several new features.

; '''Multi-path editing'''
: Any number of paths can be selected for node editing at once.
; '''Improved clippath / mask editing'''
: The clipping path or mask of an object can be edited at the same time as the object. The clip / mask editing buttons in the node tool are now toggle buttons, rather than mode switch buttons. If the object is transformed after applying a clipping path, the clipping path is no longer offset when editing it in the node tool. If the clipping path is a group, all paths in the group can be edited simultaneously.
; '''Improved node join'''
: It is now possible to join nodes from different paths. More than two endnodes can be joined at once—the distances between nodes will be used to determine which nodes to join, with the closest pairs being joined first. When nothing can be joined (less than 2 endnodes in selecion), each selected stretch of nodes will be joined into one node.
; '''Improved segment join'''
: It is now possible to create a segment between endnodes from different paths. More than one segment can be created at once—the distances between nodes will be used to determine which nodes to join with a segment, with the closest pairs being joined first. When nothing can be joined (less than 2 endnodes in selection), each selected stretch of nodes will have its middle nodes removed, leaving only one segment.
; '''Node transforms'''
: It is now possible to transform the nodes using the mouse and transformation handles similar to those in the selector tool. They can be turned on and off using the first button in the node toolbar. When the handles are visible, clicking on a selected node will switch between scaling and rotation mode, instead of selecting only that node. You can also use Shift+H to switch the mode. All other operations work normally when transform handles are shown.
; '''Path direction tools'''
: Little harpoons are optionally shown in the middle of each segment, visualizing the direction of the path. This is useful when preparing a guide path for text, setting markers, and debugging extensions and Inkscape itself. The "Reverse" command (Shift+R) reverses the direction of subpaths that have some selected nodes, or all subpaths if the node selection is empty.
; '''Customizable path update'''
: Two new preferences allow you to specify when the path and its outline should be updated. Turning off live update of paths will improve performance for complex drawings.
; '''Improved tips'''
: The tips displayed for nodes and handles are more concise and affected by what modifier keys are pressed.

For a detailed feature comparison between the old and new tool, see [[GSoC2009 Node Tool Rewrite]].

===Spray Tool===
To use the spray tool, you first need to select one or several items and then click on the Spray icon.

Three modes are available.

*''Spray Copy mode :'' each sprayed item is independent from the others.
*''Spray Clone mode :'' each sprayed item is a clone of the selected item. Changing the properties of the original item will affect the clones.
*''Spray Single Path Mode :'' everything you spray is in a single path. You may need to convert your item into a path to make it work properly.

'''Spray options'''

*Amount : probability of apparition of an item.
*Scatter : for the gaussian spraying, it sets the width of the gaussian.
*Focus : it sets the center of the gaussian. More precisely, it is the distance to the center of the cursor.
*Scale : you can choose to scale your items taller or smaller than the original one. The scale is set between two values.
*Rotation : you can rotate randomly your items.

You can use keys ↑ and ↓ to control the size of of sprayed items. Use ← and → to set the width of the cursor.

You can also spray items by scrolling.

The Spray tool is a perfect match for the transforming, duplicating, and deleting modes of the Tweak tool.



==Import/Export==
===Improved bitmap image import===

Bitmaps are now always embedded when pixel data is pasted or dragged into Inkscape's window (for example when copying parts of an image from GIMP). Files with automatically generated names like "inkscape_pasted_image_..." are no longer created in the document directory. When importing or opening bitmap images, a dialog is displayed that asks whether you want to link the image or embed it.

===New LaTeX export for PDF/EPS/PS===

Similar to GNUPlot's `epslatex' output terminal and Xfig's combined PDF/LaTeX output, Inkscape can now export graphics to PDF with an accompanying LaTeX file that overlays the text over the PDF when inputted in LaTeX. The image's text is typeset by LaTeX, so for example mathematical expressions are rendered correctly, and all text will be in the font and style of the LaTeX document (even when changing the document's font afterwards).

''(the following description assumes export to PDF, but will work the same for EPS and PS)''
Two files will be created: a PDF file containing all graphics, without text; and a LaTeX file with the same name, containing all text, and code to include the PDF and overlay the text. To include the exported image in LaTeX, one writes

\begin{figure}
\centering
\def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional
\input{image.tex}
\end{figure}

A more thorough description of how to use the new feature (and automate the exporting/inclusion of the image in LaTeX) is given in this PDF: [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/SVG_in_LaTeX.pdf SVG in LaTeX].

====From the GUI====
When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from Inkscape's GUI, the usual dialog pops up after selecting to which PDF/EPS/PS file to export to. In this dialog, you can find the PDF/EPS/PS+LaTeX option.

====Command line option====
When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from the command line, adding --export-latex will turn the LaTeX export on. For example

inkscape image.svg -z -D --export-pdf=image.pdf --export-latex

==Extensions==
===New and improved extensions===

* The new '''Generate from Path > Voronoi Pattern''' extension creates a random pattern of Voronoi cells. The pattern will be accessible from the Fill and Stroke dialog. The pattern can be made to be smooth at the edges by choosing a positive border, or sparse at the edges by using a negative border.
* The new '''Render > Wireframe Sphere''' extension draws the globe as a collection of ellipses representing a sphere's latitude and longitude lines. The number of lines is adjustable, as well as the tilt and rotation. There is an option to hide the lines at the back of the sphere.
* The new '''Render > Barcode - Datamatrix''' extension renders a DataMatrix 2D barcode, as specified in BS ISO/IEC 16022:2006. The number of rows and columns of the DataMatrix is adjustable. If more data is given than can be contained in one DataMatrix, more than one DataMatrix will be produced.
* The new '''Modify Path > Pixelsnap''' extension aligns rectangles and paths to pixel boundaries, to create sharp web and digital graphics.
* The new '''Color > Black and White''' extension turns the selection colors into black and white.



==Other features==

* Arch paper sizes are added in the Document Properties dialog
* Displaying the '''font samples''' in the drop-down list of the Text tool is now optional. In Inkscape Preferences, go to Tools, Text, and uncheck "Show font samples in the drop-down list" if you don't want to see the samples. This will speed up displaying the list the first time you open it
* Items in the File > Open Recent menu, when mouseovered, show tooltips with the full URI of each file in the list. Also, files that are in the list but are missing or unaccessible are automatically hidden
* When a flowed text is truncated (i.e. the frame is too small for the entire text), the frame is shown red, and the statusbar hint includes '''[truncated]'''. You need to resize the frame to see the truncated end of the text. Analogously, if the path of a text-on-path object is too short to display the entire text, the statusbar will report it as '''[truncated]'''
* Clicking the text alignment buttons (Left, Center, Right) on the Text tool's controls bar now does not let the text jump: it stays within the same bounding box as before, only changing the alignment
* The position of text's baseline anchor (the small square) is now dependent of the alignment: for left-aligned text it is, as before, at the left end, for centered text in the middle, and for the right-aligned text it is at the right end of the text's first line (this is for horizontal text; for vertical, it is correspondingly at top, middle, or bottom of the first column). This allows snapping, aligning and distributing of text relative the side to which it's aligned
* Snapping of gradient handles has been improved and now behaves similar to the snapping of all other handles and objects
* When snapping to a bounding box, that bounding box will be shown for a moment (tied to the snap indicator)
* If a new object is being created on the canvas with snapping enabled, then a snap indicator will also be shown for the first point
* There are now options for Margins when resizing a document to a selection or the drawing in Document Properties
* Preferences have been added to allow automatic grouping when setting a Clippath or Mask
* Bitmap copies created using the Make a Bitmap Copy command (Alt+B) are now embedded. Previously they were saved in an automatically generated file and linked
* The file preview size limit (in the File > Open and File > Import dialog box) is now 10Mio (1.3Mio in 0.47)

===Extended input device configuration===

The stock Input Devices dialog has been replaced with a completely redone version that provides a more useful representation of settings. It also contains a simple area for testing different inputs of different devices.

Additionally hardware setup itself has been separated from general settings to allow for easier dynamic switching of settings appropriate to the task at hand.

==User interface==

===Adaptive UI===
(In progress [[User:JonCruz|JonCruz]])

===Custom Swatches===

Custom swatches can be created and used on a per-document basis. An "Auto" color palette will track swatches in the current document and allow them to be set and used. The use is "live" with changes to the swatch being applied automatically to all objects set to it. The swatches can also be gradients and not just simple colors.

===New cursors in Selector===

Selector tool has a new mouse cursor (arrow with an open hand) for when your mouse is over a selectable object, and another (arrow with clinched hand) for when you're dragging an object. This improves precision of selection and UI consistency (previously, the mouse cursor over a selectable object was different across platforms, e.g. hand icon on Linux or four-way arrow on Windows).

===Translations===

New Farsi translation (in progress).

==Tutorials==

* SVG files are now optimized with Scour (filesize reduced by 40%).
* Bitstream Vera fonts replaced with generic sans and serif fonts (solves many font substitution issues).
* New Interpolate tutorial (Help > Tutorials > Inkscape: Interpolate).
* New translations in Farsi, Belarussian and Dutch.

==Notable bug fixes==

* The 3D tool no longer inserts an inkscape:perspective element into SVG when it is not needed (i.e. when the document has no 3D box objects).
* Wrong clippaths and masks with cyclic recursion (i.e. clippaths or masks that refer to themselves via other clippaths or masks) no longer crash Inkscape.
* Default unit setting for the XY grid is now respected when creating a new grid.
* Pasting Live Path Effect stacks now works. It adds the stack of the copied object to the end of the LPE stack (if present) of the object it is pasted to.

==Known issues==

==Previous releases==

* [[ReleaseNotes047]]
* [[ReleaseNotes046]]
* [[ReleaseNotes045]]
* [[ReleaseNotes044]]
* [[ReleaseNotes043]]
* [[ReleaseNotes042]]
* [[ReleaseNotes041]]
* [[ReleaseNotes040]]
* [[ReleaseNotes039]]
* [[ReleaseNotes038]]
* [[ReleaseNotes037]]
* [[ReleaseNotes036]]
* [[ReleaseNotes035]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.48

2010-03-19T05:14:15Z

Ryanlerch: /* Node Tool */ fixed typo under "Improved Section Join" selecion -> selection

==Inkscape 0.48==
'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning048]])'''

==Release highlights==

(TODO)

==Tools==

===Node Tool===

During Google Summer of Code 2009, the node tool underwent an extensive rewrite. Along with more maintainable code, it brings several new features.

; '''Multi-path editing'''
: Any number of paths can be selected for node editing at once.
; '''Improved clippath / mask editing'''
: The clipping path or mask of an object can be edited at the same time as the object. The clip / mask editing buttons in the node tool are now toggle buttons, rather than mode switch buttons. If the object is transformed after applying a clipping path, the clipping path is no longer offset when editing it in the node tool. If the clipping path is a group, all paths in the group can be edited simultaneously.
; '''Improved node join'''
: It is now possible to join nodes from different paths. More than two endnodes can be joined at once—the distances between nodes will be used to determine which nodes to join, with the closest pairs being joined first. When nothing can be joined (less than 2 endnodes in selecion), each selected stretch of nodes will be joined into one node.
; '''Improved segment join'''
: It is now possible to create a segment between endnodes from different paths. More than one segment can be created at once—the distances between nodes will be used to determine which nodes to join with a segment, with the closest pairs being joined first. When nothing can be joined (less than 2 endnodes in selection), each selected stretch of nodes will have its middle nodes removed, leaving only one segment.
; '''Node transforms'''
: It is now possible to transform the nodes using the mouse and transformation handles similar to those in the selector tool. They can be turned on and off using the first button in the node toolbar. When the handles are visible, clicking on a selected node will switch between scaling and rotation mode, instead of selecting only that node. You can also use Shift+H to switch the mode. All other operations work normally when transform handles are shown.
; '''Path direction tools'''
: Little harpoons are optionally shown in the middle of each segment, visualizing the direction of the path. This is useful when preparing a guide path for text, setting markers, and debugging extensions and Inkscape itself. The "Reverse" command (Shift+R) reverses the direction of subpaths that have some selected nodes, or all subpaths if the node selection is empty.
; '''Customizable path update'''
: Two new preferences allow you to specify when the path and its outline should be updated. Turning off live update of paths will improve performance for complex drawings.
; '''Improved tips'''
: The tips displayed for nodes and handles are more concise and affected by what modifier keys are pressed.

For a detailed feature comparison between the old and new tool, see [[GSoC2009 Node Tool Rewrite]].

===Spray Tool===
To use the spray tool, you first need to select one or several items and then click on the Spray icon.

Three modes are available.

*''Spray Copy mode :'' each sprayed item is independant from the others.
*''Spray Clone mode :'' each sprayed item is a clone of the selected item. Changing the properties of the original item will affect the clones.
*''Spray Single Path Mode :'' everything you spray is in a single path. You may need to convert your item into a path to make it work properly.

'''Spray options'''

*Amount : probability of apparition of an item.
*Scatter : for the gaussian spraying, it sets the width of the gaussian.
*Focus : it sets the center of the gaussian. More precisely, it is the distance to the center of the cursor.
*Scale : you can choose to scale your items taller or smaller than the original one. The scale is set between two values.
*Rotation : you can rotate randomly your items.

You can use keys ↑ and ↓ to control the size of of sprayed items. Use ← and → to set the width of the cursor.

You can also spray items by scrolling.

The Spray tool is a perfect match for the transforming, duplicating, and deleting modes of the Tweak tool.



==Import/Export==
===Improved bitmap image import===

Bitmaps are now always embedded when pixel data is pasted or dragged into Inkscape's window (for example when copying parts of an image from GIMP). Files with automatically generated names like "inkscape_pasted_image_..." are no longer created in the document directory. When importing or opening bitmap images, a dialog is displayed that asks whether you want to link the image or embed it.

===New LaTeX export for PDF/EPS/PS===

Similar to GNUPlot's `epslatex' output terminal and Xfig's combined PDF/LaTeX output, Inkscape can now export graphics to PDF with an accompanying LaTeX file that overlays the text over the PDF when inputted in LaTeX. The image's text is typeset by LaTeX, so for example mathematical expressions are rendered correctly, and all text will be in the font and style of the LaTeX document (even when changing the document's font afterwards).

''(the following description assumes export to PDF, but will work the same for EPS and PS)''
Two files will be created: a PDF file containing all graphics, without text; and a LaTeX file with the same name, containing all text, and code to include the PDF and overlay the text. To include the exported image in LaTeX, one writes

\begin{figure}
\centering
\def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional
\input{image.tex}
\end{figure}

A more thorough description of how to use the new feature (and automate the exporting/inclusion of the image in LaTeX) is given in this PDF: [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/SVG_in_LaTeX.pdf SVG in LaTeX].

====From the GUI====
When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from Inkscape's GUI, the usual dialog pops up after selecting to which PDF/EPS/PS file to export to. In this dialog, you can find the PDF/EPS/PS+LaTeX option.

====Command line option====
When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from the command line, adding --export-latex will turn the LaTeX export on. For example

inkscape image.svg -z -D --export-pdf=image.pdf --export-latex

==Extensions==
===New and improved extensions===

* The new '''Generate from Path > Voronoi Pattern''' extension creates a random pattern of Voronoi cells. The pattern will be accessible from the Fill and Stroke dialog. The pattern can be made to be smooth at the edges by choosing a positive border, or sparse at the edges by using a negative border.
* The new '''Render > Wireframe Sphere''' extension draws the globe as a collection of ellipses representing a sphere's latitude and longitude lines. The number of lines is adjustable, as well as the tilt and rotation. There is an option to hide the lines at the back of the sphere.
* The new '''Render > Barcode - Datamatrix''' extension renders a DataMatrix 2D barcode, as specified in BS ISO/IEC 16022:2006. The number of rows and columns of the DataMatrix is adjustable. If more data is given than can be contained in one DataMatrix, more than one DataMatrix will be produced.
* The new '''Modify Path > Pixelsnap''' extension aligns rectangles and paths to pixel boundaries, to create sharp web and digital graphics.
* The new '''Color > Black and White''' extension turns the selection colors into black and white.



==Other features==

* Arch paper sizes are added in the Document Properties dialog
* Displaying the '''font samples''' in the drop-down list of the Text tool is now optional. In Inkscape Preferences, go to Tools, Text, and uncheck "Show font samples in the drop-down list" if you don't want to see the samples. This will speed up displaying the list the first time you open it
* Items in the File > Open Recent menu, when mouseovered, show tooltips with the full URI of each file in the list. Also, files that are in the list but are missing or unaccessible are automatically hidden
* When a flowed text is truncated (i.e. the frame is too small for the entire text), the frame is shown red, and the statusbar hint includes '''[truncated]'''. You need to resize the frame to see the truncated end of the text. Analogously, if the path of a text-on-path object is too short to display the entire text, the statusbar will report it as '''[truncated]'''
* Clicking the text alignment buttons (Left, Center, Right) on the Text tool's controls bar now does not let the text jump: it stays within the same bounding box as before, only changing the alignment
* The position of text's baseline anchor (the small square) is now dependent of the alignment: for left-aligned text it is, as before, at the left end, for centered text in the middle, and for the right-aligned text it is at the right end of the text's first line (this is for horizontal text; for vertical, it is correspondingly at top, middle, or bottom of the first column). This allows snapping, aligning and distributing of text relative the side to which it's aligned
* Snapping of gradient handles has been improved and now behaves similar to the snapping of all other handles and objects
* When snapping to a bounding box, that bounding box will be shown for a moment (tied to the snap indicator)
* If a new object is being created on the canvas with snapping enabled, then a snap indicator will also be shown for the first point
* There are now options for Margins when resizing a document to a selection or the drawing in Document Properties
* Preferences have been added to allow automatic grouping when setting a Clippath or Mask
* Bitmap copies created using the Make a Bitmap Copy command (Alt+B) are now embedded. Previously they were saved in an automatically generated file and linked
* The file preview size limit (in the File > Open and File > Import dialog box) is now 10Mio (1.3Mio in 0.47)

===Extended input device configuration===

The stock Input Devices dialog has been replaced with a completely redone version that provides a more useful representation of settings. It also contains a simple area for testing different inputs of different devices.

Additionally hardware setup itself has been separated from general settings to allow for easier dynamic switching of settings appropriate to the task at hand.

==User interface==

===Adaptive UI===
(In progress [[User:JonCruz|JonCruz]])

===Custom Swatches===

Custom swatches can be created and used on a per-document basis. An "Auto" color palette will track swatches in the current document and allow them to be set and used. The use is "live" with changes to the swatch being applied automatically to all objects set to it. The swatches can also be gradients and not just simple colors.

===New cursors in Selector===

Selector tool has a new mouse cursor (arrow with an open hand) for when your mouse is over a selectable object, and another (arrow with clinched hand) for when you're dragging an object. This improves precision of selection and UI consistency (previously, the mouse cursor over a selectable object was different across platforms, e.g. hand icon on Linux or four-way arrow on Windows).

===Translations===

New Farsi translation (in progress).

==Tutorials==

* SVG files are now optimized with Scour (filesize reduced by 40%).
* Bitstream Vera fonts replaced with generic sans and serif fonts (solves many font substitution issues).
* New Interpolate tutorial (Help > Tutorials > Inkscape: Interpolate).
* New translations in Farsi, Belarussian and Dutch.

==Notable bug fixes==

* The 3D tool no longer inserts an inkscape:perspective element into SVG when it is not needed (i.e. when the document has no 3D box objects).
* Wrong clippaths and masks with cyclic recursion (i.e. clippaths or masks that refer to themselves via other clippaths or masks) no longer crash Inkscape.
* Default unit setting for the XY grid is now respected when creating a new grid.
* Pasting Live Path Effect stacks now works. It adds the stack of the copied object to the end of the LPE stack (if present) of the object it is pasted to.

==Known issues==

==Previous releases==

* [[ReleaseNotes047]]
* [[ReleaseNotes046]]
* [[ReleaseNotes045]]
* [[ReleaseNotes044]]
* [[ReleaseNotes043]]
* [[ReleaseNotes042]]
* [[ReleaseNotes041]]
* [[ReleaseNotes040]]
* [[ReleaseNotes039]]
* [[ReleaseNotes038]]
* [[ReleaseNotes037]]
* [[ReleaseNotes036]]
* [[ReleaseNotes035]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Release notes/0.47

2009-09-25T00:49:44Z

Ryanlerch: /* Node tool */ Fleshed out the first note (describing the path outline feature) in the 'Node Tool' section of the 0.47 Release Notes

==Inkscape 0.47==
'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning047]])'''

==Refactoring effort==

The focus of the 0.47 release was to clean up legacy code and push forward the migration to clean object-oriented C++. The goal of this effort was to increase reliability and maintainability of Inkscape. In the long run, it will mean fewer bugs and more new features, because it will be easier to develop and find bugs in Inkscape.

===Migration to lib2geom===
Many parts of the code have been changed to use the 2Geom library for geometrical calculations instead of the old libnr and Livarot libraries.

===Preferences===
Instead of global functions directly manipulating an XML document, the preferences API is now exposed through the <code>Inkscape::Preferences</code> singleton. It abstracts away the way the preferences are stored in memory. In the future it may allow for different user settings storage backends (like GConf or the upcoming dconf on GNOME desktops or .plist files on OS X). Previously, Inkscape directly manipulated an internal XML document.

==Tools==

===Node tool===

* In previous versions of Inkscape, no visual feedback was given back to the user when hovering over paths when using the ''Node tool''. In this update, hovering over a path with the ''Node tool'' now results in a highlighted path outline being displayed. '''Note:''' the duration and color of the new path outline feature can be configured in the '''Tools > Node''' section of the '''Inkscape Preferences''' dialog.

* The Node tool can now edit '''clipping paths''' and '''masks''' of objects on canvas, without releasing them. If the selected object has a clipping path and mask, the corresponding buttons on the controls bar of the tool will be enabled; pressing these buttons will display the editable paths or handles of the clippath or mask. A clipping path is stroked green, a mask is stroked blue (the same colors as those used for them in Outline mode).
* Snapping has been improved (more details in Snapping below)
* When dragging a node handle with Ctrl pressed, it now snaps not only to the 15 degree increments starting from 0 and to the original handle direction, but also to the direction of the opposite handle (if it exists) or of the opposite line segment (if it is a straight line).
* The behavior of the buttons/shortcuts that make a node smooth or cusp has been improved:
** If a node is already a cusp (diamond shaped), pressing Shift+C again on it will retract both its handles. As this works for any number of selected nodes, you can always retract all handles in all nodes by selecting all nodes and pressing Shift+C twice.
** If a non-smooth node is next to a straight line segment, pressing Shift+S once makes it ''half-smooth'': it now has one handle aligned with that line segment. Another press of Shift+S will expand the second handle as well turning it into a full smooth node. If a node is between two curve segments, Shift+S will expand both handles as before.
*'''Auto smooth nodes''': a new "auto" node type was added, similar to the one Xara Xtreme has. An auto node is a smooth node which automatically adjusts (rotates and stretches) its handles when this node or its neighbors are moved. This adjustment (same as what you get when you convert node type to Smooth, but continuous) keeps the curve at this node as smooth as possible. It feels a bit like Spiro paths (see below); although not as smooth as a Spiro, auto nodes may often be preferable as they work without applying any Path Effect. Whenever you manually adjust the handles of an auto node or drag the adjacent curve, it loses its auto state and becomes simply smooth; for this reason, it is recommended to edit smooth nodes with the node handles hidden via a toggle button on the controls bar. Auto nodes are represented by little circles, as opposed to smooth/symmetric nodes (squares) and cusp nodes (diamonds). To convert selected node(s) to auto, press '''Shift+A''' or use the corresponding node type button on the controls bar.

===Tweak tool===

Several new modes are added to the Tweak tool for transforming, duplicating, and deleting selected objects using the same "soft brush" metaphor that the path editing and coloring modes use. Using these new modes, it is easy to "sculpt" scatterings of small objects, such as clone tilings, into complex and naturalistic textures.

* '''Push mode''' moves those selected objects that are under the brush in the direction in which you move the brush. This is similar to the Push path mode, except that the Move mode affects entire objects and not parts of the paths under the brush.

* '''Attract/Repel Objects mode''' moves those selected objects that are under the brush towards the cursor (default) or away from cursor (with '''Shift''' pressed). This is similar to the Attract/repel path mode, except that the Move in/out mode affects entire objects and not parts of the paths under cursor.

* '''Jitter mode''' moves those selected objects that are under the brush in random directions and by random amounts, but the overall amount of movement depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush.

* '''Scale mode''' scales those selected objects that are under the brush down (by default) or up (with '''Shift''' pressed). The speed of scaling depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush.

* '''Rotate mode''' rotates those selected objects that are under the brush clockwise (by default) or counterclockwise (with '''Shift''' pressed). The speed of rotation depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush.

* '''Duplicate/delete mode''' randomly duplicates those selected objects that are under the brush (by default) or deletes them (with '''Shift''' pressed). The chance of an object to be duplicated and deleted depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush. Like with the regular Duplicate command, duplicating with Tweak tool places the copies right over the originals, and you may need to use the Jitter mode to ruffle them apart. The duplicates created by the tool are automatically added to selection if the originals objects were in selection (e.g. if you're tweaking a group of objects, they are duplicated within that group and are not by themselves selected).

*'''Blur mode''' blurs the selected objects under the brush more (by default) or less (with Shift pressed). The amount of blur added or removed depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush.

Also, the existing path editing modes of the tool have been rearranged: now Shrink and Grow are one mode (shrinks by default, grows with Shift), and Attract and Repel are one mode (attracts by default, repels with Shift). Here is a complete list of modes and shortcuts of the Tweak tool:

Shift+m, Shift+0 move mode
Shift+i, Shift+1 attract/repel objects mode
Shift+z, Shift+2 jitter mode
Shift+<, Shift+>, Shift+3 scale mode
Shift+[, Shift+], Shift+4 rotate mode
Shift+d, Shift+5 duplicate/delete mode
Shift+p, Shift+6 push path mode
Shift+s, Shift+7 shrink/grow path mode
Shift+a, Shift+8 attract/repel path mode
Shift+r, Shift+9 roughen mode
Shift+c paint mode
Shift+j color jitter mode
Shift+b blur mode

In Paint mode, painting with Shift inverts the color you're applying (e.g. when painting with yellow, Shift will switch the applied color to blue).

===Calligraphy tool===

* The tool's settings can now be saved and restored as presets.

* When drawing with Alt pressed, Inkscape subtracts the path you have created from the selected path. With Shift, it unions with the selected path. This allows you to quickly patch or fix problems in a stroke you have drawn without leaving the tool.

* The behavior of the tool when tracking a guide (drawing with Ctrl) has been improved:

** The initial "jerk" when you start drawing is suppressed.

** The undesired flipping of the stroke to the other side of the guide path, when drawing along closed paths, is fixed.

** If you lose connection with your guide path, the tool tries to continue moving in the same direction as if by inertia, so as to minimize the tearoff jerk.

===Paint Bucket tool===
* Paint Bucket is now more tightly integrated with potrace. As a result, memory and CPU usage on each fill operation have been reduced significantly.

===Eraser Tool===
A new eraser tool has been added. Its shortcut is Shift+E. It has two main modes:

* Delete Objects mode where any shape touched by the tool is deleted completely. This operation is in line with "vector" editing.
* Cut mode where erasing acts similar to erasing in a standard bitmap editor. It acts on all objects in the current layer.

===Pen and Pencil===

Apart from the regular Bezier mode, the pen tool now provides several new modes:

* '''Spiro mode''': This mode automatically applies the new Spiro Splines LPE (see the section on new effects) to any newly drawn path. As mentioned below, it is not yet possible to preview Spiros before the path is finished.

* '''Polyline mode''': This mode makes it easy to draw many straight line segments in quick succession by disallowing curves (even when you drag with the mouse).

* '''Paraxial polyline mode''': In this mode, you can create straight line segments that are parallel to one of the coordinate axes. Normally, each line segment is drawn perpendicular to the previous one. The direction of the line segment being drawn can be toggled with Shift. When clicking on the start anchor, the path is closed with an L-shaped segment (the direction of which can also be flipped with Shift).

Furthermore, it is now possible to automatically apply predefined vector brushes to path strokes in pen and pencil tools. This is a first step towards [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Vector-brushes this blueprint].

In Pencil tool, the controls bar now provides the '''Smoothing''' parameter, changeable in the range from 1 to 100, which controls how much smoothing is applied to the freehand line. Small Smoothing values produce rough lines with many nodes; large values give smooth lines with few nodes. Previously, this control was only available in Inkscape Preferences.

====Pencil sketch mode====
[johan]
Press alt and sketch away, release alt to finalize result.

===Text tool===

* When editing multiline or flowed text, the '''PgUp''' and '''PgDn''' keys now work to move the cursor by one screen (i.e. by as many lines as fit into the screen at current zoom).

* The usability of the font family drop-down list in the Text tool controls bar has been improved: it no longer steals focus, all keyboard shortcuts work as designed ('''Alt+X''' to access the family control, '''Alt+down''' to open the drop-down list with font previews, '''arrows''' to move in the list, '''Enter''' to set chosen font) and the completion feature works (start typing a family name and a pop-up list with possible completions appears).

:A remaining problem that may be fixed in a future version is that the first opening of the drop-down list of family names may be slow (several seconds) if you have many fonts installed (the delay is Inkscape generating the previews for all fonts). Subsequent openings of the list are much faster.

===Connector tool===

* Connectors are now drawn to the edges of shapes, rather than to the bounding box of shapes.
* The routing buffer around shapes is now altered in the correct direction when the user changes this via the spacing control fon the connector toolbar.
* A bug has been fixed where the spinboxes on the connector toolbar did not properly respond to single clicks of their up and down arrows.

==Path effects==
===Notable bug fixes and effect changes===
We try to refrain from changing the behavior of LPE's, because it will change appearance in old files when opened in new version of Inkscape (but not in any other SVG viewer or editor). However, when an effect is really broken, we have to fix it:

* The Pattern Along Path effect:
**The pattern used to be stretched across discontinuities. This has been fixed; now it treats a discontinuous path as a group of continuous paths and applies the effect separately to each.
** Successive copies of the pattern can now be fused into continuous paths (using the new "fuse nearby ends" feature) so that "filling" the result works as expected.

===New effects===

* '''Sketch''': Simulates hand-drawn lines. A set of parameters lets you tune the effect. They are all summarized in this [[:Image:SketchParameters.png|picture]].

:[[Image:SketchExemple.png|300px]]

* '''Hatches''' Fills the given shape with rough, configurable and randomized hatches, simulating a quick hand drawing.
:[[Image:hatches-lpe.png|300px]].

* '''von Koch''': This effect creates fractal pictures. A collection of transformations (rotations, rescalings, etc...) is recursively applied to the input path. The transforms are derived from a "reference" path (a line segment) and a "generating" path (basically a collection of segments): the thransforms are the one needed to move the reference onto each segment of the generating path (components in the generating path having more than one segment might be used to define shearing/mirroring transforms). A famous example is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake von Koch's snowflake].
:[[Image:VonKochExample.png|300px]]

:''Warning'': the complexity of the output path grows exponentially fast with the number of generations. As a guardrail, an (editable) complexity bound is provided, above which the effect is disabled.

* '''Knot''': Creates a knot from a flat self intersecting curve. At each crossing, one string is interrupted to make it look like going under the other. The "sign" of each crossing can be set independantly.
:[[Image:KnotExample.png|300px]]

:''Warning'': Should not be applied to groups yet, unless you don't want to edit the crossing signs.

* '''Perspective paths''': Draw an arbitrary path as if viewed in perspective. This is work in progress. Known limitations (among others): It can only use the first perspective that exists in the document defs, and the perspective cannot be adapted interactively yet (the effect must be removed and reapplied after modifying the perspective). [max]

* '''Spiro splines''' are a novel way of defining curvilinear paths [http://www.levien.com/spiro/ developed by Raph Levien]. It takes some getting used to, but for certain tasks (such as lettershape design) Spiros have a clear advantage over Bezier curves. Recently, Spiro support was added to the FontForge font editor; now it is available in Inkscape too, which means you can use all the convenient Inkscape path tools (moving and transforming groups of nodes, node sculpting, etc.) on Spiro paths.

:A Spiro path is defined by a sequence of points, but unlike a regular path with Bezier curves, all Spiro points lie on the path and there are no off-path handles. The curvature of the path is defined entirely by the positions of the points and their types. The path behaves very similar to a springy rod which is forced to pass through the given points and which uses the minimum possible curvature to satisfy the requirement. As such, it feels quite natural and the resulting path is very smooth - not just superficially smooth (i.e. having no cusps), but smooth at a deeper level, which you can achieve with Beziers only after a lot of laborious tweaking.

:To create a Spiro path, select any path and assign the "Spiro spline" path effect to it. There are no parameters. Each node of your path becomes a point of a Spiro path, depending on the type of node:

:* Smooth nodes (those with two collinear Bezier handles; use Shift+S to make a node smooth) become smooth curve points of the Spiro path. Note that the length or direction of the Bezier handles of the source path is ignored; the only thing that matters is their collinearity.

:* Cusp nodes of the source path become corner points of the Spiro path, like free hinges on the springy rod. Between two corner points, the path is always a straight line. To make a node cusp, retract its Bezier handles by Ctrl+click, or press Shift+C and move one of the handles so they are no longer collinear.

:* Half-smooth nodes - those with one Bezier handle collinear with a straight line segment on the other hand - become "left" or "right" points on the Spiro path which behave exactly the same: they sit between a straight line and a curve and enforce that these two segments join smoothly without a cusp. To create such a node, make sure one of the segments is a line (select its ends and press Shift+L), then Ctrl+drag the remaining handle to make it snap to the direction of the straight line segment on the other side, or press Shift+S to lock it to that direction.

:Note that what matters is the actual collinearity of a node's handles, regardless of the node type that the node has in the Node tool; for example, if a node designated as cusp (diamond-shaped) has collinear handles, it will become a smooth curve point of the Spiro path.

:Some configurations of points do not converge and produce wild loops and spirals instead of a smooth curve. According to Raph, "The spline solver in this release is _not_ numerically robust. When you start drawing random points, you'll quickly run into divergence. However, "sensible" plates based on real fonts usually converge." Avoid too sharp changes in direction between points to prevent divergence. Hopefully, the robustness of the algorithm will be improved in future releases.

:For now, to edit Spiro paths viewing the result in real time, you have to use the Node tool; it is recommended to turn off the red highlight of the source path. The Pen tool does not yet allow you to preview a Spiro as you draw, although you can paste the Spiro effect on the path and see the result as soon as the path is finalized.

:You can always use the Node tool to continue a Spiro path by duplicating and dragging away its end nodes. Also, when you have a Spiro path selected, you can add a new subpath to it with Pen or Pencil if you start drawing with Shift.

* '''Construct Grid''' [johan] Draws a grid using the first three nodes of a path. The center node defines the origin. The other two nodes define the direction and length of the two adjacent sides of the first cell. If a path has more than three nodes, the other nodes are ignored. One can select the number of cells in the two orthogonal directions.

* '''Envelope Deformation''' allows you to deform an object (or a group of object) by deforming its sides. Modifications are done by deforming the four path parameters: Top, Bottom, Left and Right.

* '''Ruler''': [max]

* '''Interpolate Subpaths''': [Johan]



===New features===
* The '''Paste Path Effect''' command is enabled to assign the path effect of the clipboard to any number of paths, going recursively into groups if necessary.

* A new command, '''Remove Path effect''' removes any path effects from all selected objects, going recursively into groups if necessary.

* Along with the commands to open the path effects dialog and to paste path effects, the three commands were collected in a submenu under Path menu.

* Live path effects can now be assigned to the sides of a 3D box (use Ctrl+click to select individual sides).

* The Pen and Pencil tools now correctly work with paths with LPEs: you can continue such a path or add a new subpath to it by drawing with Shift, all preserving the effect applied to it.

* Path type parameters can now link to existing shapes and text, like clones do. Now it is possible to use text as input for the Pattern Along Path effect for example!

* Lib2geom now has an implementation for EllipticalArc. For Inkscape, this means that it is now possible to directly copy-paste ellipse shapes on path parameters (e.g. 'pattern' in Pattern along Path), without the need to convert the ellipse object to path first. [needs coding and checking]

===Live Path Effects for groups===

LPE can now be assigned to a group. For most LPEs, the effect is applied recursively but for Bend Path or Deformations the result is more powerful : the distortion applies on the whole group.

*You can as usual enter the group by double-clicking on it.
*It applies recursively, this means that a LPE can be assigned to groups of groups
*The Effect can be applied definitively with "Convert Object to path"

===Live Path Effects stacking===

With Live Path Effects stacking, more than one Live Path Effect can be assigned to an item. A new UI was created to control the stack.

==Import/Export==
===PostScript and EPS import===

Inkscape's capability to open or import PS and EPS files now uses Ghostscript instead of pstoedit. If you need to open files of these types, install Ghostscript and make sure the directory with the <code>ps2pdf</code> utility from Ghostscript installation is in your PATH. On opening, you will see a preferences dialog similar to PDF import, which, for multipage PS files, allows you to select the page to open.

===PDF import===

* A new checkbox on the PDF import dialog, '''Replace PDF fonts with closest-named installed fonts''' (on by default) attempts to replace all font names in the imported PDF with the most similar names of those fonts installed on your system. For example, if the PDF uses the font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" and you have "Times New Roman" installed, that font will be used, which will likely give you a more correct appearance than the unknown font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" that will be displayed as the default sans serif font. This is a temporary fix necessary because Inkscape cannot yet extract the fonts from the PDF files it imports nor can it embed them into SVG; when it gets these capabilities, such font name conversion will become unnecessary because all fonts will be preserved.

* Importing PDF files now works '''from the command line'''. For example,

inkscape file.pdf --export-plain-svg=file.svg

:It will take the first page of the PDF and all the default import options, and save the result to SVG. If you try to import PDF without an <code>--export</code> command, it will show the import options dialog as before and open the file in the UI.

===PDF, PostScript, and EPS export===

The new Cairo-based PS and EPS exporter provides much better support for various vector features, including clipping paths, patterns, and non-ASCII characters. Those features that are not supported by the targeted format are exported via embedded bitmaps that preserve the appearance. In particular:

* '''transparency''' is always rasterized in PS or EPS but not PDF, as PDF supports vector transparency;

* '''filters''', such as blur, are by default rasterized in all three formats (PS, EPS, PDF). This can be turned off by unchecking the "Rasterize filter effects" option in the UI or adding the '''--export-ignore-filters''' option via the command line. In this case, filtered objects are rendered as vectors without filters and without rasterization.

* The '''resolution''' for rasterizing the filters can be set in the UI in the "Resolution for rasterization (dpi)" parameter or on the command line by '''--export-dpi''' parameter (same as used for exporting SVG documents to bitmaps). The default is 90 dpi. The '''rendering quality''' of filters for rasterization, as well as for bitmap export, is always the best possible regardless of what you have set in the Filters tab of Preferences (which only affects on-screen rendering). For example,

inkscape --export-pdf=out.pdf --export-dpi=300 file.svg

:will export file.svg to out.pdf, rasterizing any filtered objects in it at 300 dpi. (If there are no filtered objects, the --export-dpi has no effect.)

All of PS, EPS, and PDF export formats uniformly support the export area options (page or drawing) and the new export-id option:

* You can now export a single object from a complex document (for example, a single layer) if you specify the ID of that object in the "Limit export to the object with ID" field in the GUI or via the '''--export-id=ID''' option on the command line. The export will show only that object (all others will not be exported). The BoundingBox (page size) of the exported PS/EPS/PDF file will correspond to the bounding box of that object. You can override this with "Export area is page" (GUI) or '''--export-area-page''' (command line) option which forces the output to have the size of the SVG document's page (this may not be possible with EPS, see below).

* The "Export area is page" (GUI) or '''--export-area-page''' (command line) option forces the output to have the size of the SVG document's page. This is the default for PS and PDF but not for EPS.

**Note, the specification of the EPS format does not allow a bounding box to extend beyond the content. This is enforced by the Cairo graphics library which means that when --export-area-page is used with EPS export, the page bounding box will be trimmed inwards (but never outwards) to the bounding box of the content if it is smaller. If you want a file which has a %BoundingBox different from the bounding box of its content, you can use PS or PDF export formats instead of EPS, or add a white background rectangle with the required size to source document before exporting to EPS.

** The '''--export-bbox-page''' command line parameter has been removed; use '''--export-area-page''' instead.

* The "Export area is drawing" (GUI) or '''--export-area-drawing''' (command line) option forces the output to have the size of the exported objects' bounding box, regardless of page size. If no --export-id is specified, this means the bounding box of the entire drawing; with --export-id, this means the bounding box of the exported object only. This is the default for EPS. Note that checking "Export area is page" or using '''--export-area-page''' overrides this setting for PS and PDF output.

* The '''--export-embed-fonts''' option is removed. Inkscape now always embeds and subsets all fonts used in the document when exporting PS, EPS, or PDF.

===UniConvertor-based import and export===

Inkscape can now use UniConvertor to import files of the following types:

* Corel DRAW Compressed Exchange files (CCX)
* Corel DRAW 7-X4 document files (CDR)
* Corel DRAW 7-X4 Template files (CDT)
* Corel DRAW Presentation Exchange files (CMX)
* sK1 files (SK1)
* Computer Graphics Metafiles (CGM)
* Windows Metafiles (WMF)
* HPGL (AutoCAD) Plot files (PLT) Requires UniConvertor 1.1.4.

Inkscape can now use UniConvertor to export files of the following types:

* Windows Metafiles (WMF)
* sK1 files (SK1)
* HPGL (AutoCAD) Plot files (PLT) Requires UniConvertor 1.1.4.

Text objects are not supported as of UniConvertor 1.1.4.

On Windows, UniConvertor is included with Inkscape distribution and does not require separate installation.

===HPGL export===

In addition to the HPGL export via UniConvertor listed above, Inkscape can now export to HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) via an internal routine that is geared towards various cutters/plotters.

===JavaFX export===

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===DXF import and export===

* DXF export for Desktop Cutting Plotters is much faster than in previous versions. A new option was added to provide support for RoboMaster desktop cutting software. Also added support for polylines and polysplines.

* DXF import is new. It supports a number of the simpler DXF shapes: line, Bezier spline, ellipse, circular arc, text.

===PNG export===

* PNG export has been updated to include metadata if present in the source SVG. This includes the Author, Copyright, Creation Time, Description, and Title fields. PNG metadata can be viewed using the ImageMagick <code>identify</code> command.

* Export filenames that are relative (e.g. <code>../file.png</code> or simply <code>file.png</code>) are now resolved relative to the document's location.
This applies to the filenames you type in the Export dialog as well as those stored in export hints in the document itself (and used by the "Batch export" checkbutton as well as in command line export with <code>--export-use-hints</code>). However, export filenames specified directly on the command line are not resolved, which in effect means they work, as before, from the current working directory from which you run the export command.

==Autosave==

Autosave has now been added to allow for automatic timed backups as work goes on. Saved versions are put in a designated directory and do not overwrite the original SVG file and each other. Go to Inkscape Preferences, Autosave tab, to enable this feature and specify the backup time interval, the directory, and the maximum number of saved backups (if this number is exceeded, old backups will start to be deleted).

==Extensions==

* The former Effects menu is renamed to '''Extensions'''. This is less confusing and better reflects the content of the menu: a collection of extensions, written mostly in Python, which perform various tasks with or without selection.

===New and improved extensions===

* The new '''Arrange > Restack''' extension restacks the Z-order of selected objects, from left to right, top to bottom (or vice versa), with radial outward or inward or by an arbitrary angle, specifying the base point for comparison (top, left, middle, etc.).
* The new '''Generate from Path > Extrude''' extension [ishmal]. The old Extrude effect has been renamed Motion. The new effect...?
* The new '''Generate from Path > Scatter''' extension [jfbarrud].
* The improved '''Modify Path > Add Nodes''' extension now also allows segments to be divided into a given number of subsegments.
* The new '''Modify Path > Convert to Dashes''' extension takes the dash pattern of the stroke and explicitly cuts the curve to duplicate this pattern. This is to allow desktop cutting plotters to cut dashed curves.
* The new '''Render > Add printing marks''' extension add useful printing marks and color bars required by printing bureaus. You can either manually define margins by which cut marks are created.
* The new '''Render > 3D Polyhedron''' extension allows drawing polyhedrons from scratch and render them from OBJ files.
* The new '''Render > Alphabet Soup''' extension is a vector rework of Matt Chrisholm's [http://www.theory.org/artprojects/alphabetsoup/main.html GPLed script]. Alphabet Soup randomly mashes glyph-elements together to make exotic looking text.
* The new '''Render > Cartesian Grid''' extension plots Cartesian (square) grids that do not fill the page, but offer three levels of division, logarithmic scales (with clutter-reduction and arbitrary base) and customisable line width. All like elements (eg x-axis subminor divisions) are put into subgroups together. A proper border is also drawn, with an independent line thickness.
* The new '''Render > Draw from Triangle''' extension takes a triangle drawn as a path (only the first three nodes of a path are counted) and allows to draw many triangle-related geometrical objects such as circumcircles, excentral triangles, etc. It also allows entry of custom trilinear coordinated and triangle centre functions, as well as computation of basic triangle properties such as area and semiperimeter.
* The new '''Render > Guides Creator''' extension allows creating easily horizontal and vertical guides for dividing equally the canvas. You can choose the divisions from None, 1/2, 1/3 ... to 1/10.
* The new '''Render > Polar Grid''' extension plots a polar co-ordinate grid, with options for arbitrary-base logarithmic subdivisions, clutter-reduction around the origin, circumferential labels and custom line widths.
* The new '''Render > Calendar''' extension draws a calendar for a given year with localizable month/weekday names, colors, and other options.
* The new '''Render > Foldable Box''' extension helps to design and construct paper boxes.
* The new '''Text > Convert to Braille''' extension recodes English (or just Latin letters) text to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille Braille] code. This is obviously just an aesthetical feature. It is not intended to create real braille text for visually impaired people but instead it is meant to enable an accurate graphical representation of braille text to be used in illustrations.
* The new '''Modify Path > Interpolate Attribute in a Group''' extension [Aurelio A Heckert]
* The new '''Web > JavaScript''' extensions [Aurelio A. Heckert]

===API changes===

While the "Live preview" checkbox is useful for most effects, for some it just does not make sense. Now, you can add the attribute <code>needs-live-preview="false"</code> in the <code>effect</code> element in the .inx file of the effect to suppress this checkbox for your effect.

Parameters passed to extensions (via the <param> element) now have a new boolean attribute - <code>gui-hidden</code> to indicate that the parameter should not be represented in the GUI. If all parameters are marked as hidden no GUI is presented for such extension.

All '''.inx''' files are now properly formatted XML files with its own namespace of: <code><nowiki>http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension</nowiki></code> and a Relax NG schema to define it. More information can be found in the [[Extensions]] Article.

==Filters==

The Filter Editor (former Filter Effects) and Remove Filters commands are moved from the Object menu to the new '''Filters''' top-level menu, which also contains a collection of preset filters.

===Preset filters===

The Filter Editor is powerful, but can be quite cumbersome. You can now add complex preset filters to the selected objects with a single command by choosing it from the new '''Filters''' top-level menu. Submenus categorize the filters by function or appearance. Most filters apply immediately after selecting the command; some present a dialog where you can adjust some of the parameters before applying the filter (such filters have "..." at the end of the command in the menu). By default if the selected object already has some filter applied, the chosen filter will be merged with the existing filter for combined effect. However you can also apply several overlaid filters to an object while keeping them separated : simply press Ctrl+G after applying any filter and then apply another one ; the filters will then display separately into the Filters Editor.

You can easily add your own filters to these menus. Simply place any SVG file with the filters to the <code>filters</code> subdirectory of your config directory (<code>~/.config/Inkscape/</code> on Linux) and the filters will be picked up. By default, they will be placed in the Personal submenu under Effects > Filters. If you want to control this, add the following attributes to the <code>filter</code> element:

inkscape:label is the command label
inkscape:menu is the submenu to place the command into
inkscape:menu-tooltip is the tooltip (displayed in the statusbar
as you select the command)

===''No Filters'' rendering mode===
In order to facilitate editing documents that use lots of SVG filter effects, filter effects can now be disabled for a particular document window by selecting '''View|Display mode|No Filters''' from its menu. This provides an intermediate step between "normal" and "outline" view modes.

The Toggle view command in the Display mode submenu (Ctrl+keypad 5) toggles between the outline view and either regular or no-filters view, depending on which was used most recent.

===Filter quality setting===

Instead of the 'blur quality' setting, Inkscape now has a general 'filter effects quality' setting. It affects all filters and gives you an opportunity to find optimum balance between speed and accuracy when rendering filters.

==SVG support==

===Optimized CSS properties===

* As a file size optimization, Inkscape does not write into SVG some of the stroke properties if the object has <code>stroke:none</code> and some of the fill properties when it has <code>fill:none</code>. The only situation where this might affect you is if you remove stroke from an object and then turn it back on - the object will get the default stroke instead of the same it had before.

:Also, in manually-edited SVG where a parent group has no stroke but sets some stroke properties to be inherited by its descendants, you will need to set stroke property to other than none on the group, and suppress inheritance with stroke:none on those children that don't need it.

:Specifically, if stroke:none, the following properties do not get written to SVG:

stroke-width
stroke-linecap
stroke-linejoin
stroke-miterlimit
stroke-opacity
stroke-dasharray
stroke-dashoffset

:Note that this does not include marker properties, which means you can still have markers on a path without visible stroke.

:If fill:none, the following properties do not get written to SVG:

fill-opacity
fill-rule

*The <code>opacity</code> property is not written if it has the default value of 1 (this property is not inherited, so the change should have no side effects).

*The <code>marker-start</code>, <code>marker-mid</code>, and <code>marker-end</code> properties are not written if the <code>marker</code> property is already present with the same value.

===Optimized path data===

In this version, the size of the path data written in the <code>d=</code> attribute of <code>path</code> elements is reduced by about 10%. Inkscape generates the shortest possible path strings by avoiding repeated operators and using relative coordinates (when it helps).

This is controlled by the '''SVG output''' page of Inkscape Preferences dialog, as well as the following attributes in <code>group id="svgoutput"</code> in your preferences.xml file:

* allowrelativecoordinates (default 1) to switch relative coordinates on (1) or off (0)
* forcerepeatcommands (default 0) to force repeating operators (1) or allow use of the more compact representation without repeated operators (0)

===No more explicit closing line segment===
Inkscape used to always explicitly write the closing line segment to SVG for closed paths. For example: "M 0,0 L 1,0 L 1,1 L 0,1 L 0,0 z". With the improved SVG path data writing, Inkscape no longer generates this closing line segment, resulting in "M 0,0 L 1,0 L 1,1 L 0,1 z".
When SVG path data input contains this explicit closing segment, it is maintained throughout transformations, but is removed after using the node edit tool.
[this seems no longer to be true, fix it!!! -johan]

===Horizontal and vertical path segments===

If an SVG contains paths with shorthands for horizontal and vertical path segments ('H' or 'V'), then Inkscape will try to maintain those shorthands if possible, so the saved file will also contain them.

===<script> tag preserved===

While Inkscape does not yet support SVG scripting via the <script> element, this element is now preserved after editing the file in Inkscape.

===Initial SVG Fonts support===

As a SoC 2008 project, JucaBlues implemented initial parsing and rendering of [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html SVG Fonts].
You can design fonts within Inkscape, but using them to render text on the canvas is not yet supported. We are waiting libpango to implement proper support for the user-fonts feature.

Currently the main benefit of this feature is to improve the font design workflow when working with FontForge: You can save SVG files with fonts embedded and import them into Fontforge, and you only need one file per font instead of one file per glyph.

You can open the SVG Font dialog through Text->SVG Fonts menu option.

There is a concept that has to be understood while using the SVG Font Editor. An SVG font is a mapping of chunks of SVG drawing to characters. When a certain character is used in a string, its respective glyph is rendered. If no glyph is declared for a certain character, then there is a default "missing glyph" that is rendered. You can set the drawing that defines this missing glyph also. This is done by clicking on the '''Missing Glyph: From Selection...''' button at the top of the dialog.

So, an example of workflow would be:

1. Click '''New font'''. Select it. You can rename it if you wish. You will see a set of black squares in the text preview area. This is the preview text being rendered. It only uses the default missing glyph (which is initially defined as a black square) because no specific glyph was defined yet.

2. Draw something for your desired missing glyph

3. Click '''Missing Glyph: From selection...'''

4. Draw a glyph for the "a" character (character matching is case sensitive)

5. On the '''Glyphs''' tab, click '''Add glyph'''

6. Type "a" in the '''Matching String''' column (at the moment, handling of the glyph-name attribute is not implemented)

7. With the row selected, click '''Get curves from selection...'''

8. Now you will probably see the "a" glyph in the preview rendering, if the preview text contains it. You can freely edit the preview text as needed to view different characters.

Repeat steps 4 through 7 for every other glyph you wish to add to your font.

===SVG Test Suite Compliance===

[describe what has been improved over 0.46 and point to recent test result website]
As a result of last year's GSoC, there is now a rendering test framework along with a number of tests (found in the SVN repository [http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite/tester/ here]. These tests can be run reasonably easily on any system (you don't need to be able to compile Inkscape) and include a large part of the [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/ [[W3C]] SVG Test Suite]. See [http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html this list] for up-to-date rendering results. Also see [[TestingInkscape]] for information on running and creating rendering tests.

List of render test changes with respect to 0.46:
...[files which failed on 0.46 and now pass, and vice versa]

==Editing Aids==

===Grids===
* The dotted rectangular grid now shows small crosses at the intersection points of emphasis lines.

===Guides===

* Guides can now be rotated using the mouse. Each guide has an anchor (visible as a little circle) around which it can rotate.
:*'''Drag''' a guide anywhere to move it.
:*'''Shift+drag''' to rotate a guide about its anchor (additionally press '''Ctrl''' to constrain the rotation angle to multiples of 15 degrees).
:*'''Ctrl+drag''' to move the anchor along the guide.
:*Press '''Del''' while hovering the mouse over the guide to delete it.

* There is now an option in the Preferences dialog ('''Tools''' page) to treat groups as single objects during conversion to guides (as opposed to converting each object inside the group separately).

===Snapping===

The code relating to the snapping mechanisms has undergone major changes to make it more reliable and easier to use from a developer's perspective. Snapping to objects now invokes routines from the 2geom library, which is actively maintained and less error prone than the old Livarot library. This fixes at least two known snapping bugs.

There is a new toolbar to control the snapping options and modes. Use View > Show/Hide > Snap controls bar to show or hide this toolbar. To control some other new snapping features, a dedicated tab has been created in the preferences dialog. The new features found on this tab are:
* '''Snap indicator''': When snapping has occurred, an indicator is displayed at that specific position. For now that indicator is just a cross that disappears after a second. In the future the shape of the indicator will be related to the type of target that has been snapped to
* '''Snap delay''': Inkscape now optionally waits some time after the mouse pointer has stopped moving before it tries to snap. This makes Inkscape much more responsive on complex documents and allows moving objects in a straight line over a grid, amongst others.
* Inkscape can be forced to only try snapping the (source) node that is '''closest to the mouse pointer''', à la Corel DRAW. When this mode is enabled, a snap indicator will shortly be shown at that node. This will give you maximum control of the snapping which is useful for complex drawings with many nodes.
* When multiple snap solutions are found, Inkscape can either prefer the closest transformation (when the weight-slider is set to 0; this is the old mode), or prefer the moved object's node that was initially the closest to the pointer (when the slider is set to 1). The way Inkscape calculates the preferred snap has been improved too, which should lead to more predictable snapping.

Other improvements are:
* The '''Node tool''' now snaps to any unselected node (both cusp and smooth) within the path that's being edited, and nodes of other paths. It also snaps to the path itself, but only to the stationary segments in between two unselected nodes. It is now also possible to snap while moving nodes along a vertical or horizontal constraint.
* In the document properties dialog, the checkbox for "always snap" has been replaced by two radiobuttons; this should eliminate most of the confusion surrounding this option.
* Holding the Shift key now also disables snapping while dragging node handles, and while creating single dots
* During constrained drawing (using Ctrl), Inkscape will now only snap to the points on the constrained line.
* In the selector tool, snapping while skewing or moving with a constraint (with Ctrl) has been improved.
* Also in the selector tool, while translating, Inkscape will now snap the bounding box of each selected item individually instead of the selection as a whole

Inkscape now also considers the following objects for snapping:
* Clipping paths and masks
* Midpoints of line segments
* Midpoints of bounding box edges
* Page border
* Intersections of any kind of paths
* Smooth nodes
* Cusp nodes
* Each of the handle points when creating new shapes
* Radius handles of rectangles
* Single dots

==Other features==

===Spell checker===

There's now a built-in spell checker. Press '''Ctrl+Alt+K''' or choose ''Text > Check spelling'' to check all visible text objects in your document (they need not be selected) in turn, going top-to-bottom and left-to-right. Once a misspelled word is found, a red frame around it is displayed, and the object with the misspelling is selected; if you are in Text tool, it also places the text cursor at the beginning of the misspelled word.

In the dialog, you can choose one of the listed suggestions and '''Accept''' it (this button is disabled unless you choose something in the list); '''Ignore''' the word for the rest of this session; or '''Add''' the word to the local dictionary.

Also, since the dialog does not lock Inkscape's window, you can simply edit the word with Text tool. Once you edit it to something acceptable to the speller, it will automatically turn off the red frame and continue checking the
document.

On Linux, you need to install Aspell and its dictionaries for the languages you want to check. On Windows, for now, only the English dictionary is included with Inkscape builds.

===Desktop integration improvements===

* '''Clipboard is system-wide''' - you can now copy/paste objects between different Inkscape instances as well as between Inkscape and other applications (which must be able to handle SVG on the clipboard to use this).

* '''Open Recent menu''' now integrates with Windows recent documents management as well as freedesktop.org recent document lists (used by Gnome, KDE and Xfce). The list can be cleared from the Preferences dialog (the Interface tab).

* '''Themable Icons''' - all icons used in Inkscape are now themable using the standard freedesktop.org theming mechanism. The list of names used is available [[themable icons|here]].

===Shell mode===

If you run inkscape with <code>--shell</code>, it will enter a shell mode. In this mode, you type in commands at the prompt and Inkscape executes them, without you having to run a new copy of Inkscape for each command. This feature is mostly useful for scripting and server uses: it adds no new capabilities but allows you to improve the speed and memory requirements of any script that repeatedly calls Inkscape to perform command line tasks (such as export or conversions). Each command in shell mode must be a complete valid Inkscape command line but without the Inkscape program name, for example:

$ inkscape --shell
Inkscape 0.46+devel interactive shell mode. Type 'quit' to quit.
>file.svg --export-pdf=file.pdf
>otherfile.svg --export-png=bitmap.png
Background RRGGBBAA: ffffff00
Area 0:0:744.094:1052.36 exported to 744 x 1052 pixels (90 dpi)
Bitmap saved as: bitmap.png
>quit

===Gesture-based stroke width adjustment===
CHECK: Maximum factor = 4? Minimum to 0?

Similar to editing the fill or stroke colors by dragging away from the swatch in the status bar, which was added in the last version, this version allows you to drag away from the stroke width value displayed there to change the stroke width of selection. Dragging above the 45-degree line from the swatch increases the width (up to twice the original width), dragging below it decreases the width (down to half the original width). With this feature, quick and precise stroke width adjustments are possible without opening any dialogs or menus.

===Enhanced tablet support===

====Input device tool switching====

Tablets and other input devices that report separate hardware are now recognized and current tool and/or settings can be set to switch in response to the physical tool being used.

====Extended input device configuration====

IS THIS ENABLED? I DON'T SEE ANY DIFFERENCE FROM 0.46 ON LINUX

The stock Input Devices dialog has been replaced with a completely redone version that provides a more useful representation of settings. It also contains a simple area for testing different inputs of different devices.

Additionally hardware setup itself has been separated from general settings to allow for easier dynamic switching of settings appropriate to the task at hand.

===Layers===

The Layers dialog now allows for hiding or showing all layers other than the current layer (click on layer
name with right mouse button to get pop-up menu). This "solo" feature allows for faster switching between working layers and for quick checking with and without others shown.

A new command, '''Duplicate Layer''', has been added to the Layers menu to allow for duplicating an existing layer with all of its objects (even hidden or locked objects) and any sub-layers.

The Add Layer dialog can be opened with '''Ctrl+Shift+N''' (N for new) shortcut.

Layer names can now be non-unique.

Several layer-handling inconsistencies have been fixed.

===Linked bitmaps===
Linked bitmaps have a context menu option to launch editing in an external application. Linked images now will reload when the linked file changes on disk. Both the external editor application and the reload behavior is configurable.

===Command for relinking clones===

A new command, '''Relink Clone to Copied''' in ''Edit > Clone'', allows you to relink any clone to a different original object without changing its other properties. Just copy (Ctrl+C) the object you want to be the new original, select any number of clones, and choose the Relink command. Now all selected clones are linked to the copied object.

===Automatic relinking of clones on Duplicate===

If you turn on the '''When duplicating original+clones: Relink duplicated clones''' option on Clones tab of Inkscape Preferences (default is off), duplicating a selection containing both a clone and its original (possibly in groups) will relink the duplicated clone to the duplicated original instead of the old original.

===Pattern editing===

When editing pattern fills:
* The pattern origin and scale handles now snap.
* The pattern scaling can now be different in X and Y direction. Press '''Ctrl''' to have a fixed 1:1 ratio scaling (old behavior). (TOOLTIP STILL SAYS "Scale the pattern fill uniformly")
* The handles are now positioned at the corners of the unit cell, instead of only a quarter of that cell as before. So, now a rectangle filled with pattern will have all of the pattern handles in the corners, making it harder to manipulate them. However, the handles can be dragged outside the rectangle by moving the pattern's origin handle.

===Transform dialog: spacing out option===

Previously, the '''Apply to each object separately''' checkbox had no effect for the '''Move''' tab. Now, if several objects are selected, this checkbox is on, and "Relative move" is on, each object is shifted relative to the closest selected object on the left (for X) or below (for Y).

For example, if you have a horizontal row of objects and you move them relatively by x = 5 px with "Apply to each object separately" on, the leftmost object will shift by 5px, the next one to the right by 10px, and so on; the rightmost selected object is displaced by 5*n px where n is the number of selected objects. As a result, the distance in each pair of adjacent objects will increase by 5px and the whole row will be spaced out, much like a letterspacing adjustment spaces out a text string. Moving these objects by X=-5px will, conversely, squeeze them tighter together: the leftmost will move by -5px, the next one by -10px, and so on. For Y, the effect is the same except that the move starts from the object closest to the bottom (i.e. with smallest Y coordinate).

When determining the order of shifting objects, for X, the left edges of their bounding boxes are sorted horizontally, and for Y, the bottoms of their bounding boxes are sorted vertically. Order of selecting the objects or z-order does not matter.

===Converting text to path produces a group===

Converting a text or flowed text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) now produces a group of paths, one path for each glyph of text, instead of a single monolithic path as before. Apart from easier manipulation, an additional advantage is that if your text contained styled spans (i.e. fragments with different color, opacity, or other properties), these styles will be preserved by the corresponding glyph paths after the conversion.

===Combine works on groups===

The Combine command now works transparently on groups, i.e. combines paths inside selected groups at any level of grouping.

===Path exclusion===
The Exclusion boolean operation can now operate on an arbitrary number of paths.

==User interface==

===Inkscape Preferences dialog===

* This dialog has been rearranged for more logical grouping of options. New pages have been added: '''Bitmaps''' (options for the new update-on-file-change and external editor features), '''UI''' (options for toolbar icon sizes), and '''SVG Output''' (options for SVG formatting, introduced in 0.46 and now editable from the dialog as well).

* A new option on the Bitmaps tab, '''Resolution for Create Bitmap Copy''', allows you to set the resolution of the bitmap created by the corresponding command (by default bound to Alt+B). The default value of 90 dpi forces the resulting bitmap to align with the default 1px-spaced grid on the canvas.

* '''Zoom correction factor''': the Interface tab has an adjustable ruler. Move the slider until the ruler's on-screen size matches its true size. This is used as a reference point for 100% (original size) zoom.

* The application's interface language can be set from the preferences dialog. You'll have to restart Inkscape to see the changes.

===Toolbars===

* The toolbar icon sizes for the three main toolbars are now separately configurable and to a few different sizes. This allows for a more compact user interface.
* The main tools toolbar has been converted to a standard GtkToolbar, removing the problem of it pushing the main window taller. Tools that don't fit automatically flow into a popup menu.
* When torn off, toolbars now keep the size they last had in the main window. They can be resized by docking, resizing the main window, and then undocking again.
* Some controls (such as the Width in Calligraphic/Tweak/Eraser tools, Tremor, Wiggle, and Mass in Calligraphic, Threshold in Paintbucket, Tolerance in Pencil) are converted from numeric editable fields into draggable sliders, with labels and values (usually in the range 0..100) displayed on top. As these values don't usually require much precision, this makes adjusting them much easier and faster.

===Clone/original visualization===

When you press Shift+D to find and select the original of the selected clone, Inkscape draws a dashed line between the centers of the bounding boxes of the clone and the original. This line disappears after one second.

===Miscellaneous===
* The confusing icons on buttons in the controls bar of the Dropper tool (pick/assign opacity) are replaced by text labels.
* Hovering over a swatch now shows the name of the swatch in the status bar. This makes it easier for tablet users to identify a swatch by name, as holding a stylus still enough for the tooltip to show up is difficult.
* File Dialogs:
** The Windows builds of Inkscape now have Windows-native file dialogs to keep consistency with other Windows applications.
** Two new entries in the File type list, All Bitmaps and All Vectors, allowing you to limit the listing to bitmap or vector formats only.
* In the Align and Distribute dialog there is now an option to treat all selected objects as a group when aligning. This spares the trouble of manually grouping them, aligning, and ungrouping afterwards).
* Document Properties Dialog:
** New Color Management tab. In this new tab, you can declare multiple ICC color profiles for the current document.
** New Script tab. ?
* Object Properties Dialog:
** New Title and Description fields. The Title attribute is intended to be used as tooltip. [sas]
** New Interactivity section to add JavaScript calls.

==Notable bug fixes==

* Several '''memory leaks''' are stopped, reducing the memory consumption during long editing sessions considerably. Closing the last window with a document now frees memory used by that document immediately.

* Inkscape is now able to handle paths with only 'movetos', i.e. "M 0,0 M 1,1 M 2,2". These kind of paths can be used to only show markers on a path without the rest of the path visible.

* The '''visual bounding box''' (which is the default bounding box type used by Inkscape) of an object with a filter applied, now includes the expanded area of the filter. For '''single blur filter''' (such as the blur you apply with a slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog), this expands the bounding box by 2.4*radius; although theoretically, blur is infinite, this is the distance at which the opacity of the object drops below the perceptibility threshold of our renderer. For all other filters, the area is expanded by the relative amounts you specify on the "Filter general settings" tab of the Filter Effects dialog.

:Only visual bounding box is affected; if you use geometric bounding box, you will notice no change in most cases. However, the Export bitmap dialog always uses the visual bounding box for selection of the export area; this means that you can now export a blurred object to bitmap without any clipping of the blur.

* Bounding box calculation does not include the invisible objects. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/252547 bug #252547]

* Several fixes allows Inkscape to correctly render and edit SVG files that use <code>currentColor</code> in objects' style (this includes files created by gnuplot).

* '''No more ID clashes on import and paste''': previously, importing or pasting SVG objects might sometimes distort their colors, because the imported objects referred to gradients with the same IDs as those that already exist in the document but look different. Now, IDs of all gradients in the pasted document are checked for clashes with those in the host document, and if necessary changed with all their users updated correspondingly, so such unexpected color changes will never happen.

* File dialogs remember last visited directory.

* The --vacuum-defs command line parameter erroneously deleted markers which are in use.

* No more garbage lines in outline mode.

* No more artifacts left by the circle cursor in Tweak tool.

* The Live Path Effects '''Bend Path''' and '''Pattern along Path''' now work correctly with closed paths.

* Several '''[[ViewBoxToDo|viewBox]]''' related bugs fixed
** Documents with viewBox are now editable without transformation defects. In particular this affected documents created with e.g. pstoedit. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168370 bug #168370]
** Resizing the page adjusts viewBox. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167682 bug #167682]
** preserveAspectRatio parsing code fixed. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/166885 bug #166885]

* open paths (as opposed to closed paths) are now correctly drawn when start and end points are equal. (SVG test suite ''paths-data-10-t.svg'')

* The shorthand 'marker' property is now correctly interpreted (SVG test suite ''painting-marker-03-f.svg'')

* Coordinates and lengths specified in percentages are now correctly interpreted (SVG test suite ''coords-units-02-b.svg'')

* Horizontally scrolling the canvas with a tilt wheel (present on several Logitech mice like the LX5) in the Bezier tool will no longer finish creating the path.

* Various fixes to PS and PDF rendering of objects involving masks, patterns, and/or bitmaps: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/208217 bug #208217], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/217212 bug #217212].

* Annoying random displacements of pixels of bitmaps when you view them at a close zoom level are fixed.

=Known issues=

* First time opening of the drop-down list with font families in Text tool may be slow, especially if you have many fonts installed. Subsequent accesses of this list are fast.

=Previous releases=

* [[ReleaseNotes046]]
* [[ReleaseNotes045]]
* [[ReleaseNotes044]]
* [[ReleaseNotes043]]
* [[ReleaseNotes042]]
* [[ReleaseNotes041]]
* [[ReleaseNotes040]]
* [[ReleaseNotes039]]
* [[ReleaseNotes038]]
* [[ReleaseNotes037]]
* [[ReleaseNotes036]]
* [[ReleaseNotes035]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-04-02T00:39:05Z

Ryanlerch: /* Receive Formal PR */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
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=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of the multi-platform, open source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, many of which were developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code program.

Inkscape can now directly import vector PDF files, and PDF export is greatly improved. Thus, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool and Live Path Effects. The 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and edit three-dimensional boxes and perspectives. Live Path Effects, another GSoC project, can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects on paths while keeping the original paths editable.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with color at the click of a mouse button, creating a closed vector path based on what's visible on the canvas. It is very fast and convenient for coloring scanned line drawings.

The new Tweak Tool allows you to modify objects as if they were made of molding clay - now you can freely sculpt any path without worrying about path nodes.

Gradients can now be edited completely on-canvas. All gradient
stops are visualized by draggable controls, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously. This approach allows for more precise and complex gradients than the traditional gradient strip.

Color management has also been improved, with initial support for
color spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated color values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
filter supported. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this adding implementations of most filters defined in the SVG standard. There is also a new powerful dialog for creating and altering filter stacks. SVG filters can be used for beveling, turbulence, distortions, shading, and many other creative effects.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces many workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogs can now be docked and minimized to the main editing window, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and dialogs clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Hundreds of users and developers have contributed to Inkscape - adding features, suggesting ideas, reporting bugs, and writing documentation. We invite anyone to contribute to this exciting project. The more help we get, the more innovative, feature-complete, and stable Inkscape becomes.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://lwn.net
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-04-01T22:40:22Z

Ryanlerch: /* Open Source Community */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| [[TeamInterview046|posted]]
| 99%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of the multi-platform, open source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, many of which were developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code program.

Inkscape can now directly import vector PDF files, and PDF export is greatly improved. Thus, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool and Live Path Effects. The 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and edit three-dimensional boxes and perspectives. Live Path Effects, another GSoC project, can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects on paths while keeping the original paths editable.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with color at the click of a mouse button, creating a closed vector path based on what's visible on the canvas. It is very fast and convenient for coloring scanned line drawings.

The new Tweak Tool allows you to modify objects as if they were made of molding clay - now you can freely sculpt any path without worrying about path nodes.

Gradients can now be edited completely on-canvas. All gradient
stops are visualized by draggable controls, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously. This approach allows for more precise and complex gradients than the traditional gradient strip.

Color management has also been improved, with initial support for
color spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated color values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
filter supported. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this adding implementations of most filters defined in the SVG standard. There is also a new powerful dialog for creating and altering filter stacks. SVG filters can be used for beveling, turbulence, distortions, shading, and many other creative effects.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces many workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogs can now be docked and minimized to the main editing window, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and dialogs clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Hundreds of users and developers have contributed to Inkscape - adding features, suggesting ideas, reporting bugs, and writing documentation. We invite anyone to contribute to this exciting project. The more help we get, the more innovative, feature-complete, and stable Inkscape becomes.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://lwn.net
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-04-01T22:39:57Z

Ryanlerch: /* Open Source Community */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| [[TeamInterview046|posted]]
| 99%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of the multi-platform, open source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, many of which were developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code program.

Inkscape can now directly import vector PDF files, and PDF export is greatly improved. Thus, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool and Live Path Effects. The 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and edit three-dimensional boxes and perspectives. Live Path Effects, another GSoC project, can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects on paths while keeping the original paths editable.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with color at the click of a mouse button, creating a closed vector path based on what's visible on the canvas. It is very fast and convenient for coloring scanned line drawings.

The new Tweak Tool allows you to modify objects as if they were made of molding clay - now you can freely sculpt any path without worrying about path nodes.

Gradients can now be edited completely on-canvas. All gradient
stops are visualized by draggable controls, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously. This approach allows for more precise and complex gradients than the traditional gradient strip.

Color management has also been improved, with initial support for
color spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated color values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
filter supported. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this adding implementations of most filters defined in the SVG standard. There is also a new powerful dialog for creating and altering filter stacks. SVG filters can be used for beveling, turbulence, distortions, shading, and many other creative effects.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces many workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogs can now be docked and minimized to the main editing window, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and dialogs clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Hundreds of users and developers have contributed to Inkscape - adding features, suggesting ideas, reporting bugs, and writing documentation. We invite anyone to contribute to this exciting project. The more help we get, the more innovative, feature-complete, and stable Inkscape becomes.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://lwn.net
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-04-01T22:27:31Z

Ryanlerch: /* Open Source Community */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| [[TeamInterview046|posted]]
| 99%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of the multi-platform, open source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, many of which were developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code program.

Inkscape can now directly import vector PDF files, and PDF export is greatly improved. Thus, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool and Live Path Effects. The 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and edit three-dimensional boxes and perspectives. Live Path Effects, another GSoC project, can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects on paths while keeping the original paths editable.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with color at the click of a mouse button, creating a closed vector path based on what's visible on the canvas. It is very fast and convenient for coloring scanned line drawings.

The new Tweak Tool allows you to modify objects as if they were made of molding clay - now you can freely sculpt any path without worrying about path nodes.

Gradients can now be edited completely on-canvas. All gradient
stops are visualized by draggable controls, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously. This approach allows for more precise and complex gradients than the traditional gradient strip.

Color management has also been improved, with initial support for
color spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated color values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
filter supported. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this adding implementations of most filters defined in the SVG standard. There is also a new powerful dialog for creating and altering filter stacks. SVG filters can be used for beveling, turbulence, distortions, shading, and many other creative effects.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces many workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogs can now be docked and minimized to the main editing window, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and dialogs clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Hundreds of users and developers have contributed to Inkscape - adding features, suggesting ideas, reporting bugs, and writing documentation. We invite anyone to contribute to this exciting project. The more help we get, the more innovative, feature-complete, and stable Inkscape becomes.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;background-color:#edfbe0;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://lwn.net
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T22:30:00Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */ removed tweak tool GSoC reference.

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the
release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their
multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and
improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the
assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilising the open
source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open
source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool and Live Path Effects.

As its name suggests, the 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and
edit the perspective of three-dimensional boxes.

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects
while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more
concrete as well.]

The new Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is
the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient
stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and
moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for
colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour
at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path
based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line
drawings.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse
Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a
new, dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on
these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface
improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a
side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between
documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on
multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future
releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG
Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include
complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project
and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more
help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T04:27:50Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */ fix typo - Gaussian Blue to Gaussian Blur

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the
release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their
multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and
improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the
assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilising the open
source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open
source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool, the
Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

As its name suggests, the 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and
edit the perspective of three-dimensional boxes.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is
the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects
while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more
concrete as well.]

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient
stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and
moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for
colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour
at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path
based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line
drawings.

The Gaussian Blur filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse
Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a
new, dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on
these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface
improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a
side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between
documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on
multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future
releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG
Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include
complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project
and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more
help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T04:19:10Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the
release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their
multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and
improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the
assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilising the open
source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open
source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool, the
Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

As its name suggests, the 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and
edit the perspective of three-dimensional boxes.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is
the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects
while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more
concrete as well.]

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient
stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and
moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for
colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour
at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path
based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line
drawings.

The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse
Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a
new, dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on
these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface
improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a
side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between
documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on
multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future
releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG
Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include
complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project
and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more
help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
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|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
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|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
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=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T02:49:32Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

New York, NY, '''INSERT DATE OF RELEASE HERE****yyyy/mm/dd****''' -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilizing the open source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box Tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more concrete as well.]

The 3D box tool can create and universally edit the perspective of 3d boxes.

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for colour spaces other than colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK. This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line drawings.

The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a new dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

WIth 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
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|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T02:46:02Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

Brisbane, Queensland, 2008/02/20 -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilizing the open source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box Tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more concrete as well.]

The 3D box tool can create and universally edit the perspective of 3d boxes.

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for colour spaces other than colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK. This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line drawings.

The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a new dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

WIth 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T02:43:17Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

Brisbane, Queensland, 2008/02/20 -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilizing the open source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing [and creating?] PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box Tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more concrete as well.]

The 3D box tool automates creation and editing of 3D box objects via an on-canvas interface.

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for colour spaces other than colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK. This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line drawings.

The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a new dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

WIth 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

<strike>
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-20T02:23:29Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| progressing
| 25%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46===

Brisbane, Queensland, 2008/02/20 -- The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.

This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilizing the open source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open source tool for editing [and creating?] PDF documents.

The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box Tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.

The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].

Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more concrete as well.]

[Also, is there a reason to mention the 'new 3D Box Tool' and then not explain what it is and what it does?]

As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and moved simultaneously.

Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for colour spaces other than colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK. This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK values, that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line drawings.

The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a new dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on these new primitives.

Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.

WIth 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.

Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.

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The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.
</strike>
===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:51:07Z

Ryanlerch: /* Informal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:50:44Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:50:15Z

Ryanlerch: /* Informal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
===Inkscape Announces 0.46 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.===
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

===Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X===
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===
Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X: 
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:46:09Z

Ryanlerch: /* Informal */

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

About Inkscape:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X: 
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:42:17Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */ added another of Bryce's rewordings...

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

<strike>
Many more new features, enhancements and performance improvements have been included. Dialogs boxes such as the fill/stroke dialog now have the ability to be docked to a side panel. On-canvas gradient editing has been greatly enhanced. The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color or it can be used to recolor existing objects. There are also the new 3D Box & Tweak tools which have been added. Our new Live Path Effects feature can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable. Color management has also been improved, with support for color spaces other than just sRGB. SVG Filters now have a dedicated UI and most Filters have been implemented.
</strike>

'''the following is struck out because i copied it directly from the 0.45 PR, should this be changed?'''

<strike>
About Inkscape:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.
</strike>

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. Beyond that, Inkscape is pushing for full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny by version 0.50, and full W3C SVG 1.1 compliance by Inkscape 1.0. Users have also contributed many great feature ideas in addition to this; the more help the project receives, the faster these goals and ideas can be achieved.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X: 
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:35:28Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */ added bryce's suggetions

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

<strike>
Many more new features, enhancements and performance improvements have been included. Dialogs boxes such as the fill/stroke dialog now have the ability to be docked to a side panel. On-canvas gradient editing has been greatly enhanced. The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color or it can be used to recolor existing objects. There are also the new 3D Box & Tweak tools which have been added. Our new Live Path Effects feature can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable. Color management has also been improved, with support for color spaces other than just sRGB. SVG Filters now have a dedicated UI and most Filters have been implemented.
</strike>

'''the following is struck out because i copied it directly from the 0.45 PR, should this be changed?'''

<strike>
About Inkscape:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.
</strike>

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Inkscape 0.45 introduced SVG Filters with the Gussian Blur filter primitive; Inkscape 0.46 greatly expands on this by adding the Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. As well, there is a new dedicated user interface for creation and alteration of complex filters based on these primitives.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites you to contribute to the project. On a global scale, Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape 1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will be accomplished.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X: 
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
|-
|}

== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|- style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome office list
|
|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svg developers yahoo group
|
|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Freshmeat.net
|
|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|gnome footnotes
|
|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|}

=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
|-
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
|
|login and submit news via top of page link
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linux-magazine.com/
|
|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxjournal.com/
|
|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxmagazine.com/
|
|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://linuxuser.co.uk
|
|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
|
|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.linuxworld.com/
|
|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://cmykmag.com/
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
|
|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|
|
|
|-
|}

=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com

AnnouncePlanning046

2008-02-19T01:30:41Z

Ryanlerch: /* Formal */ changed part about color defs

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

=Tasks=
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Task
! Performer
! Projected Date of completion
! Status
|-
| Informal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Formal PR text
| Collaborated on this wiki page
| 18th Feb 2008
| 50%
|-
| Interview
| [[user:Prokoudine|Prokoudine]]
| started
| 0%
|}

=Announcement Process=
# Create new news posts (using the small overview below) on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
# Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
# Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News on the website, the and the relevant inkscape lists (announce, user, deleveloper)
# Send out the informal announcement (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)
# Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the webpage with the formal announcement)

=Press Release Translations=
Once the English Press Release text has been finalised, translation can start into other languages.

The current goal for this PR text is to have the english version finished by 18th Feb 2008.

Please Create a new Wiki page for planning / translating the 0.46 PR in your language here:

=Press Release Text=
==Small Overview==
Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor has released version 0.46. Major updates include native PDF support, a paint bucket tool, color profiles, dockable dialogs, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, and many more features and updates.

==Informal==
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

A ton of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked to the side. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas now. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with colors and allows quick recoloring of existing objects. A new 3D Box tool helps with creating perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool gives a intuitive method for modifying node paths. The new Live Path Effects feature creates "brushes" and attaches organic effects to paths. Improvements to color management includes support for color spaces other than just sRGB. Most SVG Filters are now implemented, and now have a dedicated UI.

<strike>
Many more new features, enhancements and performance improvements have been included. Dialogs boxes such as the fill/stroke dialog now have the ability to be docked to a side panel. On-canvas gradient editing has been greatly enhanced. The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color or it can be used to recolor existing objects. There are also the new 3D Box & Tweak tools which have been added. Our new Live Path Effects feature can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable. Color management has also been improved, with support for color spaces other than just sRGB. SVG Filters now have a dedicated UI and most Filters have been implemented.
</strike>

'''the following is struck out because i copied it directly from the 0.45 PR, should this be changed?'''

<strike>
About Inkscape:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.
</strike>

==Formal==
===The Inkscape Community announce the release of Inkscape 0.46===
The Inkscape community today announced the release of the newest version of their multi platform, open source vector graphics editor, Inkscape 0.46. The latest installment of Inkscape is a feature filled release that introduces a large number of new tools and improvements, including native PDF support. Utilizing the open source libraries of Cairo and Poppler, and developed with the assistance of the Google Summer of Code, Inkscape's PDF support provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Inkscape 0.46 introduces improvements that provides enhanced work flow that complements creativity. Dialogs boxes now have the ability to be docked and minimized to a side panel, enhancing the user experience when editing multiple documents in separate inkscape instances. Gradient editing can now be done visually on-canvas, with gradient stops being depicted as nodes and the abilty to select and move multiple stops simultaneously. Color management has also been improved, with initial support for color definitions that use a colorspace other than sRGB (for example Adobe RGB, or calibrated CMYK colors). This allows for the use of calibrated color spaces, including using CMYK values that are preserved across applications.

The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be quickly filled in with color. It creates a closed path based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly coloring line drawings. Additional functionality produced by the Google Summer of Code 2007 include the new 3D Box tool, the Tweak tool and Live Path Effects. The Tweak Tool allows smooth and natural change of the shape or style of objects directly on canvas. Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and all kinds of organic effects, while keeping the original paths editable.

Previously, Inkscape 0.45 introduced the Gussian Blur filter; in 0.46 SVG Filters now have a dedicated user interface that allow creation and alteration of complex filters based on the SVG filter primitives. Filter primitives that have been implemented into the renderer include Offset, Blend, Diffuse Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence.

The Inkscape community is now working on the upcoming 0.47 release and invites anyone to contribute to the project. On a global scale, Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape 1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will be accomplished.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X: 
http://inkscape.org/download/

===For More Information===

Complete Release Notes for 0.46, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 
Community Contributed Screenshots, http://inkscape.org/screenshots/

===About Inkscape===
Inkscape is a multi platform, open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

=Places to Announce=

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

== Receive small overview ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
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|Digg
|ryanlerch
|digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
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|slashdot.org
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
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|newsvine.com/
|ryanlerch
|submit a new news item.
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== Receive Informal PR ==
=== Open Source Community ===
{| style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
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|gnome office list
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|gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
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|svg developers yahoo group
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|svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
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|SVG.org
|ryanlerch
|antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
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|svgfaq.org
|ryanlerch
|maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
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|svgfoundation.org
|ryanlerch
|michael (at) svgfoundation.org
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|cairo list
|ryanlerch
|cairo at cairographics dot org
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|gnome-list
|ryanlerch
|gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
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|Scribus List (mrdocs)
|ryanlerch
|scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
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|osnews.com
|ryanlerch
|http://osnews.com/submit.php
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|desktoplinux.com
|ryanlerch
|http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
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|SVG Cafe.com
|ryanlerch
|http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
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|Freshmeat.net
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|a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
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|gnome footnotes
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|http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
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|scale-a-vector
|ryanlerch
|kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
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|http://dot.kde.org
|ryanlerch
|http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
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|revelinux.com
|ryanlerch
|theobroma at revelinux dot com
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=== Broader Inkscape & Art Community ===
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
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|Inkscape deviantart group
|ScislaC
|http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
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|the inkscape forum
| ryanlerch
|http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
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|inkscape tutorials blog
|ryanlerch
|http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
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|open clip art library list
|ryanlerch
|clipart@freedesktop.org
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|open clip art library news
|ryanlerch
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|artdc.org forum
|johncoswell
|http://www.artdc.org/
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|bittbox.com - vector art blog
|ryanlerch
|contact(at)bittbox.com
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|The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications
|ryanlerch
|http://www.contactify.com/35b54
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== Receive Formal PR ==
{|style="background:#f2f2f2;"
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:20%;"|Contact Name
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:30%;"|Who will contact / post?
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#d3d7cf;width:50%;"|Notes...
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|http://linuxformat.co.uk/
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|login and submit news via top of page link
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|http://linux-magazine.com/
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|pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
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|http://linuxjournal.com/
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|newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
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|http://linuxmagazine.com/
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|jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
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|http://linuxuser.co.uk
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|terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
|-style="border-bottom:white 2px solid;"
|http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
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|editor at tuxmagazine dot com
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|http://www.linuxworld.com/
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|mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
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|http://cmykmag.com/
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|http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
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|dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
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|http://www.theopensourcereport.com/
|ryanlerch
|contact at theopensourcereport dot com
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|http://www.builderau.com.au/
|ryanlerch
|Chris Duckett, editor at builderau dot com dot au
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|http://www.zdnet.com.au
|ryanlerch
|edit at zdnet dot com dot au
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=== Other ===

* [http://openpr.com openpr] - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
* nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
* See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
* http://graphicdesign.about.com
* http://graphicssoft.about.com
* http://desktoppublishing.about.com