Inkscape

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Project Info Inkscape Homepage About Inkscape Features FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions Supported operating systems Tools — Supporting Tools and Applications Galleries Coverage — Awards, articles, presentations, books about Inkscape Popularity Inkscape's Mission Communication — How to reach us Announcement to Sodipodi — This started it all Branding Travel Reimbursement Policy Funded Project System Development Hackfests: 2017, 2016, 2015

User Documentation Installation International and Local Communities Inkscape glossary User manual information — Where to find the free Inkscape manual and how to contribute to it Tutorials Inkscape SVG vs. plain SVG Output format requirements — What's needed to save in some formats Extension requirements — What's needed to use some extensions (slightly outdated) Extension reference — What each extension does (slightly outdated) Connector tool tutorial Installing fonts Emergency save — Recovery in case Inkscape crashed Release notes for versions 0.92.1 (current bugfix release) and 0.92 (current major release) older versions: 0.91, 0.48.5, 0.48.4, 0.48.3, 0.48.2, 0.48.1, 0.48, 0.47 Announcing Releases Tricks and tips — Miscellaneous advice, may be slightly outdated

Help Inkscape Without Coding Help wanted Bug management Bug triage projects Testing Translation information WebSite Inkscape Classes Conferences Fundraising Ideas Creating Inkscape distributions — How to build packages Stable branch updates Updating tracker items Tutorials and help How to start a page — How to use the wiki Creating screencasts About-Screen contest Participate in social media

Developer Documentation

First Steps Working with Git — How to obtain the source code. A quick start on how to use our version control system. Working with Bazaar — Our former control version system. Compilation Compiling Inkscape on Windows Using Eclipse — Debug Inkscape on Windows using Eclipse (outdated) Using Visual Studio — Debug Inkscape on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio Developer manual — Various important information, be sure to read this before coding Debugging — Random tips to help debug problems Project organization — Procedures, hierarchy, developer roles and the likes Janitorial tasks — Small tasks that need doing Doxygen documentation Working with CMake — Getting started with CMake coding for configuring and building Inkscape Developer tutorials Architectural overview — A high-level look at Inkscape Preferences subsystem — Creating and using preference values Creating a new SPObject Extensions Extension subsystem — An overview of the functionality provided by extensions and the possible implementations Script extensions — Extend Inkscape easily using scripting languages (Python, Perl, …) Python modules for extensions — Some helpful routines for use in Python script extensions INX extension descriptor format Creating Live Path Effects Boost shared pointers Using libsigc++ signals Windows development on Linux Continuous Integration (automated testing) Our main testing website (Jenkins) Jenkins server setup User Interface Discussion Interface translation Adding interface verbs Accessible graphics Object Manager Dialogs reorganization Modal interfaces Text usability — Text tool and dialog KeyboardShortcutsToDo Keyboard profiles — How you can help Statusbar API Animation-(Timeline) Free Desktop Graphic Suite

Development Discussion Roadmap — The main todo list Dependencies — What libs are needed to build Inkscape C++11 — Which C++11 features can be used New feature proposals Extension architecture proposals Coding Style Discussion File types Application icons — Application + Interface Icons Color management Printing subsystem SVG Tiny Compliance SVG Test Suite Compliance — W3C full test suite CSS Support Google Summer of Code Improved Media Management UI Mockup Screenshots Swatch Book Tablet Dialog ViewBoxToDo — View box support info Caching UI and Document coordinates‎ GtkMMification — Replace C boilerplate with gtkmm objects CMake Tasks — Converting the Inkscape build system to CMake Miscellaneous Inkscape-specific XML attributes — Documentation of attributes from Inkscape's XML namespace Extension repository — An Internet central for Inkscape extensions Related programs Lib2geom Lib2geom Goals Lib2geom FAQ Lib2geom SVN Repository Guide Working with 2Geom FAQ — Real-life questions answered about using 2Geom in real code Lib2geom py2geom — Python bindings to 2geom. With this you can use the power of 2geom in Python scripts.

See also

• Wiki Attic — Pages that are no longer relevant but kept for historical value