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 Channels: how to reach us Announcement To Sodipodi: this started it all Branding Travel Reimbursement Policy Funded Project System Development

User Documentation Installation International and Local Communities Inkscape glossary User manual information - where to find the free Inkscape manual and how to contribute to it Tutorials Inkscape SVG vs. plain SVG Output format requirements - what's needed to save in some formats Effect requirements - what's needed to use some effects Effect reference - what each effect does Connector tool tutorial Installing fonts Emergency save - recovery in case Inkscape crashed Release notes for version 0.92 (active development) for version 0.91 (current release) older versions: 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0.48.2, 0.48.1, 0.48, 0.47 Announcing Releases Tricks and tips - miscellaneous advice, may be slightly outdated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 Bug management Testing Translation information WebSite Inkscape Classes Conferences Fundraising Ideas HelpWanted BugTriageProjects CreatingDists: how to build packages StableBranchUpdates UpdatingTrackerItems TutorialsAndHelp How_To_Start_A_Page how to use the wiki CreatingScreencasts AboutScreenContest

Developer Documentation
First Steps Working with Bazaar - How to obtain the source code. A quick start on how to use our version control system Working with Git Compilation Compiling Inkscape on Windows Using Eclipse - Debug Inkscape on Windows using Eclipse (outdated) Using Visual Studio - Debug Inkscape on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio Developer manual - various important information, be sure to read this before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 SVN - besides the code in Bazaar, we still have some things in SVN. 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 XML subsystem (WIP) - how to manipulate the XML representation of a document Display subsystem (WIP) - how to make things appear on the canvas Tools subsystem (WIP) - how to create a new tool Creating a new SPObject Extensions Extension subsystem - an overview of the functionality provided by extensions and the possible implementations Script extensions Python modules for extensions - some helpful routines for use in Python script extensions Creating Live Path Effects Boost shared pointers Using libsigc++ signals Windows development on Linux Miscellaneous INX extension descriptor format Inkscape-specific XML attributes - documentation of attributes from Inkscape's XML namespace Extension repository: an Internet central for Inkscape Extensions Related programs	Continuous Integration (Automated testing) Our main testing website (Jenkins) How to contribute to automated tests Jenkins server setup Development Discussion Roadmap: the main todo list Dependencies - what libs are needed to build Inkscape C++11 - What C++11 features can be used NewFeatureProposals ExtensionArchitectureProposals Coding Style Discussion FileTypes ApplicationIcons (Application + Interface) Icons InkscapeColor PrintingSubsystem SVG Tiny Compliance SVG Test Suite Compliance - W3C full test suite CSS Support Google Summer Of Code Improved Media Management UI MockupScreenshots Swatch Book Tablet Dialog ViewBoxToDo View box support info Caching UI and Document coordinates‎ Mipmapping GtkMMification: replace C boilerplate with gtkmm objects CMake Tasks: Converting the Inkscape build system to CMake Lib2Geom lib2geom lib2geom Goals lib2geom FAQ lib2geom SVN Repository Guide WorkingWith2GeomFAQ: real-life questions answered about using 2Geom in real code lib2geom py2geom: python bindings to 2geom. With this you can use the power of 2geom in python scripts.
User Interface Discussion Translation_information AddingInterfaceVerbs AccessibleGraphics ObjectManager DialogsReorganization ModalInterfaces TextUsability: text tool /dialog dialog KeyboardShortcutsToDo KeyboardProfiles: how you can help StatusbarAPI Animation-(Timeline) Free Desktop Graphic Suite

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