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: 2018 LGM, 2018, 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— What's needed to save in some formats Extension requirements — What's needed to use some extensions (slightly outdated) Extension reference — What each extension does (slightly outdated) Connector tool tutorial Installing fonts Emergency save — Recovery in case Inkscape crashed Release notes for versions 0.92.2 (current bugfix release) and 0.92 (current major release) older versions: 0.92.1, 0.91, 0.48.5, 0.48.4, 0.48.3, 0.48.2, 0.48.1, 0.48, 0.47 Announcing Releases Release Process Debrief Tricks and tips — Miscellaneous advice, may be slightly outdated

Help Inkscape Without Coding Help wanted Bug management Projects#Bug_Triage 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 Compilation Compiling Inkscape on Windows Using Eclipse — Debug Inkscape on Windows using Eclipse (outdated) Using Visual Studio — Debug Inkscape on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio Developer manual — Various important information, be sure to read this before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 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 Skeletal Strokes — Brushes, Strokes, Pressure Sensibility...

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 Bug Reporting Workflow — Options for improving Inkscape bug workflow from user to developer 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