Roadmap

Inkscape Development Roadmap

NOTE: This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving the numbered milestones.

Milestones 0-13 have been completed since the start of the Inkscape Project. See OldRoadmap

Milestone 14 - Inkscape 0.48 - Animation

File Format Support Effort

• PDF Import/Export
  • Choice of PDF spec. (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3)
  • Add file info/comments
  • Add color bars
• Visio support
  • Add extension for use of VDX2SVG (http://vdxtosvg.sourceforge.net/)
  • (OBSOLETE) Add extension for use of PDF2SVG (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cworth/svg2pdf/)

DOM Binding Effort

• Evaluate Adobe Activescript to use instead of Spidermonkey for our JS engine
• Create sample prototype app to explore ActiveScript
• Decide whether to go with Spidermonkey or Adobe ActiveScript

Tools

• correct handling of multiple font faces by Text tool
• Filters tool
• Get basic rendering and authoring of simple animations working adequately

Desktop Integration Effort

• [PARTIALLY DONE] Inter-application cut-and-paste
• Inter-application drag-and-drop

Architectural Refactoring Effort

• Complete lib2geom integration

DOM Binding Effort

• Create tool that reads the W3C idl files and generates binding code
• Bind XPath parsing/execution
• Finish the CSS-DOM classes
• Add a run mode in a separate window that runs and displays the scripted SVG

Desktop Integration Effort

• WebDAV/FTP support via GVFS, KIO, Neon, or the like
• Finish making printing work more efficiently and reliably
• Clipart manager GUI

Inkboard Effort

• Ensure multi-user conferences work across most JEP-compliant Jabber servers
• Conduct an informal security analysis of Inkboard for security flaws

File Format Support Effort

• PDF Import/Export
  • Generate multipage PDF documents
  • Define bleed and slug areas for offset printing
  • Add crop, bleed and registration marks

Inkboard Effort

• Stabilize the code by closing crash bugs in the bug tracker

SVG Feature Compliance Effort

• Animation
  • Sketch out UI mockup ideas for animation rendering/animation
  • Make an ultra-preliminary proof of concept of at least one animation feature

Extension Effort

• Unification of the way to display help on extensions
• Localizable help of bundled extensions
• Effect extensions browser

Milestone 15 - Inkscape 0.49 - Prototype all SVG Mobile features

SVG Feature Compliance Effort

• Ability to select which SVG spec version to save as
• Multi-page
• Animation
• Implement perspective transformations via PerspectiveObject
• Path editing
• Shaped strokes
• Masking/clip paths
  • on-canvas editing (patch for 0.47 is ready)
  • Should work like gradient tool to apply transparency
• hyperlinking
• Ensure Inkscape does not throw away the internal DTD subsets of documents it reads

Milestone 16 - Inkscape 0.50 - SVG Mobile Support

SVG Feature Compliance Effort: (Also see SVG Tiny Compliance)

• Multi-page
• Scripting
• Markers
  • Inherit stroke properties (like color)
  • On-canvas editing
  • Fix snapping issue
• Real CMYK / LAB / HSB support

Milestone 17 - Inkscape 0.51

Architectural Refactoring Effort

• cairo Adoption Effort:
  • Integrate a cairo-based SVG Canvas library
• follow the Freedesktop Icon Naming Spec for easier themeing

File Format Support Effort

• Native Adobe Illustrator file Export / Import (DONE)
  • (DONE) Requires good PDF Import/Export
• Native CorelDraw file Import/Export (currently uses UniConvertor)
• DXF import/export
• Improved raster support via Gdk::Pixbuf

Milestone 18 - Inkscape 0.52 - Tech drawing abilities

User Interface Effort

• Implement iso (DONE) and hex grid
• Editable toolbars (GTK::Toolbar class)
• Geometrical constraints
  • “Perpendicular-to”, “Parallel-to”, etc.
• Path trimming/extending/offset
• Filleting tool

Extensions Effort

• Implement extension registry for users to upload/download extensions via Inkscape
• Dia-like smart shapes support

(CAD and BlueprintGeometricAndTechDrawing)

Milestone 19 - Inkscape 0.53 - Inkcore

• Separate sections of code into various libraries for use by other programs
  • inkcanvas
  • inkview
  • inkscape