Roadmap revised

Milestone 14 - Inkscape 0.48 - Infrastructure and Bugfixing (Short Cycle, Point Releases)

Infrastructure

• Switch to DVCS
• Complete lib2geom integration
• Continue Cairoification (in new branch)

Tools:

• Text tool
  • correct handling of multiple font faces by Text tool
  • Ability of setting other units than pixels
  • Better inline style editing
  • Hyphenation
• Filters tool

Finish autoswatches

Finish Maximilian's patch for guides selection

• Aligning objects to a selected guideline
• Distribution of guides

Update LPEs that can take advantage of the new node tool (e.g. envelope)

Merge GSoC work

• Spray tool

Image links management

• Better management of image links (manage absolute and relative links properly)
• Simple UI to fix broken links or relink images
• Proper interpretation of the resolution of the imported images (i.e.: if the document's default units are cm or inches, read the resolution value of the image and scale it to fit the proper size))

Color Management

• Support for icc profiles
• Color managed view
• Use recently added color management in poppler based PDF/AI import plug-in

Guides

Desktop Integration Effort:

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

Extension Effort:

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

File Import/Export:

• File dialogues
  • Put all the non svg formats into export/import
• Uniconvertor that can handle text
• PDF Import/Export
  • Choice of PDF spec. (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3)
  • Add file info/comments
  • Generate multipage PDF documents
  • Define bleed and slug areas for offset printing
  • Add crop, bleed and registration marks
  • Add color bars
• Visio support
  • Add extension for use of VDX2SVG (http://vdxtosvg.sourceforge.net/)

Milestone 15 - Inkscape 0.49 - Code Refactoring (Long Cycle)

Libraries

• GDL - submit patches upstream, switch to dependency on upstream library
• Finish Cairoification
• Extract lib2geom, libavoid and libcoroco - switch to dependency as separate libraries

Extensions

• Make extensions more modular (groundwork for 3rd party extensions)

Switch to the usual coordinates system

Change build system

GUI

• Support for creating dock items with named icons

SP tree

Improve quality and speed of rendering