Roadmap revised
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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 0.91 - 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