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Developer Meeting Notes; May 21st 2026
by Martin Owens 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hi Devels! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Tav, Charlotte, Elendil, Mike Terry, Roland Tarlor, Seán Burke Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ We have a backlog of 23 approved but unmerged Merge Requests which need to be dealt with. The windows CI is failing for most of these and blocking the ability to merge effectivly. Martin is tasked with talking with René and Marc to figure out how to solve this problem. Tav has been working on converting opentype to harfbuz, this is especially useful for variable fonts as harfbuz gives better results. We can remove a bunch of code we were using to cope with the lack of functionality. Martin asks about unit testing for the new code, Tav hasn't gotten around to it yet. One limitation is a conflict between font variations and style in file fonts. Eventually the inkscape-font- spec attribute should go away. Martin asked about font variation information being available in the poppler pdf import. Charlotte has been working on her own extension. Has a question about aprovals for merge requests and if the approver should be the one to hit the merge button. The general consensus is that they should for contributions from non-senior contributors, but not for senior developers generally. Though this isn't policy. Roland has given us an update on the first full week of the Bug Accelerator program 2026.1, has been working through the priority list and get down to a short list. Removing issues which have been kicked down the road but are not actually applicable any more. Developers are working on crashes as a priority for this week. Roland is giving usability blockers more priority to help with Inkscape's usability. The end of the month is the targrt for having a solid work list of priorities for the program. Elendil discovered a feature and wants to remove it. It's an obscure feature of the grid which allows incremental moves but was using the Alt key which was inconsistant with other features. The feature is removed as it's not useful and not documented anywhere. The keyboard bindings for some other items are updated too and Elendil wanted to know if the default should be in the xml or the code, Martin says the code unless the default should actually be "disabled". Martin talked about the color work and the new rendering engine. Giving a brief overview of where we are and what the direction of travel is for getting this merged into 1.5. The new static color functionality refactoring is all merged thanks to pbs for the review. The ongoing work to add test cases for the drawing code should prove that the display tree interface for the new rendering engine is the same as the old code and can be swapped out for testing. Roland gives Martin thanks for the PDF work which he's used on multiple projects so far. Martin is proud of the stability of the PDF output as it's been tested by more people and proven itself to be more dependable and faster than the old cairo output. Next meeting is the 29th May and is the earlier meeting. Thanks everyone for coming!

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Developer Meeting; May 13th 2026
by Martin Owens 13 May '26

13 May '26

Hey everyone! First week with our new hires attending with us. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Seán Burke, Ishaan Arora, Mc, Mike Terry, René, Roland Taylor, Tav, Charlotte Next meeting: May 21st, later time, https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We kick off today's meeting with introductions of the new contract hires and all the volunteer developers. Martin explains how the developer meeting works, cadence, format and questions and what the developer team is. We now kick off into the meeting proper: René has been doing some infrastructure work for windows and macOS. An open merge request to look at. Has been packaging a different Gtk4 application to improve support for Gtk4 on macOS as a side quest so we don't have just Gimp and Inkscape using it. Martin has been continuing their work on the rendering engine. Has a new color API merge request which needs review. It allows the calling of internal functions for color conversion by the rendering engine much faster than the std::vector pathway as well as various other fixes. lcms2 is still slow though in comparison. Marc asked about windows arm support in the build system. René pledges to work on it during the long weekend. Marc says that the system might be a good option for x86 as well as arm. Ishaan asked about PDF export and if we will support cairo going forwards. Martin says that the plan is to support CapyPDF going forwards and not fix issues with the cairo export. Marc asked about 1.4.5 and if that was going to happen. ltlnx wasn't here to answer so Marc will proceed as if there will be no more 1.4.x releases wrt packaging maintenance. Marc has fixed some communication issues on the website as downstreams were packaging the arm build by default which was not great. Marc asked Martin about the website and creating a new platform for x86-64bit which is more specific that the current platform `64bit`. Martin says yes and redirects can be created, though only for one at a time. Charlotte wanted to look into py2geom, it's not ready yet. Decided to use the addon system in C++ instead of a python based system. Because of a deadline will put the python functionality to one side. Perceptual grouping, imported from pdf which can group based on them being together visually. Tav has been going down a rabbit hole with memory leaks in the color font; while searching found other memory problems in freetype. Rewriting using Harfbuz directly but then found an issue with the optical size values in variable fonts. Removing the fudge we have in the sizing for hinting actually makes us more consistant with firefox. Martin gives some instruction for the bug accelerator program and what it will look like and how people will be meeting. Ishaan talks about an issue with text alignment, where Inkscpe is now more compatible, but the user experience is now broken as we appear to be including extra spaces at the ends of lines which then result in ugly spacing. This certainly is a regression, but it can't be fixed by making Inkscape less compatible with other programs. So the xml we produce for text must be changed to remov the ugly spacing instead. We talked about the recent AI announcement by GitLab and what the risks are. Developers reported that they see the AI UX even though it's switchef off for our project. Members inccouraged to report the issue to GitLab. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's busy meeting! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape 1.4.4 is out!
by Maren Hachmann 06 May '26

06 May '26

Inkscape 1.4.4 ============== Inkscape 1.4.4 is now available for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.4 BUGFIX and MAINTENANCE RELEASE ------------------------------ Inkscape 1.4.4 is be a bugfix and maintenance release, which brings you 20 crash fixes, more than 25 bug fixes and performance improvements, a couple small new features, and comes with almost 20 updated translations. The most important fixes and changes in this release are: * 20 crash fixes, among them for three nasty bugs where Inkscape wouldn't even start * almost 20 other bug fixes * 6 changes that improve performance * a new palette * a new button for rotating stars and polygons into their 'neutral' or 'upright' position * 27 updated interface translations * 15 updated documentation translations * installation files for Windows on Arm See the release notes for more information (also about known issues): https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Like its predecessor, it is also a bridge release in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format (MR #7608). Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525. Report Bugs ----------- Please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab! https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting; May 5th 2026
by Martin Owens 05 May '26

05 May '26

Hey Everyone, No attendees for this week's meeting. Next meeting is the earlier meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ hope to see you all there, it's the earlier one. Best regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting; April 27th 2026
by Martin Owens 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

Hey everyone, Big thanks to everyone who could make this week's meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Ishaan, Tav, Willy, René, Marc, Vaibhav Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ May 5th Tav has got his color font merge request ready, has put the run time check and make sure to keep the unit test separation with using flags instead of prefs. We talk about testing with fonts and the problems with testing with isolating fonts. There needs to be more leeway with visual tests and the tiny differences that don't matter. We want to push upstream to release Cairo, especially because 1.5 depends on it as a blocker. Tav will be working on namespace sanitisation and cleanup. He's found an interesting way to make an alias to help with compile issues. René has been busy working on the hiring committee with Martin. Martin worked on a small feature for Chris adding in an algo for nodes who's segments are invisible; thus removing nodes which are very close together. Tav and Martin talked about the removal of shape-inside from the SVG 2.0 specification. Martin doesn't like the way text shaping is now worse in 2.0 than it even was in SVG 1.2. Willy has been working on the 1.4.4 release; is working on the risks and advantages. Has a deadline of Thursday to get things together. Marc asked about a docs update; maren has made the merge requests for that and translations. The target date is May 1st. Ishaan reports about extensions not working on 1.4.4rc on macOS and asks René. René says he has a small window to be able to fix it. Ishaan reports the problem started in 1.4.3 so isn't a recent change. The release is scheduled for May 6th. Charlotte asks about the py2geom and the ability to have it available in inkex; she says she may work on getting it packaged for pypi and hopefully get a wheel made for various operating systems. Marc has mostly been working on release management tasks; cleanup up the architectures, but could do with more testing for Arm windows if possible. Updated the ppa so we're ready to update to 1.4.4 when we want. Vaibhav has been working on some performance and crash related issues. Happy to report that various open issues can be closed because they've been fixed in the meantime. Martin and René give a brief update on the status of the hiring process. They opened the floor for any questions the developer team might have had about the program, Marc asked if they were happy with the candidates and we had 38 C++ applicants and they were able to select really good candidates from that pool to interview. They are are about make a decision about who to hire. Have a good week everyone! Martin,

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Inkscape 1.4.4 release candidate available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 25 Apr '26

25 Apr '26

Inkscape 1.4.4 Release Candidate ================================ Inkscape 1.4.4rc is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! For the first time, we also provide packages for Windows on Arm. Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release which is due in less than 2 weeks from now. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.4rc BUGFIX and MAINTENANCE RELEASE ------------------------------ Inkscape 1.4.4 will be a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you 20 crash fixes, more than 25 bug fixes and performance improvements, a couple small new features, and will come with more than 25 updated translations. See the release notes draft for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4.4 Like the previous version, Inkscape 1.4.4 will also be a 'bridge release' in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format. Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525. KNOWN ISSUES ____________ * On macOS, if Inkscape has been started from the command line, extensions will not work (both in the graphical user interface as well as when only using the Inkscape commandline). Many import / export file formats provided by Python extensions are also affected. This is a security feature added in 1.4.3 for official macOS .dmg files, which fixes CVE-2025-15523. Learn more about it in our bug tracker at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items/6047 * On Wayland (display server), depending upon the Gtk version your system uses, a crash may occur when moving a docked tab, or closing a floating dialog. Trying to undock a dialog may result in the wrong dialog being undocked (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/6013). Report Bugs ----------- Use at your own risk, and please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab! https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this pre-release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Team Meeting, April 19th 2026
by Martin Owens 19 Apr '26

19 Apr '26

Hey everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Vaibhav, Ishaan, Philip, René, Tav Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ CI builds with 26.04 from Ubuntu 24.04 and there are some breakages which will need attention. This was highlighted by a PPA failure with test failures. There were some ASAN issues, these might have effected our CI, but don't appear to be. The test failures appear to be related to fonts. Martin talks about how capypdf works with fonts and how the system in the CI might be failing in it. We talk about the test failures for antialiasing and improving robustness. Vaibhav has been working on backports. Wants to talk about a merge request for a crash ready for review. Ishaan wanted to talk about the issue in Gtk4 clipboard and the missing functionality. We talk about the C++ bug fixing program and how much the contractor will have to fix bugs in upstream projects like Cairo, Gtk4 etc. There's Gtk4 demos which we can test to see what can be fixed in Inkscape for 1.5. Martin has continued working on the new rendering engine with a full separation of SPstyle using templating and a consistent API use they are now developing a way to allow the current rendering engine to print out the code for a running svg file so we can copy paste those outputs into test files to make sure we are getting the same output in the new engine. Philip and Martin talk about the new engine's place, and how the discipline could help with using a GPU rendering engine in the future. Pillip wanted to ask René about the CI improvements for pinning. The linux CI is not pinned and asks about the setup in use for the repository for ci building. There are details which this note taker does not understand, but it looks like a bunch of work are possible but would take time with GitLab. Philip asks Tav about his color font merge request. There's an open merge request which can be fixed; any cairo version before 2027 would deadlock instead which we can patch in windows and macOS but not on Linux. Martin requests checks to avoid the new fix from causing the deadlock for users who might paste emoji into their document. Philip finishes with the lib2geom test case issues; there's been a build up of test issues for various platforms. There's some slight differences between archetectures and Philip believes some of the features can't be fixed at all. Martin advises to contact previous lib2geom contributors at the same time as investigating the issues and seeing what is possible to fix and what tests will have to be disabled. Tav is planning on a refactoring branch to cleanup the namespace use of Inkscape. Martin suggests that using namespace Inkscape is valid for a lot of code since it's part of Inkscape. Ishaan reports that the 1.4.4 release in on schedule and thanks ltlnx (Willy) for their work on backporting. René would like to understand how the python interaction works for macOS for 1.4.4 but this might not be possible in the time. Thank you everyone for coming to this week's meeting.

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Inkscape Developer Meeting Notes, April 11th 2026
by Martin Owens 11 Apr '26

11 Apr '26

Hey everyone, A smaller meeting from last week, but some heavily topics. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, karliss, Mikekov, Tav, Elendil Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Tav has been fixing bugs with the svg font, a crash. May have found a problem in the regex where strings are defreferenced. We talk about cairo bugs and the need to pay close attention to the versions. We will need fixes from code that isn't even released upstream yet, but we should still specify we need that future version. With a critical problem hanging around for developers, testers and future 1.5 users. Elendil talks about the poppler drama with versions constantly needing IFDEFs and Martin talks about the problems with the upstream poppler design making font interfaces private. We have an indepth discussion about the problem with depedencies and upstreams and how receptive they are to accommodating our needs. Karliss has been doing some pixel alignment and some other issues. Martin has been working on unpicking the Gradient paint servers and trying to allow the rendering engine to work without needing to include th whole of the SPObject tree and SPStyle. These includes prevent proper unit testing. Mikekov has been working on his object properties dialog. We had a longer discussion about the AI policy. Mikekov will probably stop contributing to the project if and when we stop allowing AI contributions. He believes that the project would benifit from having merge request reviewed by AI and that the capabilities of these tools are quite a bit more capable than the project believes. Martin has his own issues with AI and a frank discussion is had about some of the many dimentions involved in the discussion. We get into merge requests and the history of trying to have enough people to review code being submittd to the project. If a proposal is before the project about using a new tool, then we'd be looking for something ethical, pen source and capable; no matter what it's tooling was. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting!

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Developer Meeting Notes; April 3rd 2026
by Martin Owens 03 Apr '26

03 Apr '26

Hey everyone, Big thanks to everyone who was able to join our dev meeting which happened at the same time as the PLC meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: René, Karliss, Charlotte, mgmax, Philip, Tav, Martin, Vaibhav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ René; update on hiring process for bugfix accelerator, applications are coming in and official deadline is soon. Also updating dependencies for Win/macOS for upcoming release. Pointless reporting of security issues by AI agents who don't understand the codebase and can't answer questions about the problem. MC provides access to Windows ARM, René will test that will look into offloading Windows CI with budget of 150 Euros to pay for cloud provider. Tav asks if Inkscape will run on new "cheap" mac, Rene says yes it should, the architecture is the same. Less powerful chip and 8 GB RAM, but Apple claims to use memory more efficiently. Vaibhav has no problem on 8 GB low-end macbook. Charlotte, has been doing some windows testing. Failed successfully. Philip tried to do a fix for this specific static threading windows bug but it's quite a difficult problem. A couple of people have tried to fix it. He thanks Charlotte for the testing and asks follow up questions. Has a limited machine to do development on. Karliss, pixel alignment related issues. Links us to an issue related to security issues which allows svgs with unsafe problems in them. Philip has looked into this issue too; it's partly an upstream issue in Gio and similar pathways. Martin asks if it's possible to deal with the issues on a case by case basis. Tav; getting back into some old merge requests. Some specific libnrtype changes which now have a merge conflict thanks to some recent unit testing work. mgmax has an old merge request which they were asked to present at the meeting. It's a windows script which sets up everything for you. (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7557) it also allows a virtual machine for testing. Martin has already looked into it, and wants to get more visibility on the changes. René wants to know if this is based on the CI toolchain which is based on making a fixed image with better stability. This new script uses the developer instructions which is a rolling release. Max and Rene will get into contact to get the MR merged and to get the scripts and documentation changed to use a fixed MSYS image instead of rolling release. Vaibhav has continued their performance optimisations, in existing issues. An LPE specific issue using simplify (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7833) the reason is because of update signals that happen on every selection change. Martin has been working on text on path and text in shape to catch up to the big improvements in Krita text handling. Tav and Martin talk about the SVG spec support, and Krita using SVG for their vector layers giving the spec two implemetations which is important. The new text functionality is basically ready, but will need more testing. We talk about the steam issues and move on to talking about our relationship with the SFC. See you all next time! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes, March 26th 2026
by Martin Owens 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Dear Devels, This weeks meeting was quite interesting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Lola Egherman, Mikekov, ltlnx, Vaibhav Ted introduced Lola Egherman to Inkscape at SCaLE; they are a worker for a non-profit which helps people get into Free Software projects and learn to code. Has joined us to learn about how to contribute to Inkscape to hopefully guide people into contributing. We talked about all the conferences in the world like SCaLE, FOSDEM, the difference between cultures in various places and the interesting people who work on FOSS. Martin points to the python extensions as a good introduction to contributing and we talk about the various ways in which you can get into inkscape and how difficult various types of contributions are. Mikekov has been working on the same sorts of things. A paint widget refactoring which uses the SPObject directly was a mistake and this caused Mikekov to have to rethink the solution to the problem. The issues with the style system as a whole was discussed. Martin talks about the problems with getting merge requests approved and merged and we talked about the problems with a lack of senior developers involved in the project as we've had a big attrition this year. Martin has been working on text inside shape and text on path and gives a little demonstration. There's some refactoring and some ancient bugs which have cropped up need fixing but it's fairly nice to use. Vaibhav has been working on speed problems, flame graphs and things are improving. Running individual test units multiple times to get data for speed testing. Ltlnx has been working on some design work and is impressed by the speed of 1.5 compared to 1.4. Has been working on fixing 1.4 issues for 1.4.4. Next meeting is April 3rd, thanks everyone for coming! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, 18th March 2026
by Martin Owens 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

Hey everyone, Attending: Tav, Martin, Vaibhav, Mikekov, ltlnx Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Vaibhav has been working on speed, producing flame graphs. Martin and Vaibhav talked about making speed tests for unit testing, with cmake and CI integrations which could be optionally run. Tav is working on Inkscape again and has got their merge requests up to date. Tav and Vaibhav talked about search improvements, especially with speed problems. It's creating a new widget by loading a glade file for every action in the search. Causing significant delays. Tav says there newer widgets that would be useful, Martin says theres ways to use widget tree as a template. For 1.4 it could just be brought into C++ instead of using glade at all. We talk about using ListViews and other such constructs. Martin has been working on a small feature improvement to the Measurement Tool to take a break from all the engine work. It allows angles and curve length to be measured in a more useful way and has involved a bunch of users and designers testing everything. Mikekov has worked on the Document Properties dialog. Now the object properties is more featureful it's useful to rename it to maybe just "Properties". Martin suggests that speed issues would be increasing important as the dialog's main design requires and suggest it should be always open. And thus is should never cause speed issues. Vaibhav did some speed testing already which we reviewed in the meeting. It's building all the patterns, even when patterns aren't being used. Tav and Mikekov talk about tspan updating issues with position and what it all means. Martin tested the issue with x,y coords being ignored in tspans and we narrowed it down to sodipodi:line attributes which cause our svg rendering to diverge from the way the svg would be rendered anywhere else. Ltlnx has been starting the work for 1.4.4 and organising the point release. There's some things to backport. He's negotiating a date with the vector, documentation and translations. This should get these fixes out by end of May. Thanks to everyone who could come to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting March 10th 2026
by Martin Owens 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Hey everyone. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Vaibhav, Tav, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Tav hasn't done much programming but did conclude there wasn't enough people interested in an LGM adjacent event to warrent a seperate event. Instead he'll make a vote to allow contributors to go to LGM itself if they want to. Vaibhav has some questions about how to attend. Vaibhav has been fixing some speed issues trying to learn about flame graphs, profiling and finding out why certain things in Inkscape are so slow. Mikekov and Vaibhav talk about the tooling. Mikekov has been finishing up work on the Object Properties dialog for Text support to allow users to access text properties from the omni data access design¹. He's also looking at information for the document properties. the goal for the document properties is to allow it to be docked on the side without taking up too much space. Martin has been working on removing SPStyle from drawing-rendering, the libNRType is already split out in a new MR so that's waiting to be merged. Last night they added a feature for the measurement tool to measure line segmentss in paths. Thanks everyone, sort meeting this week! Martin, ¹ https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7784

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We're hiring!
by René de Hesselle 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

The Inkscape project is looking for two developers 🧑‍💻🧑‍💻 and a bug administrator 🐛 to work with our team on preparing Inkscape version 1.5! Learn all about who we are looking for: https://inkscape.org/news/2026/03/02/inkscape-is-hiring-2026-1/ Applications must be submitted by 📆 April 10th, 2026. #WorkInFLOSS #FLOSS #job #freesoftware

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Developer Meeting Notes 2nd March 2026
by Martin Owens 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Dear Devels, Another week and another great developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, René, Tav, Peyton Murray, pbs, Vaibhav Next event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ René starts with his CI improvements project for windows. He's made a project at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7796 the main problem for GitLab GI is that it's a type of headless windows system which doesn't have the graphics stack needed event to run -- version. To current solution is René is running a machine in his parent's basement which is unsustainable. He's found a provider who can solve this issue for us. But it will cost us money to run this. We discussed how much compute time we would need and René will make a vote with the plc for a 3 month trial for 150 euros to get a sense of the resources needed. The developer team is in agreement. Tav wants to organise people to go to LGM and maybe meet up beforehand. Martin recommends creating the budget and assessing interest so we know who would like to go. We talked briefly about the hotel costs. Mikekov has been working on a text panel for the object properties which is different from other style properties in it's complexity. Thinks he may have to make a new style handler. Martin talked about the engine work, they are working on separating out the drawing item layer into unit testing involving the SP-Style and NRType interactions. The only issue is pixbuf use in FontInstance which they're working on splitting out. The work on unitising more of inkscape code to improve our ability to maintain the project. Phlip asked about the marker work, is continuing his work on recovering Rafael's marker refactoring code. Tav was asked about the specification for svg for marker. We talk about context style. Refactoring is part of that work which needs to be extracted out. Vaibhav has been finishing the Refactoring LPE Mask branch and would like testing. Is working on the flowed text speed differences between 1.4 and 1.5 there are only small differences. We talk about the best practices for logging and preformance testing. Peyton talks about looking at issues to fix. We talked about the trace bitmap functionality. We talk about the milestones, and the gtk migration and the dificulty of editing ui files now that Gtk no longer. We briefly coverage support and performance testing now we have units. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Hiring Help Needed
by Martin Owens 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Dear Inkscape Members, We had a vote to approve hiring three people to work on stabilising Inkscape 1.5. Two programmers and one administrator. but I can't continue with the hiring process because I need one other Inkscape member to volunteer their time to help with the hiring process. The usual senior contributors are really busy and won't be available for this task; so I need to come to you all and ask if you are available to help make sure Inkscape can spend it's money on doing what we need to get done this year. The task is simple, look at applications, perform interviews via video (camera not required) and discuss with me and we pick people to hire. Simple. Are you available? Best Regards, Martin Owens Bug Accelerator Hiring Comittee

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Inkscape Meeting Notes, Feb 14th 2026
by Martin Owens 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

Hey everyone, We had a focused discussion this week about the AI Policy, including a demonstration of Mikekov using UI to do work and what that looks like for him. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Vaibhav, Martin, Elendil Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Mikekov gave a full report on his testing of windsurf running claude, the system seems to work well for him for code viewing and understand and then on to planning. The system needs to be driven at each point and driection is added at each point. The output might not be optimal, but with enough prodding he gets good output. Martin has concerns about the ownership and the way in which a Free Software project can reasonable document or recommend tools which are fundermentally unfree. Unfortunatly the amount of hardware needed makes an actually free and capable system unlikely, even for a large project with a shared machine. Vaibhav asked some great questions about the AI system. Martin asked Mikekov to do a demonstration using a task Martin is currenly doing in the rendering engine work. As a team we worked through the prompt and asked Mikekov's personal subscription to work through the small refactoring problem. It's was fairly successful, though Martin will be reviewing it's output for accuracy. We talked about how these tools are available, and their costs. And the ability for summary text to be used in commit messages, and if that is an appropriate way to document code changes or if programmrs should be required to write their own messages. Adding plans and other meta data to the commit or repository or if we should require them to be attached for example with disclosure. We also reviewed a new merge requests for Elendil at the end of the meeting. Thanks to everyone who was able to come. See you next week. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes, Jan 29th 2026
by Martin Owens 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

Hi all! A busy meeting today! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Charlotte, Cesar, Manpreet, Vaibhav, Cesar, René, Mikekov, Philip, ramanshu Next meeting: 6th Feb https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ We did some introductions of everyone for anyone new, where we're from and what we interested in. Rene Spend some time in windows related research and CI, we have our own self hosted runner for project members and because Gtk introduced a dependency which isn't available in the gitlab CI runner. Finding alternative ways from new runner infrastructure, a mirror for MSYS2. This is in the research phase. Speed improvements to the windows builder could be improved with downloads and cache collection. The project thanks René for hosting those windows machines. We talked about the windows CI build failing for non-project members and because it's distressing for new contributors, Rene says he'll turn it off for non-project members and it will continue to work for the merge train. We talked about the clang format job and Martin recommended to Philip to talk to the people who set that system up about how strict we should be. Marc was the main contact. For macOS, rene says the current CI doesn't support the latest Tahoe, he's going to wait for infrastructure to catch up. One example of possible future issues is a new icon format we can't generate atm. We talked about an old merge request for a new icon on macOS. René is supporting Gnome by contributing CI and patches as a Gnome Foundation Member. 👍️ Charlotte has been busy, but keeping an eye on some issues, the recent files issue on windows, and some other windows crashes. Mikekov has been working on various UI elements, moving Gtk3 assumptions to Gtk4 technologies for example in themes listing. Mikekov asked René about shipping themes in macOS because the directory contains other things which we don't want to ship for example scss pre- compile CSS. René asked for Mikekov to let him know the details. Mikekov has been working on the transform dialog to separate things out without the refactoring changing functionality. Requests for the merge request to tested before being merged. Philip is replacing the ColorItem with new Gtk4 rendering. Mikekov and Matin suggested API changes which he's going to implement. Martin and Philip talk about the color API, premultiplication and some of the implications for rendering and how values are stored and moved around. Mostly HSL isn't really useful, but Martin is going to allow the widest possible rendering and allow Inkscape to choose what to allow users to do, even if the output is not useful and quite mad. Mikekov wants some more general code for widget rendering and Philip talked about how the code could be separate for ColorItems. Vaibhav has been looking into their merge requests for object properties speed improvements when selecting a lot of path elements in the XML editor for example. We all talk about writing parsers, different ways of writing them effectively and moving away from slower Regex. Manpreet is going to work on the illustrator text support. Martin wanted to know where we are in the support we are and what kind of help or support they might need to get the functionality completed. Ishaan has been dealing with every issue and triaging. ⭐️ Mikekov asked about LGM and events. We don't have a confirmation about events this year, but we can budget and send people to LGM even without an Inkscape specific event. Philip wanted to talk about 1.5 and if it's ready to start scheduling more firmly. Windows has some shop stoppers for 1.5, Charlotte says. Can't type texted, can't resize windows. Upstream Gtk4 issues which aren't getting fixed. Vaibhav reports issues for 1.5 on macOS with windows and drag and drop. Martin is going to push the paid 1.5 Bug Accelerator program forwards in order to get some of this work scheduled. Philip asked about creating an alpha that doesn't impose a hard freeze. Ishaan notes there's a lot of issues for 1.5 already and this isn't prioritised well yet. Hopefully the paid admin position will help with this. René asked about GSoC, but there's no one available to do the admin work and so we're working on No for now. René might be able to do it, but the stars will have to align to allow him to be able to do it. Philip wanted to talk about coroutines and if it would be OK to add out own. Martin says that adding our own should be permissible given the restrictions and advantages, so long as it's done cleanly. The goal is removing the event pumper for file dialog, clipboards and extensions but it will require a lot of refactoring. Dealing with uemf issues now that it's under our control. There's comments from the original maintainer which would be useful to commit as a README. Martin asked that explicit permission be asked before sharing a private communication. That's it for this week. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Jan 21st 2026
by Martin Owens 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Hey Everyone, Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Tav This week because it there was a small number of people we did a show and tell. Martin took everyone on a tour of the new rendering engine as it's being built. The audience offered questions and tips on where to improve the documentation to make it all more understandable. Mikekov went through some testing of themes and various issues we might have in Gtk4 for 1.5. Thanks everyone for coming! I was actually a two hour meeting! Martin,

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Developer Meeting Notes, Jan 13th 2026
by Martin Owens 13 Jan '26

13 Jan '26

Hey everyone! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Willy, Mikekov, Charlotte, Martin, Tav Tav hasn't done much but did work on some namespace cleanups. Martin and Tav taked briefly about namespaces and how code should be cleaned up, being verbose vs. moving code into the correct namespace. Mikekov has been working on a text combo box widget. Has a look at the pages toolbar, the page size selector is quite advanced and uses cell renderers. In order to update it for Gtk4 it would require components which aren't supported in C++. The main target for this work is the font family. It increases the speed significantly though doesn't have the flexibility of customisation. Charlotte, started a new semesta and new classes so hasn't had a lot of extra time. But has looked at a few bugs, some windows bugs including the drive letter bug. But isn't as intense at the moment. Willy has been working on documentation to improve how people join gitlab and understand it better. Martin has been working on code reviews, some issue testing and the new engine work which is slowly starting to get unpicked from it's knotty integration into every inkscape layer. It reminds me just how hard it is to keep API and code clean when we work with so many people over so long a history. But it's still going to be important for future development to work on that more. A reminder to everyone to add their comments to the on going discussion about the AI policy: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-board/-/issues/5 Next meeting is the earlier time, on Wed 21st Jan. Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Jan 5th 2026
by Martin Owens 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Devs! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Tav, Martin, Mikekov, ramanshu, ltlnx, Ramyak Shama, Vaibhav AI Policy is in progress and in research stage, we discussed some experiments various people had done and a lot of the limitations. And the 2FA policy given to us by the PLC couldn't be discussed as no one who deals with that were present at the meeting. Tav, revisiting the color font stuff and hatches improvements but haven't gotten very far. Mikekov has been on vacation, has been working on merge requests reviews and helping things along. ltlnx, has also been on vacation and has been doing some bug management. Martin has been working on DrawingSurface and has some questions about memory management and Mikekov gave advice about how to manage heap vs. stack construction. ramashu brought a question about thier merge request using Gtk and finding the API for Gtk and the best resources. Mikekov and Martin offered some advice about how to look for documentation. We talked about the problems in gtk4 and the cell renderer no longer using CSS to control the nodes. And the missing icons in the layers and objects dialog. ltlnx wants to talk about roadmap policy and has done some research into other project and what hey are doing. Martin talked about previous discussions about roadmap teams and policy. Vaibhav asked after pono about the steam distribution and how we can distribute Inkscape on steam. No further information was available. We talked about various project organisational steps for the future. Thanks for coming everyone, Martin,

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AI Use Policy Discussion
by Martin Owens 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

Dear PLC, Charlotte has kicked off this discussion by creating an issue for us: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-board/-/issues/5 the first round is to collect examples of other projects having such policies. If you know of any good examples, can you add them to the issue? Thanks everyone! And thanks Charlotte for running with this important work. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Meeting Notes, Dec 28th 2025
by Martin Owens 28 Dec '25

28 Dec '25

Dear Devels, There was a problem with our chat server, so most people didn't know about today's meeting. As well as it being in the mid yule tide. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte We talked about AI policy and the growing trend of projects to state explicitly how they deal with AI generated code, AI merge requests and AI reviews. A lot of open source projects are rejecting contributions directly, while some are warning that they will give less time to verbose and overwraught AI contributions than real human ones. We currently do not have an AI policy at all. We also talked about the pdf importer code and a decent plan to refactor it so we reduce the amount of poppler's code that we copy from upstream (Gfx.cc, Font etc) to improve maintainability. Short meeting, but a great one on one conversation. ⭐️ See you all next time! Monday Dec 5th at 10am EST Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape 1.4.3 is out!
by Maren Hachmann 26 Dec '25

26 Dec '25

Inkscape 1.4.3 ============== Inkscape 1.4.3 is now available for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.3 BUGFIX and MAINTENANCE RELEASE ------------------------------ Inkscape 1.4.3 is be a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. The most important fixes and changes in this release are: * 24 crash/freeze fixes many of which prevented users from opening certain files or exporting certain objects with Inkscape 1.4.2 * almost 100 bug fixes and small improvements, among them: * JPEG/JPG export works again on Windows. * The problem with user interface text showing up as rectangles ('tofu') instead of letters if certain fonts are installed on macOS is finally resolved. * Ungrouping big groups is faster again. * All pasting options ('on page', 'width'/'height'/'size'/…) are now accessible from the right-click menu on canvas. * The Measure tool snaps again at its end point, so you can make accurate measurements again. * The LPE dialog now offers to convert Line, Polyline or Polygon SVG objects to paths before applying a path effect to them * When resizing the Inkscape window, the buttons in the Commands bar (copy, paste, open, dialog shortcuts) show up one by one instead of waiting for the window to get big enough to show the second half at once. * When converting strokes to paths, patterns and gradients are no longer lost. * Aligning on a circle or arc now works more reliably. * Text on Path now also works with rectangles. * Many improvements have been made to the PDF import. * Results from path operations no longer end up at the bottom of the object stack unexpectedly and the Split Path operation has learnt to better handle nested shapes. * The current layer by default is now the one where you have last selected an object (might need a preferences reset to apply). * Whether the current page is changed when you select an object on it has been made optional. * You can now make small changes to how Inkscape looks without needing to modify the full theme file. * The bug that sometimes made it impossible to make gradients and patterns fully opaque has been prevented from reaching adulthood (it has been around since 2007!). * and 25 updated interface languages as well as 13 updated documentation languages! See the release notes for more information (also about known issues and workarounds): https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.3/Inkscape_1.4.3.html Inkscape 1.4.3 is also a 'bridge release' in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format. Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7525 Report Bugs ----------- Please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab! https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Inkscape Developer Meeting Dec 21 2025
by Wen-Wei Kao 20 Dec '25

20 Dec '25

Hi devs, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Tav, Willy Martin and Tav discussed about a potential 1.4.4 release, and when 1.5 could be in shape to be released. We also talked about some ideas for a potential 1.5 bug accelerator program. Willy raised the last blocker issue in this release, the tab dragging bug, and we devided that we'll do our best to pinpoint the commit of the bug and report upstream. But due to it being an upstream bug, also affecting other programs, and affects platforms none other than Wayland+Linux with GTK 3.24.49+, it won't be a blocker. The 1.4.3 release will go on schedule, which will be released on December 26, 2025. The date was decided on by the Vectors due to the unavailability of volunteers on the holidays. Thanks everyone for coming, and happy holidays! -- Willy

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Inkscape 1.4.3 release candidate available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Inkscape 1.4.3 Release Candidate ================================ Inkscape 1.4.3rc(2) is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release which is due in less than 2 weeks from now. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.3rc BUGFIX and MAINTENANCE RELEASE ------------------------------ The upcoming Inkscape 1.4.3 will be a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. The most important fixes and changes in this release are: * 24 crash/freeze fixes many of which prevented users from opening certain files or exporting certain objects with Inkscape 1.4.2 * and almost 100 bug fixes and small improvements, among them: * JPEG/JPG export works again on Windows. * The problem with user interface text showing up as rectangles ('tofu') instead of letters if certain fonts are installed on macOS is finally resolved. * Ungrouping big groups is faster again. * All pasting options ('on page', 'width'/'height'/'size'/…) are now accessible from the right-click menu on canvas. * The Measure tool snaps again at its end point, so you can make accurate measurements again. * The LPE dialog now offers to convert Line, Polyline or Polygon SVG objects to paths before applying a path effect to them * When resizing the Inkscape window, the buttons in the Commands bar (copy, paste, open, dialog shortcuts) show up one by one instead of waiting for the window to get big enough to show the second half at once. * When converting strokes to paths, patterns and gradients are no longer lost. * Aligning on a circle or arc now works more reliably. * Text on Path now also works with rectangles. * Many improvements have been made to the PDF import. * Results from path operations no longer end up at the bottom of the object stack unexpectedly and the Split Path operation has learnt to better handle nested shapes. * The current layer by default is now the one where you have last selected an object (might need a preferences reset to apply). * Whether the current page is changed when you select an object on it has been made optional. * You can now make small changes to how Inkscape looks without needing to modify the full theme file. * The bug that sometimes made it impossible to make gradients and patterns fully opaque has been prevented from reaching adulthood (it has been around since 2007!). * and 23 updated interface languages and 12 updated documentation languages! See the release notes draft for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4.3 Inkscape 1.4.3 will also be a 'bridge release' in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format. Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525. (the release candidate corresponds to the INKSCAPE_1_4_3_RC2 tag in the Gitlab repository) Report Bugs ----------- Use at your own risk, and please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab ! If you find any issue with this beta version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this beta release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting Dec 12th 2025
by Martin Owens 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Hey devs, Big meeting today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Ltlnx, Marc, Mikekov, René, Pbs, Regie, Ishann, Tav, Vaibhav # The 1.4.3 Release ltlnx is managing the 1.4.3 release and talks about the task list which is almost entirely done. * One item to do is the versioning which Marc will take care of now. * Documentation is in sync. * all graphics are up to date * Martin says Extensions are out of sync and won't be up to date in time for the release. Ishann asked about it. * We will directly pull from the CI for RC build which is scheduled for today. * There is a signing step which is now integrated which improves the process. * Tav concluded his Bug Accelerator program with the fixing of startup crashes on macOS * 1.4.3 RC will e released tonight, and given to vectors to announce so we can get testing. Vectors have asked for an announcement time for the RC, dev team will make the builds and would like as much time as is possible for users to download and test the RC to pick out any major breakage from various updates to libraries and various fixes. Marc asks about website problems for the release. Martin reports that the website is unstable and sometimes works well and sometimes get slow. We looked at some of the remaining critical and blocking issues. Charlotte looked into the keyboard switching issue which may have been fixed upstream, we'll be keeping an eye on it for the release candidate. Other blockers have all been fixed and we look like we're in a good place. René didn't get much of a response for his tofu fix, but knows it's fixed because of other apps that have all been fixed in the same way. # Translations problems Maren brought an issue about possibly AI or automated updates for Swedish and how we handle that Marc says it's all settled. PBS raised a problem with po file being updated frequently which leads to massive submodule repository every time we pull in master branch and update the submodules. the frequency can be adjusted and the old commits can be squashed when needed to save space. 7d day frequency for weblate sync. # Funding discussions We talked about the meeting we had with the owners of Audacity and some of the interesting ideas for funding models. This discussion covered a lot of ground but has not been recorded in the minutes so people could speak their mind. # Any other business We talked about the lack of announcement messages in rocket chat, Ben has fixed the crontab but it's still not going through. Rene talked about sorting out some of the build folders to make it easier to manage changes and remove dead files. Thanks everyone for coming, Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer meeting 5th Dec 2025
by Wen-Wei Kao 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Inkscape Developer meeting 2025-12-05 Attendees: Mc, Tav, MikeKov, ltlnx Mike, Mc and Tav talked about hatches support in the pattern editor. Mike proposed that the hatches be listed along with the patterns in the pattern editor, and could be marked as such. We can also have a feature to convert hatches to paths, so that it would be more useful for Ink/Stitch people. Mc asked about the string freeze, RC and release times, and wrote up a message to send to the translators mailing list. The metadata for release descriptions also came up; we would want to merge it before the string freeze, so that translators could translate them before the release. About the release dates, the consensus is to have an RC on the 12th, and release on Christmas. Tav was working on macOS bug fixes for 1.4.3, especially crashes related to the splash screen and opening files from the Finder. He has an MR for testing and debugging stuff. Willy also tried some debugging and determined that #ifdef-ing out the splash screen stops the crashes. Tav concurs that if it's not fixable we would need to disable the splash screen on macOS. Mike and Tav talked about the color font rendering MR. There are some edge cases to consider before merging. Thanks everyone for coming! -- Willy

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String freeze for 1.4.3
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Hi devs, hi translators, With about three weeks to go before 1.4.3 release, we are now in */string freeze/.* If we find critical mistakes, they will be communicated to translators, but you should consider that the translatable strings in weblate (for Inkscape 1.4.x component : https://translate.inkscape.org/projects/inkscape/1-4-x/inkscape/ ) should not move before the release. If possible, can you submit potential updates before Dec 19th ? If you need a few more days, please contact me so that I know that some translation is in the works. Thanks everyone ! Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting: Nov 26th 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Hey everyone, New time for this week's developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Vaibhav, ltlnx, René The meeting time had changed but the website has issues sending out reminders to everyone. A reminder here that you can subscribe the the ical for the developer team's calender here: https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar.ics add this as a remote calendar in your calendar software and you should get up to date reminders. Martin looked into why the website wasn't behaving and found the crontab on the new machine wasn't migrated. Sent an email to Ben who was contracted to do that work for the migration. Mikekov, Vaibhav and Martin talk about spin button we have a long talk about user experience. Screen sharing was done and we worked out the share of work between Mikekov and Martin who are trying to unify the widget experence. Mikekov has been working on the font selector which uses a preview and icon view which are going away. These are being replaced with ListView and GridView widgets. We also can hide certain styles to collapase families of fonts together. This also resolves some cut off preview problems. Viabhav, not doing too much, tried to replicate the extensions gallery crash. Not replcated on he's local linux machine. Had a discussion with Jabier about LPE archetchture, and wants to write an article about it to clarify the architecture. We talked about the problems in the lpe system and fixing issues with the defs. litnx has been pusing 1.4.x fixes, including the welcome dialog. Martin asked if he could take care of the backports. René has been busy with the prepartions for the 1.4.3 release with updates to the dependencies. Lots of deps because it's been a while. Currently investigating the macOS tofu problem, there are some problems with kerning which might be caused by a dep which might not be fixable. We talked about the release schedule and getting everything ready. The conservative updates to the deps might be a better way to update the macOS and Martin suggests René make an assessment about the work they might have to do vs. the benefit of updating the deps for the point release. René wants to revive the tests for the windows CI. Pbs asked if we could use clang, this was tested but doesn't look like it would work. Thanks everyone for coming everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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freeColour palettes available and ready for inclusion in Inkscape after a change of licence
by christoph-schaefer＠gmx.de 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Hi there, I've been no longer active in Open Source or Open Content development/promotion for some years, mostly due to health reasons (Long Covid), but also some personal disappointments. However, one of the issues that are still important to me is the original mission of freieFarbe/freeColour (not its current incarnation). With respect to Inkscape and other FLOSS programs, the most important development is that after I resigned in protest, because they refused to honour an internal agreement to release all colour palettes under the zlib licence, they did it anyway, albeit much later (https://freiefarbe.de/en/licence/). What does this mean? It means that Inkscape can now choose to include any of the more than 300 commercial colour palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 and, more importantly, both versions of the free and open Pantone alternative HLC Colour Atlas (standard and XL) in one of the formats supported by Inkscape (https://freiefarbe.de/en/thema-farbe/software/). I would, however, strongly advise against including all OCSC files. A reasonable selection would be the HLC and CIE palettes for the fF CMYK colour fan (as opposed to the much larger Atlas) and the HKS palettes, since HKS is still being widely used for signage in Europe. As regards the rest, you could either provide a download + installation opportunity, as Scribus currently does, or simply leave it to users to download and install the palettes they want or need. With all of the fF content under the zlib licence, this should no longer be a legal problem. I wish you good luck and success for the future! Christoph

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Developer Meeting, Nov 18th 2025
by Martin Owens 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Hey Devs! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Mike, Philip, Tav, Willy Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ (TIME HAS CHANGED!) Mike has been working on making the newer spin button widget used in the rest of the project. Migrating over the UnitTracker and various widget fixes. Willy is trying to fix 1.4.x: text tool pop-over Spinbutton changes, pop-over closes. and Command bar collapsing issue. Pbs talked about animation and live preview, some time was spent discussing the preview functionality and what we can do to allow changes to be previewed without modifying the document or abusing the rendering engine with extra changes at unexpected times. This discussion was quite long. RPATH issues in our build systems are ongoing. Tav has been working on macOS bugs and crashes where jpeg files are not accessable from finder, this involved learning a lot of how macOS works for depevelopers. and color font support and getting the tests all smoothed out. Talking about the late meeting situation, looks like the best time is 2 hours after the early meeting. Which is about 3 hours earlier than currently set. 6pm France, Noon in Boston, 1am Asia etc. Pbs and Martin talked about the filters engine work and the need for clearing up the premultiplicating situation in bilinear interpolation for various different spaces. Martin has been working on harmonising spin button user experience. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Nov 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Tav, Charlotte, Martin, Mikekov, Jonathan Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav has been adding color fonts to Inkscape so we support all the various different formats. SVG, OpenType COLRv1, COLRv0 and Google Font thing. He's made some color fonts with the same glyph to test the font support going forwards. There's a couple of failing tests for some clipping and some pepper and carrot text tests. This test is useful for visually inspecting possible problems before committing the changes with slight differences. There's a slight problem with strokes not being rendered in Firefox which makes it hard to compare the SVG Font format. Martin talked about Conical gradients, which are needed for some css and COLORv1 Object to Path. Marc, not much, some updates for weblate and the translations stuff. Tav asked about how easy it is to add a new file, and Marc explained that it's all automatic now so is even easier. There's a security fix in librsvg which is a security problem, we're hoping that the new version will be able to fix it, but we don't know for sure if it will fix it. Marc has time to work on the 1.4.3 release and Martin points to the milestone page on GitLab https://gitlab.com/groups/Inkscape/-/milestones/19 for everyone to work from. Charlotte has been looking into the the bug for windows flashing back and forth in windows. But it's tricky because windows development is so much slower than on Linux even with a powerful CPU. She's also added a merge request and was concerned she has the ability to push directly to master but this isn't the case. Jonathan is still around and interested in working on funding projects but time is tight right now with his PhD. Martin talked about the website and taking payments, is in talk with Ben about putting together the second round of funded work to add that Stripe integration to the website. Martin has been working on widgets in the fill and stroke dialog and has been working on the harmonising the generic widgets so our programs looks more cohesive. And also has been working on some UX testing workflows with RDP and desktop sharing, but the technologies aren't great for disposable desktop sharing. Will share if it's figured out. Mikekov has been working on some UI improvements here and there, the next target is the spin button, we have developed our own based on Tav's work and now we need to remove all the older generic Gtk spin buttons with our more functionality such as unit support. We talked a bit about the design of this widget and all the possible ways of integrating units into the actual box itself. Next meeting we will decide the new meeting time for these later developer meetings. Thanks everyone who was able to come.

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Survey Results 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Big thanks to everyone who filled out this year's developer team survey. These are the digested results as a summary, full results can be provided on office.inkscape.org Admin note: We'll use office.inkscape.org for next year's survey exclusively. There was no difference between google and nextcloud in functionality. 26 people responded, 77% claimed to be programmers, 65% were active, 70% were new (and didn't fill out the 2024 survey). For developer platform we have a fair split between Debian based (35%), Fedora or Arch based (35%) and macOS (23%). With Windows being 4% (1 person), so a considerable deficit in windows developer retention this year. Testing looks little better with 60% able to test on Wayland, 50% on X11, 46% Windows and macOS. Extra 23% Android and one person on macOS intel and one on ChromeOS. Most people who needed help are finding help in the chatroom. Only one person needed help and didn't find it. Build instructions were found by everyone except 2 people. And only 1 person couldn't get their build to work. Most people fixed issues they wanted to or was interesting. No one couldn't find issues to work on. Merge requests was our biggest failure this year with a lot of problems reported ion Slow Reviewing, Reviewers asking for too many changes (usually diverging from the original work with refactoring challenges) and also a new problem, merge requests getting stuck waiting for the UX/UI team to respond. This is the first time where we've tried to put a pause on merges until they can be checked by the UX team but we're going to have some rules about how long we can wait for volunteers to become available to check the work. (and how big the requested changes can be before it should just be a rejection) Testing was good. We're getting better at requesting people write tests. though most people didn't think testing frameworks were expressive or extensive enough yet. A direction the project is improving on this year. The majority of people work on Inkscape as Volunteers for Public Service (54%),followed by Education and Leisure (42%), 3 people were hired to work on inkscape and 9 people said "Other" mysteriously. What we should work on ranged from improving programmer documentation, tutorials and videos to help developers get started. To full breakdowns of all the various parts of the code. A big problem highlighted was the massive duplication of documentation on the wiki, website and code repository was highlighted by the vast majority of people. Other things of note were timing of meetings (see Tav's poll) and and paying more people to work on inkscape. Lots of people thanked the project for keeping everything moving and how helpful an friendly our community it. Well done everyone! That's it for this year. Thanks to everyone for responding and I'll see you all next year. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Measurement input UI suggestion
by Ray at Daylon 03 Nov '25

03 Nov '25

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to modify Inkscape's UI where input of measurement values are used. My apologies if this has been discussed before. Currently (version 1.4.2) measurement input fields use an edit box containing the number and a combo box to specify the measurement unit. My suggestion is to use an edit box alone, with the user indicating the measurement unit after the number by typing its name e.g. "4.2px". A space may be optionally used if desired e.g. "4.2 px" (current locale is used to interpret and display decimal points). Okay, but why? - Less UI widgets to place, show/hide/enable, reflect to/from, etc. - Less chance of accidentally using the wrong unit by forgetting to change the combo box selection. - Ability to use multi-unit measures e.g. "2p4" to indicate 2 picas and 4 pts, common in typography, or things like "6ft 2in". - Percent symbol (%) can be used where appropriate to indicate a percentage of some contextual distance e.g. a document dimension, lessening the need for users to figure out the computed distance. If this is of any interest, I have some C++ library code to help with implementation. Ray Gardener Daylon Graphics Ltd. www.daylongraphics.com

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Developer Meeting, Nov 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

Hey Everyone, Sunday meeting this week, Monday next week, big thanks to everyone who came today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Willy(ltlnx), Marc, Philip(pbs), Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ There was a discussion about live path effects and merge requests. We reviewed a merge request which was stuck in review and got it un blocked by the consensus of the team. We talked about some of the difficulties with live path effects and getting things fixed while waiting to get lpe structures refactored. We talked about the release for 1.4.3 and some of the outstanding issues, the file opening in macOS and the language change crashes in windows. A review of a bunch of different issues depending on their priority on the milestone mostly between Itlnx and Pbs. We talked about a Gio security bug which can cause a security issue, but it's an upstream issue and it's only breaking on Windows. We tried to think up ways of testing the issue given out limited access to windows machines and experts who can help debug it. Marc will report a bug upstream to Gio / security gnome org. Marc has moved the translation work their own po files and communicated with the developer and translation mailing lists. Thanks Marc! Martin has paused working on the engine waiting for reviews, they're working to get a new paint order widget which is a restackable widget that allow values based on their order and is poking Gtk with the specific UX they want. Willy was working on the default canvas colors in the preferences and has been looking at some of the difficulties in Gtk4 widgets for color selection. Tav has been working on getting his merge requests merged and reviewing his color font work again. Martin will do the developer survey results next week. Thanks everyone for joining on this Sunday Evening/Morning. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New submodule: po/
by Marc Jeanmougin 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Hi devs, po/ is now a submodule pointing to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/translations.git If you have any issues with this folder in your branches/MRs, make sure when you rebase to get the content with "git submodule update --init" to be able to build :) Apart from that, not much changes for translations on the dev side, just more automation. Small changes 1 : You don't need to specify a new translatable cpp or inx file manually - if you want to mark a new file with strings as NON-translatable, you will still need to add it into POTFILES.skip, now in the translations repository Small change 2 : If you fix a typo in the source code and don't want to fuzzy its previous translations, you'll need to do the po file search and replace into the translations repo If you have any questions, feel free to ask :) Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting, Oct 25th 2025
by Martin Owens 25 Oct '25

25 Oct '25

Hey Devels, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Martin, Elendil, pbs Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin asked everyone to fill out the developer survey. We first talked about adjusting the developer meeting times now that we have lots of new developer and people with new schedules. Tav was to create a survey for possible new times, Marc will follow up with Tav to get that poll. We talked about the data access API, Martin asked Ryan to do a DX (Developer Experience) test of the new API adding a dithering filter. Also added was a color transformation filter and Martin is looking forward to his working being code reviewed. Martin has added a multi page SVG update moving inkscape's custom inkscape:page element to the SVG2 view element. The attributes are pretty much the same. An update mechanism is added and lots of tests for various things. Testing with Firefox and Chrome this work should allow multi page support in other SVG viewers and editors. Marc is working on the translations repository. Finished migrating to weblate and moving the po directory with a submodule and clearing out all the merge requests outstanding. Creating CI jobs for updating and is weighing up an automated or manual process. Now to figure out if we need to remove the CI translator checker, Martin agrees. Elendil has been working on a regression with the version attribute which appears to be missing from the svg files that we are currently exporting from 1.5. Marc wants to talk about XSLT export hidden objects and the way the extensions don't current handle XSLT effect extensions, Marc will write this code to put it in. Martin talked about adding such a feature directly to the export dialog since it's already doing much of the same work for hiding objects off the page. The code already exists. Pbs has touched the recolor artwork google summer of code. Looked into a new packaging system called "Sharon", this might let us deliver AppImage type builds with Vulcan support. Martin and Pbs talked about the color access API and some of the direct and compile time problems between that and the color API itself. Martin answered questions and requested code review as the primary help needed. We talked about some of the llm influenced merge requests and how to handle people who don't even talk without using an LLM. Philip asked Marc about heap and symbol problems, and if plugins (compiled ones) have ever worked in windows because the issues if you need to access things outside of the inkscape binary. There was a discussion about how the extensions and various plugins should work and what is known out in the wild. We talked about the release of 1.4.3 and the focus on bug fixing. Martin would like more developers to consier working on things in the milestone to get it as good as possible. Marc wanted to know about capypdf packaging and what kind of packaging we should expect to see for the 1.5 release. Martin says we're likely to need an up to date version and Marc says he'll make a Debian package and make sure it's available mostly for the PPA. We talked about various packaging strategies. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Next one is Sunday 2nd November. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2025
by Martin Owens 24 Oct '25

24 Oct '25

Dear Developers, As a follow up from last year's developer survey, could I get all developers to fill out this year's survey and your experiences with Inkscape as a programmer this year. The goal is to gage how easily it is to contribute, people's thoughts and the ongoing improvements in onboarding and making this work enjoyable: https://forms.gle/HPggfawPou2aHS6i6 Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin \owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: Oct 17th 2025
by Martin Owens 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Hey Developers! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Jabier, Willy, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We kick off with Willy who has two open open merge requests for the developer team to consider. One is the rotation snapping which is ready to be re-reviewed. It uses a regulr Spin Button instead of a Math Spin Button so it's got some regressions still. The second is a 1.4.x patch for the toolbars so the buttons dispear one by one instead of chunking entire groups at a time. We talked about the 1.4.3 issues and the open issues and when we can schedule the release. We suggest a December release with a project wide request to focus on fixing some of the remaining issues for 1.4.3 so make it a really stable release before 1.5 comes out. We talked about the 1.5 release and Martin's idea for releasing 1.5, 1.5.1 and then calling the 1.5.2 Inkscape's 2.0. This is in an attempt to promote stability an give users the time to field trial some of the new functionality before we make a big splash with the 2.0. We talked about freeze policy. Mikekov went through some of the remaining open issues in Gtk4. Martin asked if our Gtk upstream needs help or not or if things are progressing organically at the right speed for our release on macOS, windows etc. We talked about the dificulty of getting program admins who can organise projects that pay people to work on different aspects of our release issues. And our recruitment of volunteers that tends to depend heavily on programmers instead of people who might be more stilled in admin releated organising. Mikekov helped with the Dash2 issues, and doing merge requests. His currently thinking about the preferences dialog. He's been medidating on how to clarify the preferences to reduce the amount of duplicate code and depend on the glade file directly. There's a couple of routes to having preferences paths defined in glade files and widgets constructed with simple APIs, there's a refactoring pathway for how we would get there too. But the ultimate aim would be to remove most of the code until only loading of the glade file remains. We talked about how Gtk custom widgets work so we don't need to load each widget by Id. Tav has been working on color in CSS issues with export. He wants to have a meeting with Martin to talk about Color further. He's looking into the problem of integer artefacts and generating example files in 16bit to test how browsers are currently dealing with the older limitations and if they have been overcome. Some of these artefacts are actically used by filter designers as inputs to produce iteresting results. Report on Bug Accelerator Program, Tav has a few hours left. Martin talked about his engine improvements and walked through the entire plan for filters, color, memory surface management and the stepping stones that are being worked on to get everything in place for CMYK support. Tav and Martin talked about various details in support and what it means for SVG. Tav says that the attendance at the late meeting is very poor. Should we redefine a new time for that meeting so it's easier for other contributors. Martin asked Tav to make a survay for all the new contributors about their availability. Thanks to everyone who was able to come to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Oct 1st 2025
by Martin Owens 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Hey Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Youstena, René, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin starts off with a quick introduction, and a short update on the website updates and the downtime people may have experienced. René looking into windows CI, it felt so bad that he felt he had to work on it. The goal is to make it faster and usable as being so slow sucks the joy out of everythig. The 7z archive builder is now running on a persistant runner which René said he would never run one again, but it was required to make it much much faster. The mechanism for depedancies was switched from 7z packaged, to a Microsoft based format which has advantages which can mounted and doesn't need to be 'extracted' as well as being more windows native. There's a bit of work more to do which is how easily it is to build depedencies, moving the config back into the main CI builder itself. Martin Martin talked abut Gtk and the need to keep the version we are building with and targeting for 1.5 will have to be a future version because of the known bugs that will have to be fixed in time for release. Martin's work on filter rendering and unit testing and is currently working on Light sources after completing the ConvolveMatrix work last week. A lot of tricky decisions will have to be made about interpolating in other color spaces but the new code will give us the flexibility to choose. Some backwards compatability will be needed for Integer calculations too. Tav has been working on CSS Color parsing and some of the found bugs, checking over our support introduced by Martin in 1.5. The Lch color conversion was wrong and has now been fixed, case insenstivity, and a range issue on Lch. Tav has questions about the color picker, we're currntly using Luv in the color picker. Martin and Tav had talk about color, rendering, document color space. Talking about how to achieve backwards compatibility and various other issues between Inkscape and SVG for color support. Youstena is a student from Egypt who is interesting in contributing to open source and introduced themselves. We asked around if anyone still needed to claim from the SFC, Tav was waiting on something but he'd put it in later too. We may want to make sure per-deim and travel between events where there is more than one event happening should be in the next vote. Thanks everyone for coming!

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Sept 15th 2025
by Martin Owens 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hey everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Tav, Martin Mikekov has been working on some beautifcation projects, various things like the roller, gradient editor etc. We collectively talked about the failures at the SFC regarding reimbursements and people who are still waiting on reimbursement for items months and months ago. Tav would like to get into fixing the LPE dialog and converting polylines and lines to paths. Martin is working on filter mechanics involving a new cairo surface image access class with unit testing. We reviewed some merge requests. Short meeting this week, Thanks everyone.

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Forbidden attributes in per-tool and last-used styles
by Henry Wong 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hello Inkscape devs, I'm looking through the code that sets/reads desktop and tool styles (sp_desktop_set_style, sp_desktop_get_style, etc.), and have some questions on some of the attribute filtering that happens. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of styles (except the 3dbox oddity): * The "last used style": /desktop/style * A per-tool style: /tool/<tool_path>/style For these styles, certain CSS properties are forbidden and are filtered out (e.g,. "shape-inside", "filter", "stop-opacity"). Filtering happens both when reading from the style and writing to the style. For the filters when reading (in sp_desktop_apply_style_tool <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/desktop-style.cpp?re…>), the list of forbidden attributes are different for the global style and per-tool style. (More attributes are forbidden for the global style than the per-tool style). There is a different list of filters when writing the styles (sp_css_attr_unset_blacklist <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>, sp_css_attr_unset_uris <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>). The rules differ between the global and per-tool style, AND the rules differ from the ones applied when reading the styles. (More attributes are forbidden for the per-tool style than the global style?) Is there a reason the rules ended up this complicated? (Especially the part where the attributes that are writable to the style differ from the set of attributes allowed to be read back.) I'm wondering whether they can be simplified to something like: * Some set of attributes are forbidden from all default styles. Apply the same filter for both reading and writing. Or * Some set of attributes are forbidden for all default styles, and a superset is forbidden for the global last-used style. But the same filters are used for both reading and writing.

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Inkscape Meeting, Sept 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

Dear Devs, Another week and another great developer meeting: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, PBS, ftOmara, MikeKov, Rafal, Ishaan Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ PBS asks Martin abou the page manager, we talked about manager objects, selected pages, and the intention of the manager and it's relationship to sp-page objects. The manager is designed to encapsulate the state of the selected page so most calls shouldn't need to know the selected page directly. PBS has been working on the GSoC project to recolor artwork project. There is a live preview mode which needs to be sorted out. the conflict between the SPObject, xml tree and the display tree. A big discussion erupts between many developers have input into how the functionality could be done. We talked about the way the xml tree and sp object tree works together. This created a debate about about abstractions and various other internal core elements for Inkscape. The general consenus is that we'd like the preview functionality split out into it's own merge request. Martin will ask Adam about the design implication of having the preview change in multiple places or just in one place at a time. Mikekov has been doing some UI beautifucation projects. And we talked about the missing event problems in macOS that might be something we need to get that reported upstream. Martin has continued to work on the rendering engine work. A long term project to improve the capabilities of the rendering engine color support. Ishaan reports that the all four people are going to India FOSS event. There's concerns about how long the process has taken with the SFC as friction continues between us voting to pay for events or materials and people getting reimbursed or getting travel booked in time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes; Aug 22nd 2025
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

Hey Everyone! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, Philip, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin is eliminating direct access to the cairo surface raw. Philip and Martin talked at length about the Surface API, how to render CMYK, how to deal with speed problems and some different parts of the code and functionality. Some ways in which the cleanup will hopefully open us up to replacing cairo, but maybe not, it depends. Philip has been porting UI extensions to GTK4, including Extensions manager and clip art importer, there's been some issues with the CI which needs to be updating. And working on the start screen lifecycle manager, it's currently held up with testing. He wants to ask Adam for testing but Martin is happy with the testing so far. Mikekov has been looking into the object properties dialog for text, which is a lot more involed than expected. Marc has been looking at the launchpad builds and why they seem to fail. There are test for the cms profile test. The team spend the rest of the meeting investigating the test failures so we can keep things moving. Philip wants to know if the Linux CI job, he wants to to merge it with the AppImage job to save space and CI time. Marc says that the Linux job is a normal build and the AppImage used to have some special sauce, Philip wants to check if this is still true. One builds in a debug and the other builds in release mode. We have decided to remove the linux build. The website releases app will be updated when it is done. Thanks for reading. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer's Meeting; August 6th 2025
by Martin Owens 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting notes are below. Big thanks to everyone who was able to come. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Carlotte (cfcurtis), Martin, Tav, Ishaan, Jonathan, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin talked about his work on the rendering engine getting cairo surrfaces with multiple color space rendering. A lot converting, memory management, pre-multiplication, understanding lcms2 input and output limitations an doing a lot of test trials to work out how to effectively test the changes in the engine's handling of Cairo surfaces. Jonthan has been mentoring on the google summer of code project. He's been tracking a number of 1.5 issues which are upstream issue but don't have the required issue in the upstream project. There are some examples needed to be able to replicate the issues more easily for an upstream developer. Mikekov has been looking for various fixes to keep busy. Working on object attributes dialog related features. Tav asks about the speed problems with the Object dialog and being able to backport the fix to 1.4 if it's fixed in 1.5. We talked about node editing and making sure that we're not doing inefficient things. Charlotte haven't done a ton of work, but looking at PDF related issues for import and export. Tested the odf support in capypdf. Martin talked about a gradient export bug in capypdf. Jonathan asked if she's interested in PDF files which don't import cleanly. Ishaan has been working on selections and discovered that some things are not working on master, holding ctrl for example. And some inconsistancies with Alt. We talked about various selector issues. Martin and Mikekov recommend making event systems robust against order of events where possible. Tav has been back bug fixing for 1.4, Jonathan asked about releasing a 1.4.3 after the last blocker is fixed and we are in agreement. We have at leas 35 bugs fixed a bunch of things that are to be backported for 1.4.3 on our todo this. Martin asked Ishaan about the Indian event. They are ordering of travel arrangements and he will be meeting with pono to get the accommodations paid for tomorrow. We did a small tutorial for updating submodules and keeping things correct, sharing commands. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. See you all next time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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CLI: Extensions need GUI
by Alexander Roalter 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

When I run Inkscape in CLI mode, and want to run an extension that needs currently selected elements, the currently selected elements are only passed if the CLI is run in GUI mode (with --batch-process parameter). Otherwise, no IDs of selected elements will be passed to the extension python script. I tracked it down to src/extension/implementation/script.cpp, where the _change_extension method is called from two different methods (both are overloaded Script::effect methods), one is for the case where a desktop is available, the other was added for "pure document version for calling an extension from the command line", and has no desktop. But the current selection still can be extracted from the SPdocument*, so I made this patch that duplicates the passing of the selected elements as parameters to the extension from the other effect() method. -- cheers, Alex

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Developer Meeting Notes: July 29th 2025
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hey Devs, Today's meeting was very light. Just me and Mikekov. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about his recently landed object properties branch into main and what to work on next. Also talked about the road map team and some of the considerations for what that would look like. Mike raised a concern that our reimbursements for Nuremberg were delayed getting processed. One thing I think might help for next time is a small spreadsheet we can share which has all the voted on numbers, and names of people. I, someone else, or Roseanna could pop the numbers in from the reimbursement claim to see if they check out more quickly. We talked about color (I always talk about color), I'm mulling over hosting a video conference between various free software devs working on color in their projects. Might be fun, might be useful. That's it for this week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting July 21st 2025
by pulsar17 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting, it was a short one, and text-only: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Vaibhav, Ishaan, Mike Next Meeting: July 29th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Vaibhav - Working on some crash fixes related to text/text on path. Also created an issue to track removal of unnecessary header files from Inkscape's codebase, hoping it will make the CI/local builds faster. So far most unused header files in the UI directory have been removed. Ishaan - some light experimentation with selection cues. Mike - Hoping to see his MR delivered, but it is failing one test: peppercarrot. This test has something to do with fonts, and Mike doesn't understand why it started failing in his branch. Thanks to all who joined. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting July 13th 2025
by pulsar17 13 Jul '25

13 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Tav, Philip, Ishaan, Adam, René, Willy Next Meeting: July 21st https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Philip - questions about packaging and CI, discussion about Conan, jhbuild, and building GTK packages with Conan. Also has a patch for icons in menus, probably a hack. Some discussion on why icons in menus are a good thing, and maybe we should try upstreaming it in GTK, might get accepted. Tav had looked at the icons issue in the past, even had a patch for it. Had questions about building capypdf without updating deps on macOS - René answered that it's possible to do, but hasn't started work on it yet. René - Dependency updates for macOS and Windows. Also helped with Mike's big MR, suspected glib version too old, some debugging related to Locales left on Mike's part - Fill and Stroke dialog not opening (target parsing error). Worked on packaging Inkscape using (more) standard Apple practices. Willy - learning c++, good progress so far. Ishaan - continued work on incremental selection, currently in a branch on the personal fork, will open an MR sometime soon. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting, July 5th 2025
by Martin Owens 05 Jul '25

05 Jul '25

Dear devs, Attending: Mc, René, Vaibhav, Martin, Jabier Today's meeting was focused on unpicking the problems with the Microsoft store. We screen scared and focused on trying to figure out the issues with the upload of 1.4.2 and why it's failing to install. Had a look at the analytics as well as reviewed what the process is for constructing the installer for the store and the corrections that are needing during the process. Normal proceedings on pause for this week. Thanks for everyone who was able to come and give their thoughts on this process. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Bengaluru Summit 2025 Interest Form
by pulsar17 29 Jun '25

29 Jun '25

Hi all, Me and Vaibhav Malik are planning to host a summit for Indian Inkscape contributors around September in Bengaluru. If you'd like to join, please fill this Nextcloud form: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/apps/forms/s/CBnmTd2pLfjfDQ… (The criteria to attend is mentioned in the form along with more details about the summit). I'll keep the form open for 10 days, and based on the responses, ask the PLC for a vote. For any further questions/clarifications, feel free to reach out to me over e-mail. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 27th 2025
by Martin Owens 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Dear Developer team, Meeting: June 27th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Adam, Ishaan, Mikekov, Philip Next Meeting: July 5th 2025 https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Mikekov has been working with Willy (ltlnx) to test and fix bugs in his MMR (mega merge request) for the object properties dialog and worked with René to fix a macOS issue with Gtk. Adam asked Fatama to test the branch too but was not able to run it on macOS. Philip has been working on building support for Inkscape and some Gtk and OpenGL bugs. Ishaan has been learning some more C++ this week. Adam has been guiding their Google Summer of Code project, it's working pretty good and are at the stage of deciding the user experience. Martin and Adam have a brief talk about color management and color experimentation workflows and how the two bits of work can fit together and hopefully build on each other. Martin has been working on the color interpolation and Cairo color rendering planning. Which is taking some time. Philip asked Mike what the estimated time of arrival for the properties dialog, no timeline specified, following the testing results. We talk about how to manage a large change and deciding on when to merge vs polishing it up later. For example the spin buttons and if they should be changed for all existing spin buttons. The project's experience is that updates should be done as globally as possible to avoid technical debt building up over time with half-implimentations and good intentions gone to waste as the project moves forward without the improvements being examples for new contributors. Thanks to everyone for coming! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting June 20th 2025
by pulsar17 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Ishaan, Charlotte, ltlnx, Martin, Mike Next Meeting: June 27th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Willy (ltlnx) and Martin discussed some parts of the UX Initiative proposal. Charlotte: Working on PDF Import, might have introduced a bug way back related to clipping. Only certain set of pages cause issues, the exact reason is not yet known. State tracking might be a possible culprit. Martin suggested a good way to test that hypothesis. Martin: Working on color stuff. Going to use reuse CSS colors from the CSS spec, some things will be an extension. Martin explained how interpolation would work in Inkscape in the future. Working on the standardization process so that it's not specific to Inkscape. Explained how colors are used in SVG to Willy. Worked on some cleanup MRs. Ishaan: Got into some refactoring work that branched from the selection work. PBS provided a better way to do that, so we'll use that. Mike: Working on Object Properties dialog, a lot of effort has been put into it. PBS suggested some changes, will implement those. Martin asked if spin buttons would be fixed by this MR, Mike answered that it is a GDK issue. Martin suggested allowing top-down as well with left-right, but that still has issues with popovers. Martin suggested to add more factors in deciding by how much numbers change, something like a curve. Mike would be very welcome if anyone wants to give that a "spin". Mike and Martin discussed how we should propose and implement UX improvements/new features. Willy explained some motivations behind Henrique's original UX video. People had some really nice things to say about PBS, everyone is glad to have him in the project. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 11th 2025
by pulsar17 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Willy, Ishaan, Elendil (KrIr17), Mike, Marc, Tav Next Meeting: June 20th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Willy - opened some new MRs - one is for UX, another is Revert button replacement (!7260). Had a problem with another MR (about recent files) - can't make error message show without an active desktop - Elendil left a comment. Asked is it even possible to do it without a desktop for menus, Mike had some suggestions - printing, Gtk Revealer, and asking Martin. Elendil also offered a potential precedent in the code. Also merged some MRs Ishaan - Resumed work on Incremental Selections, currently stuck with a C++ issue, will need some reading/research to overcome. Also working on proposing an Indian Contributor Meet with Vaibhav. Maren is helping with stickers and other booth materials (thanks for that). Currently will create a doc containing all information, and then ask on the mailing lists/chat for interest, and submit the final proposal to the board. Mike - Working on Object Properties dialog - slow to open on Linux, very UI heavy, creating widgets takes time. Working with Dialog docking, it's working on Linux and macOS, needs help for testing on Windows. Willy volunteered to test on a Windows machine. Tav (joined late - dealing with wasps) - working with Hatches (discovered issues with them during Nuremberg Summit). Default Hatches are not defined right, but it's easy to fix. Also working on converting hatches to paths, will be very useful for plotters and laser cutters. Explained hatches to Ishaan. They're not editable on canvas, this was broken sometime back. When they're fixed, could be nicely integrated into the Fill and Stroke dialog like Patterns were done. Willy has some issues with OpenGL on Windows, and was in a meeting for the UX initiative, might discuss that in the next dev meeting. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 3rd 2025
by Martin Owens 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear Devs, Here is the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Marc, Jonathan, Mikekov, Tav, Willy, Vaibhav Next Meeting: June 11th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav at the summit he spent most of his time getting the right to left text working which has three different bugs. Everything from aligment, to the wrong buttons and a third unnamed issue. Also reproduced the windows bug with the grid flashing in and out but hasn't fixed it yet. Martin worked on SPCSSAttr and he wants to refactor it away, a small discussion on doing that. PDF input extension having it's own preferences and getting them to use the standard set of preferences. Also worked on the UX policy for toolbars and focus on click, making sure we can test our UI and help future developers keep things consistant. Mikekov, still working on the object properties dialog taking new designs from Adam and Henrique in the UX/UI team. There was a good preentation at the Inkscape Summit. Martin recommends doing more UX research on a more grand redesign that involves repositioning all the toolbars, Mikekov will be doing a smoke test with the internal community to find out if there's anything massively wrong with it before continuing. Charlotte, introduces themselves and has been poking around the PDF import and try and make the import process so groups reflect the PDF. Martin talked about PDF too. Marc talked briefly about LGM and it will be a discussion for the next LGM, the meeting is on June 11th. Willy hasn't been up to much because of the exams, but is involved in the discussion about PNG comments which have attribution. We talked briefly about if this feature is desired and the consensus is that we don't really want to allow the user to export a PNG without Inkscape attribution, even from the command line. Jonathan has a meeting on Thusday with the Google Summer of Code students open to all. Jonathan reports about the meeting to get 1.5 released, which will include external help to fix issues in Gtk4 especially for macOS and windows. Jonathan asked Elendil if we should have a 1.5 alpha just on Linux to get more test coverage. Has a proposal which needs some more work and will be brought back to the developer team next week. Vaibhav, has been working on context menu taking a long time to open but can't reproduce. And working on the adding stop color in gradients tool. The developer team expresses that only contiguous nodes should have new stops added. Some discussion of our steam contract and following up with the SFC. They are looking into it as they now realise how important it is to Krita and how important it could be for us. Thanks for joining everyone! Martin,

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Inkscape 1.4.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 12 May '25

12 May '25

================== = Inkscape 1.4.2 = ================== Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2025/05/12/2-in-1-release-inkscape-142-is-out/ , or read the release notes at https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.2/Inkscape_1.4.2.html Download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.4.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. Release highlights: a new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files a new extension to Clean up Paths substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import 20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality and 15 updated translations ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, May 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 May '25

10 May '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: RdH, Martin, Anu, Aarav Oswal, Tav, Adam Belis, Marc Next meeting https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ is the late meeting on a Sunday. Bare this in mind! Release scheduling; René and Martin talk about the building of the 1.4.2 macOSX release. The tag is ready so he'll be uilding those after the meeting. Marc says everything looks good when he looked two days ago, so he went ahead and made the installers and tags. There's over 50 commits of translations because of how weblate works there tends to be multiple commits for each user. We formalise that each protected branch has a translation branch with the pot file updated to that protected branch so translations can happen as soon as posible. Tav has been working on context fill and context stroke which fixes a bunch of issues for inheritance. Including some crashes. Martin and Tav had a disagreement about how tests should be done and did not come to an agreement. Some discussion around the PDF output with various issues that has been spotted. Tav has worked on a crash when text flowed into space and you export selected item. Marc has been trying to draft some stuff on the future of LPEs. Martin suggests meeting to talk about the design. Tav suggests using a switch statement. Generated Items is the more generic name. A discussion develops that goes into some of the possibilities and details. René has been working on the move to the new mac statium infrastructure. Master is already working on the new system. 1.4.x is currently stalled as there are some issues remaining. His next tasks is working on that after the release. Up next will be looking into providing remote access to developers who don't have a macOS machine themselves. René needs to work out how to do it network wise and will provide a proposal for everyone when ready. It can be slow for openGL and we should explain this to people who use the system. Martin asked RdH about the process for doing capypdf in macOSX. We expect a 1.5 release in a year so we have time to work it out at the very least we will have a version for the very latest version. We check upstream macOSX version limitations. Marc reports on the GSoC. We have 5 students who have been accepted. On-Canvas spell checking, UI-Free Inkscape, AI file format support, Recolor Art Work, lib2geom improvements. Martin has worked on some PDF fixes as well as the next steps in design for color management. Running a design meeting this week. We talked about the hotel being paid and the trouble with getting the SFC to make sure this important aspect is finalised safely. Thanks everyone for coming.

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Developer Meeting; May 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 May '25

02 May '25

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Tav, Jonathan, Willy, Velfel, Elendil Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ (May 10th) We start by welcoming Velfet; from Serbia. We talk about topics. They've started by looking into the code and getting familar with how things work. We share advice. Mikekov; Is back to working on the object properties dialog. Will be presenting at the Summit and will hopefully get something deliverable. Jonthan; Announces that he will be stepping away from Inkscape after the Nuerumberg Summit. He's also been working Illustrator work and waiting for GSoC. Tav; Has been working on context-fill and context-stroke issues in rendering and PDF export. Martin has also been working on context work for the new PDF output. Willy; Has got his first feature merged this week. Congratulations! A new settings component which allows a folder to be changed and opened. Has added a new async method for checking if files are valid. Elendil; Has been traveling. Martin; capypdf work and getting frustrated with the CI build system. We talked briefly about the OPSOSL situation and that the PLC is working with the SFC about solving it. We worked on merge requests for 20 minutes, reviewing tricky code requests. Big thanks to everyone! We talked about the introduction of an AI policy in the developer team. We want to know if the quality of contributions will impact review time. Martin brought the question of the roadmap team. He's collecting feedback in order to put together a proposal which can encapsulate the guardrails of what a team would do, and what it's limitations would be. It would involve meeting at least quarterly, and not being a closed team that made up all of the ideas itself, but would instead be responsible for sourcing and combining the ideas in our community into a roadmap. He's asked everyone to think about it and get back to him if they have ideas or want to talk further. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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1.4.2 release plan
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi all ! After the issue on 1.4.1 which prevents offering it to mac, we discussed the plan to release a 1.4.2 with few fix soon, which will mostly contain changes from 1.4.1 and a few additional fixes. Ideally, we will make it ready for the beginning of may, to be announced and made available on the day vectors will see preferable :) Hence, - we are now in string freeze for development (easy to check fixes can still be merged if they don't break strings) - I'll merge translations done on translate.inkscape.org (1.4.x) or in-repo doc updates on May 7th and generate installers on May 8th If there is any concern, feel free to voice them, we can adapt. Thanks everyone ! -- Mc

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Inkscape Developer Meeting 16th April 2025
by Martin Owens 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, ltlnx, pbs, Jonathan Apologies: Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ (earlier) Inkscape Release 1.4.1 is removed because of crashes and we need release 1.4.2. We want to be more courteous to other teams such as documentation and translations so they have some time to prepare themselves. Marc will send out a message to everyone explaining our situation with the plan. Martin explained what happened in 1.4.1 and why it couldn't be released. The splash screen was loading too early causing macOS to crash and causing an error with command line uses as the CLI wasn't read in by the time the splash screen was being loaded. The developer team is basically ready but will give two weeks for other teams to get themselves into position for the point release. this puts the release at the end of April, start of May. The bug Accelerator program met today and there isn't a lot of bugs fixed yet in April as Martin took a break to work on PDF and Tav working on LPE issues. Blog posts for March are available on the website. Willy has been busy doing the documentation project, Inkscape manual. He's modeling it on the Blender manual and the end goal is to have it in the UI interface, not just in the help menu. Jonathan has been organising the GSoC review meeting. The details for the discussion were disclosed but were not added to these minutes as they are confidential. PBS wanted to ask about how exporting symbols. Inkscape for windows is hitting the limit on the number of symbols and so PBS created a branch to experiment. This shows that almost everything can work, except for Plugins which are the under-used C++ based code since the API would need to be available. We could ask the projects using plugins to design what the inkscape symbols API should. Martin has been working on PDF output dealing with Markers and context paints, wrote some more tests and is happy with the test output so far. PBS has some ideas about how it might be possible to make a static version of capypdf, but this would be highly experimental. We talked briefly about cppgir, but the problem is that it takes so long to load; but it's a good API and with gtkmm being not as maintained this might be a good future option. See you all next week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Use x and y parameters on element clones
by LuKaRo 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Hi everyone, when moving object clones, Inkscape automatically adds a `transform: translate(x, y)` filter to the `<use>` object. However, like many SVG elements, the `<use>` object supports `x` and `y` translation directly, as per the specification <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/use>. Can't we use the `x` and `y` parameters of use objects directly, instead of attaching a `transform` parameter? This would reduce complexity, which e.g. causes firefox to render SVGs incorrectly <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458353> under certain circumstances. I already had a look at src/object/sp-use.cpp, but it does not have a dedicated set_transform or set_item_transform method. Thanks a lot in advance! Lukaro

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, March 31st 2025
by Martin Owens 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Dear Developers, Attending: Martin, Marc, Jonathan, Mikekov, Ishann, Itlnx Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Marc: created and uploaded 1.4.1 binaries and has been investigating issues with the various builds and adding in translations. Jonathan: updated extensions for the release and released on pypi. Working on AI import. Some of the designs internally to AI have some really weird design choices. Martin: Bugfix Accelerator work + investigation of Windows slowness. Some discussion with Mike about Pattern editing architecture. Helped with the AI importer work with a PDFBones library for opening pdf files based on pdf Mikekov has been working on the Gtk Window preview editor. A separate project to see glade files and edit them a little bit. Hopes to get back to Inkscape work soon. SVG W3C held a meeting and we didn't know until after they had met about trying to revive interest in supporting SVG. Itlnx has been working on translations, fixing various small issues with the translation strings in the software. Needs to access read the docs account and will be following up with Maren to find out how to do that. Also helped with the release making a graphic for the website. Next meeting is April 8th and is at the earlier time. Thanks everyone for coming and helping with the 1.4.1 release! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting for March 23rd 2025
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Mar '25

23 Mar '25

Attendees: Marc, Adam, Anu, Ishaan, Jonathan, Ravi, René, Vaibhav, Tav Vaibhav : text on path, investigation on steam account Adam: Lots of Bug triaging, some discussions about triaging in general Tav : LPE corners bugs and implementation René : gitlab CI/infra work Jonathan : .ai stuff with manpreet Marc: helped on python deps Ishaan : investigate dbus on macos

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Developer meeting notes Mar 15, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear all, see below. Jonathan Meeting notes Dev Meeting Mar 15 Attendees: Ishaan, Jonathan, Marc, Martin, Philip, René, Tav, Vaibhav, Yotam - 1.4.1: Maren wanted information / timelines etc, which we haven't done yet because we just wanted it done ASAP René will check the windows dependencies. Extensions updates: the zstandard package is needed for Affinity import + AI import, but only exists on 22.10 onwards. Appimage is currently built on 20.04. Jonathan will review the newly contributed Vectornator / Linearity importer and include it in the default extensions for 1.4.1. Martin is rewiting the Splash screen because it is reliably crashing MacOS 1.4.1 after 15 seconds of use. René warns that this shows that 1.4.x is basically untested on MacOS. The Tofu character fix on MacOS (Pango update) has a side effect: it breaks kerning for everybody in the UI. GIMP has the same issue (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/12736). There is a workaround - manually selecting the correct system font - but that also sometimes breaks, https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/issues/1508. He suggests to delay the Pango update, we leave the decision to René. Martin inquires about CapyPDF on MacOS. This will require us to drop support for anything except the newest MacOS version. In theory, we could compile it using a different compiler than what XCode provides, but that would make our build pipeline so unique, that it would become unmaintainable (and it's also a lot of work to set up in the first place). René will investigate releasing two versions, one with and one without CapyPDF. Another options would be to dlopen CapyPDF? Maybe as a C++ extension? Update round: Jonathan: worked with Manpreet on the AI Importer, he has about 40 hours left. All basic features are covered now, we need to decide on whether to extend the contract in a few weeks. Nuremberg organisation: if you attend, please make your your details are updated in the organisation table. René: Can we find an alternative for DBus? It doesn't work on MacOS. Martin has investigated, there are none. DBus description: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/DBus DBus is deeply embedded into Gio Actions, we use it for Jabiers --active-window mode. Martin: Bug fixes; Website work. Please let him know if the website cannot be reached by real human beings. René wants to move the MacOS infrastructure repositories to the Inkscape namespace. Marc makes him an owner of the Gitlab group to make the moving process possible. MacStadium negotiations are in their final stages, mostly waiting for SFC signature right now. Tav: working on LPE bugs, in the process of merging the GTK4 file dialog work. Vaibhav looked into Steam documentation. There is some paperwork and an initial registration cost (100 USD). Application is pretty straightforward. We need to discuss all steps with the SFC. Jonathan will bring it up in the Monday meeting with Tracy. We have also been approached by a developer who wants to set up revenue sharing on Steam, but we need a steam publisher account for that. René remarks that there is a certain maintenance burden if we publish in an additional app store (comments, updates, screenshots...)

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Developer Meeting for March 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Developer Meeting Mar 7, 2025 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attendees: Martin, Ishaan, Mike, Willy, Jonathan, Elendil, Marc, Tav Next meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin: Started working on the Bugfix accelerator program. Contracts are signed. Many open, high-priority issues are on Windows and MacOS. Mike has been working on dissecting his mega MR, got stuck on in-gamut functionality which he now thinks should be undone. Some color discussion between Martin and Mike. Mike is also experimenting with writing a Viewer for ui files. Jonathan has been organsing the Nuemburg event. There was some organisation needed for the hotel, getting a place with single rooms but people had already booked a room in a hotel. Also worked on the extension event sync system. Asked about 1.4.1 extensions and Marc said that updates should be in place before the Gtl new version is available for windows. Marc worked on the 1.4.1 release candidate installers. Worked on the capypdf building for windows Martin and Jonathan report capypdf build files appering in the source folder. Willy worked on the documentation on the dev said and has been looking at a Korean translation. Asked about getting extensions written in python which work like the python extensions in Blender. Martin gave a description ofhow the current extensions work and why it can't be changed into a blender like system. A new system would have to be wirtten. Tav started working on fixing bugs, two down and 2 being worked on. Jabier has a fix for one of them but the fix has to be understood more. There is some complexity in the node tracking system. We all want to talk about the LPE code in Nuerumburg. How we can refactor it into a healthy place would be on the table. Elendil has been working on the 1.4.1 release notes. There some things missing so far. Also working on the bug accelerator program, currently looking at a crash on clones when closing Inkscape. Tav, Martin and Elendl will meet on wednesday at 10am EST. Jonathan and Isshann talked about visa situations. Thanks everyone for coming! See you next time. Martin,

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Developer Meeting; Feb 27th
by Martin Owens 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Adam Belis, Ishann, Jonathan, Marc, Mikekov Next Meeting: Release for 1.4.1, Marc compiling for RC and bug fixing is being prioritised. Inkscape was accepted into Google Summer of Code for 2025. Vectors has been informed so that an announcement can be constructed. First meeting of the Bug Accelerator Project has had it's first meeting. Jonathan asked about making sure Krlr17 is signed up to the milestone, but that appears not to be possible on GitLab. We'll have to just make sure we're watching the page. Mikekov asked about going to the Inkscape Summit and if we can start booking tickets. Jonathan said the timeline is tomorrow for submitting. Martin asked about information around who is going and when they will arrive to better aid the coordination. Mikekov was working on slicing his megga merge request into pieces. Especially his color okhsv work. Asked for a merge request on 6945. Martin has been working on the PDF work so it's finished in time to be able to work on the Bug Accelerator Program. The output is looking great and most of the issues are fixed and most of the features and done. Imbeded SVG images are next to support and will be rendered as vectors. The builds for Windows need help and the builds for macOS will be really questionable consider the XCode requirements for the llvm for C++23. Jonthan has been working on the async extensions work for inkstitch. W talked for a little while about how to make object-set selection saving and where that data should be saved. Adam has been working on some merge requests and back porting. Jonathan wants to talk about dong bug fixing on the master branch and doing work both local and upstream on Gtk issues and cleaning up the remaining problems for all platforms. He needs help with creating a list of work items. Adam was asked to help with the prioritisation and tagging. René negotiated a new agreement with MacStatium for better CI and a remote machine to be able to connect to and test development. Last minute chat about how to talk about UX issues, sometimes they are labeled as feature requests when they aren't really feature requests but valid UX problems. Figuring out if they should go into inbox or if they can go in the main tracker is sometimes a gray area. But UX is important enough for us to take them as real issues and not just features so labeling is important. That's it for this week. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Feb 19th 2025
by Martin Owens 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Developer Meeting 2025-02-19 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Jonthan, Martin, Mikekov, Siddharth Mishra, Tav, Elendil (Krlr17), Ishann Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Jonthan presides and introduces the meeting, letting people know the format for the meetings. Martin takes notes. Firstly we tak about Nueumburg. There is a process for reimbursement when coing to an event. It can take a number of weeks although we can book travel with the SFC. Although Mikekov would like to book their own ticket as it's a long flight with connections and they want to be able to have control over that process. After $75 per per person per night a partiipant might choose to book their own hotel; but will be required to cover anything over the baseline cost themselves otherwise people can stay in the group booking at the hostal. Jonthan was in touch with Tracy about getting the grants program off the ground. It looks like we could with basically real time access to information about what is coming in. We don't need a real time banking, just information about when emails come in from stripe and paypal which will give us a lot more information to be able to run fundraising campaigns. There's progress here. Bugfix accelerator, the hiring comittee is Jonthan and Floryan put out the call for applications and confirmations will be going out soon. Jonthan also worked on afdesign format support.Creating complex objects is producing good ideas for the filters and lpe structures in Inkscape. Martin has been doing PDF work, fixing various remiahing issues to get the merge request ready for review and testing. Glyph issues wih Chinese, raster images, markers and making a filter rasterizer that isn't dependant on cairo. Martin, Jussi, Jonathan ansd Tav has a meeting with the PDF Association about the quality of the PDF output we'll be aiming for and we were able to clarify a bunch of things in that meeting. Mikekov has been working on a replacement for the tab widgets used in the dialog panels. There were a bunch of issues with the Gtk default widgets we were using and since PBS has written a new implimentation Mikekov has been able to reuse it. Mishra s new and is looking into the project for doing Google Summer of Code has been busy recently but will be available the end of March. This would be a good time to check the projects list to make sure it's fit and if things should be removed or if you want to be a mentor. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/doc/gsoc/summerofcode.md… The developer team spent 15 minutes working on merge request reviews and deciding on how to unblock or categorise various code. People were able to claim review work to keep things moving. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting.

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[Apply Now] Bugfix Accelerator Program 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Dear all, upon request of the Developer working group, the PLC recently voted [1] for another round of the bugfix accelerator program! Experienced contributors can now apply to fix issues for the 1.4.x release series, and get paid by the project! For the first time, we now also offer an administrator position to help with the triaging / issue selection workload, again targeting experienced contributors. As a rough guideline, we expect from developers to have 5 merged MRs in inkscape/inkscape since the 1.3 release (July 23, 2023). Please read the document attached to the vote carefully if you plan to apply. Contractors are expected to set aside at least 10hrs per week for the program (last year’s experience has shown that doing the contract in parallel to a full-time job is not sustainable). The application should contain: * your gitlab username * how much time per week you can allocate to the program * specific areas of expertise (developer) / experience with project management (adminstrative position) * experience with contracting work We do NOT need a full CV. Send your application to jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org (private mailing list) or use the reply-to function on this email. We will respond when we see it. While we will not offer both developer and administrator position to a single individual, feel encouraged to apply for both positions if you think you would be a good fit for any of them. Deadline for applications: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 23:59 UTC The hiring team consists of Marcin Floryan and myself. We will announce the contractors shortly after the deadline. Best regards, Jonathan [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or…

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[Register Now] Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, Germany from May 24 - May 28, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, as you might have heard, I'll organize another Inkscape meetup just before Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), which takes place in Nuremberg this year. The event starts on Saturday, May 24 (morning) and ends on Wednesday, May 28 (noon). Afterwards, you can opt to stay for LGM (May 28 - May 31), and I've reserved hotel rooms until Sunday, June 1st. If you want to participate: - Carefully read https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/qPNibLwCAbwpJ8a and apply as indicated in the document. - *If you need a visa, get the process started immediately. *Get in touch with the SFC to book flights (project_leadership channel on RocketChat), set up a visa appointment, give me the details needed for an invitation letter. This is somewhat urgent as I can only cancel rooms until March 21. Best regards Jonathan Neuhauser

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Developer Meeting Feb 11th 2025
by Martin Owens 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear all, Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Elendil (Krlr17), Martin, Jonathan, Marc, Ishann Elendil reports that the Bug tracking tasks have caused less burn out since there are more people who can help with the work. Jonthan reports that the Frankfurt event went well. The presence of Kristina from Inkstitch and the availability of the contributors to talk about text support made the event useful. Overall the event was fairly good from a cost perspective. There were organisational challenges with people arriving and leaving at different times but this was to be expected. A vote has been created for the next event. We're waiting on plc members to vote so we can continue with that work. There is a 14 day window for paying for the hotel so it is timely. We talked about the 1.4.x contract and what the next steps. Marcin Floryan is helping with the candidate selection steps and will be put into a mailing list with Jonathan. Marc did that task during the meeting. Martin has been working on PDF support and was contacted by the CTO of the PDF association and will be meeting with them to talk about how to make Inkscape more compilient and consistant with it's PDF output. For example with atomic stroke/fill operations. Marc hasn't been up to much since the hackfest. Finished the weblate server for translations. It has been recieved quiet well by the translations team so far on the chat, there are decisions about how it should integrate with our current workflow. Elendil requests that a specific fix for PDF input be fixed for 1.4.1. Do we have a release date for the 1.4.1? We looked at what vectors might have said in their last meeting, but found nothing related to the release. There are some pending backports that should be merged before we cut the release but we're otherwise ready to go as soon as those tasks are completed or rejected. We reviewed the specific fixes that we would need to bring over. Ishann contiued with the markers refactoring and will be working on further tests for markers. Martin has rebased his PDF work on top of that. Thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting

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Meeting notes Dev Meeting Feb 03, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear all, meeting notes below. Best, Jonathan Developer meeting Feb 3, 2025 Attendees: Ishaan, ltlnx, Manpreet, Marc, Martin, Mike, Vaibhav, Kristina, Rhett (both InkStitch), Ravi, Jonathan Partially in-person in Frankfurt :) Ishaan: Worked on stroke to path for markers. Martin will help with tests. Jonathan: is currently working on a new extensions type (Preview extension). Will also work on some contracting proposals this week. Some discussion about whether we should have https://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/leaderboard.htmlfor fixing instead of migrating bugs. Brief discussion about another contracting thing related to canvas performance. ltlnx will collect the issues and talk to pbs about it. Kristina and Rhett (InkStitch) have joined us, enabling relationship building with downstream and also talking about their needs and getting things done :) Manpreet: making good progress with Illustrator import Marc: cleared out pending merge requests, is working on improving the translations submission progress, making it more usable with issues in Gitlab. Martin: worked on the PDF exporter (text, transparent gradients, ...) Mike: worked on implementing the settings dialog proposal Ravi: works on getting the Filter editor ready for primetime Vaibhav: trying to finish the text on path merge request. Some comments from Ishaan and ltlnx. Performance issues with Text tool open are fixed. Next up: handle icons, some handle issues, adding the settings on the object properties dialog

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, 26th Jan 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, Ishann, ltlnx, Tav Next Event: Feb 3, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC / https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ We talked about the LGM meeting and what time it was going to be held. Martin talked about various fixes in the past week as well as continuing work on the PDF exporter. There has been significant friction with upstream with font support and regressions for ligature support which is slowing things down. Martin also worked on color-font support in object-to-path after talking with Tav. The work is incomplete as the glyphs are not positioned correctly. Ishaan has been adding tests for the marker refactoring branch he's working on. Adding tests for paths with markers and bounding boxes and will next work on stroke to path tests. He asked about how to test markers in the stroke to path and we ended up advising Ishann to general small sp-item based pngs to test against before and after running the function. There was also a question about the size of markers in the object to marker and there were two possible problems. Tav suggested that it might be the stroke width itself and using UserUnits preference. Martin suggested that the viewBox might not be set and it is inheriting it from the document. ltlnx has been trying to fix the on canvas support for non-latin language. Looking into the font config situation and if it can be used. At one point the fallbacks did work in Linux but they all don't work now. Tav submitted a merge request for color fonts, it's VERY draft. All OpenType color font types will be supported. Martin talked with Tav about the object to path support and delaying it until Tav's work is complete. Thanks for coming everyone! Martin,

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Fwd: [Hosting] Help Recognize and Acknowledge Glue Work in FOSS Projects
by Maren Hachmann 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

FYI: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Hosting] Help Recognize and Acknowledge Glue Work in FOSS Projects Datum: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:06:07 -0800 Von: Lance Albertson <lance(a)osuosl.org> An: hosting(a)osuosl.org Hosted projects, I am reaching out to share an important initiative led by Professor Anita Sarma [1] from Oregon State University. The project aims to recognize and acknowledge "glue work" in Free and Open Source Software projects. Glue work includes essential tasks such as mentoring, maintenance code, bug fixing, and documentation, which are critical to the health of FOSS projects but often go unrecognized. Professor Sarma has a distinguished history of contributions to the FOSS community. Her work includes projects like Palantír, which raises awareness among configuration management workspaces [2], and Tesseract, an interactive visual exploration tool for socio-technical relationships in software development [2]. She has also focused on making FOSS more inclusive by identifying errors in user interaction design [3]. To better understand where glue work can be traced and how it can be appropriately acknowledged, a survey has been designed. Your participation in this survey would be incredibly valuable. It takes just */5 minutes/* to complete and will help spotlight the full spectrum of contributions that keep our FOSS projects thriving. Please take a moment to fill out the survey and share your insights: https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LK7QHqqCwoqW2 <https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LK7QHqqCwoqW2> Thank you for your time and contribution to this important effort. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Thanks! [1] https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/anita-sarma <https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/anita-sarma> [2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shMjCasAAAAJ&hl=en <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shMjCasAAAAJ&hl=en> [3] https://blog.communitydata.science/fossy-wrap-up-anita-sarmas-lightning-tal… <https://blog.communitydata.science/fossy-wrap-up-anita-sarmas-lightning-tal…> -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

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Developer Meeting Notes: Jan 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Dear Dev Team. Big thanks to everyone at this week's dev meeting: Cal: https://inkscape.org/cals/1/ Attendees: Marc, Mikekov, Rene, Tav, KrIr17, Martin, Ishaan, Jonathan Next Meeting: Early meeting, Jan 18th, Saturday Rene: Plans to move the MacOS pipeline stuff to the Infrastructure group; Also has been in touch with MacStadium, and setting up CIs for Gnome projects Garbled font issue ("tofu") has been identified and fixed in pango. We can finally get rid of it with a dependency update. Yay! KrIr17: Worked on fixing shortcuts in floating dialog windows Ishaan: Working on adding tests based on Rafael's proposal Marc hasn't worked on much and has been on holiday but finding it a little difficult to attend the new meeting times. Jonathan; Hackfest dates: - Hotel is booked from Sunday (2.2.)- Thursday (6.2.) morning for all participants that haven't told me otherwise (checkout 9:30 am). For those who have already booked flights, they can stay until Friday morning. - Conference room is reserved Monday (3.2.) - Wednesday (5.2.) evening. Projector available. - Hotel address is Haus der Jugend e.V., Deutschherrnufer 12, 60594 Frankfurt am Main - If you also want to attend FOSDEM, we can take a train to Frankfurt together: I’ll take the train at 16:25 from Brussels to Frankfurt, which arrives at Frankfurt/Main main station (2km from the youth hostel) at 19:31. - I haven't figured out the hotel reimbursement procedure with the SFC yet, working on that. Martin worked on a bunch of fixes, and some tentative features. Asked about doing 1.4.1. Jonathan says he would be in support of running a bugfix contract for 1.4.x if the testing team thinks it's necessary. Elendil reported on where we are on the project and some concerns about forward porting and back porting. Jonathan: Manpreet has been working on the AI import extensions, adding support for shapes and text. It's looking solid. Linearity Curve (ex-Vectornator) has locked out users by making the software paid. Someone has been working on a Curve->Svg importer, and wants to integrate it with Inkscape. Plus there has been a a lot of progress on Affinity importer, which would be nice to have in 1.4.1 Also worked on an extension showcasing automatic packaging and translation of extensions. Mikekov worked on the update modified signals. He tried a bunch of different possible techniques. Ishaan asked about markers and the transform tag on marker tags. Krlr17 asked about text attributes using pre and pre-wrap and older versions of the files. See you all next time!

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Developer Meeting: 2nd Jan 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Happy New year Inkscape, This is the first Developer meeting of 2025 and we spent almost two hours going through lots of different topics: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Elendil, Ishaan, ScislaC, Vaibhav, Tav Next: Jan 10th 2025, later meeting time. Organise an event in India? There's enough people in that part of the world to have people meet and pay for travel and hosting. There are FOSS events and Ishaan tried to organise an event but asking in Vectors but no one was interested. Martin suggested making community with other Asian contributors directly. India is a big country alone and travel can be longer than expected. Three hour flight to Bangalor from Dehli. Martin advises to get in touch with the plc when plans are known and we'd put together a funding. Elendil shared the contributors map from 2023 from where everyone was as an example for how spread out the contributor community is. Vaibhav and Martin talked about using the caps, scroll lock key. We talked about the comments and how we'd run a user experience study on the ideas and using them as modifiers in the code. ScislaC asked about AppImages and how we can best test and narrow down when an issue first happened. Martin explained his personal process of using release AppImages for older issues and pipeline results for newer ones. Vaibhav asked about releasing AppImages in the GitLab release. Elindil reports that AppImages from three years ago have been deleted, but anything newer are available. Martin knows that space on GitLab can sometimes be a problem and pipeline results are deleted. There are still issues with getting and retaining windows developers. The buld time is very very slow on windows and this is causing problems. We told each other stories of how we were introduced to Free Software, and the change in the community over those years and what technologies brought people into the ecosystem and community. Vaibhav has been working on text on path and it involves a lot of maths which can be quite complicated. We talked about the dificulty of fixing some of the problems in boolops, color and other parts of inkscape that need more of a computer science background. There are a bunch of new nodes which allow the text to path to be controlled better. Vaibhav worked on a few thigns at the same time, worked on pending reviews in GSoC. We're reaching the end for the node editing improvements but the pen editing functionality wil take more time to complete. We looked at the design and some of the ways the MR needs to be improved. Elendil has been working on shortcut handling. There is a GLOBAL vs. LOCAL setting which we have set to GLOBAL despite this not being the default there is no commit message or comments which explain why we have this setup. Ishaan has continued their work on marker transforms. Martin says he can help with the cairo use of the API with marker z-order data. There some other regressions in markers which are separate but could do with being tested. We went through the way to write unit tests. ScislaC brought to our attention an old issue with the modification keys where it used to be possible to change the scale of objects by hovering over one of the resize controls. Martin has said he will fix the issue if reported. See you all next time! Martin,

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Developer Meeting Notes, December 25th 2024
by pulsar17 26 Dec '24

26 Dec '24

Hi all, Following are the meeting notes for the Developer Meeting on 25th December 2024: Attending: Ishaan, Jonathan, Mike, Tav, Elendil (Krlr17) Ishaan: Working on Martin's centralised marker transforms refactor, stuck on definition of no stroke. Mike suggested to ping Rafael as he worked recently on markers. Some discussion on harlines. Mike: Comboboxes to dropdown replacement. Working on breaking Object Properties MR into smaller MRs for better reviewability. Also worked on Spin button implementation. Tav: Working on color fonts rendering with different font types with recent cairo and harfbuzz. A brief explanation of color fonts and their different types (very interesting!) Elendil: asked Tav whether the PDF text import fixes need forward-porting (they do). Some discussion on whether a newer pango version is required. Jonathan would like to use Inkscape's Mac that Tav is using during the Summit to check a file that only works on Mac. Jonathan also wanted to check if someone would like to submit a proposal for LGM from Inkscape - Supporting a Proprietary Format, GTK4 migration, CMYK work might be interesting topics. Some discussion of 1.4.1, Marc and Martin might be the right people to ask about that. Merry Christmas to everyone! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Dev Meeting notes Dec 9, 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Dev Meeting notes 2020-12-09 Present: Elendil, Ishaan, René, Tav, Mike, Jonathan, Martin Elendil was fixing some bugs on master that interfered with testing. Ishaan has been working on https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6844. Martin also has been working on refactoring markers, so there's some collaboration possibility here. Martin: The CMYK Export supports most features now, except for text. Also some refactoring because markers code was duplicated all over the codebase, and went out of sync over time. Needs to talk to Tav about text. There are many different ways of writing out text. Tav prefers to use a method that is relatively easy to read back in. Tav has been working on fixing a PDF import bug where text was incorrectly positioned. Mike has discovered that the results from our LCH color picker differes from what browsers do when the color doesn't convert properly to sRGB. There is an iterative function defined in the CSS Colors Level 4 spec how to deal with those. Mike is working on integrating this into Inkscape. (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#binsearch) Martin remarks that this is related to "rendering intent" in LCMS2. Needs some more discussion on whether CSS reinvented this concept or accidentally fixed it to some specific value. Martin is looking into support for HDR colors in Inkscape. Some technical discussion about color spaces follows. Mike also added an experimental XYZ color picker. René contacted MacStadium again, they are in the final stages of drafting a sponsorship agreement (mostly their internal process), so we can get some more infrastructure. He will let us know if there is something to sign. New infrastructure is expected to be available for Christmas. The GNOME project is also in talks with MacStadium (as in, René is also running CI for them). Currently the infrastructure is not shared between GNOME and Inkscape, but René might suggest this again. He has also begun to rework how we package Python. Currently they are using custom shell scripts, but a build tool like jhbuild would be nicer. Hence, he's transitioning to Conan (https://conan.io/). This work will also allow to transition to Python 3.12 on Mac. Martin asks whether we should together a proposal to fund bugfixing for 1.4.1. Elendil agrees. - backporting - updating translation - updating graphics - fix some egregious issues reported since 1.4 Some additional discussion about asking for donations. Suggestions: Downloadable swag after you donate (e.g. some kind of file that makes the user interface shiny) or a dialog that pops up periodically like in Thunderbird. Martin remarks that this is not only about donations for the project, but also giving users means to participate (as contributors, or as decision-makers when contributing financially). Maybe even some kind of "Reddit Place" instead that it's a huge shape builder image where users can "buy" areas that they can draw on? Would be a nice experiment. The dev team plans to put together a proposal for an infrastructure project to update the website (Django) and add stripe integration.

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Developer meeting, Nov 15 2024
by pulsar17 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Present: Ishaan, Elendil, Martin. Mike, Tav Tav: Incorrect implementation of text pickboxes, the code seems wrong. It does the calculation many times and doesn't cache the result We looked at various boxes related to text picking and selecting and if they were using these data. The goal is to be able to get color fonts like emoji to display. Also worked on an MR replacing FileDialog with new GtkDialogs. These new dialogs check when you're overwriting a file. Some things might need to be moved from "Save As" dialog to the Export dialog. Martin: Tuning test suite for PDF export, an HTML table to see the tests better. Some discussion on different color spaces as they relate to SVG and the PDF export. PDF Exporter doesn't need to be too clever. Mike: Mostly working on mega Color MR - roundtrip color conversion, etc. Some discussion on what should be present in the XML document when user selects the color in a different color space. Martin suggested that the picker should save to the default color space. The picker should also say which space it's saving in. Users should also be able to select different color spaces if they want. Some discussion on what happens when you select the color with a picker and how inkscape saves that in XML. Ishaan is looking at the page tool for selection cues as it does a similar thing when you drag around the page. It creates an outline and it covers a lot of cases for example markers. Though Ishaan found some bugs for example missing start markers on a closed path. Mike suggested to show some visual cue when objects are locked, maybe less saturated node handles and selection cue. Martin informed someone is helping with the website tests. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer meeting, Nov 7 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

Present: Elendil, Ishaan Arora, Martin, Mike, René, Jabiertxof Elendil reports that the bugtracker has been pretty healthy recently. Ishaan continued working on selection cues, working on the design. Some discussion about how to implement this. Jonathan briefly presented three proposed contract development projects: 1) GTK4 cross-platform fixes, 2) Improving Windows developer experience / dev documentation, 3) Website upgrades / better use of the CDN. Help is appreciated to formulate the goals of these projects, please contact him if you can help. Some discussion on 2). The prime goal is to improve the developer experience on Windows, to attract Windows developers. Questions: How much effort is necessary to build Inkscape with Visual Studio? Can we do it with GCC, or do we need to patch msvc? Martin raises the point that another compiler increases complexity of the codebase. René thinks that we should offer a native build experience, that means using msvc. He will look into whether there is a convenient way to hook up clang or gcc with VS to make sure that's not an option. There is a certain risk that this doesn't pay off - if we fail to attract Windows developers, this infrastructure would rot. René: how many wrappers would we need to create? Martin is working on PDF export as a C++ internal extension, and is improving the new upstream Library CapyPDF at the same time. This work will occupy him for some time. He describes the relationship with upstream as good. Mike has worked on the way we develop themes; they can now be written on SASS. He's also worked on decoding LAB colors from Adobe Color files. Some technical discussion between Mike and Martin about the Color API. René has been phasing out jobs on the Intel runner. He's on a bit of a break, waiting for the new MacStadium infrastructure, so he can set it up. The donated infrastructure would be valued around 700 USD per month. On the Windows side he's looking for cloud hoster that can provide Windows infrastructure for us. Martin thinks that this is important for programs like the Bugfix Accelerator. After the meeting, we've looked at some MRs.

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Seeking your thoughts on LLM-generated contributions
by Daniel Pono Takamori 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Heya Inkscape Developers, Following up on an issue that came up a few months ago about code and other uses of LLMs; we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been hearing from member projects that people are asking whether they can submit code to these projects that was generated by large language models (LLMs), sometimes called AI coding assistants. We'd like to better understand the nature of these requests, how much LLM-generated code has been offered to these projects, and generally how you're feeling about the situation. To do this, we will be holding three different sessions, where you are welcome to join and share your thoughts and any details so far on these types of contributions. The sessions will all be run in the same way with the same topic - we are running three in order to hopefully allow as many people from around the world to attend as possible. Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, will be hosting some sessions at the times below for all our member projects to discuss the issue. date -d "2024-10-29 20:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-01 14:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-06 04:00 UTC" We'll be meeting in this room for the sessions: https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/oss-nnj-obi-jea We are excited to see some of you there and are looking forward to drafting appropriate recommendations based on what we hear! Thanks, -Pono

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Inkscape 1.4 released!
by Marc Jeanmougin 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

================ = Inkscape 1.4 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-… and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.4 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following more than one year of development after the 1.3 major release, and paving the way for the next version of Inkscape. The highlights of this release are: - Filter Gallery: it has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search. - Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons! - Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: quick access to dialog layout controls, search for colors, and open different palette file formats! - Unified font browser preview: when activated in the preferences, use it to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback! - Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles! - Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: raster graphics can now be clipped into multiple sections using the Shape Builder. - Affinity Designer File Import - Support for internal links in exported PDF files - A whole new icon set - There's even more: faster extensions, new templates for folding booklets, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, new keyboard shortcuts, changed node deletion behavior, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, more supported color palette formats (e.g. CIELAB, Adobe Color Book and Adobe Swatch Exchange), updated translations and many bug fixes. The new features are showcased and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.4/Inkscape_1.4.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: SVGs from Inkscape do not display correctly in Firefox or EoG
by Shlomi Fish 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hi Fernando, please reply to all / the mailing-list next time. On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:51:25 -0300 Fernando Lozano <fernando(a)lozano.eti.br> wrote: > All advice in this thread was misguided. Using WebP or PNG is nonsense, > I need and want vector graphics. SVG is the web standard for that and > the reason Inkscape exists. The fact that it failed with multiple > browsers and also with a standalone viewer (eog) was a clear indication > it is something with inkscape. > My advice to use WebP was given after someone else mentioned using JPEG instead of PNG. So it wasn't "nonsense" in its context. I should note that https://github.com/tdewolff/minify and similar can be used to try to minify SVGs and use them as smaller bandwidth SVGs. Despite that, I realised that the minified SVG for the logo of https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/ was prohibitedly large, and used webp instead, so there's that. > It was not a bug fixed many years ago, it was working fine on 1.1.1, > appeared on 1.3.2, and looks like fixed with 1.4 beta. > > Em 28/09/2024 02:59, Shlomi Fish escreveu: > > > Hi Steve / all, > > > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:49:06 -0400 > > Steve Litt <slitt(a)troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > > Fernando Lozano said on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:28:56 -0300 > > > > I opened 2313610 - SVG files from Inkscape don't render in a web > > browser (nor eog) 4 [1] on Fedora bugs about this issue. It contains > > two test files, one the export from google slides, other after edits > > by Inkscape. > > For the most part, I've stopped rendering SVG inside browsers, for > > performance reasons. On anything but the simpler SVGs, the time it > > takes the browser to go through all the transitions on transitions on > > transitions takes seriously finite time. > > > > I convert to JPG, or if I need more quality PNG, and show the converted > > file in the web page. > > Note that there is also WebP and similar formats, which are smaller than > JPEG > and PNG, and look better and crispier than > JPEG: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_loads_quickly.xhtml . > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > > > http://444domains.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/ - my dotfiles Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Meeting Oct 6th 2024
by Martin Owens 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting was a quiet one; it was Rene, Martin, Tav and Marc. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about the release and making sure everything is lined up. Marc is happy about the translations system he's created. Rene has one final commit to update the windows build infra, nothing for macOS. For the future, Rene is not going to upgrade the macOS version but is going to keep the intel machine so it can be booted up during releases, We looked at a merge request outstanding which was all about tanslations. There have been a couple of crashes which have been fixed and merged in time for the 1.4.x We reviewed the locations for various projects in gitlab and if things are organised correctly. Martin has been working on the capypdf integration, between C and C++ APIs and upstream headers. The next meeting is Monday the 14th October. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2024: Results
by Martin Owens 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear devs, Big thanks to everyone who filled out the survey. I'm attaching the PDF of the results here so we can have a saved record of it. There's some really interesting comments and results. TLDR; 1. We need more windows devs 2. Build instructions are too unreliable 3. People aren't finding mentors 4. Merge requests aren't being reviewed quickly enough What prompted this survey was a view that people were bouncing off contributing this year and I wanted to know for sure what was going on. I think we certainly have build issues, but it's not the only issues new contributors are facing. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Layer issue
by Alexander Roalter 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have the following issue and I’m not sure if it is supposed to work that way: I have a document with nested layers, let’s say + Layer A | +- Layer B | +- Layer C + Layer D +- Layer E For editing purposes, only layer A and B are visible, C, D and E are hidden. If I now use the command line interface of Inkscape to export the image in various configurations, I do the following: select-all:layers; selection-hide; select-clear select-by-id:D selection-unhide select-by-id:E selection-unhide and then export as png... Through this I want to initially hide *ALL* layers and only turn on the layers I want. But apparently, select-all:layers only selects the topmost layers A and D, but does not change the settings for B, C and E. I know that nested layers were only introduced later, could it be that select-all:layers was never updated to reflect this? Or would a new option for select all (e.g. select-all:nested-layers, or select-all:layers:depth=... ) be a sensible option? My main point is: I want to be able to switch on individual layers (because I know their ID), but I want to be able to switch off *ALL* layers before doing so, without knowing all their IDs. And I don't want to store the original SVG with all layers switched off, because in editing, I usually have some of the layers switched on (latest/last configuration I’m currently working on). -- cheers, Alex

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Developer Meeting 28/09/2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

Dear all, here are the notes from today's meeting. Dev meeting Sep 28 2024 Present: Tav, Mc, Jonathan, Martin 1.4-rc was uploaded to the website. Ravi is supposed to restart his GSoC in the upcoming week. Tav hast been working on the File dialogs. Opening: saving is working on his PC. Preview is handled by the file browser instead of ourselves. Saving is difficult, because it relies on the extension of the target file name to chose the format. There is no option to add custom fields. Tav proposes to let the export dialog decide the format to save to, and the file chooser there only decide about the filename. The settings button there can be used to set all options specific to a file format (e.g. SVG: save as plain SVG, clean up css, and so on). In general, the Import / Export system is way over-engineered. At the same time, a rework of import/export on the command line is in order. PBS's MR does the "minimum in order to get it to work", but doesn't address the proposed architectural / UX changes, so it goes into a different direction. Jonathan has worked on the Extensions system. The final target is to completely separate out python dependencies - nothing is installed by default, and extensions authors needs so specify their dependencies same as in any ordinary Python package. This makes extensions more backwards-compatible with older Inkscape versions, and allow authors to request any dependency they want. For now, the first step was splitting out inkex into a new repository (svgpie) and setting up a new pipeline and build system there. Martin is compiling Inkscape master on the new Pop!OS, seems to work. Marc has worked on the translations system, trying to simplify the workflow for translators. Some discussion related to pre-release checklists. Need to unify them - there is one written by Nathan, one written by Vectors, and one on the Wiki. After the end of the meeting, Martin and Marc worked on this Martin has received a few more responses on the Developer Survey (24 in total). Almost everyone identified as a programmer. Half of them were active in 2024, almost all of them work on Debian or Fedora/Arch. Build instructions are found, but they only work for 1/3. The vast majority of contributors are motivated by public service and personal learning. Issues raised: - developer documentation is all over the place - Python extensions need more how-to's - Windows should use the native toolchain (msvc) - Merge request take too long to approve / merge. - Code base is well-organized, but is a lot to understand. Detailed results follow on the mailing list. Martin proposes to move all developer documentation from website & wiki into the repository, to get more contributions to it and make it more organized. The website still needs to provide the required information to get started with contributing, e.g. how to check out the repository and linking to the compile instructions (then a md file in the repo). There is general agreement with this idea. We discussed (lack of) Windows developers. Consensus is we need to invest into the infrastructure - building using Windows-native tools, giving Windows dev the experience they are used to, and updating the documentation. Maybe conduct developer experience interviews? This would be target developer experience, not CI. Martin wants to talk to René first. Marc will update the install_dependencies script to not break if libspelling is not found. Best regards Jonathan

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Weird PDF export issue (page size)
by Alexander Roalter 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

Hi, lately, I came upon this weird beavior when exporting to PDF: I have to base documents of size A4, the only difference is that the 2nd document has a page definition. If I open the 1st document (empty.svg, without the page definition), and export it as PDF, I get a PDF of size A4. Uncmpressing the PDF with pdftk shows a mediabox of size [0 0 595.275591 841.889764] (divide 595.275591 by 72 and multiply by 25.4, we get 210mm, as expected) If I now open the 2nd document (page.svg, with the page definition), and export it with exactly the same settings, I get a PDF which is slightly larger. In the Acrobat reader, it shows up as 210.3×297.0 mm, and looking at the uncompressed PDF the mediabox now has a size of [0 0 596 842], i.e. rounded up to the next integer. (596 / 72 * 2.54 = 210.25555mm) The PDF export options about rounding do not have any effect. This is with Inkscape 1.3.2, I checked back with yesterday’s devel snapshot: now the empty.svg is also exported oversized (rounded up), the mediabox is now always rounded up to the next integer. -- cheers, Alex

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Developer meeting 20th Sep 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Dear inkscape developers, Our meeting this week is as follows. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, René, Jonathan Next date: September 28th Martin wanted to try populating a "Roadmap" which documents in the meeting what the developer team as a whole is doing. This is an effort that KDE uses to encourage contributors and gives them a way to know what's important to the whole project, even if people can work on anything they like to. The way this would work is to have a graphic in the meeting with he roadmap and some space to draw. Jonathan thinks this kind of thing can go on our website too, with the idea that we can frame it as a direction of travel for the whole project and what we'd like to be able to do in the future. Release for 1.4 release candidate. Marc, Martin and Rene talked about the issues still outstanding and what kind of risk we would be taking. Everyone present was happy enough with the quality of the beta3 to continue with the rc schedule: Wednesday September 25th for the RC, this is the last day for any extensions patches. October 7th is the last day for translations, and October 9th is the scheduled date for release. Rene and Marc talked about a window packaging bug which adds windows CRLF end lines to all text files in the repository, this should be fixed so the release no longer shows up as a custom version. Martin wanted to embody the user's needs by saying that having a custom string in the version shouldn't block or delay the release. Marc has a patch for 1.4.x which solves the problem with gitattributes, although this doesn't cover all future cases so René we continue researching the problem. Marc has made a new process for submitting translations and it's currently in testing. And this is how it works: For each Release, we create a single merge request in gitlab targeting that branch. For example 1.4.x. This merge request is the URL we send to translators, who can then submit their translations to the merge request by creating a new comment with the po file attached. Marc has made a system which consumes the comments, adds them as a new commit to the merge request with a credit to the author and then submits a reply comment with the total statistics so users can see if they have submitted correctly. When ready, the translations will be merged into the branch. This can be done multiple times, so we can progressively add translations for betas and release candidates as we move alone the process. The 1.4.x and master branches will be tested and the translation team will be brought in to make sure everything is set up and working correctly and the new system works as a contributor experience. Marc will ask Maren to compile a message for the translations team at the weekend when this live test will be ready to deploy. Jonathan Sent an email to the SFC on the hiring team for the Adobe Illustrator file format and is waiting to hear back. Marc and Jonathan talk about Hactoberfest, it's a way to get first time contributors into open source development; if they contribute a certain number of commits then they get a t-shirt. Except this year, there's no more t-shirts. They have decent ways of dealing with spam so we can add the tag. Marc already added the tag and we part of the program now. spam and accepted tags allow us to tag things positively and negatively. All contributions are welcome, not just code. Because they've ran out of t-shirts we should fund our own. We need to order some t-shits so that we can have them for this event, but also for other things. Martin will make some generic t-shirts and ask for reimbursement if the project decides to fund them, he says that he can use them for his own supporters and projects if not so there's no risk either way. Martin talked about the color stuff and including capypdf into inkscape directly with the C++, Marc recommended including the library as a submodule and gave instructions for how to do this using mason. The gtkmm4 build is an instructive example. Martin explored the developer survey results so far; 21 people responded, the survey will be kept open another week for any stranglers to add their thoughts to it. We'll document the final results after that. Thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting.

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2024
by Martin Owens 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Dear Developers, Would you please fill out this quick survey about your experiences with Inkscape this year as a programmer? We're trying to gage how easy it is to contribute and people's thoughts on how we can improve retention and onboarding: https://forms.gle/T2P5m2vGcGdMGj9FA Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape is hiring: Python developer (internal position)
by Jonathan Neuhauser 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi all, As discussed in the recent developer meetings, the Inkscape project is hiring a contractor to finish the AI import. For details, look at the proposal: https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or… Please submit your applications to jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org **until Sunday, Sept. 15, 23:59 UTC** if you are interested. In the email, make it clear how you fulfil the requirements, and give your motivations for applying. The hiring team will respond to serious applications after the end of the application period. Best regards Jonathan

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Developer Meeting, Sept 4th 2024
by Martin Owens 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hey everyone, Time for our regular developer meeting notes. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Eledil, Jonathan, Marc, Mikekov, Tav, Ishaan, René Next Meeting: September 12th, (but there is also a PLC meeting on Friday) Beta3 is not perfect because it produces a custom string in the version string which needs to be cleaned up. Marc's certificate expired and needs to renew it. We don't have an official certificate, there is a way around that if we used Azure as a CI builder. We are releasing beta3 today, we had it on draft by accident and have now got it out the door for windows testing specifically. There is an outstanding vote, for hiring a contractor to finish the ai extension. Please make sure you get your votes in for today. Jonathan and Martin talked about the color extensions refactoring branch that is ready for review. Martin will proceed to work on the pdf out extension to add all that color support that now exists. They talk a bit about extensions progress bars and how to get pdf and other things. Jonathan is worried about the speed with a large text file. And how to treat text. Mikekov, has continued work on the object dialog and working on styles. There are a bunch of issues to do with signals and propagation and Martin suggests using signal keys to identify where an update modifier signal has come from. We will discuss this issue further in the chat room. Tav has been working on an Importance Critical bug; when you right click on a spin button it would pop up a menu, that was not the case in 1.4. The menus were mostly used for when the toolbar got too small and there was a menu for each thing that fell of the bar. During the refactoring this feature got removed as not being important. He has a merge request to put them back. An empty call will generate a few useful values even if it's empty. Martin will review. Elendil, if you have an svg file with a css file. The CSS dialog is currently parsing the CSS itself manually and could do with refactoring. The patch code with a comment explaining it should be ok for now as it retains more functionality than retaining the comments would. René is continuing his work on the cross-compiling and Martin's MR to improve that capability. And will help with the version thing. Ishaan will be giving a workshop on Inkscape at a FOSS conference, Bangalore, India. Mikekov; some of our tools are very special. The sp-desktop-style setting and getting is quite broken right now. There's a lot of issues with how these styles are processed before dialogs get access to them. Tav and Martin talk about text object selection with tspans. Ishaan asked about tablet code in master, it had to be removed and now had to be reimplemented. We may need to just review it and make sure we are using the new APIs as intended and that those features are available to windows and macOS users. See you all next time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Crashe with pencil tool
by micric * 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Hello, I just tried the same manipulation but on another PC, and the problem does not occur. So the problem I'm having comes from my PC... Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Michel De : W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. <robert.funnell(a)mcgill.ca> Envoyé : dimanche 1 septembre 2024 20:48 À : inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org <inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org> Cc : micric * <micric(a)hotmail.fr> Objet : Re: Bogue version V.1.3.2 I don't know why Inkscape crashes when you open a new document and use the Pencil tool. It works for me. Does it crash as soon as you select the tool, or only when you start using it? Are you able to open and modify an existing document? I'm using Windows 11 Home 23H2, with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz and 16 GB. - Robert Bonjour, Je constate un plantage du logiciel lorsque je suis les étapes suivantes : * lancement d'Inkscape V.1.3.2 * ouverture d'un nouveau document * utilisation de l'outil crayon A cette étape le logiciel plante systématiquement. Ce problème n'apparaissait pas avant la dernière mise à jour. Merci de me préciser si une solution existe. Voici les spécifications de mon PC : [cid:9b45fd0b-ac73-42c8-bc9c-e03709e6f50c]

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Bogue version V.1.3.2
by micric * 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

Bonjour, Je constate un plantage du logiciel lorsque je suis les étapes suivantes : * lancement d'Inkscape V.1.3.2 * ouverture d'un nouveau document * utilisation de l'outil crayon A cette étape le logiciel plante systématiquement. Ce problème n'apparaissait pas avant la dernière mise à jour. Merci de me préciser si une solution existe. Voici les spécifications de mon PC : [cid:bf9f6c11-91d4-4066-b8f6-a64c4ff2bf0b]

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Developer Meeting Augus 27th 2024
by Martin Owens 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Hey everyone, Thanks to everyone that came to today's meeting. A lot of focus on the release and the tasks needed to get us over the line today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: René, Martin, Jonathan, Mikekov, Marc, Tav Next Most exciting thing from René, he has seen the future of macOS CI, because after having talked to someone who is doing this for gstreamer, the tech that allows having the virtualised runners which means you don't need to spend time on build and installation configuration because that's baked into how that would work. The only down side is it requires more hardware resource than we currently have available. the hardware we currently have from mac stadium is currently the smallest size. Though we do want to move towards this virtualisation. René is going to meet with Macstatium tomorrow to explain why we need an upgrade to our hardware setup. If that doesn't pan out René will probably make the setup by himself. René has an open MR which is holding up beta3. We had a look at how important it was to have this fix in time for beta3. We've decided to make a beta3 without the raster image extensions so we can get things tested. The pencil target for RC target for September 13th. Jonathan reports his mentoring of the GSoC project for the aidesign file format by Manpreet. The project is pretty much done and has a fantastic release ready code which will be in 1.4. There was a fraudulent zendesk help site which sent users to a fraudulent website. This was taken down. Jonathan gave the background to the previous adobe illustrator importer. He believes we understand what went wrong and we think we can continue the work with a known developer who knows how to develop these kinds of extensions. He will make a vote to fund the proposal after this meeting. Tav talked with pono yesterday about the rate and a base rate of $40 per hour extendable for local conditions. We're looking for 100 hours. The team held a vote to formally request the funding from the PLC. The vote was 6 in favor, zero against. Scour is now inside the inkscape project, if no one comes to help it it will be on the GSoC list of available project. It's not written with the new extensions system and has a lot of duplicate code. Mikekov is working on the popup editing feature for inkscape in the object properties. It's a work in progress. Martin suggests splitting out any refactoring so it's easier to review if there is any. Martin asked Tav if he could do an assessment on the open bugs for 1.4. Marc completely rewrote the debian packaging for the PPA, this only works on 24.10 because that is the first version that has all the packages we require for Gtk4. And only for AMD64 as there are some test failures on other platforms. There are a bunch of extra fixes for the debian packaging for language and extensions including splitting out inkex. We have a look at fininasing what's needed for 1.4 See you all next time! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Aug 19th 2024
by Martin Owens 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

This week we had a highly technical meeting with our core developers. Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Jonathan, Mikekov, pbs, Rafael, René Next Meeting: August 27th, 2024 Issue with the windows build for 1.4, a missing dep maybe for ImageMagic, Marc edited it just an hour ago. The way 2geom is imported has been corrected, but the CI builder doesn't do the right thing for testing. PBS presents the issue of using asyinc coroutines for the Gtk4 dialogs. There's a way to wrap the gtkmm calls to be coroutine compataible. PBS asked about using getThing() or jsut thing() in API design. Martin tends towards using get when calculating but goes for whatever is around it when editing code. Martin takled with René about the crossink status and how much work we have to do to get windows builds to work in wine. We talked about using a VM vs. using crossink and how important it is to get developers to comile and test issues with windows builds. We talked about getting fixes into upstream Gnome, Gtk project and some of the technical and social barriers to to doing that. Is Gtk portable or is it crossplatform? We need to know what Gtk thinks these mean to know what their mission is so we can best fit their expectations. Jonathan talked about mentoring his GSoC student for the afdesigner importer. The student needs to write up what he's done and most of the things are supported in the donated files. He found out what clipboard data is available, curiously afdesigner makes an x-inkscape-svg clipboard type. But we'd still use the afdesigner importer for that. Jonathan brought up how we want to re-organise extensions. Mikekov has gotten back into reviewing some of the designs and implimenting them for the object properties dialog. We talked about how the update process works which is too corse at the moment. Rafael was working on the marker tools and is doing a top down rewrite including the on canvas marker editing. Martin talked about doing the color stuff in python and support and testing it. Will support a couple of the new CSS module 4 color formats for exporting. That's it for this week. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Aug 11th 2024
by Martin Owens 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Hey everyone! Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, skipper, Marc, René, Raven King, Ishaan, Tav, pbs Next meeting: 19th August We talked briefly about the hardware program and Adam leaving and the SFC's failure. Further details about this will be sent to the plc mailing list soon. # GSoC Skipper wanted to ask about problems with UX follow up now that Adam has left. Vaibhav is the mentor and suggested coming into the meeting to find out how to proceed. Martin talked about a similar issue currently being felt in the node delete tool. Suggested coming to the chat or post an issue where the discussion could be done. Marc recommends making a proposal and use that as a starting point, especially since people who are not happy about it will have to give their arguments. # Beta3 for windows The background is that we have a beta2 which is not functioning for windows users and since we have significant windows issues, then we need to make a beta3 as soon as possible. René says that if we need a beta4 or beta5 because we can't get it working, then so be it. René wants to know if some of the deps need to be updated or not. There are a few things to do. # Release procedure Moving everything to the CI builder so there's much less work to do and we can all know how a release is done. We're still building the 32-bit windows in order to have access to Arm builds. If we had a machine that built for Arm we wouldn't need this. We briefly talked about support and what Inkscape supporting users means. Pbs wants to talk about the broken Debian packaging link and how it's stopped working. We talk about how Debian packaging on launchpad is done and some of the details about how that system works for us as a sort of CI builder. He also fixed some issues with the AppImage builder, specifically to do with CJK support. But the fix isn't available to Inkscape 1.4 because of how it would be built with upstream libraries. Philip wanted help with the AppImage but there weren't anyone in the meeting who knew AppImage very well. Recommended to post to the mailing list. # Procedures We talked about how to create merge requests, and what is expected of developers. Assigning themselves to issues, reviewers and keeping their local admin clean to help other contributors. We talked about spaghetti code and various issues with trying to keep the code tidy. We talked about limiting the merges to master to people who have two factor authentication enabled on Git Lab. # Other items Is there still font issues on windows for user installed fonts? We think this is fixed, but we're not sure. Spellchecking has stopped working on master. It looks like an upstream issue. Philip was working on GUI free Inkscape and tab based Inkscape, which was too much to do at once. Tav did some of the groundwork for this with things like SPDesktop. # Activity We worked on merge requests for 1.4.x at the end of the meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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August Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/290 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Please also have a look at the Working Group Policy (see agenda) in advance. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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OEM Product!
by Ouyang Chunhui 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

Please see: https://inkscape.org/forums/cutplot/oem-product/ This is a post sent by my client to the community forum. Yes, I am in contact with this client. To be honest, we have worked together once. I developed a customized version of Flameshot for him. Now, he wants me to customize inkscape to meet his needs. I know it depends on me, although I am not sure I can do it completely. He and I found some interesting plug-ins that may solve such problems. I am exploring in this direction, but in the meantime, I may need some help from the community. If necessary, I am also willing to pay for it. If anyone is interested in HPGL's digital engraving machine and related functions and does know how to develop inkscape integration, I hope you can get in touch with me further. Thank you for your reply.

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Inkscape 1.4 beta2 available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Inkscape 1.4 beta2 =================== Inkscape 1.4 beta2 is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release this summer. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4beta2/ New Features ------------ When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as: * Filter Gallery: it has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search. * Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons! * Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: quick access to dialog layout controls, search for colors, and open different palette file formats! * Unified font browser preview: when activated in the preferences, use it to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback! * Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles! * Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: raster graphics can now be clipped into multiple sections using the Shape Builder. * There's even more: new templates for folding booklets, a new icon theme, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, updated translations and many bug fixes. See the release notes draft for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4 What's new compared to 1.4. beta? --------------------------------- Compared to the first beta release, the second beta contains: * A number of new strings: Strings not meant for translation were removed, some translator comments have been updated, and new strings were created. If you're a translator, please revise your .po files. * Unified Font Browser updates: The "All fonts" label is now hidden, a new "Font Scaling Factor" slider is added to avoid font clipping. and the settings are now in the Interface > Window category, font filtering works better. * Build fixes: The extensions and lib2geom submodules now point to newer commits to fix build errors, building with Poppler newer than 24.05.0 now works, and the libsoup dependency is removed. * Dash icon theme: A new icon theme is included in this beta release. * PDF export fixes: PDF exports now only contains items visible on the page, and anchor (link) tags now have more accurate click areas. * Help menu update: The Help menu is updated to categorize the links and tutorials better. * New About Screen integrated: The contest winning image by Inkonic is now part of the release. * Other features and bugfixes: A number of UI alignment issues are fixed, some crashes have been fixed, the Export dialog UI has been adjusted for clarity, various page-related bugs have been fixed, the Spray tool is now faster, and several translations have been updated. See the full list on GitLab. Report Bugs ----------- Use at your own risk, and please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab ! If you find any issue with this beta version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this beta release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting, July 18th 2024
by pulsar17 20 Jul '24

20 Jul '24

Hi all, Following are the meeting notes for the Developer Meeting on 18th July 2024: Attending: Rene, Tav, Ishaan, Elendil (Krlr17), Ravi, Jonathan, Marc, Ravi Martin and Tav went through Bugfix Accelerator MRs. 1.4beta2 can be tagged and release files can be done basically whenever. A tentative date is 1 August (for release files / installers), to give enough time for people to get fixes in. When we have installers, Vectors can decide when to actually announce. Some discussion on getting some MRs in before the beta2. Jonathan suggested to get afdesign import into extensions for Into 1.4.0. Some issues in building exe version of Windows, CI is failing. Items to BACKPORT for 1.4.0: - Remove LPE from Pen icon - Fix orientation bug while printing - Fix crash on aligning text when nothing is selected. - Updated context menu selection logic - Fix ghost page when deleting the first page from the XML dialog - Update ja.po Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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