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Inkscape 1.1.2 and Inkscape 1.2-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Inkscape 1.1.2 ============== Inkscape 1.1.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as lost styling when when converting text to path, or relative position of clones pasted into a new document ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.2, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the multipage support, editable markers, on-canvas alignment, revamped alignment and snapping options, layer and objects dialog, etc. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it tohttps://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.2alpha0/ ----------------------------- 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 onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us onhttps://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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From Roy Torley: gtkmm lack of maintenance
by Roy Torley 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi Martin, I have read your musings about gtkmm and I wonder: is it worthwhile for somebody else to cultivate the Web site and help gtkmm keep up with the rest of the world? I am sorely tempted to get involved, especially because I am reviewing my old C++ from about 20 years ago. Maintaining and improving gtkmm would be a huge task and, indeed, much more than one person can do, and yet, that is how wonderful things get started, or revivified. I have looked over the gtkmm Web site and noted that it is a good Web site. To keep it up-to-date is a huge project for one person. On the other hand, might it be worth thought and energy for new blood to maintain gtkmm and its Web site? I am tangentially involved with a science fiction and fantasy convention organization in Portland, Oregon, USA, called Orycon. We are aging out and desperately need new blood to continue a worthwhile and valuable tradition in this city. The challenge for us involves reaching out and contacting younger people of a New Age culture to become involved in keeping Orycon alive and vibrant. I spend time thinking about what we can do to keep gtkmm alive and thriving. I remember that a new fellow in India, Soham, just contacted us and is interested in getting involved. This is a good sign. How can we recruit more? This is just a naive rhetorical question right now, perhaps all the more rhetorical because I have a busy and chaotic work schedule. At least, I can sit with a glass of a nice white wine and think through what we can do. I hope I'm not wasting your time. I like to sit on the sofa and think about projects and, when the time is good, act on those thoughts. The tutorial I was writing is finished and now I can move on to other things, such as gtkmm. I appreciate your time, thoughts, and concern. You are not alone. I hope that I can provide good company. Best wishes, Roy Torley

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New Contributor - Help
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Contributors, Hello everyone, I am Soham Tripathy aka Archaic Mage from India. I started using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator (which was costly) for my school projects (small scale). Inkscape is free to use, easy to navigate and has noticed many significant improvements over the years. I was fascinated by the team which was able to make such a wonderful product.This inspired me to contribute to open source projects. Since, Inkscape was the first software which introduced me to open source, I wanted to start contributing to it. I am a second year, computer science student in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I am completely new to open source contributions, but I have a good enough knowledge on git, c++, CSS, GitHub and I have also started learning GTK. In regards to it, I have successfully forked and cloned the Inkscape repository on my local system(Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) and I was also able to build and run it. I have also read the programming style used. Kindly guide me, on how to start making small contributions to Inkscape, what kind of issues to address and how to start researching about those issues. Thanking You, Yours Sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Post on List
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I want to post to the Inkscape Devel mailing list, kindly consider the same. mail: sohasoham811(a)gmail.com Yours sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can help you set this up. The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the inkscape.org website for the voting. Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an Inkscape membership!

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Vectors' Meeting April
by Maren Hachmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/248 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting Today
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Howdy Everyone, Sorry for the late notice, not sure what happened to my scheduled email. But we do have a PLC meeting today. Lots of things in progress. Everyone is invited. Time and date: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220401T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Ted

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Future of Gtkmm?
by Diederik van Lierop 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi, Not sure if everyone is already aware of this, but see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/-/issues/110 "I will not continue forever with maintenance of gtkmm and other *mm modules. Unless someone else continues the work, glibmm, gtkmm and other modules will be abandoned in a near future." Should we be worried? Best regards, Diederik

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Regarding the serialization of Spiro control points
by Fred Brennan 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Greetings, I write from the FontForge project. Of particular interest to me is the Spiro spline feature, which was originated around ten years ago by Raph Levien. One thing I'd like to add, (which would benefit both our projects,) is the ability of FontForge to understand the Inkscape Spiro serialization format. However, there are several things about the format which to me as an outsider appear to be defects serious enough that I have no idea how to even *import* these splines correctly, much less export our Spiro splines to this format. I would very much like to support the _de facto_ standard Inkscape has originated of supporting Spiro in SVG, but I am lost. George Williams, FontForge's original author, noticed this defect over eleven years ago.[1] Things are virtually unchanged since then, I checked `git blame`. Spiro has five point types, not including beginning and ending points. They are: * G4 curve (o) * G2 curve (c) * Corner (v) * Left Constraint ([) * Right Constraint (]) The ASCII single letters are the normal method of Spiro serialization, as championed by Raph Levien and by us in FontForge. Inkscape seems to create what I will call a "pseudo-SVG path". So, it is not really an SVG path, but rather is an SVG path which undergoes transformation into the typical Spiro format. Inkscape stores this in the "original-d" attribute. So, given a Bezier spline with control points defined as (x, y, c1, c2), Inkscape interprets a control point with only (x, y) to be a corner, meanwhile a control point with all four is a G4 curve, and (x, y, c1, NULL) is a left constraint while (x, y, NULL, c2) is a right constraint. I can probably overcome this, although George Williams was right to be skeptical of this format. There is no way I can see to define a G2 curve in this strange "original-d" format. Thus, this email. I write to ask a few things. I suppose first of all, what are the chances that we can convince you guys to store Spiro splines in plate[2] format, or another widely accepted Spiro serialization format? Second, if we cannot convince you to do that, how do I export FontForge spiros which contain G2 control points to Inkscape's original-d format? It's not possible, yes? So should I just silently fail and save them as G4? The curves will not be the same if I do that. Should I disallow export to SVG w/Spiro if glyph contains G2 control point? That seems a steep cost that will just confuse my users, so perhaps I should abandon the whole thing if it comes to that. Cordial regards, Fredrick Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv) [1]: https://narkive.com/63FADpG3.4 [2]: https://levien.com/garden/ppedit/README, section "Plate files"

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest: Chris Hildenbrand wins with "New discoveries await …"
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, thank you to all of you who have cast their vote in the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest and to all of you who have worked to allow for this Contest to take place again! The winning image is this awesome entry: "New discoveries await …" by Chris Hildenbrand, aka 2DGameartGuru https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Congratulations, Chris Hildenbrand! A big thank you also goes to all the other artists who took the chance and participated. You can find their Inkscape-made artwork in the contest gallery: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ The votes ballot file and election running log are available for your interest here: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2271327 For the next Inkscape About Screen Contest, Tim created a collection of possible changes that came up during or before the contest in Vectors meetings. We still need to set a date for when to figure out which of them and how to implement those, more discussion topics are welcome, too: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/243 Maren

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