Release Announcement edits by Brian Forte
20 Feb
2008
20 Feb
'08
3:44 a.m.
Andy,
Below is a copy-edit of my original PR re-write. I've corrected a couple of typos (blame them on the lateness of the writing hour last night) and added your 'what 3D Box' does sentence.
I haven't tried to re-write the Tweak Tool or Live Path Effects paragraphs, however.
I still think they need re-writing, but I don't know enough about the tools to do the re-write blind.
If someone wants to throw some hard data up about what the tools do, I'd be happy to go over said data with an editorial eye.
Hope this is at least diverting, if not useful.
Regards,
Brian.
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The Inkscape Community Releases Inkscape 0.46
New York, NY yyyy/mm/dd — The Inkscape community today announced the
release of Inkscape 0.46, the newest stable version of their
multi-platform, open-source vector graphics editor.
This newest Inkscape release includes a plethora of new tools and
improvements, beginning with native PDF support. Developed with the
assistance of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, and utilising the open
source Cairo and Poppler libraries, Inkscape 0.46 provides an easy, open
source tool for editing and creating PDF documents.
The 2007 Google Summer of Code also produced the new 3D Box tool, the
Tweak tool and Live Path Effects.
As its name suggests, the 3D Box tool makes it possible to create and
edit the perspective of three-dimensional boxes.
The Tweak Tool [something other than market speak here: what exactly is
the Tweak Tool and what does it do?].
Live Path Effects can be used to create "brushes" and organic effects
while keeping the original paths editable. [This needs to be more
concrete as well.]
As well, gradient editing is now done visually and on-canvas. Gradient
stops are depicted as nodes, and multiple nodes can be selected and
moved simultaneously.
Colour management has also been improved, with initial support for
colour spaces other than sRGB, including Adobe RGB and calibrated CMYK.
This makes it possible to use calibrated colour values, including CMYK
values, that are preserved across applications.
The new Paint Bucket Tool allows bounded areas to be filled with colour
at the click of a mouse button. This new tool creates a closed-path
based on the visible canvas and is useful for quickly colouring line
drawings.
The Gaussian Blue filter, introduced in Inkscape 0.45, was the first SVG
Filter. Inkscape 0.46 expands on this with Offset, Blend, Diffuse
Lighting, Specular Lighting and Turbulence primitives. There is also a
new, dedicated user interface for creating and altering filters based on
these new primitives.
Finally, Inkscape 0.46 introduces workflow and user interface
improvements. Dialogue boxes can now be docked and minimised to a
side-panel, reducing visual clutter and making the relationship between
documents and interaction choices clearer, especially when working on
multiple documents in separate Inkscape instances.
With 0.46 out, the Inkscape community is already working on future
releases, including the upcoming 0.47. Full compatibility with SVG
Mobile/Tiny is slated for version 0.50 and version 1.0 will include
complete W3C SVG 1.1 compliance.
Inkscape users have contributed many features and ideas to the project
and the community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The more
help Inkscape gets, the sooner we reach these goals.
20 Feb
20 Feb
5:49 a.m.
the new filters are:
Blend, Color Matrix, Composite, Convolve Matrix, Diffuse Lighting, Displacement Map, Flood, Image, Merge, Morphology, Offset, Specular Lighting and Turbulence
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