December 2019 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape 1.0 About Screen Winner
by Maren Hachmann 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

The Winner of the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.0 is ... 'Island of Creativity' ----------------------- (https://inkscape.org/~bayubayu/%E2%98%85island-of-creativity) Congratulations to Bayu Rizaldhan Rayes, the artist of this fantastic image! 25 Inkscape contributors selected the image from the five finalist images. It will grace the 'About Inkscape' dialog of our very special release Inkscape 1.0. We are very happy about the variety and number of submissions to the contest, and the involvement of so many community members and contributors in the voting process. We are already working on finding good places for making use of other fantastic entries from the contest gallery :) Tutorials, the Inkscape website, the development version and more all need new, cool pictures to show off Inkscape's abilities and its awesome community. View all entries at: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-10/ Thank you everyone who participated in the contest, be it by submitting an entry, voting or helping to organize!

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Inverting Parts of a black and white graphic
by Rainer Dorsch 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Hello, is there a good way to invert a black and white graphic in inkscape. As an example, take https://github.com/Bouni/MDT-Glas-Push-Button-Template/blob/master/MDT-Glas… and invert the upper or the lower graphic. I tried to add a layer and use exclusive-or with a black box overlay, but I it did not do at all what I was hoping for (xor between black and white). Is there a good way to do that without changing the color of every item? I am an inkscape beginner, so every advice is welcome :-) Many thanks Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/

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Inkscape 1.0-beta2 release
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Hi everyone! We are quickly approaching the long-awaited 1.0 release of Inkscape, and to allow easier testing of the progress we've made with it, we just released a 1.0-beta2 version! You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0beta2/ in the form of source tarball to compile, AppImage for Linux, and .dmg for macOS (windows soon). The most visible changes should be : - MacOS Catalina users should be able to manipulate files - More responsive interface (faster rendering) - Improved text rendering All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report The release date for 1.0 is not set in stone yet, but if we don't get major bug reports I expect a release around the end of December. == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.0.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the master branch. == All contributors == All Inkscape contributors (be it with development, translation, Vectors (outreach), documentation, UX research, etc) are encouraged to vote in the About Screen contest before Dec 15th! Thanks all! -- Marc

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