Thank you everyone for participating in the Inkscape 1.3. About Screen
Contest!
You've drawn, voted, organized, checked entries, encouraged other
participants, helped with project memberships, and let people know about
the Contest, and we are very grateful for your participation!
Today, the second part of the vote concluded, and we have a winner!
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Congratulations go to Denis Kuznetsky for his “Isometric Madness”
submission to our Inkscape 1.3 About Screen Contest!
The artist shared that Inkscape is their “favorite program for drawing
vector graphics.”
You can find Denis' original entry here:
https://inkscape.org/~Denis_Kuznetsky/%E2%98%85isometric-madness
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Enjoy Inkscape's upcoming version's About Screen - and maybe test out
the latest alpha version!
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3alpha0/
Inkscape 1.3 alpha0
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Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 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-1.3alpha0/
When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as:
* Shape builder
* On-Canvas Pattern Editing
* Pattern Editor
* Page margin & bleed
* Document Resources Dialog
* Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog
and the (now optional) persistent snap bar
* Font Collections
* Syntax highlighting in XML Editor
* LPE dialog user interface redesign
* Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded
rendering
* Better PDF import
… and more, see the release notes draft in the Wiki at:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3
If you find any issue with this alpha version, please
report it to https://inkscape.org/report
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Join an Inkscape project team
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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 alpha release!
-- The Inkscape team