About Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
News
Prerelease of 0.47 is available
June 15, 2009Later than expected we uploaded a prerelease of upcoming Inkscape 0.47. We are working on rescheduling the final release.
The prerelease is currently available as source code and a Mac build and binary builds for Ubuntu. Fedora users can also use testing repository to fetch recent builds. Windows binary builds might follow, but you can use nightly builds for now.
We encourage you to test and report issues you run into.
Inkscape 0.47 about screen contest results
June 11, 2009We have the winner of the about screen contest! Congratulations to sko whose winning submission has first received 29 votes from the DeviantArt community and then Inkscape developers choose it from three submissions with the most votes.
A big thanks go to all participants for showing off what can be done in Inkscape when combined with creativity. In case you have missed them, here are all submissions.
Translation Statistics
June 10, 2009Here are the current translation statistics for Inkscape trunk. We have 13 languages at 80% or better - it's only a half of what we had in the 0.46 release! We should catch up since 0.47 release is nearing.
Compared to state at 0.46 release we have 1 new language (hy), 15 languages dropped under 80% (bg, ca, de, en_GB, eo, fi, hu, km, nb, pt_BR, pt, sr@latin, sr, vi and zh_CN) and only 1 language got over 80% (ko).
