News for 2011

Meet Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter with SVG input

We already reported before on Inkscape related projects that assist and promote personal fabrication, such as Egg-Bot and Inkcut. There is another project that used to be consistently slipping our attention, but recently moved into focus at last. It's Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter that is being worked on by folks from Nortd Labs. The device is controlled via a web app that can use SVG for input.

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Inkscape starts writing even cleaner SVG files

Tavmjong Bah has just merged part of a Google Summer of Code 2011 project by Abhishek Sharma that improves Inkscape's SVG output.

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SVG Open 2011 in two weeks

In two weeks time SVG Open 2011 starts in Cambridge MA, USA. This conference is an annual event for developers and users of SVG authoring tools, GIS and CAD specialist etc. The event is taking place on October 17 to 20.

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Google Summer of Code 2011 is over

Three of four Inkscape students passed the final evaluation in the Google Summer of Code 2011 program.

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The Inkscape Community Announces 0.48.2 Release

After 5 months of bug fixing and vacation delays out of our control, the Inkscape Community is proud to announce that Inkscape 0.48.2 is out.

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Full-day workshop on Inkscape and GIMP in Carlton in a month

The rescheduled workshop by Donna Benjamin that introduces Inkscape and GIMP to beginners is taking place on September 14 in Statewide Resources Centre, Carlton, Australia.

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Synfig Studio compatibility is being taken care of

Nikita Kitaev is working on SIF exporter for Inkscape that will functionally replace the SVG importer in Synfig.

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Performance gets a boost

In July our GSoC student and active contributor Krzysztof Kosiński made a significant step in making Inkscape more snappy for complex work.

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Inkscape tutorials in Polish

Dominik Nowak started a new project called inkscape-tutorial.pl. This new website publishes news and video tutorials on Inkscape in Polish.

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More CAD applications support SVG

Would you believe it, if we told you we love when developers add support for SVG in their applications?

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Work on type design features is resumed, nightly builds PPA is available

Two years ago Felipe Sanches did a Google Summer of Code project focused on support for SVG Fonts. He is now back adding more features.

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Inkscape workshop rescheduled

Donna reports that the Inkscape workshop planned for June 15 in Carlton, Australia, is rescheduled to run later his year. We will reannounce it closer to the new date.

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Full day Inkscape workshop to be held in Carlton, Australia

Donna Benjamin who is extremely active in the education department is doing a full day Inkscape workshop on Wed 15 June 2011 at the Statewide Resources Centre in Carlton, Australia.

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Inkscape 0.48 illustrator's cookbook is available now

Packt Publishing have just released a new book on Inkscape by Mihaela Jurković and Rigel Di Scala called “Inkscape 0.48 illustrator's cookbook”.

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Google Summer of Code 2011 projects announced

As a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code program we will be working with four students this year.

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Application submissions for Google Summer of Code 2011 now open

You can submit applications for Google Summer of Code projects now. We still require you to join inkscape-devel@ mailing list to introduce yourself and tell us which project you would like to do.

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Inkscape is participating in Google Summer of Code 2011

This year we are participating in Google Summer of Code again.

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Inkscape project interviewed by Packt Publishing

How important is our community for the project? How do we expect to improve in 2011 and build on the growth experienced? What are we working on at the moment? Packt Publishing interviewed one of our team members to answer all these questions and more.

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Meet InkCut, vinyl cutter and vectors plotter

Another project we'd like to spread awareness of is InkCut — an Inkscape extension that allows "printing" on cutters and plotters.

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The Inkscape Community Announces 0.48.1 Release

After 6 months of development and delays out of our control, Inkscape 0.48.1 is out.

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0.48.1, website and more

We hope you had a great holiday season. Now that you are back, we have some news for you.

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