Libre Graphics World

Back in June we reported that Felipe Sanches started working on a Measure tool for Inkscape. Few days ago Felipe committed an update to that tool.

The review of Gpick mentioned that you can drop colors from Gpick to either Inkscape or GIMP. What it doesn't mention is that you can freely drag and drop colors between those three applications.

If you've been watching trends in web design closely in the last couple of years, you couldn't possibly ignore rise and shine of subtle patterns (as opposed to in-your-face heavy patterns from late 90s).

Presumably most Inkscape users rely on the default PNG exporting method only. But there's more than one way to do it.

If you were wondering, whether there's any progress re mesh gradients in Inkscape and SVG, we have some good news for you. This Monday Tavmjong Bah, one of Inkscape's developers, demonstrated use of mesh gradients in Inkscape at SVG Open 2011.

The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one. Let's talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus.

The GSoC related series of postings continues. Let's talk about Inkscape. As organization they have been participating since the very beginning of Google Summer of Code program, that is, since 2005

It's finally official: a new bugfix release of Inkscape, a popular free vector graphics editor, is out with nearly 60 fixes that address all kinds of issues.

SVG working group has accepted proposal to include mesh gradients into upcoming SVG 2.0 standard. The proposal was suggested and worked on by Tavmjong Bah, one of Inkscape developers.

Inkscape, the free vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and Mac, has always been know as somewhat slow when it comes to complex drawings with lots of objects and/or SVG filters.

Last weekend development branch of Inkscape, a rather popular free vector graphics editor, got a whole new tool for measuring things. This can be considered next stage of work on support for SVG Fonts, started earlier as a Google Summer of Code project.

Patience has been finally rewarded: a major bugfix release of Inkscape, a popular free vector graphics editor, is out after half a year of hard work.

The FAQ flavored series of Inkscape tutorials continues. Another popular question I keep hearing is in the lines of "Um, how exactly do I set a default page size?". Welcome to the world of templates.

This article explains the difference between embedding and linking in Inkscape and advices when to use each of them.

Regrettably an update to stable version of Inkscape is delayed due to a number of unresolved issues.

Preorders are now open for Egg-bot — an Inkscape powered robot that can draw on spheric and geoid objects.

Interview with Inkscape developers and Google Summer of Code students on release of 0.48, upcoming features in 0.49 and more.

The long anticipated new version of Inkscape, a free vector graphics editor, is finally out with some major improvements and clean-ups.

In this tutorial Maxim Grafskiy will teach you how to draw a classic anime-style eye. The technique was borrowed from an existing tutorial on Corel DRAW, improved and adjusted for Inkscape.

With built-in XML editor, a bit of grey hair and slight headache you will learn to create a kind of layers effects in Inkscape to apply same SVG filter to all a objects of a layer in your drawing.

The tutorial provides example of using 3D box tool in Inkscape to create a base for a complex object in perspective and explains drawing complex shadows.

As usual shortly before releasing a new version (probably in May this time) the Inkscape team is holding an About screen contest at DeviantArt. Submission's deadline is April 15.

With this Inkscape tutorial you will learn to draw a 3D looking snowman, but ultimately you will get a grasp of creating shadows and reflections the right way.

The day of big releases continues. A long anticipated new version of Inkscape is out.

In this tutorial babayasin explains how to create an acrylic looking picture from a photo using GIMP and Inkscape with just paths, gradient fills and gaussian blur.

This is a rather simple tutorial by Maxim Grafskiy on drawing a stunning Mac-like clock in Inkscape using boolean path operations and gradient fills for nice smooth highlights.

An interview with Inkscape team: several Google Summer of Code 2007 students and several developers, taken in 2008. Highlights: motivations, plans for future, new technologies etc.