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Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer
bulia byak writes "After several months of frantic work by the evergrowing developer community, the aptly numbered Inkscape 0.42 is out. The amount of new features in this version is astounding. Quoting from the (gigantic!) Release Notes, "while some of the new features simply fill long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary". Check out the screenshots and grab your package for Linux, Windows, or OSX." The screenshots are pretty mind-blowing; this isn't a 1.0 release, but I think you'll agree it's worth checking out.
Is it just me, or did they morph a woman holding a ferret into a classic "wardrobe malfunction" by using some cool filters?
Geez, I need to get a life.
-Scott
My other sig is a Glock
For Linux, Windows or OS X.
;)
Uh.... I prefer Linux just like most of us, but I like my GF better.
With a witty sense of humour like that, i'm suprised you even have a GF
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
Bash has a better interface than The Gimp.
Check out the screenshots and grab your package for Linux, Windows, or OSX."
I just don't go around grabbing other guy's packages. Let us leave that to your *.so and S.O.
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
I'm not sure, but this version must mean everything to the developers.
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
Right, ok. I understand that reference. But 0.42 != 42. Either the developers are missing 41.58 of something or they're saying that the program is 1/100th of what it should be.
The article implies that the SVG can be edited (is it XML?) and so you've got your wish - you can make your documents in bash by editing the SVG files directly.
Uh.... I prefer Linux just like most of us, but I like my GF better.
Yeah, i like your GF better, too.
Nooooo!!!!1
The Gimp has a better interface than Photoshop, Fireworks, Corel whatchamacallit, and er...uh...Paint combined.
Here's a hint. Come back tomorrow and relive your enjoyment!
-sm
Yes, and even better, Firefox should support SVG in 1.1, with Opera already doing it, at least SVG Tiny.
For those who don't know, Mozilla Firefox (originally known as "Phoenix" and briefly as "Mozilla Firebird") is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.
With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser based on the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird email client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.
Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.
I think Corel Draw!
Until that post, I spent nearly all of my time reading Slashdot wondering "what the fuck is Firefox?!"
Especially with Firefox adding native SVG support (I hear it's in Deerpark, though I haven't wanted to mess with my current install to try it out) all this scalable vector action is really cool. Just visiting Adobe's SVG demos (which I assume are still up with the (now) old version of their SVG browser plugin) gives you a good idea of how incredibly cool web pages could become. Considering animation possibilities, I start to drool even more. Yeah, yeah, Macromedia Flash - blah blah blah...
Well, you see, Inkscape 0.42 is the ultimate answer, your problem is that you have not yet worked out what the question is. Once you know what the question is then I'm sure everythign will be apparent.
Hopefully the Inkscape team are working on finding the ultimate question as we speak.
Jedidiah.
Craft Beer Programming T-shirts
From the header:
"grab your package"
"fill long-standing functionality gaps"
"mind-blowing... 1.0 release"
Yeah, I peel the labels off my open source beer bottles.
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I showed it to my girlfriend (who is an art student) and she likes it a lot.
I hear the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas are fans too :)
If you're trying to load the images, just open a few of 'em in tabs in the background; you'll get through eventually. Sorry about that! :(
Steven N. Severinghaus
Apple was colossally dissapointed today to learn that Perl, 4th Ed. is a fun and informative way to introduce open source. A new IBook and Apple mini are expected to get a handle on Vista while also hitting the shuttle during launch. With the USA getting ready to pass its science crown to China, the Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta has gotten underway, leaving Microsoft and Google fighting for the skies. With the annual cost of the Microsoft monopoly predicted to top $10b this year, thousands and thousands of hours of PVR TV are being used to make new google homepage features the state of solid state storage. Where is the British EFF? Just around the corner, according to UEFI, formed to replace the BIOS after Microsoft began checking for piracy. With China releasing its 2nd generation MIPS chip just days after Sony agreed to stop payola, Voltron, Nerdcore, and the shuttle Discovery all will be coming to a theater near you.
Yes, if you combined the interfaces of Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Fireworks and Painter, the Gimp's interface would be superior. The sheer number of windows, palettes, toolboxes, sliders and strange controls would be overwhelming.
Yeah, that would be Blender...
When I grow up, I want to have Christopher Walken hair.
Look at the white on green logo at the top of the page. Check the URL. Yes, this is Slashdot.
Fear the day they make a clear announcement about an application or gadget, one you don't actually have to click through the link to decide if you are interested. On this day Stallman will have sold FSF to Gates, Microsoft will have open-sourced all their code and a new company, Hell Inc., will have cornered the ice-cream market for good.
"Their response was "No, we're too busy, and anyway people who use Linux seem to expect everything to be free." Well, that put me in my place..."
Well gee, I can't image what forum gave them that impression.
What if you hate Photoshop's interface too? Anybody want to work on a GimpShopPro or something ;)
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
What was the question?
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My other Sig is a 229.
Was it really necessary to say that you have girlfriend?
This is Slashdot, you insensitive clod.
Do you have any idea how much better Windows would be if it operated like that?
If by better you mean "unreleased", then yeah.
Yeah. Any fool can see that Inkscape is a program that automatically inks scanned comic book scetches. Just as obvious that Firefox is a firefighting program that calculates how the fire will spread and devises countermeasures with the cunning of the fox. Or Thunderbird, which is either a bird migration monitor, an emergency rescure crew communication tool or a weather prediction program.
But while this is painfully obvious to me, not all reading Slashdot are blessed with my intelligence, so it might still be a good idea to tell what the program does in the summary.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
All I can say for certain is that it isn't a weasel, because a weasel is weasely wecognised, whereas a stoat is stoatally different ;)
"What is Inkscape? Unfortunently, noone can be told what Inkscape is, you have to download and make install it yourself" :)
I've had this running all night now...perhaps 7 hours altogether and no crashes!
Mind you maybe I should move the mouse and do something.
I'll be back in 5!
Assembly language is fantastic for people who actually know their way around their CPU's instruction set.
It just gets a lot of flack from people from IDE-land who can't visualize an enterprise-scale application without their UML diagrams and runtime debugger.
It's not assembly language's fault you can't handle a few registers, folks. People who complain about assembly language's difficulty level are usually the sort of people who think automatic garbage collection is a good programming idea.
Yeah... automatic garbage collection. Duh.
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