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.

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Hmm...

[Zzyzygy]

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

Whoa! Now wait a mo'

[whovian]

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.

Re:Why is the version number apt?

[Quarters]

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.

much more detailed analysis

[mshurpik]

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.

Re:Don't you hate it

[ultranova]

Truthfully, not at all. First, because it is usually obvious from context -- or from the name of the application -- what that application does.

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.