[Clipart] Inkscape Announces 0.42 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org

[Omar Abo-Namous]

Hi,

i'm missing the filters in inkscape. In the screenshots you can see 
there is a menu item called "Effects", but i didn' find it in inkscape 
itself..

Omar

Jon Phillips wrote:

>July 26, 2005 — The Inkscape community today announced the release of
>Inkscape 0.42, a cross-platform Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics
>(SVG) drawing tool.
>
>Inkscape 0.42 is the most feature-filled release to date, with an
>exceptional number of major and minor new features, usability
>improvements, and bug fixes. While some of the new features simply fill
>long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary.
>Inkscape 0.42 is one step closer to full SVG compliance. This release
>adds:
>
>      * Flowed Text: Text objects that automatically re-flow to any
>        shape (and not just a rectangle).
>      * Text Selection: One can now select part of a text and apply any
>        style to the selection, just like in a word processing
>        application.
>      * Gradient Tool: A completely redesigned and much easier to use
>        on-canvas gradient interface with handles displayed directly in
>        the drawing.
>      * Effects: These are now usable from within Inkscape on all
>        platforms. This version ships with a collection of effects
>        including path interpolation, randomization, and various fractal
>        algorithms.
>      * Color Swatches: This standard facility of most graphics software
>        is now a part of Inkscape.
>      * Colored Clones: Clones may now be painted differently from their
>        original.
>      * Tile Tracing: The Tile Clones dialog can trace an existing image
>        with tiling, producing a multitude of exciting effects.
>      * Grid Arrange, Baseline Align, Unclumping: There are new,
>        powerful ways to arrange objects.
>      * Better PS/EPS Export: PostScript level 3 gradient support,
>        better text handling, and a command line option for batch export
>        are in this release.
>      * Command Line SVG Analysis: Inkscape may now be used from the
>        command line to query coordinates and dimensions of objects in
>        an SVG file.
>      * Better SVG/CSS Compliance: Notably, internal CSS stylesheets are
>        now supported (read-only).
>      * Mac OS X Support: In addition to Linux and Windows, Inkscape
>        0.42 is now available as a fully self-contained dmg package for
>        Mac OS X. 
>
>There are also dozens of smaller features and usability enhancements
>(especially in the Fill & Stroke dialog, Node tool, and drawing tools).
>In this version the development community closed 404 bugs, some quite
>serious, and 165 feature requests. Overall, the Inkscape developers are
>very excited about this release and heartily recommend upgrading.
>
>Thanks to Google's Summer of Code, there are four new student developers
>adding new functionality to Inkscape this summer. Michael Wybrow is
>adding connectors for automatic diagramming. David Yip is picking up the
>development of Inkboard (http://inkboard.sf.net/) to integrate networked
>collaborative editing of documents to Inkscape. Matthew Squires is
>adding DXF Import and Export. Greg Steffensen is working with the Open
>Clip Art Library to make a common graphical interface from the Library
>to Inkscape. Thanks to the $20,000 worth of funding for these
>developments from Google, the Inkscape developers are aiming to
>accelerate the development cycle for the next few releases in order to
>promote these projects.
>
>Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages:
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
>
>For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.42:
>
>     http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes042
>
>Community submitted screenshots:
>
>     http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/
>
>About Inkscape
>
>Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web
>Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported
>SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha
>blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape
>supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path
>operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also
>imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF
>and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
>
>Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with
>a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work
>includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing
>a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension
>mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented
>development process.
>
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