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Project Info

• FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions
• Tools — Supporting Tools and Applications
• Coverage — Awards, articles, presentations, books about Inkscape
• Communication — How to reach us
• Announcement to Sodipodi — This started it all
• Hackfests
  • upcoming/proposed events: 2020 Rennes (LGM)
  • past events:

2019 Pasadena (SCALE), 2019 Saarbrücken (LGM)

2018 Boston, 2018 Seville (LGM), 2018 Kiel

2017 Paris

2016 Leeds (LGM)

2015 Toronto (LGM)

User Documentation

• User manual information — Where to find the free Inkscape manual and how to contribute to it
• Output format requirements — What's needed to save in some formats
• Extension requirements — What's needed to use some extensions (slightly outdated)
• Extension reference — What each extension does (slightly outdated)
• Emergency save — Recovery in case Inkscape crashed
• Release notes
  • for versions
    1.0.2 (current bugfix release,
    1.0 (current major release) and
    0.92.5 (legacy bugfix release)
  • older versions: 0.92.4, 0.92.3, 0.92.2, 0.92.1, 0.91, 0.48.5, 0.48.4, 0.48.3, 0.48.2, 0.48.1, 0.48, 0.47
  • future versions: 1.1 (upcoming major release)
• Announcing Releases (slightly outdated)
• Release Process Debrief (slightly outdated)
• Tricks and tips — Miscellaneous advice, may be slightly outdated

Help Inkscape Without Coding

• Bug management
• Testing
• Creating Inkscape distributions — How to build packages
• How to start a page — How to use the wiki

First Steps

• Working with Git — How to obtain the source code. A quick start on how to use our version control system.
• Developer manual — Various important information, be sure to read this before coding
• Debugging — Random tips to help debug problems
• Janitorial tasks — Small tasks that need doing
• Working with CMake — Getting started with CMake coding for configuring and building Inkscape

Developer tutorials

• Architectural overview — A high-level look at Inkscape
• Preferences subsystem — Creating and using preference values
• Extensions
  • Extension subsystem — An overview of the functionality provided by extensions and the possible implementations
  • Script extensions — Extend Inkscape easily using scripting languages (Python, Perl, …)
  • Python modules for extensions — Some helpful routines for use in Python script extensions

User Interface Discussion

• Text usability — Text tool and dialog
• KeyboardShortcutsToDo
  • Keyboard profiles — How you can help
• Skeletal Strokes — Brushes, Strokes, Pressure Sensibility...

Development Discussion

• Roadmap — The main todo list
• Dependencies — What libs are needed to build Inkscape
• C++11 — Which C++11 features can be used
• Application icons — Application + Interface
• SVG Test Suite Compliance — W3C full test suite
• ViewBoxToDo — View box support info
• GtkMMification — Replace C boilerplate with gtkmm objects
• CMake Tasks — Converting the Inkscape build system to CMake
• Bug Reporting Workflow — Options for improving Inkscape bug workflow from user to developer
• 1.0 Release Bug Fix List — List of bugs that need to be fixed for 1.0
• 1.0 Release Planning — Roadmap and planning for 1.0 Release

Miscellaneous

• Inkscape-specific XML attributes — Documentation of attributes from Inkscape's XML namespace
• Environment variables — Overview of important environment variables that modify the behavior of Inkscape and its dependencies.
• Extension repository — An Internet central for Inkscape extensions

Lib2geom

• Working with 2Geom FAQ — Real-life questions answered about using 2Geom in real code
• Lib2geom py2geom — Python bindings to 2geom. With this you can use the power of 2geom in Python scripts.

Historical pages

These pages are outdated, but linked here for posterity.

• Working with Bazaar — Our former control version system, no longer used. See Working with Git for current instructions.