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The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents. Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X

New to all this, but you folks may be interested.

I've made a server that converts Blazonry (the jargon for describing coats of arms) into SVG.  The SVG I produce, near as I can tell, is mostly valid, though no web browser seems to be able to handle it well, and of libraries only rsvglib works right.  So by default the server converts to PNG, but there's an option to see the SVG instead.

Take a look at http://web.meson.org/blazonserver/ and let me know what you think!

For a tutorial on how to do photoshop-like effects in SVG head on over to dev.opera.com for an in-depth article on the subject.

This site also hosts a number of SVG-related articles that show you how to use SVG in modern web browsers.

The SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms are available. SVG Open is the worldwide SVG developers conference targeting SVG content developers and users, tool makers and people interested in advancing the SVG and related W3C specifications.

Please submit your abstracts at http://www.svgopen.org/ → Registration.

Looking forward to receiving many interesting abstracts!

Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest: send in your SVG before Sunday March 16th 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). Good luck

I collected some interesting links for beginners, they are sorted by language:

German / Deutsch:

• SVG on Wikipedia
• Selfsvg.info
• svg.tutorial.aptico.de
• s-v-g.net
• svglbc.datenverdrahten.de

English:

• SVG on Wikipedia
• adobe.com/svg
• mozilla.org/projects/svg

I think, this are the most popular links to begin and understand svg. You are welcome to submit me more links.

Next weekend FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) takes place again in Brussels.
For the price of a voluntary donation you can meet loads of interesting people and see loads of interesting presentations.
"Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit" by Alp Stoker for example:

Thursday it's Valentines day. Surprise your love with a personalized moving message at her mobile via svghearts.com and i bet you she will show it off (coders can of course easily make more adjustments, like inserting a photo).

Frank Bruder posted a tutorial on how to install Apache Batik on Windows and integrate it with the Windows Explorer. After the installation, users can open and convert SVG files to PNGs or PDFs directly from the Windows Explorer by right-clicking the SVG file. Additionally, truetype fonts can be converted to SVG fonts.

6th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics
26th to 28th August
Nuremberg | Germany

The world conference on SVG, the versatile 'HTML of graphics' standard, this year takes place in the beautiful city center of Nuremberg. That is in the south of Germany, a country in which many people watch Football through SVG-enabled phones, or maybe pick the seat for their flights on SVG-enabled websites. Nueremberg does even have its own SVG Logo that can be seen here!

On this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, a technical exhibition, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group.

SVG Open 2008 is organised by examotion in affiliation with W3C.

Excited to contribute and participate? Click here for more details ...

The above is all copied shamelessly of the SVG Open website

Ikivo has introduced an OpenVG based version of its accelerated SVG software that'll run on AMD's Imageon media processor

Here are some usefull resources for Turkish webmasters and designers for SVG.

• http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
• http://tr.opensuse.org/SVG
• http://www.godoro.com/Divisions/Ehil/Mecmua/Magazines/Articles/txt/html/article_SVG.html

Good luck for all. Best regards.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.

I've long been interested in SVG, and have been thinking that it would make a good target runtime platform for OpenLaszlo applications so I decided to see how difficult it would be to port the DHTML kernel (which is still under development) to SVG. With native browser support going strong, it seemed perfectly achievable.

In about two days of hacking I got a large part of the Sprite API ported to SVG. Here is a simple demo of the SVG kernel running:

• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/svg.html (SVG version)
• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/sprite.lzx (LZX source)
• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/sprite.lzx.swf (Flash version)

If time permits, I will try to clean up the code for my SVG kernel enough to release it, please contact me through comments here if you are interested. There are remaining bugs but it is overall good.