This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at As announced previously, the Inkscape development team had their latest hackfest in Kiel, Germany.
What happened?
Besides the developer team having a meetup and building personal relationships?
Some serious work being done.
Just a few of the technical achievements amongst bug fixes and performance boosting:
• Centerline tracing - first steps for inclusion in Inkscape. There is no graphical user interface for it yet, but one step at a time.
• External SVG linking with real-time changeable resolution.
• A fix for Inkscape's coordinate issues. Coordinate system will flip back to the svg specs's.
Read the rest here:
official report
A summarising video of the hackfest is in post production, stay tuned.
Hackfest 2018, in Kiel, results
Re: Hackfest 2018, in Kiel, results
Thanks for posting, Lazur!
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Inkscape FAQ - Learning Resources - Website with tutorials (German and English)
Inkscape FAQ - Learning Resources - Website with tutorials (German and English)