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samigina
September 30th, 2011, 07:53 PM
Hi, this interesting and needed project is calling for help:
This project's goal is to create a professional and extensive PDF exporting tool for Inkscape - an Open Source vector graphics editor.
With this plugin you will be able to save your projects - designed with Inkscape - in Press Quality, ready for delivering to printing houses. Below you will find the key features of our project and some screenshots of current development stage.
More info (http://www.indiegogo.com/Advanced-PDF-export-plugin-for-Inkscape)
Im sure every graphic designer working for press will help with this!
Dry Lips
October 2nd, 2011, 11:37 AM
Wow!
This is really good news! I'll try to make a donation tomorrow,
and I would recommend all people who love Inkscape to likewise!
Thank you so much for the link samigina :D
Dry Lips
October 7th, 2011, 12:49 PM
I would kindly ask all those of you who loves Inkscape, to consider supporting
the Advanced PDF export plugin for Inkscape! (http://www.indiegogo.com/Advanced-PDF-export-plugin-for-Inkscape?a=270778&i=addr)
Here is what they write about their project:
"This project's goal is to create a professional and extensive PDF exporting
tool for Inkscape - an Open Source vector graphics editor. With this plugin
you will be able to save your projects - designed with Inkscape - in Press
Quality, ready for delivering to printing houses. Below you will find the key
features of our project and some screenshots of current development stage.
[...]
Where will the money go?
The project is in early development stage. The money will allow us to hire
professional programmers, so that they can work full-time preparing this
new feature of Inkscape. The completed software is going to be free and
open source (under GPL), available at our website.
Who are we?
We are professional graphic designers, working with Adobe's and Corel's
software on daily basis in printing industry. We are also huge fans of open
source applications, wishing to move from Windows to Linux one day. To do
that we need a really professional software under Linux. We hope that this
project will bring us a step closer to our goal."
.........
This is exactly the kind of initiatives that we need more of. I gladly
made my contribution, and I hope that we see a lot more of projects like
these in the time to come.
A lot of people complain that open source programs don't match the proprietary
alternatives, but few try to make a difference in order to improve these
important programs. Even though Inscape is a well known program, it hasn't
even reached version 1.0. There are just a few developers working on this
program, and they deserve all the help they can get. Now you have the chance
of strengthening one of the most important and well known design applications
for Linux. Even a small donation will make a difference!
Finally I would like to point out that I'm no developer of Inscape, and I'm not one
of the persons behind this campaign. I'm simply a person who thinks Inscape is
one of the best open-source programs out there....
prokoudine
October 10th, 2011, 12:08 AM
This is exactly the kind of initiatives that we need more of. I gladly made my contribution, and I hope that we see a lot more of projects like these in the time to come.
I hate to tell you, but as Inkscape team member I've yet to see both justification for estimated amount of money to do the project and any info on technical expertise of people who agreed to do that project. We contacted the organizer of the kickstarter, but he was reluctant to provide any useful information. The only thing he kept repreatedly stating was that he made a financial reasearch, without further details.
Even though Inscape is a well known program, it hasn't even reached version 1.0.
Hmmm? And that means exactly what? :) Please don't treat 1.0 as some magical number that rights all wrongs. It's just a number.
There are just a few developers working on this program, and they deserve all the help they can get.
However the kickstarter has nothing to do with the Inkscape team per se. But thank you for your kind words nevertheless :)
Dry Lips
October 10th, 2011, 12:32 PM
I hate to tell you, but as Inkscape team member I've yet to see both justification for estimated amount of money to do the project and any info on technical expertise of people who agreed to do that project. We contacted the organizer of the kickstarter, but he was reluctant to provide any useful information. The only thing he kept repreatedly stating was that he made a financial reasearch, without further details.
I've had a look at other projects at indiegogo, and as far as I can tell,
it isn't usual to publish a detailed inventory of the projected costs...
However, 800$ is perhaps a too small amount for this kind of project,
unless you hire programmers from low-cost countries.
But I get your point, though. I've written an email to the organiser...
I'll let you know if I receive any reply.
However the kickstarter has nothing to do with the Inkscape team per se. No, of course not. But the plug-in is supposed to be released
under the GLP-license, so if this project is done, then naturally the code
would later on be fully implemented by the Inkscape team.
Please don't treat 1.0 as some magical number that rights all wrongs. It's just a number. I tend to disagree. :o
“Proprietary software developers often start at version 1 for the first release of a program and increment the major version number with each rewrite. This can mean that a program can reach version 3 within a few months of development, before it is considered stable or reliable.
In contrast to this, the free-software community tends to use version 1.0 as a major milestone, indicating that the software is "complete", that it has all major features, and is considered reliable enough for general release.”https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Software_versioning#Version_1.0_as_a_milestone
The impression you give the general public by numbering Inkscape
“0.48” is that the program is unfinished, that it in reality ought to be
considered as an alpha or a beta release. If you want to market
Inkscape as a fully functioning alternative to Illustrator/Corel, then
please consider increasing the version number to 1.0!
I agree that the version number is just a number, but it is also a
message that you send to people...
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Keep up the good work! :D
prokoudine
October 10th, 2011, 02:12 PM
The impression you give the general public by numbering Inkscape “0.48” is that the program is unfinished, that it in reality ought to be considered as an alpha or a beta release. If you want to market Inkscape as a fully functioning alternative to Illustrator/Corel, then
please consider increasing the version number to 1.0!
Well, actually we are nearly settled on changing the numbering scheme to use YEAR, much like Ubuntu.
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