Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer 577
bulia byak writes "After several months of frantic work by the evergrowing developer community, the aptly numbered Inkscape 0.42 is out. The amount of new features in this version is astounding. Quoting from the (gigantic!) Release Notes, "while some of the new features simply fill long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary". Check out the screenshots and grab your package for Linux, Windows, or OSX." The screenshots are pretty mind-blowing; this isn't a 1.0 release, but I think you'll agree it's worth checking out.
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Geez, I need to get a life.
-Scott
Re:Grab your package.... (Score:5, Funny)
Uh.... I prefer Linux just like most of us, but I like my GF better.
With a witty sense of humour like that, i'm suprised you even have a GF
Re:Replacing? (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa! Now wait a mo' (Score:5, Funny)
I just don't go around grabbing other guy's packages. Let us leave that to your *.so and S.O.
Re:Why is the version number apt? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not sure, but this version must mean everything to the developers.
Re:Why is the version number apt? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whoa! Now wait a mo' (Score:2, Funny)
I would hazard a guess that it's some strange form of cheer equivalent to the more common form of clapping one's hand. Perhaps it's symbolic of male fertility.
What I don't understand is why we're cheering for Windows, unless it's actually an insult not unlike the middle finger, in which case I'd wonder if this was not written by a BSD fan.
Re:Replacing? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Grab your package.... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, i like your GF better, too.
Re:Replacing? (Score:1, Funny)
The Gimp has a better interface than Photoshop, Fireworks, Corel whatchamacallit, and er...uh...Paint combined.
Re:Pretty Neat!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why is the version number apt? (Score:2, Funny)
-sm
Re:I was wondering what SVG was (Score:1, Funny)
For those who don't know, Mozilla Firefox (originally known as "Phoenix" and briefly as "Mozilla Firebird") is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.
With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser based on the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird email client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.
Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.
When I hear vector... (Score:2, Funny)
MOD PARENT INFORMATIVE!!! (Score:2, Funny)
SVG (& hence Inkscape) excites me (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Replacing? (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully the Inkscape team are working on finding the ultimate question as we speak.
Jedidiah.
Nerd Erotica (Score:4, Funny)
"grab your package"
"fill long-standing functionality gaps"
"mind-blowing... 1.0 release"
Yeah, I peel the labels off my open source beer bottles.
Re:Replacing? (Score:2, Funny)
I showed it to my girlfriend (who is an art student) and she likes it a lot.
I hear the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas are fans too :)
Re:If even I can use it effectively... (Score:5, Funny)
If you're trying to load the images, just open a few of 'em in tabs in the background; you'll get through eventually. Sorry about that! :(
much more detailed analysis (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whoa! Now wait a mo' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Replacing? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, that would be Blender...
Have you checked which site your reading? (Score:3, Funny)
Fear the day they make a clear announcement about an application or gadget, one you don't actually have to click through the link to decide if you are interested. On this day Stallman will have sold FSF to Gates, Microsoft will have open-sourced all their code and a new company, Hell Inc., will have cornered the ice-cream market for good.
/. Call of the Free. (Score:1, Funny)
Well gee, I can't image what forum gave them that impression.
Re:Replacing? (Score:3, Funny)
If this is the "The Ultimate Answer" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whoa! Now wait a mo' (Score:5, Funny)
Re:much more detailed analysis (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Replacing? (Score:1, Funny)
This is Slashdot, you insensitive clod.
If by better.... (Score:1, Funny)
If by better you mean "unreleased", then yeah.
Re:Don't you hate it (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. Any fool can see that Inkscape is a program that automatically inks scanned comic book scetches. Just as obvious that Firefox is a firefighting program that calculates how the fire will spread and devises countermeasures with the cunning of the fox. Or Thunderbird, which is either a bird migration monitor, an emergency rescure crew communication tool or a weather prediction program.
But while this is painfully obvious to me, not all reading Slashdot are blessed with my intelligence, so it might still be a good idea to tell what the program does in the summary.
Re:much more detailed analysis (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A mink, not a ferret (Score:4, Funny)
What is (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Already using it (Score:3, Funny)
Mind you maybe I should move the mouse and do something.
I'll be back in 5!
Re:Replacing? (Score:4, Funny)
It just gets a lot of flack from people from IDE-land who can't visualize an enterprise-scale application without their UML diagrams and runtime debugger.
It's not assembly language's fault you can't handle a few registers, folks. People who complain about assembly language's difficulty level are usually the sort of people who think automatic garbage collection is a good programming idea.
Yeah... automatic garbage collection. Duh.