Mr. Jon Cruz, one of the brilliant minds developing for Inkscape has fixed a problem that has hounded Richard and I from the beginning of the Screencasters…limited window sizes for smaller resolutions.

Currently, there is a verticle limit in which Inkscape can be scaled to. This varies depending on operating system and/or Linux desktop manager. The Screencasters would love to go back to 800×600 video but it has been hard for us to do that because we have to record at a larger Inkscape window size and then scale down during our encoding process reducing the quality of the video. To help with this we had to increase our Inkscape window size to 912×684 and then try to encode at that same size.  This has made our file sizes a little larger but we feel we have little choice in the matter.

Anyway, Jon has fixed this problem and it will most likely hit a future Inkscape release. Have a read over on his blog to get a fuller understanding.

Awesome work, Jon! I’m very excited about this.

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