1 Release Notes
3 From Inkscape Wiki
5 Contents
7 * 1 Inkscape 0.44: overview
8 * 2 Performance
10 * 2.1 Outline mode
11 * 2.2 Speed
13 * 3 SVG conformance
15 * 3.1 Color profile support
16 * 3.2 <switch> support
17 * 3.3 SVG output
19 * 4 Interface
21 * 4.1 Layers dialog
22 * 4.2 Selected style indicator
23 * 4.3 Tool style indicators
24 * 4.4 Controls bar for the Text tool
25 * 4.5 Docked color palette
26 * 4.6 Inkscape Preferences dialog
27 * 4.7 Document Properties / Metadata dialogs
28 * 4.8 Configurable keyboard
29 * 4.9 Menus
30 * 4.10 Statusbar
31 * 4.11 Theme
33 * 5 Tools
35 * 5.1 Node tool
37 * 5.1.1 Node sculpting
38 * 5.1.2 "Show handles" toggle
39 * 5.1.3 New deletion behavior
40 * 5.1.4 Preserving positions of nodes and handles
41 * 5.1.5 Miscellaneous
43 * 5.2 Calligraphic pen
45 * 5.2.1 Tremor
46 * 5.2.2 Pen width
47 * 5.2.3 Selection
48 * 5.2.4 Style
50 * 5.3 Pen tool
52 * 6 Clipping and masking
53 * 7 Transformations
55 * 7.1 Transform dialog
56 * 7.2 Persistent rotation centers
57 * 7.3 Pasting size
59 * 8 Connectors and automatic layout
60 * 9 Selective tracing with SIOX
61 * 10 Snapping
62 * 11 Sublayers
63 * 12 Markers
64 * 13 Extensions
65 * 14 Formats
66 * 15 Miscellaneous shortcuts
67 * 16 Miscellaneous improvements
68 * 17 Miscellaneous bugfixes
69 * 18 Translations
70 * 19 Internal
71 * 20 Known problems
73 * 20.1 Problems with libgc-6.7
74 * 20.2 Namespaces may need fixing
75 * 20.3 Beware of defective themes on Linux
76 * 20.4 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it
78 * 21 Previous releases
81 Inkscape 0.44: overview
83 Inkscape 0.44 is bigger and better than ever. Some highlights:
85 * Layers dialog
87 * Outline mode, many performance improvements
89 * Native PDF export with transparency
91 * Clipping and masking support
93 * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including Xara X emulation
95 * Docked color palette in the editing window
97 * Interactive indicator of the style of selection in the statusbar
99 * Innovative "node sculpting" and other improvements in Node tool
101 * Extensions are enabled by default and work on all major platforms
103 * Better SVG support: <switch> element, ICC color profiles for images
105 * Persistent rotation centers, Paste Size command
107 * New icons, redesigned preferences dialogs, rearranged menus, many
108 cosmetic improvements
110 * Hundreds of bugfixes and smaller features
112 * Not directly related to Inkscape, but important nevertheless: since
113 our last release, Firefox 1.5 was released with SVG support enabled by
114 default. This means that you can now view any Inkscape document right
115 in your Firefox window without any format conversions or installing
116 any plugins!
119 Performance
122 Outline mode
124 An Outline ("wireframe") display mode is implemented. Use the View >
125 Display Mode > Outline to activate it. In this mode:
127 * all paths and shapes are rendered as inverse (black on light
128 background and vice versa) outlines of constant width (1 screen pixel
129 regardless of zoom), without fill;
131 * text is painted by inverse fill, without stroke;
133 * bitmaps are shown as is;
135 * any opacity and gradients are ignored.
137 The outline mode is usually not drastically faster than regular mode
138 (usually 10% to 50% faster), and in some special cases it may even be
139 slower. However, the value of the outline mode is not only in its speed;
140 it is a good way to get an idea of the structure and objects of your
141 document, and it is convenient for precision node editing and for finding
142 "stray objects".
145 Speed
147 In addition to the Outline mode which makes it much easier to work with
148 complex drawings, this version of Inkscape also provides significant speed
149 improvements in many areas.
151 * Thanks to optimizations in the renderer, Inkscape's screen redraw is
152 faster by at least 10%, and in some cases (such as complex
153 stroked/dashed paths at high zooms) up to three times faster.
155 * Optimizations in the Node tool resulted in noticeable speed gains for
156 node editing. Thus, switching to and from the Node tool (with a path
157 selected), as well as selecting nodes in that tool, are now at least
158 ten times faster than before. Other operations, including curve and
159 node dragging and move/scale/rotate operations on multiple selected
160 nodes, are much faster as well. This is especially important when
161 working with complex paths; with these optimizations, paths containing
162 several thousand nodes, though still slow, are much more usable.
164 * An optimization in the attribute setting method made operations such
165 as moving multiple objects with arrow keys at least 30% faster
166 compared to 0.43. This is especially noticeable when you are moving
167 clones selected together with their original (e.g. a clone tiling), in
168 which case Inkscape now works three to four times faster.
170 * Interface icons are now rendered in the background (from SVG source in
171 share/icons/icons.svg) when Inkscape is idle, rather than waiting for
172 all the icons in a menu to render the first time you pull it up. This
173 eliminates the annoying delay when opening menus for the first time.
175 * Previously, zooming in to view a small portion of a path (especially
176 big and complex path), there was a very noticeable slowdown and memory
177 use increased dramatically. We optimized the renderer to only process
178 the visible part of a path, and as a result the rendering speed is now
179 almost the same at any zoom up to the maximum, providing up to 10-40
180 times speedup compared to the previous version (the closer is the
181 zoom, the greater is the gain).
183 * The Path > Break Apart command is now dozens of times (up to 100x)
184 faster for complex paths with thousands of subpaths.
187 SVG conformance
190 Color profile support
192 Inkscape now includes base ICC profile functionality. If compiled with
193 LittleCMS support (if you run configure with --enable-lcms switch),
194 Inkscape passes the ICC color profile test by W3C. The <color-profile>
195 element has been implemented along with the "color-profile" attribute for
196 <image> elements.
199 <switch> support
201 Rendering support for SVG 1.1's Conditional Processing Module has been
202 implemented, including switch element, requiredFeatures,
203 requiredExtensions, systemLanguage attributes. Inkscape passes the
204 Conditional processing tests ([1] and [2]) by W3C.
207 SVG output
209 * In Inkscape's SVG documents, colors are now expressed by name
210 (`white') or three-digit form (`#f3c') when possible.
212 * The numeric values in transform attributes are written without
213 insignificant trailing zeros, and anything less than that 1e-8 by
214 absolute value (usually caused by rounding errors) is written as 0 to
215 reduce clutter.
218 Interface
221 Layers dialog
223 A Layers dialog (Ctrl+Shift+L) is implemented in this version. It works in
224 parallel with the quick layer selector in the statusbar, so you can use
225 whichever is more convenient for you.
227 * In the dialog, you can click on a layer to make it current, as well as
228 toggle layers visible/hidden and locked/unlocked. You don't need to
229 make a layer current to toggle it visibility or lock status.
231 * A hierarchical tree of layers is represented by a tree-like display in
232 the dialog. You can expand or collapse branches of the tree to make
233 the layer structure of a document easier to navigate.
235 * At the bottom of the dialog, there are buttons for adding a new layer,
236 moving the current layer up or down (either one step or all the way to
237 top or bottom), and deleting the current layer.
239 * Below the buttons, there's a slider and a spinbutton for adjusting the
240 opacity of the current layer. A layer's opacity affects all objects in
241 that layer in the same way as opacity of a group.
244 Selected style indicator
246 A new control in the left end of the statusbar lets you quickly view and
247 change the fill and stroke of the selected objects. When you have a text
248 selection in Text tool or a gradient handle selected in the Gradient tool,
249 this indicator displays and changes the style of the text fragment or
250 gradient stop, instead of the entire object (it's the same behavior as the
251 Fill&Stroke dialog.)
253 * The two indicators, labelled F: (top) and S: (bottom), display fill
254 and stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly. (For gradient
255 handles, they always display the same style.)
257 * Each fill/stroke indicator can display either a color+opacity swatch
258 (the opacity shown here is the fill opacity or stroke opacity, not the
259 master opacity) or a text label specifying N/A (nothing selected),
260 None (no fill/stroke), Unset (unset fill/stroke), L Gradient, R
261 Gradient, Pattern (corresponding fill/stroke types), or Different
262 (selected objects have different fill/stroke types).
264 * Additionally, each indicator may be accompanied by one of two flags, m
265 ("multiple", meaning there are two or more objects all with the same
266 fill/stroke) or a ("averaged", meaning there are two or more objects
267 with different flat colors in fill/stroke, and the indicator shows the
268 average of these colors).
270 * Left-click on an indicator opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog
271 with the corresponding tab (Fill or Stroke) active.
273 * Right-click on an indicator opens a popup menu with the following
274 items:
276 * Edit fill/stroke...: Opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog
277 with the corresponding tab selected. (Same as left-click.)
278 * Last set color: Applies to the selected objects the fill/stroke
279 color that was last applied to anything.
280 * Last selected color: Applies to the selected objects the
281 fill/stroke color that was last displayed in this indicator.
282 (Allows you to easily copy fill/stroke color between objects:
283 select source, select destination, apply "last selected color".)
284 * Invert: Sets the fill or stroke to the inverse of the current
285 color (does not affect opacity).
286 * White, Black: Sets the fill or stroke to the corresponding color
287 (fully opaque).
288 * Copy color, Paste color: Copies or pastes the fill or stroke
289 color (when it's color) to/from the system clipboard, as text in
290 the #rrggbb hex format.
291 * Swap fill and stroke: Exchanges fill and stroke (both their types
292 and colors, if any).
293 * Make fill/stroke opaque: Removes fill or stroke transparency (not
294 master transparency!).
295 * Unset fill/stroke: Unsets fill or stroke from selected objects.
296 * Remove fill/stroke: Removes fill or stroke from the selected
297 objects.
299 * Middle-click on a fill/stroke indicator removes fill/stroke from
300 selected objects; if it is already removed (i.e. if the indicator
301 displays "None"), it does the same as the "Last set color" command
302 from the popup menu.
304 * Drag and Drop of colors onto a fill/stroke indicator sets the fill and
305 stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly.
307 * The Stroke indicator also displays the stroke width of selection
308 (averaged if there are multiple objects selected with different stroke
309 widths), located to the right of the stroke color/transparency swatch.
310 Left-clicking on it opens the Fill&Stroke dialog with the Stroke Style
311 tab selected. Right-clicking on it opens a popup menu which allows you
312 to choose the units for displaying the stroke width, as well as choose
313 one of the presets to assign to selection.
315 * To the right of the fill/stroke indicators, the Opacity numeric field
316 (labelled "O:") shows and allows you to change the master opacity of
317 the selected object (or the averaged opacity of several selected
318 objects). Right-clicking the numeric field opens a popup menu with
319 preset opacity levels. Middle-clicking on the "O:" label cycles the
320 opacity through the values of 0 (transparent), 0.5, and 1 (opaque).
322 The zoom field and the cursor coordinates indicator have been rearranged
323 for compactness and moved to the right end of the statusbar. There's also
324 a window resize handle added at the very end of the statusbar.
327 Tool style indicators
329 For each object-creating tool (shapes, Pen/Pencil, Calligraphic, Text),
330 the Controls bar (above the canvas) now includes a style indicator on the
331 right. This indicator shows you which style the newly created object will
332 have.
334 * The indicator correctly displays whichever style the tool is set to
335 use - the global "last set" style or that tool's fixed style. For
336 example, clicking on a palette swatch (even with nothing selected)
337 changes the "last set" color and, if your tool is set to use the last
338 set color, its indicator is updated, giving you an idea of your
339 "brush" before you start to draw.
342 Controls bar for the Text tool
344 * This version adds the beginnings of a Controls Bar for the Text tool
345 (previously empty). Now you can select the font family, size, apply
346 bold and italic styles, change alignment and text orientation without
347 opening the Text and Font dialog.
349 * All controls are instant-apply and work on the entire text object (if
350 nothing selected) or text selection. They can also apply to multiple
351 text objects (though you would need to switch to Selector to select
352 multiple text objects, then switch back to Text tool for its
353 controls).
355 * The font-family drop-down contains names and previews of all fonts;
356 unlike other programs, we didn't apply each font to its name, but
357 added a separate preview string displayed with gray color after each
358 font's name. This design ensures readability of font family names and
359 provides maximum useful information in a limited space.
361 * We will be adding more controls (including spacing and kerning) to
362 this bar for the next versions.
365 Docked color palette
367 * Previously, color swatches could only be used from a floating palette
368 (Ctrl+Shift+W). Now the color swatches palette is embedded in the main
369 UI, at the bottom of the window between the canvas and the statusbar.
370 It is enabled by default; use View > Show/Hide > Palette to enable or
371 disable it. The docked palette has the same functionality as the
372 floating one; use a button in the top right corner to access the
373 swatches menu.
375 * The Wrap option (off by default) in the swatches menu converts the
376 palette from a single row into a frame 2 or 3 rows high, for better
377 access to colors in large palettes.
379 * Drag and Drop of colors has been enabled.
381 * Dragging colors from a palette shows a live swatch of the color
382 being dragged under cursor.
383 * Drag and Drop of colors onto the selected style indicator in the
384 statusbar sets the fill or stroke of the selected object(s).
385 * Colors can be dropped directly on to objects on canvas to set
386 their fill, or shift+dropped to set their stroke. This affects
387 only the object you drop the color on, regardless of whether that
388 object is selected or not.
389 * Colors can be dragged to and from other applications.
391 * The new Inkscape default color palette was added. It contains a range
392 of grays, standard HTML named colors, and a full range of colors
393 sorted by their HSL values (475 colors overall). It is generated by a
394 Python script which is available from Inkscape SVN in share/palettes.
396 * Several specialized color palettes, useful in color-coordinated
397 projects, were created or borrowed from GIMP: Grays, Reds, Greens,
398 Blues, Gold, Royal, Khaki, Hilite, and Topographic.
400 * All standard sizes of the swatches (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge)
401 are made smaller overall.
404 Inkscape Preferences dialog
406 Not only was the Inkscape Preferences dialog completely rewritten and
407 redesigned, with numerous bugs fixed in the rewrite.
409 * The dialog is now fully GNOME-HIG compliant.
411 * As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more
412 precision.
415 Document Properties / Metadata dialogs
417 * The Document Preferences dialog is now named Document Properties, and
418 it was split in two: metadata were extracted into the Document
419 Metadata dialog; metadata widgets are now also spread over two pages.
421 * A button was added to fit the canvas to the current selection or, if
422 there's no selection, to the entire drawing. The button resizes the
423 canvas and, if necessary, moves the drawing into place. It is now very
424 easy to size the canvas to an illustration after it is ready.
426 * New controls: the new object snapping features required their own
427 property widgets, and you can set the snapping sensitivity with a
428 slider, or let it snap regardless of distance (grid only).
430 * Rearrangements within Document Properties: everything snapping-related
431 was collected on one page; Grid and Guide widgets are on their own,
432 the same page. For better HIG compliance, all widgets were
433 categorized; especially the widgets on the Page page were completely
434 rearranged in the General/Format/Border categories.
436 * Bug fixes: grayed out license URI had too low contrast, so it's no
437 longer grayed out; the proprietary license didn't clean the license
438 URI; spinbuttons had no tooltips, and minor grid quirks were removed;
439 data was not updated when a new file replaced another in the same
440 window.
442 * HIG compliance: much work went into that, and now only a few details
443 are missing from full Gnome-HIG compliance.
445 * Updated Creative Commons Licenses: Updated CC licenses to the latest
446 2.5 versions by default in the license tab of the metadata dialog.
449 Configurable keyboard
451 Inkscape's keyboard shortcuts are now configurable!
453 At this time, not all Inkscape actions can have their shortcuts
454 customized. However, the majority of actions, including everything you see
455 in the menus, are already configurable, and we're working on making more
456 actions configurable.
458 On startup, Inkscape reads its keyboard shortcuts from
459 share/keys/default.xml. That file is a copy of inkscape.xml in the same
460 directory, which also contains keyboard emulation profiles for other
461 vector editors:
463 * xara.xml: Xara X/Xara Xtreme/Xara LX keys
465 You can copy any of these over default.xml to use that profile. In all
466 profiles, those keys which are not used by the corresponding program still
467 have their Inkscape bindings. If you can contribute a profile for some
468 vector editor that we don't yet have, we will appreciate that. The files
469 have a simple XML-based format described in inkscape.xml.
471 You can also customize some of your keybindings without overwriting the
472 main default.xml. If your profile directory (~/.inkscape on Linux)
473 contains a keys subdirectory with a default.xml file, the keybindings from
474 that file will overlay (i.e. add to, and override in case of a conflict)
475 the default bindings. The format of your own default.xml is the same as
476 that of the main default.xml.
479 Menus
481 * Zoom commands in the View menu are moved to a submenu; the Zoom In and
482 Zoom Out commands are added to that submenu.
484 * Clone commands are moved into a submenu in Edit menu and given more
485 descriptive names and tips.
487 * Pattern commands (Objects to Pattern and Pattern to Objects) are moved
488 into a submenu in Object menu, under the new Clip and Mask submenus.
490 * The contents of the Effects menu are categorized into submenus, and
491 several effects are renamed to use more intuitive names.
494 Statusbar
496 * In Selector, for multiple selected objects, the statusbar now reports
497 their types. For example, if 5 groups are selected, it displays
499 5 objects of type Group in layer LayerName.
501 instead of just "5 objects selected" as before. If there are up to
502 3 types in the selection, they will be listed, for example:
504 5 objects of types Group, Path, Rectangle in layer
505 LayerName.
507 The order of the list will correspond to the order in which the
508 objects were added to selection. If there are 4 or more types in
509 selection, only the number of types is reported, for example:
511 5 objects of 4 types in layer LayerName.
513 * In Selector, objects selected in groups are now identified as such,
514 and the group ID is given, for example:
516 Rectangle in group g212 (layer content)
518 If selected objects have different parents within one layer (for
519 example, if one is selected in a group and another outside it),
520 the number of parents is reported:
522 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 parents
523 (layer content)
525 If objects are in different layers, only the number of layers is
526 reported since this also implies different parents:
528 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 layers
530 * In Node tool, if your node selection includes nodes from different
531 subpaths, statusbar reports the number of subpaths with selection and
532 the total number of subpaths, for example:
534 2 of 195 nodes selected in 2 of 36 subpaths.
536 * The contents of the statusbar message are now duplicated as a tooltip
537 that is shown when you hover the mouse over the statusbar.
539 * The statusbar text is now no longer just cut off if there is
540 insufficient room, but an ellipsis (...) is inserted at the end to
541 show there's more (only with Gtk 2.6 and newer).
544 Theme
546 * Inkscape has a new default icon set titled "Crispy" provided by Andre
547 Sousa. The new icons are intended to add a more professional and
548 cohesive look to our application, as well as to make the functions the
549 icons represent more self-evident.
552 Tools
555 Node tool
558 Node sculpting
560 An entirely new way of manipulating paths in Node tool is added in this
561 version: Node sculpting. Normally, when you have several nodes selected
562 and you drag one of them, all selected nodes move by the same amount. Now,
563 if you Alt-drag one of the selected nodes, only that node is fully
564 displaced; other selected nodes are moved less than the full amount, so
565 that those farthest from the drag point remain stationary. This is similar
566 to "proportional editing" or "soft selection" in 3D editors such as
567 Blender.
569 So, for example, if you select several nodes on a straight line and
570 Alt+drag the middle selected node, the path will bend into a smooth
571 bell-like curve. Nodes' handles are also adjusted correspondingly to keep
572 the overall shape smooth and natural. (If you don't have enough nodes on a
573 path fragment that you want to reshape in this way, just select the end
574 nodes of that fragment and press Ins a few times to populate it with
575 nodes.)
577 Moreover, node sculpting is sensitive to pressure of your tablet pen. If
578 you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. the
579 nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you press
580 hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest neighbors
581 will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop dragging
582 without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the tip of the
583 pen.)
585 There are many possible applications of the sculpting technique. To take a
586 simple example, selecting all nodes of an ellipse-like shape and
587 Alt+dragging one of them will smoothly and naturally stretch and skew the
588 entire shape in any direction. Doing the same to a complex path, such as
589 star or spiral, will twist and punch it without destroying its intricate
590 structure - this is the way to get squashed or self-intersecting stars,
591 eccentric spirals and other shapes not easily doable before. Selecting
592 only part of all nodes allows you to smoothly reshape parts of the figure
593 without disturbing the rest.
595 When applied to text converted to path, node sculpting is a fun and easy
596 way to twist, bend and distort it, achieving effects similar to
597 "perspective envelope" or "curvilinear envelope" in other programs - but
598 in a more powerful and flexible way. For example, by selecting all or part
599 of the text's nodes and Alt-dragging, you can not only make a wavy banner
600 out of a paragraph of text, but also apply a "magnifying lens"-like effect
601 to any word in the middle.
603 Especially useful node sculpting is for complex natural paths, such as
604 calligraphic strokes or bitmap traces, where you often want to do
605 large-scale pushes and bends without destroying the small-scale features.
606 Things like making a calligraphic stroke narrower in one place and wider
607 in another, or changing the proportions, extending the ear or flattening
608 the nose of a head - all this is now much faster and more natural to do
609 using sculpting. It is also a new way to create new paths, too - starting
610 from en ellipse with added nodes, it takes just a few Alt+drags to tweak
611 it into a silhouette of a head, or a map of Australia, or an Inkscape
612 logo!
614 Some examples are shown on the screenshot:
615 [www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-nodesculpting.png].
618 "Show handles" toggle
620 The Controls bar for the Nodes tool now includes a toggle button which
621 controls whether Bezier handles are shown on selected nodes (on by
622 default). Selecting and dragging nodes on node-dense paths in zoom-out
623 (e.g. for node sculpting) may be extremely difficult without hiding the
624 handles, as it's hard to pick a node and not a handle when handles are
625 shown.
628 New deletion behavior
630 * In Node tool, deleting node(s) by Del/Backspace keys or by
631 Ctrl+Alt+clicking a node now tries to preserve, as much as possible,
632 the current shape of the path. This means that the nodes adjacent to
633 those being deleted have their handles adjusted to approximate the
634 form that the path had before deletion. For example, if you
635 Ctrl+Alt+click a path twice, once to add a new node and then to delete
636 it, the path will not change at all (or change very slightly). The old
637 deletion behavior without adjusting handles is still available via
638 Ctrl+Del or Ctrl+Backspace.
641 Preserving positions of nodes and handles
643 * When you switch the type of the selected node to Smooth or Symmetric
644 by pressing Shift+S/Shift+Y, you can now preserve the position of one
645 of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the
646 other handle is rotated/scaled to match.
648 * Similarly, when you join endnodes by pressing Shift+J, you can
649 preserve the position of one of the two nodes by hovering your mouse
650 over it, so that only the other node is moved.
653 Miscellaneous
655 * The ! key inverts node selection in the current subpath(s) (i.e.
656 subpaths with at least one selected node); Alt+! inverts in the entire
657 path. (This is similar to how these keys work in Selector, with
658 current subpath(s) instead of the current layer.)
660 * The keyboard shortcut for "Make selected segments curves" in Node tool
661 is changed from Shift+K to Shift+U for better mnemonics.
664 Calligraphic pen
667 Tremor
669 * Even when using a graphics tablet with pressure sensitivity, the
670 Calligraphy pen's strokes often look too smooth and artificial. To
671 enable a more natural look, the new Tremor parameter is added to the
672 Calligraphy tool in this version. Adjustable in the Controls bar from
673 0.0 to 1.0, it will affect your strokes producing anything from slight
674 unevenness to wild blotches and splotches. This significantly expands
675 the creative range of the tool.
678 Pen width
680 * In all previous versions, pen width depended on zoom in such a way
681 that the strokes appeared the same visible width at any zoom, but were
682 in fact narrower at zoom-in and wider at zoom-out. This behavior makes
683 sense if you want to keep the same "feel" of the pen regardless of
684 zoom; for example, if you zoomed in to make a small fix to your
685 drawing, it's natural that your pen becomes physically smaller but
686 feels the same to you. So, this behavior is kept as the default, but
687 now we also added an alternative mode where your pen width is constant
688 in absolute units regardless of zoom. To switch to this mode, use the
689 checkbox on the tool's Preferences page (you can open it by
690 double-clicking the tool button).
692 * The Width field in the tool's controls bar now changes from 1 to 100,
693 which corresponds to the range from 0.01 to 1.0 in the previous
694 version. If the "width in absolute units" mode is turned on, the value
695 in this fields gives the width of the stroke in px units. In the
696 default mode, the value of 100 gives 100px wide strokes only at 100%
697 zoom, and strokes are correspondingly narrower or wider at other zoom
698 levels.
701 Selection
703 * A new preferences option for the Calligraphic tool, Keep selected,
704 controls whether the newly created object remains selected after you
705 finish drawing it. If you turn it off (by default it's on) and set the
706 tool to using Last Set color, you can easily choose a new color by
707 clicking on the palette without having to worry if this will change
708 the color of the stroke you just created. (Watch the tool style
709 indicator at the right end of the Controls bar for the style of the
710 next stroke you will draw.)
712 * Esc deselects selected objects in Calligraphic, as in most other
713 tools.
716 Style
718 * The stroke you're drawing is now shown, while you're drawing it, with
719 the correct color and opacity that it will eventually have, instead of
720 always black as before.
722 * On a new Inkscape installation, this tool now uses the last set style
723 by default instead of the fixed black as before (this is changeable in
724 the Inkscape Preferences for the tool).
727 Pen tool
729 * While drawing a path, you can now move the last node you created by
730 the same keys as in Node tool - that is, arrows, with Shift (for 10x
731 displacement) or Alt (screen pixel displacement) modifiers.
733 * Also, you can switch the not-yet-finalized (red) segment of the path
734 being drawn from curve to line (Shift+L) or back to curve (Shift+U),
735 again the same shortcuts as in the Node tool.
737 * By popular demand, if a new path is being drawn but not yet finished,
738 Ctrl+Z cancels that unfinished path (i.e. does the same as Esc),
739 instead of undoing the previous action.
741 * In Pen tool, Del works the same as Backspace to delete the last
742 created point on the unfinished path.
745 Clipping and masking
747 Inkscape now provides some UI for using clipping paths and masks.
749 * Any object can be non-destructively intersected with a path (called a
750 clipping path) so that only the intersected portion of the object is
751 visible.
753 * To apply clipping, select the objects to be clipped and the
754 clipping path object, make sure the clipping path is above the
755 other objects in z-order, and do Object > Clip > Set.
756 * You can transform, edit, or style the clipped objects as usual.
757 The clipping remains applied and transforms together with each
758 clipped object.
759 * To remove the clipping, do Object > Clip > Release. The clipping
760 path is returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is
761 inserted on top of the unclipped object in z-order.
763 * Any object can be non-destructively masked by another object (called
764 mask) so that: the mask's black or transparent areas become fully
765 transparent in the masked object; mask's opaque white areas become
766 fully opaque; and all intermediate colors translate into intermediate
767 levels of opacity in the masked object. This allows you to apply, for
768 example, arbitrary transparency gradients to objects.
770 * To apply a mask, select the objects to be masked and the mask
771 object, make sure the mask is above the other objects in z-order,
772 and do Object > Mask > Set.
773 * You can transform, edit, or style the masked objects as usual.
774 The mask remains applied and transforms together with each masked
775 object.
776 * To remove the masking, do Object > Mask > Release. The mask is
777 returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is inserted on
778 top of the unmasked object in z-order.
780 * Objects with clippath show their bounding box intersected with the
781 bounding box of the clippath, instead of the original unclipped bbox
782 as before. (However, this does not apply to objects without clippath
783 of their own which are clipped by being inside a clipped group.)
785 * Clipped or masked objects display "clipped" or "masked",
786 correspondingly, in their statusbar descriptions.
788 * Although Inkscape had render-only support for clipping paths and masks
789 for quite some time, in this release we fixed a number of bugs which
790 may affect the display of your documents using clippaths or masks.
792 * Clippaths and masks with objectBoundingBox units are now shown
793 correctly upon loading of the document.
794 * Clippaths without fill didn't work, this is now fixed.
795 * Objects with clippaths or masks are correctly copied/pasted
796 between documents.
799 Transformations
802 Transform dialog
804 Fixes and improvements in the Transform dialog (Ctrl+Shift+M):
806 * The Apply to each object separately checkbox is added, allowing you to
807 scale/rotate/skew each selected object by the same amount, around that
808 object's center. When off (by default), the selection is transformed
809 as a whole. The status of this checkbox is remembered across sessions.
810 (It has no effect on Move and Matrix tabs).
812 * The Clear button resets the values on the current tab to defaults.
814 * The Scale tab now allows you to specify horizontal or vertical size
815 increments in percentage or absolute units. Also, there's a Scale
816 proportionally checkbox which ensures that scaling preserves the
817 width/height ratio. (If you are scaling several objects proportionally
818 with "Apply to each object separately", you can only use the % unit to
819 specify the scaling; otherwise each object's scale increments will
820 have the width/height ratio of the entire selection, not of that
821 specific object.)
823 * The Skew tab can now specify the skew as an absolute displacement
824 (e.g. for horizontal skewing of a rectangle, that means the shift of
825 the top rectangle side relative to the bottom), as percentage
826 displacement (e.g. a 1% horizontal skew of a rectangle means shifting
827 the top side by 1% of the rectangle height), or as an angle (e.g.
828 horizontal skew by 15 degrees results in the sides of a rectangle
829 being rotated to that angle, while the top and bottom remain
830 horizontal).
832 * The Matrix tab (previously called "Transform") can either edit the
833 current transform= matrix of an object, or post-multiply the
834 transform= with the matrix you specify, depending on the Edit current
835 matrix checkbox. (As it is now redundant, the transformation matrix in
836 the Object Properties dialog is removed.)
838 * The dialog now correctly watches selection changes in the active
839 document window and updates its values accordingly.
841 * The layout of the dialog is simplified, tooltips and mnemonics added
842 for better usability.
844 * Many bugs are fixed, especially in value conversions between units.
847 Persistent rotation centers
849 * The position of the center (axis) of rotation and skewing used by
850 Selector is now remembered for all objects and restored when you
851 select those objects again (even after saving and reopening the
852 document). When you move or scale an object, its rotation center is
853 moved or scaled too, so its position relative to the object always
854 remains the same unless you move it explicitly.
856 * When you have several objects selected, they use the rotation center
857 of the first selected object. If the first object does not have center
858 set (i.e. if it's in a default central position), then several objects
859 will rotate around the geometric center of their common bounding box
860 (as before).
862 * Shift+click on the rotation center resets it back to the center of the
863 object's box.
865 * Consequently, dragging the rotation center is now an undoable action;
866 you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the drag.
868 * Keyboard rotation by [, ] keys with various modifiers, as well as the
869 Rotate tab in the Transform dialog, work around the selected object's
870 rotation center (for multi-object selection, the rotation center of
871 the first selected object).
873 * Rotation centers are preserved when duplicating, cloning (including
874 clone tiler), grouping/ungrouping, and converting to path.
877 Pasting size
879 A number of commands are added to easily scale selected objects to match
880 the size of the object(s) previously copied to the clipboard. They are all
881 in the Paste Size submenu in Edit menu:
883 * Paste Size scales the whole selection to match the overall size of the
884 clipboard object(s).
886 * Paste Width/Paste Height scale the whole selection
887 horizontally/vertically so that it matches the width/height of the
888 clipboard object(s). These commands honor the scale ratio lock on the
889 Selector controls bar (between W and H fields), so that when that lock
890 is pressed, the other dimension of the selected object is scaled in
891 the same proportion; otherwise the other dimension is unchanged.
893 * Paste Size Separately, Paste Width Separately and Paste Height
894 Separately work similarly to the above described commands, except that
895 they scale each selected object separately to make it match the
896 size/width/height of the clipboard object(s).
899 Connectors and automatic layout
901 * There have been numerous bugfixes and several improvements to the
902 behaviour of connectors and the connector tool:
904 * Connectors moved as part of a selection will now stay attached to
905 other objects in the selection, rather than becoming detached
906 from them.
907 * By default, the Connector tool will not attach connectors to text
908 objects. There is a new checkbox in the connector preferences to
909 control this setting.
910 * The margins around avoided shapes (used for autorouting
911 connectors) can now be adjusted via the "Spacing" control on the
912 controls bar.
914 * Automatic Diagram Layout: A new button is available in the Align and
915 Distribute dialog that performs automatic layout of diagrams involving
916 a network of shapes and connectors. Layout is accomplished using
917 force-directed graph layout based on the Kamada-Kawai algorithm. This
918 algorithm treats edges as if they are springs such that the distance
919 between nodes will be proportional to the path length - number of
920 connectors - between them. Disconnected components (where not every
921 shape is connected) will be arranged around the circumference of a
922 circle.
924 * There is a new Remove Overlaps button to move the selected objects
925 enough that they don't overlap each other. A minimum spacing between
926 the boundaries of objects can be specified. Together with the
927 automatic layout tool, described above, this should be a significant
928 addition to Inkscape's usability for diagramming. Removing overlaps is
929 different from the "Unclump" button in that the former is completely
930 deterministic and guarantees removing overlaps on the first
931 application, but is not concerned with visual perceptive distances
932 between objects. Unclumping, on the other hand, attempts to equalize
933 perceptive distances between objects and can be applied repeatedly for
934 gradual effect.
937 Selective tracing with SIOX
939 * Inkscape 0.44 has an early version of the Simple Interactive Object
940 Extraction (SIOX) algorithm (see siox.org) implemented in its bitmap
941 tracing code. For a quick reference on how this is used, please see
942 this file. This clever algorithm from the realm of Image Recognition
943 allows you to select areas of similar color, with the goal of
944 extracting a foreground area from the background. To use:
946 * Enable the SIOX checkbox in addition to your usual tracing
947 options.
948 * Select both the bitmap and an object that covers the foreground
949 and part of background, leaving only background areas of the
950 image uncovered.
951 * Hit OK. SIOX will now analyze and attempt to pull out the
952 foreground-colored areas you want, and trace only those parts of
953 the image.
955 * The full SIOX selection mechanism (e.g. the ability to identify
956 foreground and background areas separately) is not implemented yet,
957 but is planned for a future release.
960 Snapping
962 * In addition to be able to snap to guides and grids, you can now snap
963 to objects or their paths or nodes. Be aware, however, that this is
964 both experimental code - there may be surprises - and you can easily
965 find yourself in a situation where inkscape tries to snap your 1000
966 nodes to 1000 surrounding objects, something that will take over your
967 CPU. So be careful what option you turn on in the Document Preferences
968 dialog and where you use it.
970 * Guidelines are made easier to pick: now you don't need to position
971 mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it, instead there's a small
972 position tolerance (1 screen pixel on each side of the guideline).
975 Sublayers
977 Previously, it was only possible to make a group a temporary sublayer by
978 entering that group. Now Inkscape supports creating and using true
979 persistent sublayers within a layer.
981 * The Add layer dialog allows you to place the new layer above, below,
982 or inside the current layer.
984 * In Preferences (Selecting tab), options are added allowing the "Select
985 All" command and Tab key selection to work either in the current layer
986 only or in the current layer and its sublayers.
989 Markers
991 * Converting stroke to path now correctly processes dashed strokes. For
992 paths with markers, this command now creates a group containing the
993 stroke converted to path and all its markers as independent objects
994 (i.e. they are not markers anymore, but instead you can easily
995 transform them or paint them any color, as a workaround for the
996 "markers don't take the color of the stroke" bug; to be properly
997 fixed, this bug requires implementing some SVG 1.2 features).
999 * The DimensionIn and DimensionOut markers are changed so that the arrow
1000 tips exactly correspond to node positions. It is now very easy to make
1001 dimension lines that correspond to drawn objects. The dimension
1002 specifications can now easily be chained by splitting a straight line
1003 at a point and assigning DimensionIn/Out markers to the resulting
1004 smaller paths whose endpoints coincide.
1006 * All arrow markers in the standard set are moved on the path so that
1007 their tips are as close as possible to the corresponding node of the
1008 path. Complete coincidence is not possible, because it would cause the
1009 blunt end of the stroke itself to be visible under the sharp tip of
1010 the arrow, distorting its shape. However, now the arrow tips are much
1011 closer to their nodes than before, and probably sufficiently close for
1012 many practical situations.
1014 * A new RazorWire path marker was added. By applying it as a mid-marker
1015 you can get a good approximation of a razor wire.
1018 Extensions
1020 * The Effects menu is now always on, it's no longer an "experimental
1021 feature". The preference setting to enable the menu has been removed.
1023 * Python extensions (which includes almost all currently available
1024 extensions) work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python
1025 shipping with Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an
1026 effect is launched, you get an empty console window that stays on
1027 while the effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will
1028 disappear by itself when the effect is finished.)
1030 * A new Python effect, Render > LaTeX formula, allows you to type in any
1031 LaTeX formula and get a vector object with the TeX rendition of this
1032 formula inserted into your document. You need to have latex, dvips,
1033 and pstoedit installed and in PATH for this to work.
1035 * A new Python effect, Flatten Path, flattens paths in the current
1036 selection, approximating each path with a polyline whose segments meet
1037 the specified criteria for flatness.
1039 * A new Python effect, Measure Path, attaches a text label to each path
1040 in the selection giving the length of that path (in px units).
1042 * The Radius Randomize effect has a new parameter which enables normal
1043 distribution of random displacements instead of uniform as before,
1044 which gives a more natural feel to the randomized path.
1046 * The Render > L-system (formerly "Fractal (Lindenmayer)") effect is
1047 improved in this version. Now you can specify different angle values
1048 for turning left and right, which makes it possible to smoothly bend
1049 some L-systems sideways. Also, you can separately randomize the step
1050 length and the angles by a given percent for more natural look (this
1051 works especially well with plant-like branching shapes). This effect
1052 can be used to create Penrose tiling, Sierpinsky triangle, Dragon
1053 curve and other famous mathematical artefacts, as well as various
1054 meanders, friezes, patterns, and trees. Some examples can be seen on
1055 this screenshot:
1056 inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-lindenmayer.png as well
1057 as in the new example file share/examples/l-systems.svg.
1059 * The Interpolate Path, Random Tree, and L-system effects are fixed to
1060 place their result on the current layer instead of document root and
1061 in the center of the (last-saved) document view instead of 0,0 as
1062 before.
1064 * INX files now have the ability to hold more information. This includes
1065 tooltips and descriptions of the extensions. These are all also
1066 translatable.
1068 * Thanks to keyboard configurability, it is now possible to assign
1069 keyboard shortcuts to those effects you use most often, so you can
1070 activate them without going into the menu.
1073 Formats
1075 * Inkscape's PDF export is now native (i.e. does not require any
1076 external applications) and supports transparency, including gradients
1077 with transparency. This replaced the old export extension that
1078 required Ghostscript and worked via Postscript, losing any
1079 transparency. The new PDF export is still immature; in particular it
1080 does not handle text, so you should check "Convert text to path" on
1081 the export options dialog. Other things not yet supported include:
1082 gradients on stroke; eccentric elliptic gradients; patterns, masks,
1083 and clipping paths; embedded images.
1085 * You can now Save as Compressed Inkscape SVG with media.This save
1086 option collects the svg file and all linked images into a zip archive
1087 for distribution. Although you cannot open the resulting archive
1088 directly with inkscape, the media is linked such that after unzipping
1089 you can open the SVG file immediately.
1091 * An output format for desktop cutting plotters, such as the Wishblade
1092 and Craftrobo, was added. This format is a very minimalist DXF file
1093 with appropriate scaling and translation applied. This output format
1094 should not be expected to operate as a generalized DXF output.
1096 * Inkscape can open/import default files generated by the Xfig vector
1097 graphics editor. This requires that the fig2dev command (transfig) is
1098 in your PATH.
1100 * Starting with this version, there is a limited ability to export
1101 Inkscape drawing shapes as Open Document Format drawings (.odg files).
1102 Currently the export is limited to text, shapes, and solid fill and
1103 strokes. This output will be improved in the coming months. In the
1104 meantime, however, ODG output is already useful for getting your SVG
1105 drawings into the Open Document world, in particular into an office
1106 suite such as OpenOffice.org.
1108 * The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e.
1109 layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them
1110 into an XCF for procesing in the Gimp. Requires Python, PyXML and
1111 Gimp. Gimp 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A
1112 version of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path.
1113 Does not function in Windows.
1116 Miscellaneous shortcuts
1118 * Now you can use Shift+middle button drag, in any tool, to zoom into an
1119 area. This works the same as simple drag in Zoom tool, but is faster
1120 because it does not require switching away from your current tool.
1121 Together with middle button drag (panning), middle button click (zoom
1122 in) and Shift+middle button click (zoom out), this completes the set
1123 of canvas navigation shortcuts available in any tool or context.
1125 * In Gradient tool, Shift+R reverses the gradient definition (i.e.
1126 mirrors the stop positions) without moving the gradient handles. For
1127 example, an elliptic gradient with blue center and red periphery
1128 becomes red in the center and blue in the periphery. This works on the
1129 gradient(s) of the currently selected gradient handle or, if no handle
1130 is selected, on all selected objects' gradients. (Compare with the
1131 Node tool where Shift+R reverses the direction of the selected path.)
1132 This is especially convenient for elliptic gradients which, unlike
1133 linear, you cannot simply rotate by 180 degrees for the same result.
1135 * In Selector, Ctrl+Enter enters the selected group (making it a
1136 temporary layer). Ctrl+Backspace leaves the current layer and goes one
1137 layer up in the hierarchy (but not to root).
1140 Miscellaneous improvements
1142 * Document templates (listed in File > New) are now first searched in
1143 the templates subdirectory of the user's profile directory (on Linux
1144 it's ~/.inkscape/templates), then in the system-wide Inkscape
1145 templates directory. This allows you to add your own templates on top
1146 of the list of standard templates, as well as override the default
1147 template with your own one (the default.svg in the profile directory
1148 has priority over the system-wide one).
1150 * When toggling one of the "transform with object" buttons (for stroke
1151 width, rounded rectangle corners, gradients, or patterns), a message
1152 is displayed in the statusbar explaining what has changed in the
1153 program's behavior. Hopefully this will reduce the number of
1154 complaints from users who had accidentally toggled one of these and
1155 were surprised by the result.
1157 * Whole thousands above 2000 in the rulers are now displayed as 2k, 3k,
1158 4k etc.
1160 * In the Document Preferences dialog, the new object style for each tool
1161 is now shown as a style swatch (displaying fill/stroke colors and
1162 opacity, stroke width, and master opacity), similar in design to the
1163 selected style indicator in the statusbar.
1165 * In the Grid Arrange dialog, row/column spacing can now be negative.
1167 * The installation default is now to scale the rounded rectangle corners
1168 with the rectangles themselves (the previous default mode, still
1169 available as an option, was to keep rounding radii unchanged when
1170 scaling rectangles).
1172 * Added a new --export-area-canvas command line parameter that causes
1173 the exported PNG to contain the full canvas. This option as well as
1174 --export-area-drawing and --export-area can now be used along with
1175 --export-id and --export-id-only for greater flexibility.
1177 * The --query-* command line parameters now return the true SVG bounding
1178 box of the object instead of the Inkscape coordinate system bbox (with
1179 inverted Y axis). The new behavior makes more sense for scripting use
1180 of Inkscape.
1182 * The dpi value in the Export dialog has had its range extended; now
1183 possible values are from 0.01 to 100000.
1185 * Individual <tspan>s within text objects (including line tspans) can
1186 now be selected via the XML editor to view their bounding boxes
1187 (though per SVG, you cannot transform them). Also, you can use the
1188 --query-* command line parameters to find out the bounding boxes of
1189 tspans from a script. (Individual strings within or between tspans are
1190 still not selectable, and they cannot have an ID for querying anyway.)
1192 * The placeholder image which is shown when a bitmap file was no longer
1193 accessible reads now "Linked image not found" instead of the confusing
1194 "Broken image".
1196 * Cloning multiple selected objects now works as expected (i.e. each
1197 selected object is cloned separately, similar to the Duplicate
1198 command). Previously you could only clone a single selected object.
1200 * The separate "license" and "contributors" dialogs have been merged
1201 into tabs on the About dialog. The about dialog now correctly sizes
1202 itself to fit the size of the splash SVG (while remaining resizable),
1203 and the rendering area is now cropped to the correct aspect ratio when
1204 the dialog is resized. The dialog also now displays the build
1205 information in the upper right corner.
1207 * In the Transform dialog / Rotate tab, the icon was flipped
1208 horizontally to be in line with the direction of positive rotation;
1209 the change was applied to the default (now crispy) and legacy icon
1210 sets.
1212 * The scale ratio lock button on the Selector controls bar shows a
1213 closed lock when pressed and open lock otherwise (same as the layer
1214 lock in the statusbar).
1216 * The Browse button on Export dialog now opens the new file chooser,
1217 same as those used by Open and Save.
1220 Miscellaneous bugfixes
1222 * Reading a document with an incorrect namespace URI not only did not
1223 cause Inkscape to complain, but could also "pollute" Inkscape's
1224 internal namespace table, resulting in an "infection" of subsequently
1225 saved documents by the incorrect namespace. This is now fixed, but as
1226 a result, documents with incorrect namespace URIs will no longer load.
1227 You will have to edit them in a text editor to fix the namespaces.
1229 * With newer versions of GTK, dragging with graphics tablet pen did not
1230 work in some tools and contexts (in particular, in Node and Rectangle
1231 tools). This is fixed.
1233 * Scaling of objects with stroke in Selector used to cause undesired
1234 shifts of the scaled object, as well as scaling it in the dimension
1235 which was intended to remain untouched (e.g. slight change in width
1236 when you scale only height). All these problems are now fixed, both
1237 for interactive scaling by mouse and for numeric scaling via the
1238 Controls bar, and for both values of the "Scale stroke with objects"
1239 option. Among other things, this means that stroked objects no longer
1240 lose snapping on scale, and that the "Default scale origin" option in
1241 the Selector tool preferences finally works as designed. Caveat: There
1242 may still be problems if you scale a selection that contains objects
1243 with different stroke widths.
1245 * Scaling of stroke now works for objects that didn't specify
1246 stroke-width; before, they always ended up with the default 1px
1247 stroke.
1249 * The bounding box for text and flowed text objects did not include
1250 stroke width. This has been fixed.
1252 * Stroke miterlimit on text objects was misinterpreted in absolute units
1253 instead of multiplies of stroke width (resulting in miter joins
1254 rendered as bevel).
1256 * The unfinished path in Pen tool is now cancelled, not finalized, when
1257 you switch away from the Pen tool. Apart from being more intuitively
1258 correct, this also fixes a crash when you quit Inkscape with the
1259 unfinished path in Pen tool.
1261 * Fonts on Win32 now use the native font mapper, meaning that Inkscape's
1262 font list is the same as other Windows programs, and the (potentially)
1263 very long delay experienced when using fonts for the first time in
1264 each session is gone.
1266 * Setting dash pattern was broken for transformed objects, and
1267 copy/paste of style with dash pattern did not apply correctly to
1268 objects with transforms.
1270 * An error caused a complete extra screen redraw after each zoom
1271 operation. That is, after you press "+" in a complex drawing, Inkscape
1272 redraws, but for some time after that it remains still unresponsive
1273 because it does that second redraw (invisibly for you, i.e. nothing
1274 changes on the screen). This is fixed.
1276 * Gradient rendering was off by one pixel, which often resulted in
1277 visibly wrong gradient rendering for small objects or in zoom-out.
1279 * The SVG path parser could not handle fractional numbers with the
1280 initial dot.
1282 * Several pattern rendering bugs are fixed, discovered by working with
1283 SVG files exported from Adobe Illustrator.
1285 * Inkscape on Mac OS X will now notice fonts in your ~/Library/Fonts
1286 directory, in addition to the other standard places.
1288 * Inkscape couldn't be compiled with libxml versions <= 2.6.9, and we
1289 now bumped the requirements from 2.6.0 up to libxml >= 2.6.11, which
1290 is the earliest you can get officially, anyway.
1292 * Inkscape no longer crashes when presented with a defective inx file
1293 for extensions.
1295 * More document memory is now freed when documents are closed.
1297 * EPS output now correctly includes an %%EOF footer.
1299 * There was a regression in 0.43 that caused several minor, though
1300 annoying bugs; knots and handles remained highlighted after the mouse
1301 was released, and the rubberband selection rectangle stayed visible if
1302 the selection was ended over a node while in the node tool. This
1303 regression has been fixed.
1305 * The connector routing code would previously sometimes confuse objects
1306 between multiple documents resulting in strange routing behaviour.
1307 This has been fixed.
1309 * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that allowed a malicious
1310 outsider to very easily disrupt an Inkboard session. This has been
1311 fixed.
1313 * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause deadlocks
1314 in the case that two users attempted to invite each other at the same
1315 time (see bug #1352522 for further details). This should be fixed,
1316 although the fix has not been widely tested.
1318 * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause session
1319 invitations to not appear on the invitee's screen. This was the result
1320 of a mistake in handling GDK modifier flags, and has been fixed.
1323 Translations
1325 * INX files (containing the UI of the external effects) now allow the
1326 user visible strings to be translated. This means that effect dialogs,
1327 file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by
1328 translators.
1330 * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 12 significantly: Catalan,
1331 Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lituanian,
1332 Russian, Slovene, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Average
1333 translation ratio has increased from 49% to 55%.
1335 * Some new translations of tutorials have been brought by contributors :
1336 Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
1339 Internal
1341 * The Document Properties Dialog code was completely gtkmmified, which
1342 lead to dramatic reduction of code size due to usage of widget
1343 objects. The used widget objects should be reusable by other dialogs,
1344 too, and the code is much more readable.
1346 * Work on optimizing includes in all cpp files started, using the
1347 purgeincludes tool specifically written for that purpose, and ended
1348 with 40% of include lines removed!
1351 Known problems
1354 Problems with libgc-6.7
1356 * Inkscape will hang or even crash when linked with this (newest)
1357 version of the Boehm garbage collection library. Make sure you use
1358 libgc-6.5 or 6.6 until this is sorted out.
1361 Namespaces may need fixing
1363 * Previous versions of inkscape sometimes silently saved documents with
1364 wrong namespace URIs. This has been fixed, but such corrupted
1365 documents will no longer load successfully. Such documents may require
1366 their namespace declarations to be fixed by hand.
1369 Beware of defective themes on Linux
1371 * Inkscape and other Gtk programs can crash on any Linux, when the
1372 gtk2-engines-smooth / libsmooth package is installed. We have filed a
1373 bug against libsmooth which is now in gtk-engine and part of gnome.
1374 Removing the package resolves the problem, however, but it would be
1375 nice if you as affected user would inform the gtk-engines maintainers
1376 of the problem. See especially
1377 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312115 (thanks to Thomas
1378 Wood)
1379 * A similar crash happens if the KDE Baghira theme or the package
1380 gtk_qt_engine are installed. If you experience Inkscape crashes on
1381 KDE, please try to install a different theme from Baghira, or
1382 uninstall the gtk_qt_engine package from your system. Both problems
1383 also affect older versions of Inkscape.
1386 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it
1388 * If you were using certain CVS/SVN builds from autumn of 2005, you may
1389 have the file menus.xml hanging around in your profile directory (e.g.
1390 ~/.inkscape on Linux). In that case you will see many errors about
1391 verbs that cannot be found, and some commands in menus will be
1392 disabled. Make sure to delete menus.xml to fix this.
1395 Previous releases
1397 * ReleaseNotes043
1398 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes043)
1399 * ReleaseNotes042
1400 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes042)
1401 * ReleaseNotes041
1402 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes041)
1403 * ReleaseNotes040
1404 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes040)
1405 * ReleaseNotes039
1406 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes039)
1407 * ReleaseNotes038
1408 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes038)
1409 * ReleaseNotes037
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