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| author | buliabyak <buliabyak@users.sourceforge.net> | |
| Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:59:58 +0000 (19:59 +0000) | ||
| committer | buliabyak <buliabyak@users.sourceforge.net> | |
| Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:59:58 +0000 (19:59 +0000) |
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Release Notes
- From Inkscape Wiki
-
Contents
* 1 Inkscape 0.44: overview
* 10 Snapping
* 11 Sublayers
* 12 Markers
- * 13 Extensions
+ * 13 Extension effects
* 14 Formats
* 15 Miscellaneous shortcuts
* 16 Miscellaneous improvements
* 20 Known problems
* 20.1 Problems with libgc-6.7
- * 20.2 Namespaces may need fixing
- * 20.3 Beware of defective themes on Linux
- * 20.4 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it
+ * 20.2 Problems with "Composite" option of X.org
+ * 20.3 Namespaces may need fixing
+ * 20.4 Beware of defective themes on Linux
+ * 20.5 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it
* 21 Previous releases
* Clipping and masking support
- * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including Xara X emulation
+ * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including optional Xara X
+ compatibility
* Docked color palette in the editing window
Not only was the Inkscape Preferences dialog completely rewritten and
redesigned, with numerous bugs fixed in the rewrite.
- * The dialog is now fully GNOME-HIG compliant.
+ * The old tabbed dialog is gone; the new dialog fits much betters with
+ the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
* As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more
precision.
Inkscape's keyboard shortcuts are now configurable!
- At this time, not all Inkscape actions can have their shortcuts
- customized. However, the majority of actions, including everything you see
- in the menus, are already configurable, and we're working on making more
- actions configurable.
+ There is no graphical users interface at this time, and not all Inkscape
+ actions can have their shortcuts customized. However, if you do not mind
+ editing a configuration file, the majority of actions, including
+ everything you see in the menus, can already have their keys changed.
+ We're working on making more actions configurable.
On startup, Inkscape reads its keyboard shortcuts from
share/keys/default.xml. That file is a copy of inkscape.xml in the same
Snapping
- * In addition to be able to snap to guides and grids, you can now snap
- to objects or their paths or nodes. Be aware, however, that this is
- both experimental code - there may be surprises - and you can easily
- find yourself in a situation where inkscape tries to snap your 1000
- nodes to 1000 surrounding objects, something that will take over your
- CPU. So be careful what option you turn on in the Document Preferences
- dialog and where you use it.
-
- * Guidelines are made easier to pick: now you don't need to position
- mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it, instead there's a small
+ * In addition to snapping to guides and grids, you can now snap to other
+ objects' paths and/or nodes. As with grid and guide snapping, you can
+ separately enable snapping of bboxes to objects and/or snapping of
+ nodes to objects. Be aware, however, that this is experimental code -
+ there may be surprises. It may also be slow in large documents with
+ thousands of objects.
+
+ * In addition to the snap sensitivity sliders in Document Preferences
+ (which set snap distances in px), there are Always snap checkboxes
+ (separately for object, grid and guide snapping) which force snapping
+ at any distance.
+
+ * Grid snapping now applies only to the visible grid lines. For example,
+ if you have zoomed out so that only every 10th grid line is visible,
+ snapping will only apply to these visible lines. In addition, default
+ grid snap sensitivity is set to "Always snap". This will hopefully
+ reduce the number of "snapping does not work" complaints from users
+ who didn't zoom in close enough to see that snapping does in fact
+ work, but only at sub-px distances to the 1px-spaced grid. At the same
+ time, you can still snap to finely grained distances if you zoom in.
+
+ * Guidelines are made easier to pick. Now you don't need to position
+ mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it; instead there's a small
position tolerance (1 screen pixel on each side of the guideline).
you can get a good approximation of a razor wire.
- Extensions
+ Extension effects
- * The Effects menu is now always on, it's no longer an "experimental
- feature". The preference setting to enable the menu has been removed.
+ * The Effects menu is now officially on and no longer an optional
+ "experimental feature" as in past versions. The preference setting to
+ enable the menu has been removed. Inkscape 0.44 comes with about 30
+ effects that perform a variety of useful tasks, such as path blending,
+ randomization, function plotting etc.
- * Python extensions (which includes almost all currently available
- extensions) work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python
- shipping with Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an
- effect is launched, you get an empty console window that stays on
- while the effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will
- disappear by itself when the effect is finished.)
+ * Python effects (which includes almost all currently available effects)
+ work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python shipping with
+ Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an effect is
+ launched, you get an empty console window that stays on while the
+ effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will disappear
+ by itself when the effect is finished.)
* A new Python effect, Render > LaTeX formula, allows you to type in any
LaTeX formula and get a vector object with the TeX rendition of this
* The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e.
layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them
- into an XCF for procesing in the Gimp. Requires Python, PyXML and
- Gimp. Gimp 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A
- version of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path.
- Does not function in Windows.
+ into an XCF for procesing in GIMP. Requires Python, PyXML and GIMP.
+ GIMP 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A version
+ of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path. Does not
+ function in Windows yet.
Miscellaneous shortcuts
file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by
translators.
- * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 12 significantly: Catalan,
+ * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 14 significantly: Catalan,
Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lituanian,
- Russian, Slovene, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Average
- translation ratio has increased from 49% to 55%.
+ Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Latine Serbian, Simplified Chinese and
+ Traditional Chinese. Average translation ratio has increased from 49%
+ to 57%.
* Some new translations of tutorials have been brought by contributors :
Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
Problems with libgc-6.7
- * Inkscape will hang or even crash when linked with this (newest)
- version of the Boehm garbage collection library. Make sure you use
- libgc-6.5 or 6.6 until this is sorted out.
+ * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with this (newest) version of
+ the Boehm garbage collection library. Make sure you use libgc-6.5 or
+ 6.6 until this is sorted out.
+
+
+ Problems with "Composite" option of X.org
+
+ * On Linux, Inkscape may crash if you have the "Composite" option
+ enabled in your X.org configuration. To disable this option, comment
+ out this line in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
+
+ Option "Composite" "Enable"
+
+ so it becomes
+
+ #Option "Composite" "Enable"
+
+ and restart X.
Namespaces may need fixing
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