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- Release Notes
-
- From Inkscape Wiki
-
- Contents
-
- * 1 Inkscape 0.44: overview
- * 2 Performance
-
- * 2.1 Outline mode
- * 2.2 Speed
-
- * 3 SVG conformance
-
- * 3.1 Color profile support
- * 3.2 <switch> support
- * 3.3 SVG output
-
- * 4 Interface
-
- * 4.1 Layers dialog
- * 4.2 Selected style indicator
- * 4.3 Tool style indicators
- * 4.4 Controls bar for the Text tool
- * 4.5 Docked color palette
- * 4.6 Inkscape Preferences dialog
- * 4.7 Document Properties / Metadata dialogs
- * 4.8 Configurable keyboard
- * 4.9 Menus
- * 4.10 Statusbar
- * 4.11 Theme
-
- * 5 Tools
-
- * 5.1 Node tool
-
- * 5.1.1 Node sculpting
- * 5.1.2 "Show handles" toggle
- * 5.1.3 New deletion behavior
- * 5.1.4 Preserving positions of nodes and handles
- * 5.1.5 Miscellaneous
-
- * 5.2 Calligraphic pen
-
- * 5.2.1 Tremor
- * 5.2.2 Pen width
- * 5.2.3 Selection
- * 5.2.4 Style
-
- * 5.3 Pen tool
-
- * 6 Clipping and masking
- * 7 Transformations
-
- * 7.1 Transform dialog
- * 7.2 Persistent rotation centers
- * 7.3 Pasting size
-
- * 8 Connectors and automatic layout
- * 9 Selective tracing with SIOX
- * 10 Snapping
- * 11 Sublayers
- * 12 Markers
- * 13 Extensions
- * 14 Formats
- * 15 Miscellaneous shortcuts
- * 16 Miscellaneous improvements
- * 17 Miscellaneous bugfixes
- * 18 Translations
- * 19 Internal
- * 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
-
- * 21 Previous releases
-
-
-Inkscape 0.44: overview
-
- Inkscape 0.44 is bigger and better than ever. Some highlights:
-
- * Layers dialog
-
- * Outline mode, many performance improvements
-
- * Native PDF export with transparency
-
- * Clipping and masking support
-
- * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including Xara X emulation
-
- * Docked color palette in the editing window
-
- * Interactive indicator of the style of selection in the statusbar
-
- * Innovative "node sculpting" and other improvements in Node tool
-
- * Extensions are enabled by default and work on all major platforms
-
- * Better SVG support: <switch> element, ICC color profiles for images
-
- * Persistent rotation centers, Paste Size command
-
- * New icons, redesigned preferences dialogs, rearranged menus, many
- cosmetic improvements
-
- * Hundreds of bugfixes and smaller features
-
- * Not directly related to Inkscape, but important nevertheless: since
- our last release, Firefox 1.5 was released with SVG support enabled by
- default. This means that you can now view any Inkscape document right
- in your Firefox window without any format conversions or installing
- any plugins!
-
-
- Performance
-
-
-Outline mode
-
- An Outline ("wireframe") display mode is implemented. Use the View >
- Display Mode > Outline to activate it. In this mode:
-
- * all paths and shapes are rendered as inverse (black on light
- background and vice versa) outlines of constant width (1 screen pixel
- regardless of zoom), without fill;
-
- * text is painted by inverse fill, without stroke;
-
- * bitmaps are shown as is;
-
- * any opacity and gradients are ignored.
-
- The outline mode is usually not drastically faster than regular mode
- (usually 10% to 50% faster), and in some special cases it may even be
- slower. However, the value of the outline mode is not only in its speed;
- it is a good way to get an idea of the structure and objects of your
- document, and it is convenient for precision node editing and for finding
- "stray objects".
-
-
-Speed
-
- In addition to the Outline mode which makes it much easier to work with
- complex drawings, this version of Inkscape also provides significant speed
- improvements in many areas.
-
- * Thanks to optimizations in the renderer, Inkscape's screen redraw is
- faster by at least 10%, and in some cases (such as complex
- stroked/dashed paths at high zooms) up to three times faster.
-
- * Optimizations in the Node tool resulted in noticeable speed gains for
- node editing. Thus, switching to and from the Node tool (with a path
- selected), as well as selecting nodes in that tool, are now at least
- ten times faster than before. Other operations, including curve and
- node dragging and move/scale/rotate operations on multiple selected
- nodes, are much faster as well. This is especially important when
- working with complex paths; with these optimizations, paths containing
- several thousand nodes, though still slow, are much more usable.
-
- * An optimization in the attribute setting method made operations such
- as moving multiple objects with arrow keys at least 30% faster
- compared to 0.43. This is especially noticeable when you are moving
- clones selected together with their original (e.g. a clone tiling), in
- which case Inkscape now works three to four times faster.
-
- * Interface icons are now rendered in the background (from SVG source in
- share/icons/icons.svg) when Inkscape is idle, rather than waiting for
- all the icons in a menu to render the first time you pull it up. This
- eliminates the annoying delay when opening menus for the first time.
-
- * Previously, zooming in to view a small portion of a path (especially
- big and complex path), there was a very noticeable slowdown and memory
- use increased dramatically. We optimized the renderer to only process
- the visible part of a path, and as a result the rendering speed is now
- almost the same at any zoom up to the maximum, providing up to 10-40
- times speedup compared to the previous version (the closer is the
- zoom, the greater is the gain).
-
- * The Path > Break Apart command is now dozens of times (up to 100x)
- faster for complex paths with thousands of subpaths.
-
-
- SVG conformance
-
-
-Color profile support
-
- Inkscape now includes base ICC profile functionality. If compiled with
- LittleCMS support (if you run configure with --enable-lcms switch),
- Inkscape passes the ICC color profile test by W3C. The <color-profile>
- element has been implemented along with the "color-profile" attribute for
- <image> elements.
-
-
-<switch> support
-
- Rendering support for SVG 1.1's Conditional Processing Module has been
- implemented, including switch element, requiredFeatures,
- requiredExtensions, systemLanguage attributes. Inkscape passes the
- Conditional processing tests ([1] and [2]) by W3C.
-
-
-SVG output
-
- * In Inkscape's SVG documents, colors are now expressed by name
- (`white') or three-digit form (`#f3c') when possible.
-
- * The numeric values in transform attributes are written without
- insignificant trailing zeros, and anything less than that 1e-8 by
- absolute value (usually caused by rounding errors) is written as 0 to
- reduce clutter.
-
-
- Interface
-
-
-Layers dialog
-
- A Layers dialog (Ctrl+Shift+L) is implemented in this version. It works in
- parallel with the quick layer selector in the statusbar, so you can use
- whichever is more convenient for you.
-
- * In the dialog, you can click on a layer to make it current, as well as
- toggle layers visible/hidden and locked/unlocked. You don't need to
- make a layer current to toggle it visibility or lock status.
-
- * A hierarchical tree of layers is represented by a tree-like display in
- the dialog. You can expand or collapse branches of the tree to make
- the layer structure of a document easier to navigate.
-
- * At the bottom of the dialog, there are buttons for adding a new layer,
- moving the current layer up or down (either one step or all the way to
- top or bottom), and deleting the current layer.
-
- * Below the buttons, there's a slider and a spinbutton for adjusting the
- opacity of the current layer. A layer's opacity affects all objects in
- that layer in the same way as opacity of a group.
-
-
-Selected style indicator
-
- A new control in the left end of the statusbar lets you quickly view and
- change the fill and stroke of the selected objects. When you have a text
- selection in Text tool or a gradient handle selected in the Gradient tool,
- this indicator displays and changes the style of the text fragment or
- gradient stop, instead of the entire object (it's the same behavior as the
- Fill&Stroke dialog.)
-
- * The two indicators, labelled F: (top) and S: (bottom), display fill
- and stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly. (For gradient
- handles, they always display the same style.)
-
- * Each fill/stroke indicator can display either a color+opacity swatch
- (the opacity shown here is the fill opacity or stroke opacity, not the
- master opacity) or a text label specifying N/A (nothing selected),
- None (no fill/stroke), Unset (unset fill/stroke), L Gradient, R
- Gradient, Pattern (corresponding fill/stroke types), or Different
- (selected objects have different fill/stroke types).
-
- * Additionally, each indicator may be accompanied by one of two flags, m
- ("multiple", meaning there are two or more objects all with the same
- fill/stroke) or a ("averaged", meaning there are two or more objects
- with different flat colors in fill/stroke, and the indicator shows the
- average of these colors).
-
- * Left-click on an indicator opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog
- with the corresponding tab (Fill or Stroke) active.
-
- * Right-click on an indicator opens a popup menu with the following
- items:
-
- * Edit fill/stroke...: Opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog
- with the corresponding tab selected. (Same as left-click.)
- * Last set color: Applies to the selected objects the fill/stroke
- color that was last applied to anything.
- * Last selected color: Applies to the selected objects the
- fill/stroke color that was last displayed in this indicator.
- (Allows you to easily copy fill/stroke color between objects:
- select source, select destination, apply "last selected color".)
- * Invert: Sets the fill or stroke to the inverse of the current
- color (does not affect opacity).
- * White, Black: Sets the fill or stroke to the corresponding color
- (fully opaque).
- * Copy color, Paste color: Copies or pastes the fill or stroke
- color (when it's color) to/from the system clipboard, as text in
- the #rrggbb hex format.
- * Swap fill and stroke: Exchanges fill and stroke (both their types
- and colors, if any).
- * Make fill/stroke opaque: Removes fill or stroke transparency (not
- master transparency!).
- * Unset fill/stroke: Unsets fill or stroke from selected objects.
- * Remove fill/stroke: Removes fill or stroke from the selected
- objects.
-
- * Middle-click on a fill/stroke indicator removes fill/stroke from
- selected objects; if it is already removed (i.e. if the indicator
- displays "None"), it does the same as the "Last set color" command
- from the popup menu.
-
- * Drag and Drop of colors onto a fill/stroke indicator sets the fill and
- stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly.
-
- * The Stroke indicator also displays the stroke width of selection
- (averaged if there are multiple objects selected with different stroke
- widths), located to the right of the stroke color/transparency swatch.
- Left-clicking on it opens the Fill&Stroke dialog with the Stroke Style
- tab selected. Right-clicking on it opens a popup menu which allows you
- to choose the units for displaying the stroke width, as well as choose
- one of the presets to assign to selection.
-
- * To the right of the fill/stroke indicators, the Opacity numeric field
- (labelled "O:") shows and allows you to change the master opacity of
- the selected object (or the averaged opacity of several selected
- objects). Right-clicking the numeric field opens a popup menu with
- preset opacity levels. Middle-clicking on the "O:" label cycles the
- opacity through the values of 0 (transparent), 0.5, and 1 (opaque).
-
- The zoom field and the cursor coordinates indicator have been rearranged
- for compactness and moved to the right end of the statusbar. There's also
- a window resize handle added at the very end of the statusbar.
-
-
-Tool style indicators
-
- For each object-creating tool (shapes, Pen/Pencil, Calligraphic, Text),
- the Controls bar (above the canvas) now includes a style indicator on the
- right. This indicator shows you which style the newly created object will
- have.
-
- * The indicator correctly displays whichever style the tool is set to
- use - the global "last set" style or that tool's fixed style. For
- example, clicking on a palette swatch (even with nothing selected)
- changes the "last set" color and, if your tool is set to use the last
- set color, its indicator is updated, giving you an idea of your
- "brush" before you start to draw.
-
-
-Controls bar for the Text tool
-
- * This version adds the beginnings of a Controls Bar for the Text tool
- (previously empty). Now you can select the font family, size, apply
- bold and italic styles, change alignment and text orientation without
- opening the Text and Font dialog.
-
- * All controls are instant-apply and work on the entire text object (if
- nothing selected) or text selection. They can also apply to multiple
- text objects (though you would need to switch to Selector to select
- multiple text objects, then switch back to Text tool for its
- controls).
-
- * The font-family drop-down contains names and previews of all fonts;
- unlike other programs, we didn't apply each font to its name, but
- added a separate preview string displayed with gray color after each
- font's name. This design ensures readability of font family names and
- provides maximum useful information in a limited space.
-
- * We will be adding more controls (including spacing and kerning) to
- this bar for the next versions.
-
-
-Docked color palette
-
- * Previously, color swatches could only be used from a floating palette
- (Ctrl+Shift+W). Now the color swatches palette is embedded in the main
- UI, at the bottom of the window between the canvas and the statusbar.
- It is enabled by default; use View > Show/Hide > Palette to enable or
- disable it. The docked palette has the same functionality as the
- floating one; use a button in the top right corner to access the
- swatches menu.
-
- * The Wrap option (off by default) in the swatches menu converts the
- palette from a single row into a frame 2 or 3 rows high, for better
- access to colors in large palettes.
-
- * Drag and Drop of colors has been enabled.
-
- * Dragging colors from a palette shows a live swatch of the color
- being dragged under cursor.
- * Drag and Drop of colors onto the selected style indicator in the
- statusbar sets the fill or stroke of the selected object(s).
- * Colors can be dropped directly on to objects on canvas to set
- their fill, or shift+dropped to set their stroke. This affects
- only the object you drop the color on, regardless of whether that
- object is selected or not.
- * Colors can be dragged to and from other applications.
-
- * The new Inkscape default color palette was added. It contains a range
- of grays, standard HTML named colors, and a full range of colors
- sorted by their HSL values (475 colors overall). It is generated by a
- Python script which is available from Inkscape SVN in share/palettes.
-
- * Several specialized color palettes, useful in color-coordinated
- projects, were created or borrowed from GIMP: Grays, Reds, Greens,
- Blues, Gold, Royal, Khaki, Hilite, and Topographic.
-
- * All standard sizes of the swatches (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge)
- are made smaller overall.
-
-
-Inkscape Preferences dialog
-
- 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.
-
- * As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more
- precision.
-
-
-Document Properties / Metadata dialogs
-
- * The Document Preferences dialog is now named Document Properties, and
- it was split in two: metadata were extracted into the Document
- Metadata dialog; metadata widgets are now also spread over two pages.
-
- * A button was added to fit the canvas to the current selection or, if
- there's no selection, to the entire drawing. The button resizes the
- canvas and, if necessary, moves the drawing into place. It is now very
- easy to size the canvas to an illustration after it is ready.
-
- * New controls: the new object snapping features required their own
- property widgets, and you can set the snapping sensitivity with a
- slider, or let it snap regardless of distance (grid only).
-
- * Rearrangements within Document Properties: everything snapping-related
- was collected on one page; Grid and Guide widgets are on their own,
- the same page. For better HIG compliance, all widgets were
- categorized; especially the widgets on the Page page were completely
- rearranged in the General/Format/Border categories.
-
- * Bug fixes: grayed out license URI had too low contrast, so it's no
- longer grayed out; the proprietary license didn't clean the license
- URI; spinbuttons had no tooltips, and minor grid quirks were removed;
- data was not updated when a new file replaced another in the same
- window.
-
- * HIG compliance: much work went into that, and now only a few details
- are missing from full Gnome-HIG compliance.
-
- * Updated Creative Commons Licenses: Updated CC licenses to the latest
- 2.5 versions by default in the license tab of the metadata dialog.
-
-
-Configurable keyboard
-
- 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.
-
- On startup, Inkscape reads its keyboard shortcuts from
- share/keys/default.xml. That file is a copy of inkscape.xml in the same
- directory, which also contains keyboard emulation profiles for other
- vector editors:
-
- * xara.xml: Xara X/Xara Xtreme/Xara LX keys
-
- You can copy any of these over default.xml to use that profile. In all
- profiles, those keys which are not used by the corresponding program still
- have their Inkscape bindings. If you can contribute a profile for some
- vector editor that we don't yet have, we will appreciate that. The files
- have a simple XML-based format described in inkscape.xml.
-
- You can also customize some of your keybindings without overwriting the
- main default.xml. If your profile directory (~/.inkscape on Linux)
- contains a keys subdirectory with a default.xml file, the keybindings from
- that file will overlay (i.e. add to, and override in case of a conflict)
- the default bindings. The format of your own default.xml is the same as
- that of the main default.xml.
-
-
-Menus
-
- * Zoom commands in the View menu are moved to a submenu; the Zoom In and
- Zoom Out commands are added to that submenu.
-
- * Clone commands are moved into a submenu in Edit menu and given more
- descriptive names and tips.
-
- * Pattern commands (Objects to Pattern and Pattern to Objects) are moved
- into a submenu in Object menu, under the new Clip and Mask submenus.
-
- * The contents of the Effects menu are categorized into submenus, and
- several effects are renamed to use more intuitive names.
-
-
-Statusbar
-
- * In Selector, for multiple selected objects, the statusbar now reports
- their types. For example, if 5 groups are selected, it displays
-
- 5 objects of type Group in layer LayerName.
-
- instead of just "5 objects selected" as before. If there are up to
- 3 types in the selection, they will be listed, for example:
-
- 5 objects of types Group, Path, Rectangle in layer
- LayerName.
-
- The order of the list will correspond to the order in which the
- objects were added to selection. If there are 4 or more types in
- selection, only the number of types is reported, for example:
-
- 5 objects of 4 types in layer LayerName.
-
- * In Selector, objects selected in groups are now identified as such,
- and the group ID is given, for example:
-
- Rectangle in group g212 (layer content)
-
- If selected objects have different parents within one layer (for
- example, if one is selected in a group and another outside it),
- the number of parents is reported:
-
- 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 parents
- (layer content)
-
- If objects are in different layers, only the number of layers is
- reported since this also implies different parents:
-
- 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 layers
-
- * In Node tool, if your node selection includes nodes from different
- subpaths, statusbar reports the number of subpaths with selection and
- the total number of subpaths, for example:
-
- 2 of 195 nodes selected in 2 of 36 subpaths.
-
- * The contents of the statusbar message are now duplicated as a tooltip
- that is shown when you hover the mouse over the statusbar.
-
- * The statusbar text is now no longer just cut off if there is
- insufficient room, but an ellipsis (...) is inserted at the end to
- show there's more (only with Gtk 2.6 and newer).
-
-
-Theme
-
- * Inkscape has a new default icon set titled "Crispy" provided by Andre
- Sousa. The new icons are intended to add a more professional and
- cohesive look to our application, as well as to make the functions the
- icons represent more self-evident.
-
-
- Tools
-
-
-Node tool
-
-
- Node sculpting
-
- An entirely new way of manipulating paths in Node tool is added in this
- version: Node sculpting. Normally, when you have several nodes selected
- and you drag one of them, all selected nodes move by the same amount. Now,
- if you Alt-drag one of the selected nodes, only that node is fully
- displaced; other selected nodes are moved less than the full amount, so
- that those farthest from the drag point remain stationary. This is similar
- to "proportional editing" or "soft selection" in 3D editors such as
- Blender.
-
- So, for example, if you select several nodes on a straight line and
- Alt+drag the middle selected node, the path will bend into a smooth
- bell-like curve. Nodes' handles are also adjusted correspondingly to keep
- the overall shape smooth and natural. (If you don't have enough nodes on a
- path fragment that you want to reshape in this way, just select the end
- nodes of that fragment and press Ins a few times to populate it with
- nodes.)
-
- Moreover, node sculpting is sensitive to pressure of your tablet pen. If
- you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. the
- nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you press
- hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest neighbors
- will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop dragging
- without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the tip of the
- pen.)
-
- There are many possible applications of the sculpting technique. To take a
- simple example, selecting all nodes of an ellipse-like shape and
- Alt+dragging one of them will smoothly and naturally stretch and skew the
- entire shape in any direction. Doing the same to a complex path, such as
- star or spiral, will twist and punch it without destroying its intricate
- structure - this is the way to get squashed or self-intersecting stars,
- eccentric spirals and other shapes not easily doable before. Selecting
- only part of all nodes allows you to smoothly reshape parts of the figure
- without disturbing the rest.
-
- When applied to text converted to path, node sculpting is a fun and easy
- way to twist, bend and distort it, achieving effects similar to
- "perspective envelope" or "curvilinear envelope" in other programs - but
- in a more powerful and flexible way. For example, by selecting all or part
- of the text's nodes and Alt-dragging, you can not only make a wavy banner
- out of a paragraph of text, but also apply a "magnifying lens"-like effect
- to any word in the middle.
-
- Especially useful node sculpting is for complex natural paths, such as
- calligraphic strokes or bitmap traces, where you often want to do
- large-scale pushes and bends without destroying the small-scale features.
- Things like making a calligraphic stroke narrower in one place and wider
- in another, or changing the proportions, extending the ear or flattening
- the nose of a head - all this is now much faster and more natural to do
- using sculpting. It is also a new way to create new paths, too - starting
- from en ellipse with added nodes, it takes just a few Alt+drags to tweak
- it into a silhouette of a head, or a map of Australia, or an Inkscape
- logo!
-
- Some examples are shown on the screenshot:
- [www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-nodesculpting.png].
-
-
- "Show handles" toggle
-
- The Controls bar for the Nodes tool now includes a toggle button which
- controls whether Bezier handles are shown on selected nodes (on by
- default). Selecting and dragging nodes on node-dense paths in zoom-out
- (e.g. for node sculpting) may be extremely difficult without hiding the
- handles, as it's hard to pick a node and not a handle when handles are
- shown.
-
-
- New deletion behavior
-
- * In Node tool, deleting node(s) by Del/Backspace keys or by
- Ctrl+Alt+clicking a node now tries to preserve, as much as possible,
- the current shape of the path. This means that the nodes adjacent to
- those being deleted have their handles adjusted to approximate the
- form that the path had before deletion. For example, if you
- Ctrl+Alt+click a path twice, once to add a new node and then to delete
- it, the path will not change at all (or change very slightly). The old
- deletion behavior without adjusting handles is still available via
- Ctrl+Del or Ctrl+Backspace.
-
-
- Preserving positions of nodes and handles
-
- * When you switch the type of the selected node to Smooth or Symmetric
- by pressing Shift+S/Shift+Y, you can now preserve the position of one
- of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the
- other handle is rotated/scaled to match.
-
- * Similarly, when you join endnodes by pressing Shift+J, you can
- preserve the position of one of the two nodes by hovering your mouse
- over it, so that only the other node is moved.
-
-
- Miscellaneous
-
- * The ! key inverts node selection in the current subpath(s) (i.e.
- subpaths with at least one selected node); Alt+! inverts in the entire
- path. (This is similar to how these keys work in Selector, with
- current subpath(s) instead of the current layer.)
-
- * The keyboard shortcut for "Make selected segments curves" in Node tool
- is changed from Shift+K to Shift+U for better mnemonics.
-
-
-Calligraphic pen
-
-
- Tremor
-
- * Even when using a graphics tablet with pressure sensitivity, the
- Calligraphy pen's strokes often look too smooth and artificial. To
- enable a more natural look, the new Tremor parameter is added to the
- Calligraphy tool in this version. Adjustable in the Controls bar from
- 0.0 to 1.0, it will affect your strokes producing anything from slight
- unevenness to wild blotches and splotches. This significantly expands
- the creative range of the tool.
-
-
- Pen width
-
- * In all previous versions, pen width depended on zoom in such a way
- that the strokes appeared the same visible width at any zoom, but were
- in fact narrower at zoom-in and wider at zoom-out. This behavior makes
- sense if you want to keep the same "feel" of the pen regardless of
- zoom; for example, if you zoomed in to make a small fix to your
- drawing, it's natural that your pen becomes physically smaller but
- feels the same to you. So, this behavior is kept as the default, but
- now we also added an alternative mode where your pen width is constant
- in absolute units regardless of zoom. To switch to this mode, use the
- checkbox on the tool's Preferences page (you can open it by
- double-clicking the tool button).
-
- * The Width field in the tool's controls bar now changes from 1 to 100,
- which corresponds to the range from 0.01 to 1.0 in the previous
- version. If the "width in absolute units" mode is turned on, the value
- in this fields gives the width of the stroke in px units. In the
- default mode, the value of 100 gives 100px wide strokes only at 100%
- zoom, and strokes are correspondingly narrower or wider at other zoom
- levels.
-
-
- Selection
-
- * A new preferences option for the Calligraphic tool, Keep selected,
- controls whether the newly created object remains selected after you
- finish drawing it. If you turn it off (by default it's on) and set the
- tool to using Last Set color, you can easily choose a new color by
- clicking on the palette without having to worry if this will change
- the color of the stroke you just created. (Watch the tool style
- indicator at the right end of the Controls bar for the style of the
- next stroke you will draw.)
-
- * Esc deselects selected objects in Calligraphic, as in most other
- tools.
-
-
- Style
-
- * The stroke you're drawing is now shown, while you're drawing it, with
- the correct color and opacity that it will eventually have, instead of
- always black as before.
-
- * On a new Inkscape installation, this tool now uses the last set style
- by default instead of the fixed black as before (this is changeable in
- the Inkscape Preferences for the tool).
-
-
-Pen tool
-
- * While drawing a path, you can now move the last node you created by
- the same keys as in Node tool - that is, arrows, with Shift (for 10x
- displacement) or Alt (screen pixel displacement) modifiers.
-
- * Also, you can switch the not-yet-finalized (red) segment of the path
- being drawn from curve to line (Shift+L) or back to curve (Shift+U),
- again the same shortcuts as in the Node tool.
-
- * By popular demand, if a new path is being drawn but not yet finished,
- Ctrl+Z cancels that unfinished path (i.e. does the same as Esc),
- instead of undoing the previous action.
-
- * In Pen tool, Del works the same as Backspace to delete the last
- created point on the unfinished path.
-
-
- Clipping and masking
-
- Inkscape now provides some UI for using clipping paths and masks.
-
- * Any object can be non-destructively intersected with a path (called a
- clipping path) so that only the intersected portion of the object is
- visible.
-
- * To apply clipping, select the objects to be clipped and the
- clipping path object, make sure the clipping path is above the
- other objects in z-order, and do Object > Clip > Set.
- * You can transform, edit, or style the clipped objects as usual.
- The clipping remains applied and transforms together with each
- clipped object.
- * To remove the clipping, do Object > Clip > Release. The clipping
- path is returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is
- inserted on top of the unclipped object in z-order.
-
- * Any object can be non-destructively masked by another object (called
- mask) so that: the mask's black or transparent areas become fully
- transparent in the masked object; mask's opaque white areas become
- fully opaque; and all intermediate colors translate into intermediate
- levels of opacity in the masked object. This allows you to apply, for
- example, arbitrary transparency gradients to objects.
-
- * To apply a mask, select the objects to be masked and the mask
- object, make sure the mask is above the other objects in z-order,
- and do Object > Mask > Set.
- * You can transform, edit, or style the masked objects as usual.
- The mask remains applied and transforms together with each masked
- object.
- * To remove the masking, do Object > Mask > Release. The mask is
- returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is inserted on
- top of the unmasked object in z-order.
-
- * Objects with clippath show their bounding box intersected with the
- bounding box of the clippath, instead of the original unclipped bbox
- as before. (However, this does not apply to objects without clippath
- of their own which are clipped by being inside a clipped group.)
-
- * Clipped or masked objects display "clipped" or "masked",
- correspondingly, in their statusbar descriptions.
-
- * Although Inkscape had render-only support for clipping paths and masks
- for quite some time, in this release we fixed a number of bugs which
- may affect the display of your documents using clippaths or masks.
-
- * Clippaths and masks with objectBoundingBox units are now shown
- correctly upon loading of the document.
- * Clippaths without fill didn't work, this is now fixed.
- * Objects with clippaths or masks are correctly copied/pasted
- between documents.
-
-
- Transformations
-
-
-Transform dialog
-
- Fixes and improvements in the Transform dialog (Ctrl+Shift+M):
-
- * The Apply to each object separately checkbox is added, allowing you to
- scale/rotate/skew each selected object by the same amount, around that
- object's center. When off (by default), the selection is transformed
- as a whole. The status of this checkbox is remembered across sessions.
- (It has no effect on Move and Matrix tabs).
-
- * The Clear button resets the values on the current tab to defaults.
-
- * The Scale tab now allows you to specify horizontal or vertical size
- increments in percentage or absolute units. Also, there's a Scale
- proportionally checkbox which ensures that scaling preserves the
- width/height ratio. (If you are scaling several objects proportionally
- with "Apply to each object separately", you can only use the % unit to
- specify the scaling; otherwise each object's scale increments will
- have the width/height ratio of the entire selection, not of that
- specific object.)
-
- * The Skew tab can now specify the skew as an absolute displacement
- (e.g. for horizontal skewing of a rectangle, that means the shift of
- the top rectangle side relative to the bottom), as percentage
- displacement (e.g. a 1% horizontal skew of a rectangle means shifting
- the top side by 1% of the rectangle height), or as an angle (e.g.
- horizontal skew by 15 degrees results in the sides of a rectangle
- being rotated to that angle, while the top and bottom remain
- horizontal).
-
- * The Matrix tab (previously called "Transform") can either edit the
- current transform= matrix of an object, or post-multiply the
- transform= with the matrix you specify, depending on the Edit current
- matrix checkbox. (As it is now redundant, the transformation matrix in
- the Object Properties dialog is removed.)
-
- * The dialog now correctly watches selection changes in the active
- document window and updates its values accordingly.
-
- * The layout of the dialog is simplified, tooltips and mnemonics added
- for better usability.
-
- * Many bugs are fixed, especially in value conversions between units.
-
-
-Persistent rotation centers
-
- * The position of the center (axis) of rotation and skewing used by
- Selector is now remembered for all objects and restored when you
- select those objects again (even after saving and reopening the
- document). When you move or scale an object, its rotation center is
- moved or scaled too, so its position relative to the object always
- remains the same unless you move it explicitly.
-
- * When you have several objects selected, they use the rotation center
- of the first selected object. If the first object does not have center
- set (i.e. if it's in a default central position), then several objects
- will rotate around the geometric center of their common bounding box
- (as before).
-
- * Shift+click on the rotation center resets it back to the center of the
- object's box.
-
- * Consequently, dragging the rotation center is now an undoable action;
- you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the drag.
-
- * Keyboard rotation by [, ] keys with various modifiers, as well as the
- Rotate tab in the Transform dialog, work around the selected object's
- rotation center (for multi-object selection, the rotation center of
- the first selected object).
-
- * Rotation centers are preserved when duplicating, cloning (including
- clone tiler), grouping/ungrouping, and converting to path.
-
-
-Pasting size
-
- A number of commands are added to easily scale selected objects to match
- the size of the object(s) previously copied to the clipboard. They are all
- in the Paste Size submenu in Edit menu:
-
- * Paste Size scales the whole selection to match the overall size of the
- clipboard object(s).
-
- * Paste Width/Paste Height scale the whole selection
- horizontally/vertically so that it matches the width/height of the
- clipboard object(s). These commands honor the scale ratio lock on the
- Selector controls bar (between W and H fields), so that when that lock
- is pressed, the other dimension of the selected object is scaled in
- the same proportion; otherwise the other dimension is unchanged.
-
- * Paste Size Separately, Paste Width Separately and Paste Height
- Separately work similarly to the above described commands, except that
- they scale each selected object separately to make it match the
- size/width/height of the clipboard object(s).
-
-
- Connectors and automatic layout
-
- * There have been numerous bugfixes and several improvements to the
- behaviour of connectors and the connector tool:
-
- * Connectors moved as part of a selection will now stay attached to
- other objects in the selection, rather than becoming detached
- from them.
- * By default, the Connector tool will not attach connectors to text
- objects. There is a new checkbox in the connector preferences to
- control this setting.
- * The margins around avoided shapes (used for autorouting
- connectors) can now be adjusted via the "Spacing" control on the
- controls bar.
-
- * Automatic Diagram Layout: A new button is available in the Align and
- Distribute dialog that performs automatic layout of diagrams involving
- a network of shapes and connectors. Layout is accomplished using
- force-directed graph layout based on the Kamada-Kawai algorithm. This
- algorithm treats edges as if they are springs such that the distance
- between nodes will be proportional to the path length - number of
- connectors - between them. Disconnected components (where not every
- shape is connected) will be arranged around the circumference of a
- circle.
-
- * There is a new Remove Overlaps button to move the selected objects
- enough that they don't overlap each other. A minimum spacing between
- the boundaries of objects can be specified. Together with the
- automatic layout tool, described above, this should be a significant
- addition to Inkscape's usability for diagramming. Removing overlaps is
- different from the "Unclump" button in that the former is completely
- deterministic and guarantees removing overlaps on the first
- application, but is not concerned with visual perceptive distances
- between objects. Unclumping, on the other hand, attempts to equalize
- perceptive distances between objects and can be applied repeatedly for
- gradual effect.
-
-
- Selective tracing with SIOX
-
- * Inkscape 0.44 has an early version of the Simple Interactive Object
- Extraction (SIOX) algorithm (see siox.org) implemented in its bitmap
- tracing code. For a quick reference on how this is used, please see
- this file. This clever algorithm from the realm of Image Recognition
- allows you to select areas of similar color, with the goal of
- extracting a foreground area from the background. To use:
-
- * Enable the SIOX checkbox in addition to your usual tracing
- options.
- * Select both the bitmap and an object that covers the foreground
- and part of background, leaving only background areas of the
- image uncovered.
- * Hit OK. SIOX will now analyze and attempt to pull out the
- foreground-colored areas you want, and trace only those parts of
- the image.
-
- * The full SIOX selection mechanism (e.g. the ability to identify
- foreground and background areas separately) is not implemented yet,
- but is planned for a future release.
-
-
- 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
- position tolerance (1 screen pixel on each side of the guideline).
-
-
- Sublayers
-
- Previously, it was only possible to make a group a temporary sublayer by
- entering that group. Now Inkscape supports creating and using true
- persistent sublayers within a layer.
-
- * The Add layer dialog allows you to place the new layer above, below,
- or inside the current layer.
-
- * In Preferences (Selecting tab), options are added allowing the "Select
- All" command and Tab key selection to work either in the current layer
- only or in the current layer and its sublayers.
-
-
- Markers
-
- * Converting stroke to path now correctly processes dashed strokes. For
- paths with markers, this command now creates a group containing the
- stroke converted to path and all its markers as independent objects
- (i.e. they are not markers anymore, but instead you can easily
- transform them or paint them any color, as a workaround for the
- "markers don't take the color of the stroke" bug; to be properly
- fixed, this bug requires implementing some SVG 1.2 features).
-
- * The DimensionIn and DimensionOut markers are changed so that the arrow
- tips exactly correspond to node positions. It is now very easy to make
- dimension lines that correspond to drawn objects. The dimension
- specifications can now easily be chained by splitting a straight line
- at a point and assigning DimensionIn/Out markers to the resulting
- smaller paths whose endpoints coincide.
-
- * All arrow markers in the standard set are moved on the path so that
- their tips are as close as possible to the corresponding node of the
- path. Complete coincidence is not possible, because it would cause the
- blunt end of the stroke itself to be visible under the sharp tip of
- the arrow, distorting its shape. However, now the arrow tips are much
- closer to their nodes than before, and probably sufficiently close for
- many practical situations.
-
- * A new RazorWire path marker was added. By applying it as a mid-marker
- you can get a good approximation of a razor wire.
-
-
- Extensions
-
- * The Effects menu is now always on, it's no longer an "experimental
- feature". The preference setting to enable the menu has been removed.
-
- * 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.)
-
- * 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
- formula inserted into your document. You need to have latex, dvips,
- and pstoedit installed and in PATH for this to work.
-
- * A new Python effect, Flatten Path, flattens paths in the current
- selection, approximating each path with a polyline whose segments meet
- the specified criteria for flatness.
-
- * A new Python effect, Measure Path, attaches a text label to each path
- in the selection giving the length of that path (in px units).
-
- * The Radius Randomize effect has a new parameter which enables normal
- distribution of random displacements instead of uniform as before,
- which gives a more natural feel to the randomized path.
-
- * The Render > L-system (formerly "Fractal (Lindenmayer)") effect is
- improved in this version. Now you can specify different angle values
- for turning left and right, which makes it possible to smoothly bend
- some L-systems sideways. Also, you can separately randomize the step
- length and the angles by a given percent for more natural look (this
- works especially well with plant-like branching shapes). This effect
- can be used to create Penrose tiling, Sierpinsky triangle, Dragon
- curve and other famous mathematical artefacts, as well as various
- meanders, friezes, patterns, and trees. Some examples can be seen on
- this screenshot:
- inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-lindenmayer.png as well
- as in the new example file share/examples/l-systems.svg.
-
- * The Interpolate Path, Random Tree, and L-system effects are fixed to
- place their result on the current layer instead of document root and
- in the center of the (last-saved) document view instead of 0,0 as
- before.
-
- * INX files now have the ability to hold more information. This includes
- tooltips and descriptions of the extensions. These are all also
- translatable.
-
- * Thanks to keyboard configurability, it is now possible to assign
- keyboard shortcuts to those effects you use most often, so you can
- activate them without going into the menu.
-
-
- Formats
-
- * Inkscape's PDF export is now native (i.e. does not require any
- external applications) and supports transparency, including gradients
- with transparency. This replaced the old export extension that
- required Ghostscript and worked via Postscript, losing any
- transparency. The new PDF export is still immature; in particular it
- does not handle text, so you should check "Convert text to path" on
- the export options dialog. Other things not yet supported include:
- gradients on stroke; eccentric elliptic gradients; patterns, masks,
- and clipping paths; embedded images.
-
- * You can now Save as Compressed Inkscape SVG with media.This save
- option collects the svg file and all linked images into a zip archive
- for distribution. Although you cannot open the resulting archive
- directly with inkscape, the media is linked such that after unzipping
- you can open the SVG file immediately.
-
- * An output format for desktop cutting plotters, such as the Wishblade
- and Craftrobo, was added. This format is a very minimalist DXF file
- with appropriate scaling and translation applied. This output format
- should not be expected to operate as a generalized DXF output.
-
- * Inkscape can open/import default files generated by the Xfig vector
- graphics editor. This requires that the fig2dev command (transfig) is
- in your PATH.
-
- * Starting with this version, there is a limited ability to export
- Inkscape drawing shapes as Open Document Format drawings (.odg files).
- Currently the export is limited to text, shapes, and solid fill and
- strokes. This output will be improved in the coming months. In the
- meantime, however, ODG output is already useful for getting your SVG
- drawings into the Open Document world, in particular into an office
- suite such as OpenOffice.org.
-
- * 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.
-
-
- Miscellaneous shortcuts
-
- * Now you can use Shift+middle button drag, in any tool, to zoom into an
- area. This works the same as simple drag in Zoom tool, but is faster
- because it does not require switching away from your current tool.
- Together with middle button drag (panning), middle button click (zoom
- in) and Shift+middle button click (zoom out), this completes the set
- of canvas navigation shortcuts available in any tool or context.
-
- * In Gradient tool, Shift+R reverses the gradient definition (i.e.
- mirrors the stop positions) without moving the gradient handles. For
- example, an elliptic gradient with blue center and red periphery
- becomes red in the center and blue in the periphery. This works on the
- gradient(s) of the currently selected gradient handle or, if no handle
- is selected, on all selected objects' gradients. (Compare with the
- Node tool where Shift+R reverses the direction of the selected path.)
- This is especially convenient for elliptic gradients which, unlike
- linear, you cannot simply rotate by 180 degrees for the same result.
-
- * In Selector, Ctrl+Enter enters the selected group (making it a
- temporary layer). Ctrl+Backspace leaves the current layer and goes one
- layer up in the hierarchy (but not to root).
-
-
- Miscellaneous improvements
-
- * Document templates (listed in File > New) are now first searched in
- the templates subdirectory of the user's profile directory (on Linux
- it's ~/.inkscape/templates), then in the system-wide Inkscape
- templates directory. This allows you to add your own templates on top
- of the list of standard templates, as well as override the default
- template with your own one (the default.svg in the profile directory
- has priority over the system-wide one).
-
- * When toggling one of the "transform with object" buttons (for stroke
- width, rounded rectangle corners, gradients, or patterns), a message
- is displayed in the statusbar explaining what has changed in the
- program's behavior. Hopefully this will reduce the number of
- complaints from users who had accidentally toggled one of these and
- were surprised by the result.
-
- * Whole thousands above 2000 in the rulers are now displayed as 2k, 3k,
- 4k etc.
-
- * In the Document Preferences dialog, the new object style for each tool
- is now shown as a style swatch (displaying fill/stroke colors and
- opacity, stroke width, and master opacity), similar in design to the
- selected style indicator in the statusbar.
-
- * In the Grid Arrange dialog, row/column spacing can now be negative.
-
- * The installation default is now to scale the rounded rectangle corners
- with the rectangles themselves (the previous default mode, still
- available as an option, was to keep rounding radii unchanged when
- scaling rectangles).
-
- * Added a new --export-area-canvas command line parameter that causes
- the exported PNG to contain the full canvas. This option as well as
- --export-area-drawing and --export-area can now be used along with
- --export-id and --export-id-only for greater flexibility.
-
- * The --query-* command line parameters now return the true SVG bounding
- box of the object instead of the Inkscape coordinate system bbox (with
- inverted Y axis). The new behavior makes more sense for scripting use
- of Inkscape.
-
- * The dpi value in the Export dialog has had its range extended; now
- possible values are from 0.01 to 100000.
-
- * Individual <tspan>s within text objects (including line tspans) can
- now be selected via the XML editor to view their bounding boxes
- (though per SVG, you cannot transform them). Also, you can use the
- --query-* command line parameters to find out the bounding boxes of
- tspans from a script. (Individual strings within or between tspans are
- still not selectable, and they cannot have an ID for querying anyway.)
-
- * The placeholder image which is shown when a bitmap file was no longer
- accessible reads now "Linked image not found" instead of the confusing
- "Broken image".
-
- * Cloning multiple selected objects now works as expected (i.e. each
- selected object is cloned separately, similar to the Duplicate
- command). Previously you could only clone a single selected object.
-
- * The separate "license" and "contributors" dialogs have been merged
- into tabs on the About dialog. The about dialog now correctly sizes
- itself to fit the size of the splash SVG (while remaining resizable),
- and the rendering area is now cropped to the correct aspect ratio when
- the dialog is resized. The dialog also now displays the build
- information in the upper right corner.
-
- * In the Transform dialog / Rotate tab, the icon was flipped
- horizontally to be in line with the direction of positive rotation;
- the change was applied to the default (now crispy) and legacy icon
- sets.
-
- * The scale ratio lock button on the Selector controls bar shows a
- closed lock when pressed and open lock otherwise (same as the layer
- lock in the statusbar).
-
- * The Browse button on Export dialog now opens the new file chooser,
- same as those used by Open and Save.
-
-
- Miscellaneous bugfixes
-
- * Reading a document with an incorrect namespace URI not only did not
- cause Inkscape to complain, but could also "pollute" Inkscape's
- internal namespace table, resulting in an "infection" of subsequently
- saved documents by the incorrect namespace. This is now fixed, but as
- a result, documents with incorrect namespace URIs will no longer load.
- You will have to edit them in a text editor to fix the namespaces.
-
- * With newer versions of GTK, dragging with graphics tablet pen did not
- work in some tools and contexts (in particular, in Node and Rectangle
- tools). This is fixed.
-
- * Scaling of objects with stroke in Selector used to cause undesired
- shifts of the scaled object, as well as scaling it in the dimension
- which was intended to remain untouched (e.g. slight change in width
- when you scale only height). All these problems are now fixed, both
- for interactive scaling by mouse and for numeric scaling via the
- Controls bar, and for both values of the "Scale stroke with objects"
- option. Among other things, this means that stroked objects no longer
- lose snapping on scale, and that the "Default scale origin" option in
- the Selector tool preferences finally works as designed. Caveat: There
- may still be problems if you scale a selection that contains objects
- with different stroke widths.
-
- * Scaling of stroke now works for objects that didn't specify
- stroke-width; before, they always ended up with the default 1px
- stroke.
-
- * The bounding box for text and flowed text objects did not include
- stroke width. This has been fixed.
-
- * Stroke miterlimit on text objects was misinterpreted in absolute units
- instead of multiplies of stroke width (resulting in miter joins
- rendered as bevel).
-
- * The unfinished path in Pen tool is now cancelled, not finalized, when
- you switch away from the Pen tool. Apart from being more intuitively
- correct, this also fixes a crash when you quit Inkscape with the
- unfinished path in Pen tool.
-
- * Fonts on Win32 now use the native font mapper, meaning that Inkscape's
- font list is the same as other Windows programs, and the (potentially)
- very long delay experienced when using fonts for the first time in
- each session is gone.
-
- * Setting dash pattern was broken for transformed objects, and
- copy/paste of style with dash pattern did not apply correctly to
- objects with transforms.
-
- * An error caused a complete extra screen redraw after each zoom
- operation. That is, after you press "+" in a complex drawing, Inkscape
- redraws, but for some time after that it remains still unresponsive
- because it does that second redraw (invisibly for you, i.e. nothing
- changes on the screen). This is fixed.
-
- * Gradient rendering was off by one pixel, which often resulted in
- visibly wrong gradient rendering for small objects or in zoom-out.
-
- * The SVG path parser could not handle fractional numbers with the
- initial dot.
-
- * Several pattern rendering bugs are fixed, discovered by working with
- SVG files exported from Adobe Illustrator.
-
- * Inkscape on Mac OS X will now notice fonts in your ~/Library/Fonts
- directory, in addition to the other standard places.
-
- * Inkscape couldn't be compiled with libxml versions <= 2.6.9, and we
- now bumped the requirements from 2.6.0 up to libxml >= 2.6.11, which
- is the earliest you can get officially, anyway.
-
- * Inkscape no longer crashes when presented with a defective inx file
- for extensions.
-
- * More document memory is now freed when documents are closed.
-
- * EPS output now correctly includes an %%EOF footer.
-
- * There was a regression in 0.43 that caused several minor, though
- annoying bugs; knots and handles remained highlighted after the mouse
- was released, and the rubberband selection rectangle stayed visible if
- the selection was ended over a node while in the node tool. This
- regression has been fixed.
-
- * The connector routing code would previously sometimes confuse objects
- between multiple documents resulting in strange routing behaviour.
- This has been fixed.
-
- * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that allowed a malicious
- outsider to very easily disrupt an Inkboard session. This has been
- fixed.
-
- * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause deadlocks
- in the case that two users attempted to invite each other at the same
- time (see bug #1352522 for further details). This should be fixed,
- although the fix has not been widely tested.
-
- * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause session
- invitations to not appear on the invitee's screen. This was the result
- of a mistake in handling GDK modifier flags, and has been fixed.
-
-
- Translations
-
- * INX files (containing the UI of the external effects) now allow the
- user visible strings to be translated. This means that effect dialogs,
- file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by
- translators.
-
- * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 12 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%.
-
- * Some new translations of tutorials have been brought by contributors :
- Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
-
-
- Internal
-
- * The Document Properties Dialog code was completely gtkmmified, which
- lead to dramatic reduction of code size due to usage of widget
- objects. The used widget objects should be reusable by other dialogs,
- too, and the code is much more readable.
-
- * Work on optimizing includes in all cpp files started, using the
- purgeincludes tool specifically written for that purpose, and ended
- with 40% of include lines removed!
-
-
- Known problems
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- Namespaces may need fixing
-
- * Previous versions of inkscape sometimes silently saved documents with
- wrong namespace URIs. This has been fixed, but such corrupted
- documents will no longer load successfully. Such documents may require
- their namespace declarations to be fixed by hand.
-
-
- Beware of defective themes on Linux
-
- * Inkscape and other Gtk programs can crash on any Linux, when the
- gtk2-engines-smooth / libsmooth package is installed. We have filed a
- bug against libsmooth which is now in gtk-engine and part of gnome.
- Removing the package resolves the problem, however, but it would be
- nice if you as affected user would inform the gtk-engines maintainers
- of the problem. See especially
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312115 (thanks to Thomas
- Wood)
- * A similar crash happens if the KDE Baghira theme or the package
- gtk_qt_engine are installed. If you experience Inkscape crashes on
- KDE, please try to install a different theme from Baghira, or
- uninstall the gtk_qt_engine package from your system. Both problems
- also affect older versions of Inkscape.
-
-
- Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it
-
- * If you were using certain CVS/SVN builds from autumn of 2005, you may
- have the file menus.xml hanging around in your profile directory (e.g.
- ~/.inkscape on Linux). In that case you will see many errors about
- verbs that cannot be found, and some commands in menus will be
- disabled. Make sure to delete menus.xml to fix this.
-
-
- Previous releases
-
- * ReleaseNotes043
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes043)
- * ReleaseNotes042
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes042)
- * ReleaseNotes041
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes041)
- * ReleaseNotes040
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes040)
- * ReleaseNotes039
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes039)
- * ReleaseNotes038
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes038)
- * ReleaseNotes037
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes037)
- * ReleaseNotes036
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes036)
- * ReleaseNotes035
- (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes035)
-
- Retrieved from "http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes"
-
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+Inkscape 0.48 pre-release. More here later.