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-Inkscape 0.45: overview
-
- This release brings the exciting new features developed by the Google
- Summer of Code 2006 participants, as well as tons of other
- improvements across the board.
-
-SVG filters: Gaussian blur
-
- Thanks to Google's Summer of Code program, Inkscape now has basic
- support for [44]SVG filters. The only filter enabled so far is
- Gaussian blur.
-
- With it, you can softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects:
- paths, shapes, groups, text], images. Clones inherit blurring from
- their original, but they can also be blurred independently from the
- original (you can create blurred clones with Tile Clones, too). Both
- the fill and stroke of an object are blurred together, creating
- semitransparent margins that smoothly blend into the background.
-
- Gaussian blur enables a wide range of photorealistic effects:
- arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows,
- glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other
- objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect.
- * To blur selected objects, open the Fill and Stroke dialog
- (Ctrl+Shift+F) and use the Blur slider. The blur value is a
- percentage, with 100% corresponding to a blurring radius of 1/8 of
- the object's bounding box' perimeter (that is, for a square, a
- blur of 100% will have the radius equal to half a side).
-
- * The Tile Clones dialog also supports blurring. On the Blur &
- opacity tab, you can set the blur percentage per row or per column
- of your tiling, as well as randomize blurring and make it
- alternate (all the same options as for Opacity).
-
- * The quality of on-screen blur display is controlled by the Blur
- quality option on the new Filters tab of Inkscape Preferences
- (Ctrl+Shift+P). The available options range from best
- quality/slowest display to worst quality/fastest display, the
- default being in the middle of the range. Any setting except the
- "best quality" may introduce some rendering artifacts, especially
- when blurring thin strokes; on the other hand, the "best quality"
- setting may make Inkscape extremely slow at high zooms. These
- settings only affect the screen display of blurred objects; bitmap
- export always uses the best quality.
-
- Here are a few tips on using blur:
- * Masks and clipping are applied after blur. That is, if you clip an
- object and then blur it (or blur it first and then clip - it makes
- no difference), the clipped edges will remain crisp. Often, this
- is what you want. If, however, you want to blur the clipped/masked
- edges too (possibly with a different radius), you can use
- grouping: group the clipped object with some other object (which
- you can then delete from the group) and blur the group.
-
- * A simple drop shadow is now very easy to do: just copy the object,
- paint the copy black, blur it, shift away a bit and lower it to
- the bottom. However, such a shadow does not update when you edit
- the foreground object. If your object is already black (or, more
- generally, if you want the shadow to be the same color as the
- object), you can clone instead of copy to make the shadow
- auto-updating. But what if your foreground object is not black but
- you need a black shadow? Here's a recipe: unset the object's fill
- (it becomes black); create two clones of it; put one clone on top
- and paint any color you want; put the other clone at bottom, blur
- it and shift sideways. Now you can edit the unset-fill original
- (use Alt+click to select it) and everything will update.
-
- * If an object has a fill that you don't want to blur (e.g. pattern,
- or if it's a bitmap), but you just want to feather its edges, use
- a blurred transparency mask. For this, copy the object; paint it
- white; blur it as needed; scale the blurred copy down so its blur
- margins are entirely within the original object; select both the
- original and the blurred mask; do Object > Mask > Set.
-
- * Transforming a blurred object transforms its blur, too. This
- applies to a non-uniform scaling as well, so by squeezing a
- blurred object you make its blur squeezed as well. So, the easiest
- way to blur a path horizontally more than vertically is this:
- stretch it upwards without blur, then apply blur and squeeze it
- back into the original shape.
-
- * You can combine blurring with gradients. For example, an ellipse
- with elliptic opacity gradient will look much softer and more
- natural when blurred. An object with a horizontal linear opacity
- gradient, when blurred, will look like it is more blurred on its
- transparent side than on its opaque side.
-
- * A clone of a blurred object inherits the blur of the original.
- Therefore, such a clone can be blurred more, but you can't
- "unblur" it to make the clone sharper than its original (unless,
- of course, you unlink it). The Fill and Stroke dialog shows you
- the amount of the blur applied to this particular object; however,
- if the object is a clone of an already blurred original, the
- dialog does not reflect that.
-
- * Note that Firefox 2.0 does not support SVG filters, so your files
- will be displayed in Firefox 2.0 without blur. However, support
- has been added in the current development version ("trunk") and
- will be included in Firefox 3.0. The Opera web browser, as well as
- librsvg (used by Wikipedia) and Batik, support filters correctly.
-
-
-Undo history
-
- * Inkscape now features a History Dialog accessible through
- Ctrl+Shift+H or Edit->Undo History. All changes to the document
- since it was opened are recorded here.
- + In the dialog, changes are listed from the oldest (top) to
- the newest (bottom).
- + The type of each change is indicated by an icon and a short
- description.
- + For readability, consecutive changes of the same type are
- placed in a collapsable branch showing a triangle marker and
- the number of the hidden actions in the branch.
- + By clicking on an event event in the list, you can easily
- move through the undo history, i.e. undo or redo any number
- of actions with one click.
-
- * The Undo and Redo commands in the Edit menu display the
- descriptions of the commands to be undone and redone,
- correspondingly. (These are the same descriptions that you see in
- the History dialog.)
-
-
-Rendering improvements
-
- * Interruptible display: Previously, Inkscape could not do anything
- until it finishes the current screen redraw. Now the redraw is
- made interruptible, so that Inkscape responds to mouse and
- keyboard input and can abort the current redraw and start over if
- you do some screen-changing operation. As a result, Inkscape now
- feels much snappier and more interactive. This interruptibility is
- fine-tuned for some interactive operations (such as node dragging)
- so that a balance is achieved between responsiveness and
- completeness of display.
-
- * Radial gradients are rendered faster by at least 10%.
-
- * Screen render is faster by 2-3%, up to 5% for complex drawings
- with transparency.
-
- * Display is more responsive when working at high zoom levels when
- using a tablet.
-
- * Rendering (compositing) quality has been improved. This is most
- visible with (partially) transparent gradients, banding is a lot
- less pronounced now. Speed has also been improved in some cases.
-
-
-Tools
-
-
-Node tool
-
- * You can grow or shrink node selection by hovering the mouse
- pointer over a node and using mousewheel (up = grow, down =
- shrink) or the keys PageUp (grow) and PageDown (shrink). Growing
- adds the closest unselected node to the selection; shrinking
- deselects the farthest selected node. There are two modes that
- differ by how the closest/farthest nodes are chosen:
-
- *
- + Spatial selection (Mousewheel, PageUp/PageDown): distances to
- nodes are measured directly, regardless of which subpath a
- node belongs to.
-
- *
- + Linear selection (Ctrl+Mousewheel,
- Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown): node distances are measured along
- the path, and only the nodes belonging to the same subpath as
- the hovered node are considered (i.e. other subpaths are
- never selected).
-
- This technique is convenient for quickly selecting an area in a
- complex path starting from a center - for example, for node
- sculpting.
-
-
-Dropper
-
- * Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for
- the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha",
- which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and,
- using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and
- 0.5 opacity (half-transparent).
- + If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will
- get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill
- opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque).
- + If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off,
- the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and
- fill opacity will be at 1.0.
- + If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected
- object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity
- will be at 0.5 (half-transparent).
-
- If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be
- made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note
- that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of
- the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does
- any other kind of opacity.
-
-
-Calligraphy
-
- * A new numeric parameter, Caps, controls the amount of protruding
- at the ends of calligraphic strokes. This parameter can range from
- 0 (flat caps, default behavior in previous versions) through 1
- (approximately half-circle caps) and up to 5 (long elliptic caps).
- Rounded caps much improve the look of low-fixation strokes,
- simulating a rounded pen.
-
- * The "Drag" parameter has been renamed to Wiggle with a value
- inversion (i.e. low drag corresponds to high wiggle, and vice
- versa). Increase this parameter (default is 0) to make the pen
- waver and wiggle in curly patterns.
-
-
-Outline mode
-
- * A new menu command (View > Display Mode > Toggle) and a new
- keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+<keypad 5>) switch the display mode from
- Normal to Outline and back.
-
- * The window title displays "(outline)" next to the file name when
- that editing window is in Outline mode.
-
- * An object with mask and/or clipping path, when viewed in Outline
- mode, now displays both the object itself and its clipping path
- and mask as objects, using different outline colors. By default,
- clippaths use green outlines, and masks use blue.
-
- * Images in Outline mode are displayed as red (by default) frames
- with two diagonals.
-
- * An object with no fill and no stroke, invisible and not selectable
- by mouse clicking in normal mode, can now be picked by a mouse
- click in the Outline mode using its visible outline.
-
- * The bug whereby stroked shapes didn't change stroke width when
- switching to Outline mode or back is fixed.
-
- * All outline colors are changeable by editing the "wireframecolors"
- group inside "options" in the preferences file
- (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). The "onlight" and "ondark"
- attributes set the colors of the regular object outlines on light
- and dark backgrounds (default black and white correspondingly);
- the "images", "clips", and "masks" attributes set the colors of
- images, clipping paths, and masks (defaults are red, green, and
- blue correspondingly). Each attribute is a decimal integer
- corresponding to the hex RRGGBBAA of the color.
-
- * To cater for specialized uses, such as preparing input for
- personal media cutters, Inkscape now has an option to start in the
- Outline mode upon launch. To enable this, add the following line
- to your preferences.xml file:
-
- <group id="startmode" outline="1"/>
-
- placing it after the <group id="options"> opening tag.
-
-
-PDF export
-
- * A new Cairo-based PDF exporter has been added to Inkscape.
- Inkscape 0.45 can export shapes, strokes, transparency, gradients,
- patterns, text, and images correctly to Cairo. While clipping
- paths and masks are known to be faulty or missing. Cairo will
- write a PDF with vector graphics when possible and fall back to
- raster graphics when needed. What can be exported as vectors and
- how much of the image will be rasterized when the fallback kicks
- in depends on your version of Cairo. Cairo version 1.2 with the
- pdf backend compiled in is the minimum requirement for any
- Cairo-based PDF exports.
-
- * [removed? - mental] The native PDF exporter introduced in Inkscape
- 0.44 is improved along with the new Cairo-based PDF exporter.
- Changes since Inkscape 0.44 include: New features: bitmap images
- can be embedded, pdf files can be exported from commandline.
- Changed behaviour: the pointless text to path question is gone.
- Fixed bugs: save failure is now detected, miter limits are now >=
- 1, pdfs with transparent gradient are now embeddable, eccentric
- elliptic gradients fixed, dash style inheritance fixed,
- transparency inheritance fixed.
-
-
-PS/EPS export
-
- * There's a new option to embed the fonts used in the document in
- the PS or EPS exported file. As of now, this works for Type 1
- fonts only, not TrueType. The option is available when performing
- the export from the GUI as well as from the command line via the
- --export-embed-fonts option.
-
-
-EMF export
-
- * Inkscape has a limited support for exporting EMF (Enhanced Meta
- File) format. This works only on Windows, and only exports strokes
- and fills with constant colours. No text, no images, no gradients,
- no transparency.
-
-
-Command line
-
- * The new --export-pdf command line parameter allows exporting an
- SVG image to PDF from command line.
-
-
-Keyboard profiles
-
- The previous release allowed sets of keybinding to be created for
- Inkscape in the style of other applications. Two more sets of
- keybindings have been added.
- * Adobe Illustrator
- * Macromedia Freehand
-
- Of course not every feature in these other programs has a direct match
- to features in Inkscape so if you can please do help us out by
- reporting any problems you may have or improvements you would like to
- request.
-
- Additionally, a keybinding that focuses on tablet-based illustration
- and drawing work has been added:
- * right-handed-illustration.xml
-
- This keybinding places all commonly-used commands under the left hand,
- so that the user's hands rarely leave the keyboard or the
- tablet/stylus.
-
- (To enable a profile, copy it into default.xml in the same directory,
- overwriting the old file. To restore the default Inkscape set, copy
- inkscape.xml into default.xml.)
-
- More of Inkscape's keys are implemented as actions and are therefore
- available for remapping via keyboard profiles. New actions include
- EditSelectNext and EditSelectPrev for selecting next/previous object
- or node (by default, they are bound to Tab/Shift+Tab; as a result of
- becoming global actions, these keys now work in all tools and not only
- in Selector and Node tool as before).
-
-Extension effects
-
- * 3 new parameter types have been added to the extension effect UI:
- tabs, enumerations and optiongroups (radiobuttons). Examples are
- available of how to use these parameters in the definition of
- extensions: the new function plotter uses tabs; enumerations are
- used by the 'Pattern along path' extension; and a small developer
- example is given to illustrate the use of optiongroups (identical
- to enumerations).
-
- * A new extension, Render > Lorem ipsum creates the traditional
- Latin-like random text for design mock-ups. The number of
- paragraphs, the number of sentences per paragraph and the possible
- fluctuation of the number of sentences (for uneven paragraphs) can
- be adjusted. If no flowed text element is selected, a new one in a
- new layer is created, matching the size of the canvas.
-
- * Pattern along path: A new powerful extension (in "Generate from
- path" submenu) allows you to bend, repeat and/or stretch a pattern
- object (which can be a path or a group) along a "skeleton" path.
- This makes it easy to create a variety of patterned and shaped
- strokes. This obsoletes the old "Kochify" extension which is
- removed.
-
- * Color effects: A new group of extensions in the Color submenu of
- the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at
- once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including
- gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands include a full set of
- HSL adjustments (increasing/decreasing hue, saturation, or
- lightness by 5%), Brighter and Darker (adjust brightness by up or
- down by 10%), Desaturate, Grayscale, Negative, commands for
- removing or swapping the Red, Green, Blue channels, as well as a
- Custom command where you can set your own formulas for modifying
- the color channels. These extensions are a temporary solution; in
- a future version, similar functionality will be added to Inkscape
- core.
-
- Note: undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an
- object seems to "disappear"; this is however only a display
- issue (caused by the order in which gradients and their users
- are restored on undo) not causing any loss of information.
- Also, on large documents and large selections with gradients,
- Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these
- shortcomings, we decided to add this extension, because it's
- genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in
- Inkscape.
-
- * The Function Plotter has been extended, providing greater
- flexibility in x- and y-range definition.
-
- * g2png: The new group-to-PNG Python extension (g2png) is an easy
- way to export any group or layer to individual PNG files. It was
- first created for use in the [58]Inkscape User Manual (also
- available in SVN's user_manual module) but is also interesting for
- many other uses. If e.g. you have to draw a set of icons, you can
- draw them in the same document, thus making copying, duplicating,
- cloning etc. easier. Then just create a group for each icon, and
- with the extension, each group ends up in its own PNG file.
-
- * [color markers to match stroke - acspike]
-
- * The "Blur Edge" extension is renamed into Inset/Outset Halo to
- avoid confusion with the real Gaussian blur that we now support,
- as well as to better describe what this extension actually does:
- From the selected path, it creates a group of inset and outset
- paths that form a stepped "halo" around the object.
-
- * The Extract One Image extension automatically appends filename
- extension to the created bitmap file.
-
- * In an extension's INX file, you can specify <effects-menu
- hidden="yes"/> to hide that extension from the Effects menu.
- However, such a "hidden" extension can still be assigned a
- keyboard shortcut (by using its id as an "action" in your
- ~/.inkscape/keys/default.xml).
-
-
-SVG output
-
- For specialized uses, several aspects of Inkscape's SVG output can now
- be customized via editing the preferences.xml file (there's no UI for
- these options). A <group id="svgoutput"> inside <group id="options">
- can have the following attributes:
- * usenamedcolors (default is 0). If nonzero, Inkscape uses symbolic
- color names (such as "white" or "lime") and three-digit color
- designations (such as $dfe) where appropriate; otherwise, it
- always uses six-digit colors (such as $d0f0e0). Note that in 0.44,
- the default was to use named colors, which created problems for
- some extension effects.
-
- * numericprecision (default is 8). This is the number of significant
- digits written for each number into SVG. You can lower this number
- to get slightly more compact SVG at the expense of precision.
-
- * minimumexponent (default is -8). In transform= attributes, any
- number whose absolute value is less than 10 to the power of
- minimumexponent (i.e. less than 10^-8 by default) is written as 0.
-
- * indent (default is 2) controls the number of spaces that each
- level of nesting in SVG is shifted. Set this to 0 to disable
- indentation.
-
- * inlineattrs (default is 0). If nonzero, attributes are placed on
- the same line as their tags; otherwise they are separated by
- newlines.
-
-
-Bitmap tracing
-
- * A new color quantization algorithm for multiscan traces works
- faster (especially for large numbers of colors) and gives more
- adequate results with less colors used. This improves tracing
- results both for full-color photographs and for limited-color
- drawings.
- * The Trace Bitmap dialog now provides access to three more tracing
- parameters:
- + Suppress speckles: If set, spots or speckles larger than the
- given size are suppressed in the trace.
- + Smooth corners: This parameter controls how much smoothing is
- applied to corners in the traced path.
- + Optimize paths: If set, trace paths are optimized by joining
- adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance.
- * All controls in the Trace Bitmap dialog are reorganized to be
- easier to find. The dialog is redesigned to use two main tabs:
- Mode (where you select the tracing mode, such as brightness cutoff
- or color multiscan) and Options (where you set various tracing
- options, such as corner smoothing). The preview is placed
- horizontally to the right of the tabs. Most labels and tooltips
- are rewritten for clarity. The trace preview image is made twice
- larger.
-
-
-Even more improvements
-
- * A 'Save a copy'-function has been added to the file menu, similar
- to the 'Save a copy' functionality of e.g. Adobe Illustrator. With
- this function, you can save your document under a new filename,
- but Inkscape will 'forget' it has done this: later saves will be
- to the old filename. The default shortcut assigned to this
- function is: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S.
-
- * Text and flowed text objects behave more consistently. Now you can
- put a flowed text on path or (re)flow it into a shape just as you
- would do with a regular (unflowed) text. Previously, the need to
- convert a flowed text to text before these operations was a
- stumble for many users.
-
- * [new Help commands]
-
- * Exported PNG images have the correct resolution set in the
- headers.
-
- * [sculpt profiles - bbyak]
-
- * [new toolbar: squeezable, expansion menu, right-click menus -
- joncruz]
-
- * [union of a single object - acspike]
-
- * We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to
- the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.10, GTK+
- has finally restored this field in their standard file dialog. The
- standard field at the top of the dialog supports type-ahead find
- and performs the default dialog action (open or save) by pressing
- Enter, which means you can now do a quick Ctrl+O, Ctrl+V, Enter
- sequence to open the file whose path is in your clipboard (this
- closes a long-standing usability bug). Those who use older
- versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2.10 or use
- Ctrl+L to open a pop-up filename box. (Our Windows builds are
- shipped with GTK+ 2.10.)
-
- * The Create Bitmap function (Alt+B in the default keymap) is made
- more useful. Unless you have specific resolution or minimum size
- set for this command in preferences.xml (<group
- id="createbitmap"/>), it will take the resolution hint from the
- object whose bitmap copy you are creating (in other words, it will
- use the resolution that you specified for that object when
- exporting it via the Export Bitmap dialog), or the default 90 dpi
- if that object was not yet exported. Also, a 90 dpi bitmap (with
- its pixels exactly 1 px in size) will be snapped to the pixel
- grid. This makes it easy to use Create Bitmap for quick
- rasterization preview of an object or document. (Note: if you have
- used a previous version of Inkscape, your preferences.xml may
- contain minsize="250"; delete this for objects' resolution hints
- to work.)
-
- * Using extended input (i.e. tablet pressure and tilt) can now be
- disabled via Preferences (Misc tab). This is intended to be a
- last-resort option for those platform/hardware combinations that
- are not properly supported by GTK. With extended input disabled,
- you can still use your tablet as a mouse.
-
- * Simplify Path now had two modes when working with a group of
- paths: the default mode, which treats all of the paths as one
- large object to simplify, or the new mode, which acts the same as
- using Simplify on each path in a group separately. In
- preferences.xml, set options.simplifyindividualpaths to 1 to get
- the new mode.
-
- * For long Simplify operations (more than 20 paths at a time),
- Inkscape provides user feedback via the status bar as to how many
- paths have been simplified. This change also prevents Inkscape
- from appearing to have locked up during the operation.
-
- * New templates added for video formats (PAL, NTSC and HDTV 1080) as
- well as DVD cover templates that were not installed in the
- previous version. This will help video and DVD authoring with
- Inkscape. The business card 85×54 template is now installed as
- well.
-
- * The opacity of objects is now displayed as percentage, from 0 to
- 100, both in the Fill & Stroke dialog (with one fractional digit)
- and in the statusbar style indicator (with no fractional digits),
- instead of from 0 to 1.0 as before. This makes opacity values
- easier to read, type, and say.
-
- * "Other" license type was added to the metadata/license dialog so
- that people know that they are entering a URI to an "other"
- license.
-
- * Doxygen DoxyFile is updated.
-
- * Thanks to patches submitted by users of our community, Inkscape
- can now be built on SGI IRIX 6.5.28, gcc 3.4.0 systems and on
- Tru64 systems.
-
-
-Examples
-
- * With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially
- blur - Inkscape is now able to produce extremely photorealistic
- art. In the share/examples folder in Inkscape distribution, you
- will find two brand new, stunningly realistic images of shiny
- cars: car.svgz by Konstantin Rotkevich and gallardo.svgz by
- Michael Grosberg.
-
- * Inkscape 0.45 does not yet have gradient meshes. But with the
- addition of Gaussian Blur, this feature suddenly got within reach.
- A new example file, gradient-mesh-experimental.svgz, explains the
- approach Inkscape will likely take to implement this feature in a
- fully SVG-compatible way.
-
- * Although Inkscape does not support animation yet, you can add any
- animation scripts and attributes to your SVG file manually in a
- text editor - and the file will still be editable in Inkscape.
- Tavmjong Bah used this technique to create animated-clock.svg
- which, when loaded in an SVG viewer supporting animation (such as
- Firefox, Opera, or Batik), demonstrates the intricate moving
- clockwork of a watch - and shows real time to boot! If loaded in
- Inkscape, the image is static, but instead you can freely edit any
- of the objects.
-
-
-Translations
-
- * Remarkable improvements are in the Danish, Finnish, Nepalese and
- the Vietnamese translations of the user interface. They all jumped
- from 0 to over 90 percent in a very short timespan.
-
- * All people which are familiar with pig latin are now able to use
- Inkscape's user interface in that language. Isthay isway oughtbray
- otay usway ybay away ewnay anslatortray.
-
- * default lituanian template was not installed before, which is now
- fixed.
-
- * Updated British English, Catalan, Bulgarian and Thai translations.
-
-
-Tutorials and Templates
-
- * New tutorial "Easter Eggs" by Steve Karg.
-
- * Added Catalan default template and elements tutorial.
-
- * Russian header and footer templates are added.
-
-
-Bugfixes
-
- * When deleting a node, neighboring smooth nodes are converted to
- cusp.
-
- * Releasing the mouse button while dragging nodes using a tablet
- will now always release the nodes. Before this, a race condition
- could occur where dragging could continue after the mouse button
- was released.
-
- * An object's mask and clipping path are now preserved after
- Simplify, Object/Stroke to path, or boolean operations.
-
- * Ungrouping a group containing clipped/masked objects might
- sometime break the clip/mask (move it away); fixed.
-
- * User-supplied templates in ~/.inkscape/templates can now be SVGZ
- files in addition to SVG.
-
- * Previously, Inkscape didn't check if there's enough free memory
- for its pixel buffers and could crash without warning due to
- insufficient memory e.g. upon zooming in. This problem became much
- worse after implementing Gaussian blur, because rendering blurred
- objects at high zooms may require a pixel buffer much bigger than
- the visible canvas. Now this situation is handled more gracefully:
- if a display operation requires more memory than available, or
- more than 100Mb (which corresponds to a 5000x5000 pixel buffer),
- it is skipped. This may result in blurred objects "disappearing"
- at high zooms. This is purely a display issue, however, it never
- corrupts data; just zoom out (or reduce blur radius) and the
- disappeared object will show up OK.
-
- * When resizing objects, scaling numbers in the statusbar are no
- longer overwritten by other text when pressing special keys (alt,
- shift, ctrl).
-
- * To work around problems some users have had with pressure
- sensitive tablets ([66]bug), the pressure sensitivity can be
- disabled from the misc tab of Inkscape preferences dialogue. The
- tablet can then be used, though with reduced functionality.
-
- * The layer widget in the statusbar used to lose its current layer
- after an effect run; this is fixed.
-
- * When using different display resolutions or a dual screen setup,
- dialogs could be displayed off-screen; this is fixed: now Inkscape
- checks whether the saved position of the dialog is offscreen, if
- so it will move the dialog to the center of the screen. Note that
- this not solve all problems. If the dialog is still not visible,
- go to the [67]bugreport where a procedure is given to make the
- dialog visible (editting preferences.xml).
-
- * Performing a boolean union without selecting an object no longer
- crashes Inkscape.
-
- * Grid and guidelines no longer vanish when changing their color.
-
- * Group transformation is now correctly applied when ungrouping and
- undo'ing the ungroup.
-
- * Text dialog no longer discards the style of the selected text.
-
-
-Known problems
-
-
-Problem with Dialogs on Top on Microsoft Windows (win32)
-
- [Describe minimizing of document window problem, and solution:
- right-click taskbar button and press "Restore"]
-
-OSX 10.3.9: cannot open files
-
- This bug is due to a missing symbol (_statvfs) in the system library
- /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib on 10.3.9. The dependency is introduced by
- one of the gnome-vf2 modules. It is not something we can easily fix
- other than by not linking with gnome-vfs2, which we will do for or
- upcoming 0.45 release if no other solution becomes apparent.
- [mjwybrow]
-
-Problems with some Debian libgc-6.7 packages
-
- * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with the first Debian
- packaged version of the Boehm garbage collection library. This
- problem was fixed in version 1:6.7-2 of the package. If you have
- libgc 6.7 on your Debian-based system, make sure that you are
- using that version of the package or later.
-
-
-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. Update: this
- bug appears to be fixed in newer versions of gtk-engines. If you
- are affected by this problem please update to a newer version of
- gtk-engines. If problems persist then please inform the
- gtk-engines maintainers of the problem.
-
- * 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.
-
-
+Inkscape 0.48 pre-release. More here later.