Inkscape extension to generate color palettes from selected objects' color properties. Usage Create objects with color properties set, can be fill and/or stroke color. Select them and from the Extensions menu choose Palette and Generate. Provide a name and select the color property to grab colors from. You can also include Inkscape's default black to white colors or replace an existing palette. New options Sort colors by xY or Yx position when objects are placed in a grid layout Sort colors by X or Y position Sort colors by selection order, HSL values or RGB values Notes Inkscape needs to be restarted for the extension to appear. Inkscape must be restarted for a new palette to appear. Generated palettes are located at ~/.config/inkscape/palettes or ~\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\palettes on Windows. Older Inkscape versions Latest version for Inkscape < 1.0: https://github.com/olibia/inkscape-generate-palette/releases/tag/v2.0 --- Reviewed by Martin Owens on May 12 2021 2:30 PM pytest coverage: 0% pylint score: -7.5/10 tested in Inkscape 1.1 Marked as UNSAFE, modified home directory files, should be changed to use new Inkscape variable which will tell it where to save the palette file it generates.
A collection of plug-ins primarily intended for designers of bobbin lace patterns. The plug-ins draw various types of printable grids of dots or pair diagrams. For non lace makers: pair diagrams are two-in-two-out digraphs. Some tools have a BSD license, others a GPLv3. An older release of the plugins (for a pre 1.0 version of InkScape) has a 5th plug-in, it complements an interactive online tool. This tool is replaced by GroundForge on https://d-bl.github.io/ The tool generates thread diagrams from pair diagrams. The new tool groups the segments of a line and doesn't need the 5th plugin any more.
Gradient Saver: Inkscape Gradient Manager for Your Next Project! An extension that will help you to organize your gradient on Inkscape. By using Gradient Saver you have ability to save your favorite gradient and reuse it on your next project. Hope it will help much Inkscpae user out there. For dependencies & installation info, please refer to README or this page: https://artemtech.github.io/inkscape-gradient-saver/ We've update this extension for Inkscape Ver. 1.0, hope you enjoy it. Quick demo/overview: https://youtu.be/0GPiazWcRuo
A set of routines to produce grids with multiple layers of subdivision. Line thickness and color can be specified for each level of subdivision. The grid size can be specified in any desired units. The three grids are Cartesian (rectangular), Triangular (the angle is adjustable), and Perspective (2-point perspective with adjustable perspective points). Note that 0.91 and 0.48 require different releases; if you want to use this extension with 0.48, please download it from the external link.
A new version is available for Inskcape 1.0 and higher. Search the extension repository for "Living Hinge Creator for Inkscape 1.0" This extension creates cut lines to make a living hinge when laser cutting material. Options include the length of the cuts, the separation between sequential cuts, and the separation between adjacent cuts. All parameters are stored in the "Object Properties" field of the resulting object. Installation Download and unzip the file. Copy living_hinge.inx and src/living_hinge.py to your extension directory. --Linux Run the shell script copy_files.sh. This will copy living_hinge.inx and src/living_hinge.py to ~/.config/inkscape/extensions Instructions on how to use the extension can be found here: http://wiki.lvl1.org/Inkscape_Extension_to_Render_a_Living_Hinge
Extension to make Apollonian gaskets. Tested Inkscape 0.91. An Apollonian gasket can be constructed as follows. Start with three circles C1, C2 and C3, each one of which is tangent to the other two (in the general construction, these three circles can be any size, as long as they have common tangents). Apollonius discovered that there are two other non-intersecting circles, C4 and C5, which have the property that they are tangent to all three of the original circles – these are called Apollonian circles. Adding the two Apollonian circles to the original three, we now have five circles. Take one of the two Apollonian circles – say C4. It is tangent to C1 and C2, so the triplet of circles C4, C1 and C2 has its own two Apollonian circles. We already know one of these – it is C3 – but the other is a new circle C6. In a similar way we can construct another new circle C7 that is tangent to C4, C2 and C3, and another circle C8 from C4, C3 and C1. This gives us 3 new circles. We can construct another three new circles from C5, giving six new circles altogether. Together with the circles C1 to C5, this gives a total of 11 circles. Continuing the construction stage by stage in this way ad infinituum one obtains a set of circles which is an Apollonian gasket. Source: Wikipedia
Inkscape extension to download color palettes from the web. Usage From the Extensions menu choose Palette and Download. Select one or more palettes to download from the predefined collection. Provide a name and a .gpl file URL to download a palette from the web. Notes Inkscape must be restarted for palettes to appear. Downloaded palettes are stored in ~/.config/inkscape/palettes. Tested only on Inkscape for Linux.
Inkscape extension to apply a gradient of colors accross selected objects. Once installed, the extension is available at "Extensions -> Render -> Object gradient".
Inkscape extension to plot functions of one independent variable. main features: - linear and log10 scales - optional grid lines in X and Y directions - adjustable tick mark intervals and sizes - LaTeX support This extension was inspired by Tavmjong Bah's (and collaborators) extension Function Plotter already presented in Inkscape. Function Plotter extension is not required here. The main difference between Tavmjong's extension and this one is that here you can also generate and customize the Cartesian axes with your plot
Inkscape extension to export SVG layers as (JPG, PNG) images. The exported images can be a combination of multiple layers. Please click on the external link for updates. Its the official repository on github.
"New Inkscape users are sometimes frustrated when they search the manual (or forums) for how to draw a line, and can't find instructions. That's because "line" is a bit of a nebulous term, at least in Inkscape....although in some ways it can be confusing in any vector graphics program. What we generally think of as a line, is called a path, in Inkscape. But it's not just a matter of terminology." Read on to learn the basics!
adds text labels with the fill colour value of each selected feature
Stop exporting dozens of PNGs for your Android app -- this extension adds a new save as type for Android vector drawable resources. Once installed, select save as or save a copy, and you should see a type called Android VectorDrawable (*.xml) in the dropdown list. Check the README file (or see the external link) for usage and limitations. 2017-02-14: updated to remove scientific notation for older versions of Android.
Add crop marks visible over dark bleeds
Ratchet maker. - creates a ratchet with variable number of teeth - variable inner and outer diameters and an inner hole if required notes: extension requires perl tested and working on linux should work on other platforms but not tested version 0.1
This extension is owned by stuart@pernsteiner.org and as written in python file, everyone allowed to modify as long as comply with the provisions that have been determined. So, we modify this extension in order to make Group to Layer Extension can running well on Inkscape 1.0.
Inkscape extension to assist creating 2D polar axes main features: - linear and log10 scales in R direction - optional grid lines in R and Theta directions - adjustable tick mark intervals and sizes - LaTeX support, thanks to texText from Pauli Virtanen (https://pav.iki.fi/software/textext/)
This set of python modules aims to extend Aaron Spike's inkex.py module, adding functions to help the development of new extensions for inkscape. Here you will find methods and classes to deal with drawing elements, line and text styles, line markers, texts, cartesian and polar plots, etc. This project is not intended to provide an end-user inkscape extension by itself but to provide easier backstage functions and classes to facilitate the development of inkscape extensions. It is a work-in-progress project and new features will be added in the future.
Basicaly get the color fill and add to the stroke. and inverse. Also has an optional alpha. For <= 0.91 you can uncomment line 19 to allow markers without strokes in inkscape <= inkscape0.92-prerelease3. The video play with diferent based features like create Delaunay from any draw in two easy steps(use the extension at the end to allow fix gap between triangles) and play with markers and custom markers. New version -0.2- highly based on the work of suv (made a similar and beter extension previously)
Menu "Objects->rounder" Round internal SVG data to a fixed decimal positions. Added options to also round stroke width X ,Y, Width and Height. Added options to round opacity. Fix some warnings. 0.4 Added option to round to 0.*5
Embed image placeholders with custom height and width into Inkscape: Beautiful Image backgrounds from unsplash Random User avatars from uifaces
Inkscape's extension to assist creating new markers with custom shapes and colors. The main features/advantages are 1-) It is a convenient way to produce predefined markers you use very often. Right now, there are just 3 predefined types (dot, arrow1, ellipsis), but this number can grow fast if people ask or expand this extension. If you have some basic skills on python scripting, you can easily add your own predefined markers. 2-) It is possible to quickly control maker colors (both filling and stroke). It is a nice way to control marker colors, specially in 0.91 since Inkscape forces the marker color to match the line color. 3-) Easy control over its scale with respect to the line width. By using the standard 'Object->Object to Marker' present in Inkscape, you would need to make several copies of your custom marker, with different scales, and proceed with a try-and-error approach to find the appropriate scale. 4-) It is a convenient way to modify/redefine a marker in your document. You just have to use the same nameID and configure the extension to overwrite the old definition.
Snapping since Inkscape 0.91 explained.
V0.3. Add current object selected filter to his layer
Inkscape extension to assist creating 2D Cartesian axes main features: - linear and log10 scales - optional grid lines in X and Y directions - adjustable tick mark intervals and sizes - LaTeX support, thanks to texText from Pauli Virtanen (https://pav.iki.fi/software/textext/)
Inkscape extension to plot a set of points, given their coordinates (x,y). main features: - linear and log10 scales - optional grid lines in X and Y directions - adjustable tick mark intervals and sizes - LaTeX support This extension is specially useful when used in conjunction with other mathematical tools, e.g. Octave, Matlab, R, etc. to plot data generated by these in Inkscape. You can either provide the data in two strings 'X values' and 'Y values' (numbers must be separated by spaces) or by providing the path of a text file containing a table of X (column 1) and Y data (column 2,3,...). You can inform the preferred field separator. In case of data provided via text file, multiple plots can be generated at once by providing Y data of each plot in different columns. The same 'X values' is assumed.
V0.4. Create erase layer, all his contents erase content on the associated layer.
An Inkscape extension: Latex/Tex editor for Inkscape, inspired by textext. This extension uses Inkscape build-in extension system, does not require TK or PyGtk as textext. Live preview feature is supported. You can obtain original TeX source from View Original TeX tab. Check http://writetex.tk for more detail. Latest version is in https://github.com/wanglongqi/WriteTeX
This extensions draws the 2D shape which is required to form a 3D cone (or truncated cone) after it's cut out (of whatever material). It can be used to generate a sheet cutting layout for a (truncated) cone. The extension unfolds a frustum (=truncated cone) or a cone (if cut diameter=0) and generates a sheet cutting layout or flat pattern projection that can be rolled or bend up into a (truncated) cone shape. ## References * https://github.com/quirxi/SheetMetalCone/ * https://hobbyutil.googlecode.com/files/LayingOutFrustumWithDividers_20Jul2012.pdf ## Installation Copy the two files 'sheet_metal_conus.inx' and 'sheet_metal_conus.py' into the located in the "src/" folder of the downloadable zip file into inkscape's extensions folder: The exact folder is indicated in: - Edit -> Preferences -> System: User extensions Generally it can be found: -> Linux: ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/ /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ -> Windows: type the following into the address line on a File Browser window: %appdata%/inkscape/extensions -> Mac OS X: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/ The menu entry for this this extension can be found under: "Extensions->Folded Forms->Sheet Metal Conus..." ## Authors: * quirxi (https://github.com/quirxi) * Neon22 (https://github.com/Neon22)
Copy, rotate, and resize a path or group of paths along a precise parametric trajectory. Tested on Mac OS X High Sierra and Ubuntu Linux (16.04 LTS), with Inkscape 0.91. --- Curated by Maren Hachmann on March 22 2018 12:26 AM: fixed version tag so it will be selectable directly from extensions tag list.
Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Bamboos - Inkscape 0.91 About Screen Contest
Bamboos Gradient Background - Inkscape 0.91 About Screen Contest
Inkscape-0.91-1-x11-10.5-i386.dmg: Inkscape 0.91 for Mac OS X (Gtk+/X11, requires OS X 10.5 or later) This package for 10.5 and 10.6 is missing support for Visio and WPD/WPG files due to an oversight by the packagers. The next release 0.91.1 will have support for these formats. MD5 e8b0d17a8d8ee63ccb21a623df682989 SHA-1 fa114b5bda92f4873be3fd2b64160f0d342747f5 SHA-256 72afd7ae49e6ec6353833cf9589f0a2ea535289840b20d1ef71cbfb6cee3f40d ===== Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
bonjour a vous . j'ai un probleme sur programme inkscape, quand j'ai importe Clip Arte, il me donne que c'est imposible de connexion. Je ne sais pas où est le problème !! aide moi s'il vous plait.
Add current object live effect to his layer
This extension will open up closed paths by removing all z-commands from the selected paths. My purpose: to use single line svg-fonts as otf/ttf/opf fonts. These font formats require closed paths and will add a closing command to the glyphs. This closing can be removed by converting the text to paths, ungroup and then using this extension.
With this two extensions, you can edit a single element with a text editor, without the need to open full svg -if exist- code, you also can run it trought command line. Added a checkbox later to use the selected item or put the ID --- Curated by Maren Hachmann on April 19 2022 1:19 AM
Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape 0.91 (not released yet - AnnouncePlanning091) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes Rendering and performance Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: □ Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) □ Stroke of transformed objects in patterns □ Patterns containing clipped objects □ Nested clipping paths □ Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view □ Paths with wide strokes and long miters □ Fonts Color display mode A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. Tools Node tool The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Add nodes at max.gif Measurement tool The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Ruler.png Text tool • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog Gradients • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Dialogs, etc. Arrange (was rows and columns) - NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http:// issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. □ In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. Swap-objects.gif • □ There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. Selectsame.gif The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. Gradient-fill-stroke.png • More compact Markers selectors Layers • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: □ Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. □ Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. □ Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). example screenshot Clone Original The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. Other User Interface General • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Labelled-guides.png Menu/Access • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. Translations • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. File format support • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. Extensions Units: Breaking change Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. SVG Support Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. Snapping • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source Notable bug fixes Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4): • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) Known issues • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [4] The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. [5] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape 0.91 (not released yet - AnnouncePlanning091) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes Rendering and performance Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: □ Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) □ Stroke of transformed objects in patterns □ Patterns containing clipped objects □ Nested clipping paths □ Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view □ Paths with wide strokes and long miters □ Fonts Color display mode A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. Tools Node tool The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Add nodes at max.gif Measurement tool The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Ruler.png Text tool • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog Gradients • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Dialogs, etc. Arrange (was rows and columns) - NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http:// issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. □ In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. Swap-objects.gif • □ There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. Selectsame.gif The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. Gradient-fill-stroke.png • More compact Markers selectors Layers • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: □ Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. □ Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. □ Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). example screenshot Clone Original The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. Other User Interface General • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Labelled-guides.png Menu/Access • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. Translations • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. File format support • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. Extensions Units: Breaking change Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. SVG Support Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. Snapping • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source Notable bug fixes Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4): • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) Known issues • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [4] The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. [5] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape 0.91 (not released yet - AnnouncePlanning091) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes Rendering and performance Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: □ Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) □ Stroke of transformed objects in patterns □ Patterns containing clipped objects □ Nested clipping paths □ Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view □ Paths with wide strokes and long miters □ Fonts Color display mode A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. Tools Node tool The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Add nodes at max.gif Measurement tool The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Ruler.png Text tool • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog Gradients • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Dialogs, etc. Arrange (was rows and columns) - NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http:// issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. □ In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. Swap-objects.gif • □ There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. Selectsame.gif The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. Gradient-fill-stroke.png • More compact Markers selectors Layers • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: □ Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. □ Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. □ Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). example screenshot Clone Original The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. Other User Interface General • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Labelled-guides.png Menu/Access • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. Translations • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. File format support • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. Extensions Units: Breaking change Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. SVG Support Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. Snapping • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source Notable bug fixes Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4): • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) Known issues • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [4] The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. [5] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape-0.91-1-x11-10.7-x86_64.dmg: Inkscape 0.91 for Mac OS X (Gtk+/X11, requires OS X 10.7 or later) ===== MD5 90da81460ce99470ccb875310cd4c388 SHA256 66c9af880f87d5b64006391fc8dd2d3f546d93d6d91235eba7856deacba29862 ===== Inkscape 0.91 Released on 2015-01-27 Release highlights ------------------ • Cairo rendering for display and PNG export • OpenMP multithreading for all filters • C++ code conversion • Major improvements in the Text tool • Measure tool • Type design features [1],[2] • Symbol library and support for Visio stencils • Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export • Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer • Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters • Numerous usability improvements • Native Windows 64-bit build • See Notable bug fixes ------------------------- Rendering and performance ------------------------- Inkscape 0.91 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects. • Improved performance. The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing. • OpenMP multithreading for filters. Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems. • Substantial memory savings. Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened. • Responsiveness improvements. The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode. • Rendering bug fixes. Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.91. The following things now render correctly: - Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation) - Stroke of transformed objects in patterns - Patterns containing clipped objects - Nested clipping paths - Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view - Paths with wide strokes and long miters - Fonts Color display mode ------------------ A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. Shift+numpad5 toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale. ----- Tools ----- Node tool --------- The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, (as demonstrated in the image below) it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y Measurement tool ---------------- The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out. The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. Text tool --------- • Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em) • Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font • Files with text in em units read correctly • Font substitution warning dialog ------- Dialogs ------- Gradients --------- • Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients • On-canvas gradient editing fixes: double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select • Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke • Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke Arrange (was rows and columns) ------- • NEW: renamed to 'Arrange' - NEW: polar arrangement (separate tab) <http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement> Align and Distribute -------------------- • The new updated Inkscape features a new set of buttons in the Align and Distribute Dialog called Exchange position of selected objects. It adds the ability to exchange the positions of the objects that the artist has selected. - In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other (using this new feature) according to their selection order. - There are also two other new buttons in the dialog that allow the artist to exchange the selected objects based on the stacking (z-index) order, or just exchange them clockwise based on the object's position on the page. • Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations Document Properties ------------------- Optionally disable antialiasing (bug #170356, interface partially implemented) Find/Select ----------- • It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered. • New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute • "Select Same" is a new feature that allows an artist to select objects that have the same properties as the currently selected object. For example, you could select an object that has a fill of blue. Then, using the new feature select all other objects in the drawing with a fill set to that same shade of blue. The new feature is a menu choice under Edit ▶︎ Select Same or as a Context menu if you right click on a selected object. Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. Fill and Stroke --------------- • The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document. The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. • More compact Markers selectors Layers ------ • Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers • Show/Hide All layers options in context menu Symbols ------- Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. (A symbol is defined by an SVG <symbol> element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the symbols directory in your configuration directory (typically share/inkscape). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same symbols directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries. See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Text and Font ------------- • NEW: lists fonts used in the current document at the top • NEW: select all text objects with same font as current selection • NEW (to be verified): support list with fallback fonts (CSS2) Transform --------- • Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise Markers ------- • Markers now take objects color Trace Bitmap ------------ • Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable Live Path Effects ----------------- An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication. PowerStroke ~~~~~~~~~~~ Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works. • Stroke knots are purple diamonds • When first applied, 3 stroke knots are added: start, end, and somewhere in the middle along the path • Add nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot • Delete nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot • "sort points" reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order. • Start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, "Zero width", that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width. • Join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types: - Extrapolated: this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join. - Extrapolated arc: Mathematical explanation. - Spiro: rounds the join using a spiro curve (the rounded type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc). Clone Original ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it copies the original-d path data, i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter. The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path. To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item Edit ▶︎ Clone ▶︎ Clone original path (LPE). Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE. Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the "+" button is pressed. Filters ------- The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See SpecCustomPredefinedFilters. Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) --------------- A new library developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the "Trace Pixel Art" dialog (menu item Path ▶︎ Trace Pixel Art...). Good and old general "Trace Bitmap" is still there. Check the supplementary material of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves. -------------------- Other User Interface -------------------- General ------- • Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas). • Panning the canvas with the Space bar is now always turned on and doesn't require an additional mouse button press to grab the canvas: just press the Space bar and move the mouse pointer to pan the canvas. Guides ------ • Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler • Guides can now have labels, and the colour of individual guides can also be set by the user. To label or colour a guide, double click on the guideline to bring up the guide properties dialog. Menu/Access ----------- • The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs • "Text and Font", "Fill and Stroke", and "Check Spelling" dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click) • Menu items renamed: □ Edit ▶︎ Preferences □ Edit ▶︎ Input Devices □ File ▶︎ Cleanup Document • Checkboxes to indicated status of View ▶︎ Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management • Group/Ungroup from the context menu Preferences ----------- • New keyboard shortcut editor • Prefs ▶︎ Interface -- New option for dockbar and switcher style (icons, text, icons & text) (bug #1098416) • Prefs ▶︎ Interface ▶︎ Windows -- optionally don't save & restore documents viewport (bug #928205) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- unit selector for steps (move, scale, inset/ outset) (bug #170293) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Steps -- option for relative snapping of guideline angles (rev 10307) • Prefs ▶︎ Behavior ▶︎ Clones -- optionally relink linked offsets on duplication (bug #686193) • Prefs ▶︎ Input/Output ▶︎ SVG output -- NEW: optionally enforce relative or absolute coordinates (bug #1002230) Dialogs ------- • Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions • Most dialogs now dockable (including "Object properties", "Object attributes", "Text and Font", "Check spelling", "Export PNG image", "XML editor", "Find/Replace", and "Tiled clones") • New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk Open /Save dialog • Preferences dialog cleanup • Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties Simple calculations in spinboxes -------------------------------- In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down "spinbuttons" next to it) you can now write simple calculations. Some examples: • 2 * 3 • 50 + 100, or • ((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2 Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like 2 + 2 cm. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry. Configurable Control Handles ---------------------------- New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The "Input Devices" section has been updated to control this. ------------ Translations ------------ • The Keyboard and mouse reference (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable. • New UI translation in Latvian. • New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek. • New Keyboard and mouse reference translation in Belarusian. • New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. [Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress] • Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project). • The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages. ------------------- File format support ------------------- • New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format. • New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format. • New HTML5 Canvas export format • New Visio (VSD) import format, based on libvisio. • New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on libcdr. • XAML export improvements (including a new Silverlight compatible mode). • Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: □ set an image directory in the zip file □ add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document. • New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps. • New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items. • The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export. EMF/WMF ------- EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape. Gimp XCF -------- • The Save Background option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each GIMP layer. • The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute • New Resolution option • New Help tab • Some bugs and warnings fixed PDF --- • Bleed/margin: Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page. PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX ------------------ • Added the possibility of scaling the image. The calc package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining \ svgscale instead of \svgwidth. • The font shape is now also exported. \textit{} for italic text, \textbf{} for bold text, and \textsl{} (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that Arial has an oblique font shape, not italic. Thus, the result in LaTeX will be slanted, instead of italic. It is better to use another font in Inkscape when you want true italics. ---------- Extensions ---------- Units: Breaking change ---------------------- Due to the implementation of proper document units, the functions inkex.unittouu and inkex.uutounit had to be modified and moved to the inkex.Effect class. Unit conversion calls should be replaced with inkex.Effect.unittouu and inkex.Effect.uutounit calls (usually self.unittouu and self.uutounit). See also: Notes On Units Handling in Extensions in 0.91 New --- • The new guillotine extension is used for exporting PNG slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area. • The new G-code tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters. • New QR code generator. • New isometric grid generator. • New bitmap crop extension. • New Extract text extension. Outputs a document’s text elements in a chosen order. • New Merge text extension. • New HSL adjust extension. • New Replace font extension. • New N-Up layout extension. • New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter). • New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension. • New Typography extensions menu. • New Hershey Text extension. Improvements ------------ • Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes. • Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab. • Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes). • Extension parameters values (except attributes!) can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt). • New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions. ----------- SVG Support ----------- Rendering of the following properties is now supported (without UI except via XML editor): • clip-rule • color-interpolation-filters: Non-Inkscape filters that specify linearRGB color interpolation will render properly. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use sRGB color interpolation by default. • text-decoration: Underline, strike-through, over line. • text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style: Preliminary support (CSS 3). • paint-order: Allows stroke to be painted under fill; useful for text. -------- Snapping -------- • The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked (in the underlying code and in the GUI) to should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, maintain, and find and fix any remaining snapping bugs • Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects. • Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too • Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool • Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly • If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source ----------------- Notable bug fixes ----------------- Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.4) -------------------------------------------- • Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3] • Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47). • Many rendering glitches were fixed. • The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification. • Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied. • Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247) ------------ Known issues ------------ • On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage. Please set the colordepth to 32-bit. • The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. (bug #804162) The issue can be fixed by upgrading to Cairo 1.14.0. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745) • On OS X, the conflict with X11/XQuartz's pasteboard syncing has not been solved yet: turning off "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes" in X11 Preferences prevents that vector data copied or cut to the clipboard gets rasterized on paste. (bug #307005) • On OS X 10.9 or later, embedding bitmap images on import or paste from clipboard may crash Inkscape. (bug #1398521, #1410793) • On OS X 10.9 or later, turning off "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control helps when using X11 across multiple displays. (bug # 1244397) • The reworked Import Clip Art feature is not available with current OS X packages. (bug #943148) • On MS Windows, the icons for Preferences, Undo, Redo and Revert are missing. (bug #1269698) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Inkscape-0.91pre4-1-x11-10.7-x86_64: Inkscape 0.91pre4 for Mac OS X (Gtk+/X11, requires OS X 10.7 or later)
A tutorial for beginners, teaching how to use curves to create a house in the mountains