Release Notes

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Inkscape 0.40

In brief

This release has been slow in coming, but it was worth the wait: Inkscape 0.40 brings a huge amount of new features, usability enhancements, documentation, and bugfixes. The three most important new features are:

Many other improvements deserve a brief mention:

New functionality

      inkscape -e mypath.png -i path966 mydoc.svg
  
inkscape -i path966 -t mydoc.svg
    

will export path966 to the PNG file with the same filename and resolution as you used for exporting it from within Inkscape, so you don't need to specify them on the command line.

Interface and usability

Documentation, translations, examples

Important bugfixes

Internal progress

Known issues