Inkscape 0.92.0 Source Tarball
Bryce Harrington
Inkscape 0.92 -~= Released 2017-01-01 =~- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Release Highlights | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Mesh Gradients are now supported. See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Mesh_Gradients • Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode). Not all are available from the GUI. • The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all • Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure • Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement • Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies • There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features • Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features • Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool • BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool • Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important Changes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • The default resolution was changed from 90dpi to 96dpi, to match the CSS standard. For more background information, please see the Wiki article about handling of units in Inkscape. Inkscape 0.92 will attempt to identify 'legacy' Inkscape files that need to be converted. If such a file is detected, the user will be offered three options: 1. Set 'viewBox'. Inkscape will add an appropriate 'viewBox' which will do a global scaling of the document. It will also adjust the document width and height if necessary. 2. Scale elements. Inkscape will scale each internal element. 3. Ignore. Do nothing. This is an appropriate choice for documents meant for screen display. For more details, please see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1389723 • For developers and packagers, the switch from autotools to CMake is a relevant change (users who do not compile their own version will not be affected). While the old system is still available for 0.92, it is now also possible to compile Inkscape using CMake. CMake builds faster, has a less esoteric scripting language, and has better support for building on Windows; for more detailed rationale please see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CMake. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manipulating Objects | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Objects Dialog ============== New dialog for manipulating the object tree (Imported from Ponyscape). • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Lock, and hide one or more items. • Use Ctrl+F to search for an item. • Select one or more objects in the drawing. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Selection Sets Dialog: New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Usage: • Open Dialog with 'Object > Selection sets' • To create a new selection set: 1. click on the '+' button at the bottom of the dialog (double-click on its label to edit) • To add objects to a selection set: 1. select object on the canvas 2. in the 'Selection sets' dialog click on the '+' icon before the selection set in the list • To select all objects of a selection set: 1. deselect any existing selection and click on the selection set in the list • To remove an object from a selection set 1. select the selection set in the dialog 2. click on 'Items' to show all objects in the set 3. select an object on the canvas or in the Items list in the dialog 4. click on the 'Delete' icon (trashbin) before the object in the list • To delete a selection set: 1. select it in the list and click on the '-' button at the bottom of the dialog +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Text | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Font Features ============= It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. For this, a third tab ('Variants') has been added to the 'Text and Font' dialog. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text ============= Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility ============= Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Line Spacing ============ Line spacing in Inkscape now follows the CSS standard for the 'line-height' property. Note the following points: • The minimum spacing between lines is determined by the 'strut' value. This is determined by the product of the 'font-size' and 'line-height' values on the outermost text element. These values are shown and can be set when the "Outer Style" button is enabled in the Text Tool's Tool Control bar. To set the 'strut' to zero, set the outer style 'line-height' to zero. • The unit for 'line-height' can now be chosen. Previous versions of Inkscape used a unitless value. When the value is unitless, the line spacing is recalculated for each change in font size. This is the most commonly expected behavior. When the value has a unit, the line spacing is calculated at the point where the CSS 'line-height' property is defined and that value is used regardless of following changes in font size. This however, will not always lead to evenly spaced lines due to the idiosyncrasies of how line spacing is calculated in CSS. (See Tav's write up CSS Text Line Spacing Exposed for the details.) • When the "Outer Style" button is not enabled, the "Font size" and "Line height" boxes show the values of either the selected text or at the cursor point (if no text is selected). Changes in font size and line spacing will be applied to the selected text or to the whole text object (if no text is selected). Unlike other styling properties (e.g. fill color), there is no visual indicator of which characters have a particular 'line-height' value. One can step through character by character with the cursor to determine a span of characters with the same 'line-height' value. • To create a set of evenly spaced lines regardless of font size, set the 'strut' value to the desired line spacing and then set the inner 'line-height' values to zero. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Live Path Effects | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Now some suitable LPEs can be applied to clips and masks. • Helper lines come again to life. • The option to add a bend path directly was added to the pen/pencil shape combo box. Spiro Live ========== Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y Based upon Spiro Live Path Effect, now shows the result while drawing. • Cusp nodes can be created by holding down the Shift key. • When you append a path in cusp and Spiro mode, the helper preview path will be displayed. BSpline ======= Extended video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE Pen & Node mode: Uses the BSpline Live Path Effect while creating and editing paths. • Works with Pen and Pencil tool directly. • Create cusp nodes by holding down the Shift key (Pen/Bézier tool only). • When a path is appended, a preview helper path will also be shown. • Hold down Shift key and drag on a handle to change the weight of a bspline in node tool. • Custom weight steps are applied by holding CTRL down and dragging on a handle with the node tool (no Shift key required). • Double-click on a handle resets weight to default Live Path Effect mode: The options in the Live Path Effect dialog give you full control over bspline paths. • Option to set to Default weight (0.3333 times curve segment) • Option to make nodes cusp • Numeric input for weight • Option to set number of Steps with CTRL to quickly snap the weight in node/ handle editing • Apply changes if weight ... applies changes in the widgets to all nodes with weight == 0 or weight > 0 or both, for example, retains cusp nodes when you change the weight and have unselected "Apply changes if weight == 0". • Change only selected nodes applies to all other widgets changes. • Shows a helper path with the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen ======= Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This path effect is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") and handles units. The parameters are similar to both extensions and adds a global randomizer. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects. Simplify ======== Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Simplifies a vector element using a non-destructive live path effect. • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups of these. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects • The effect's threshold can be modified in the preferences dialog, by setting a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify multiple times in the same LPE. This path effect can optionally be applied directly via the pencil/freehand drawing tool's tool bar when creating a new path. It then replaces the normal smoothing (which would be a destructive operation). Perspective/Envelope ==================== Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Both deformations can be applied by specifying 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups. • Also works with vector clips and masks. Lattice Deformation 2 ===================== Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig • Deforms an object by 25 handles arranged in a mesh • Optionally deforms symmetrically along vertical or horizontal axis or both. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Also works on vector clips and masks. Show Handles ============ Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo An LPE version of the Show Handles extension. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Works on clones. • Node and Handle shapes are resizeable • If not applied to a clone, this is a destructive LPE, it does not save styles, better work on a copy! Transform by two points ======================= Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transforms an element by two control points (e.g. moving, skewing, resizing and rotation). You can position the control points on the bounding box edge midpoints or by the index of the nodes of the original path. Thanks to Ivan Louette for the idea for this effect! • Works on paths, shapes. With groups you have limited features constrained to bounding box. • Allows snapping of both control points. • Allows to fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a rubber band path. • Two bounding box edge midpoints can be used as control points if 'From original width' is active. Rotate copies ============= Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Arranges identical elements dynamically on an arc or circle. • Works on paths, shapes and groups of paths. • Allows to fuse the result to create kaleidoscope-like effects • Allows to arrange the copies on an arc when the 360° copies checkbox is not checked. • Live editing. Mirror Symmetry =============== Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirrors an item dynamically. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Allows to fuse the result. • Different mirror lines: Free, bounding box center X, bounding box center Y, Document center X, Document center Y. Attach Path =========== Connect a path to another path (optionally at each end), by attaching it to a specified location on the other path (specified as in <node number>.<fraction of segment length>, or by dragging a handle). The connecting curve segment can be shaped with handles, or by entering a number. This LPE makes it possible for the first time to have 'crossings' between paths that move with the path when it is modified, which isn't possible within the SVG specification. Bounding Box ============ An arbitrary path can be used to serve as a bounding box rectangle for the path that is linked. It will follow all transformations of the linked path. This can, for example, be used to provide a background for exporting as png. Ellipse by 5 Points =================== An ellipse will be constructed, whose circumference will go through each of the nodes of a 5-node path. Fill between Many ================= Adds a fill to a collection of independent open paths, connecting their ends with straight lines. • The LPE is applied to one path (which will be converted into the fill, and serves as a 'container' for the effect). • The other paths, which are part of the drawing, can then be added to it by copy-pasting in the LPE dialog. • The order in which the paths are filled can be changed, and the direction can be reversed for each path independently. Now it is possible to apply the kind of path effects which only work on a path without subpaths (PowerStroke, Taper Stroke, ...) to the single paths (see image for an example). Fill between Strokes ==================== Similar to 'Fill between Many', but can only be used on two open paths, to fill them seamlessly. • Requires a 'container' path, which will turn into the fill after the first path has been added to the LPE. • Connects one couple of path ends with a stroke, if the path that functions as a container has a stroke set. • Can also be used to apply a duplicate stroke. Interpolate Points ================== This LPE redraws all path segments, using one of the following interpolation methods: • Centripetal Catmull-Rom • CubicBezierFit • CubicBezierJohan • Linear • SpiroInterpolator Join Type ========= The LPE allows you to set the type of connection to be used on cusp nodes and path end caps. • Available join types: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated Arc □ Extrapolated Arc Alt1 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt2 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt3 □ Miter □ Miter Clip □ Rounded • Available end cap types: □ Butt □ Peak □ Rounded □ Square • Set Miter limit • Set stroke width Taper Stroke ============ Draw tapered strokes with different settings for open paths without subpaths. • Change width of stroke ends with handles on both ends, or by entering offset numerically • Different amounts of rounding can be applied • Stroke width can be changed • Join type for cusp nodes can be selected: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated □ Miter □ Rounded Pen / Bézier tool ================= • New shortcut to automatically close a path when it is being drawn: Shift + Enter Spray tool ========== Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn3vzf-yA_w • New eraser mode • More pressure toggles added • "No overlap" option with optional multiple elements • "No overlap" option between different background colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply picked color to fill • Apply picked color to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent background areas • Spray over non-transparent background areas • Makes use of "Trace the drawing" options from Tiled Clones dialog Measure tool ============ Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Measure is kept until a new one is made (only visible when using measure tool) • Repositioning of origin/end • Convert to object • Convert to guides • Add just the distance measurement, consisting of editable text and a line indicating start and end • Display a 'phantom measurement' temporarily to be able to compare two measurements • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Change precision Gradient tool ============= • To accomodate for keyboards that do not have an Insert key, the keyboard combination Shift+I can now also be used to insert a new stop into a gradient. Align and Distribute ==================== • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Import / Export | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Export PDF / EPS / PS ===================== • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Export Optimized SVG ==================== • Completely redesigned settings dialog • Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape uses the Scour version installed on the system (e.g. via "pip install scour") instead of a bundled version so you can always profit from the latest improvements • A lot of new features and fixes in the Scour module itself, check out the release notes (Scour 0.26 from 2011-05-09 was the version that has been bundled with Inkscape 0.91) Export to PNG ============= • PNG file extension is now enforced, to prevent exporting with invalid / misleading file extensions. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Extensions | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ New === • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808, can be used to fix the scaling problem of raster images in SVGs created with previous Inkscape versions) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained) • Arrange > Deep Ungroup (Bug #171117) Plotter Driver ============== Multiple Pens: The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection: The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export =========== The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import =========== The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import ========== The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements ========================== • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. • Render > Barcode was updated with new EAN2 code and extended EAN13 with automatic EAN2 and EAN5 additions • Color > Randomize now allows to set the range for randomization, and (with some limits) can now also randomize opacity • Modify Path > Jitter nodes was partially rewritten and now also supports Pareto and Log-Normal distributions. Extension Development ===================== • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (See Bug #171287 for an example extension). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Filters / Blend Modes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ New Filters =========== • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. New Blend Modes =============== Blend Modes can now be applied to single objects as well as to layers. In addition to the previously available modes 'Multiply', 'Screen', 'Darken' and 'Lighten', the following modes are now available: • Overlay • Color Dodge • Color Burn • Hard Light • Soft Light • Difference • Exclusion • Hue • Saturation • Color • Luminosity +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Other dialogs | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Document Properties: Licences ============================= All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor ============= Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Menus | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • 'Resize page to selection' added to Edit menu, shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+R • 'Pop selection out of group' available in context menu of objects which are part of a group, when the group has been entered, and via the 'Objects' menu. It will move the object up by one level in the grouping hierarchy. • 'Create Clip Group' from context menu groups the selected objects and clips that group with a clone of itself. This allows for quick creation of, for example, inset shadows. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Other user interface | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Node Snapping ============= Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background ======================= It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box ======== One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides =========== Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. Panning ======= Panning with space bar can now be deactivated in the Preferences (uncheck Behavior > Scrolling > Mouse Move pans when Space is pressed). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SVG and CSS | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn (buttons will be available in the Fill and Stroke dialog). • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml:space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | New dependencies | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net • Export to Optimized SVG now depends upon an external copy of the Scour python module, which can be obtained via pip (pip install scour), package management (version may be outdated) or from the scour project github site. For Windows versions, the module is included. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Translations | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Konkani (Latin and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devanagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). Many other translations have been updated and improved. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Notable Bugfixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Severe performance issues on MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds on systems with Intel graphic cards (hiding the rulers was a workaround for Inkscape 0.91) (bug #1351597) • On MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds, printing may result in mostly black pages when partial opacity is used in the document (bug #1418865) • Printing offsets page (Windows) (bug #918319) • "Tiled Clones" inside transformed groups/layers in resized documents are displaced (bug #168651) • Displaced clones, offsets (bug #844909, bug #653574, bug #1152657, bug # 1245339, bug #168013, bug #177751) • Crash on quit before saving has completed, resulting in incompletely saved files (bug #967416) • Guides: Colour not rendered opening saved document (bug #1374870) • Text tool: Fails to set new default font family (bug #1227232) • Extensions: Failure with documents lacking width/height attributes (bug # 1461346, bug #1463623) • UI: Missing icons with Gtk+'s built-in icon theme (Windows, OS X) (bug # 1269698) • Text rendering cuts off trailing character (bug #1283194, bug #1450675) • Paste style - markers are omitted (bug #1467674) • DXF export doesn't support <line> and <circle> elements (bug #1474347, bug #1489320) • Crash when importing raster images of different file types (bug #1467103) • Filter effects and blur quality options broken (bug #1512729) (To get the same render quality in 0.92 as you had in 0.91, you need to set filter effects quality to 'Better' and the blur quality to 'Average'.) • Shape: 'Triangle in' and 'Triangle out' are identical (bug #1525401) Many other crashes, memory leaks and lots of little things have also been fixed. For an exhaustive list of bugs that have been fixed, please see the milestones page for Inkscape 0.92 and the milestones page for the (not released) Inkscape version 0.91.1. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Known Issues | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Fonts that are loaded by font managing software on Windows are not available for selection in Inkscape (bug #1416674) • Dialogs that have been minimized do not open again until their icon in the dock is clicked on (bug #1270295, will be fixed in 0.93) • The opacity indicator isn't initialized correctly (0% opacity even when the object is fully opaque, bug #1463078, will be fixed in 0.93) • For some texts, the line height that is used for displaying the text in 0.91 doesn't correspond to the one that is used in 0.92, so line height is larger than it should be (as a workaround, there is an extension available that can fix those texts). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Inkscape 0.92pre5 Source Tarball
Bryce Harrington
967 lines Inkscape 0.92 (Definitely not released yet — AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • Mesh Gradients are now supported. • Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode). Not all are available from the GUI. • The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all • Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure • Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement • Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies • There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features • Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features • Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool • BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool • Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies Important changes • The default resolution was changed from 90dpi to 96dpi, to match the CSS standard. For more background information, please see the Wiki article about handling of units in Inkscape. Inkscape 0.92 will attempt to identify 'legacy' Inkscape files that need to be converted. If such a file is detected, the user will be offered three options: 1. Set 'viewBox'. Inkscape will add an appropriate 'viewBox' which will do a global scaling of the document. It will also adjust the document width and height if necessary. 2. Scale elements. Inkscape will scale each internal element. 3. Ignore. Do nothing. This is an appropriate choice for documents meant for screen display. [See release blocker bug report for more details.] • For developers and packagers, the switch from autotools to CMake is a relevant change (users who do not compile their own version will not be affected). While the old system is still available for 0.92, it is now also possible to compile Inkscape using CMake (Background info about why this change was made and How to work with CMake). Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Lock, and hide one or more items. • Use Ctrl+F to search for an item. • Select one or more objects in the drawing. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Usage: • Open Dialog with 'Object > Selection sets' • To create a new selection set: 1. click on the '+' button at the bottom of the dialog (double-click on its label to edit) • To add objects to a selection set: 1. select object on the canvas 2. in the 'Selection sets' dialog click on the '+' icon before the selection set in the list • To select all objects of a selection set: 1. deselect any existing selection and click on the selection set in the list • To remove an object from a selection set 1. select the selection set in the dialog 2. click on 'Items' to show all objects in the set 3. select an object on the canvas or in the Items list in the dialog 4. click on the 'Delete' icon (trashbin) before the object in the list • To delete a selection set: 1. select it in the list and click on the '-' button at the bottom of the dialog Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. For this, a third tab ('Variants') has been added to the 'Text and Font' dialog. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Line Spacing Line spacing in Inkscape now follows the CSS standard for the 'line-height' property. Note the following points: • The minimum spacing between lines is determined by the 'strut' value. This is determined by the product of the 'font-size' and 'line-height' values on the outermost text element. These values are shown and can be set when the "Outer Style" button is enabled in the Text Tool's Tool Control bar. To set the 'strut' to zero, set the outer style 'line-height' to zero. • The unit for 'line-height' can now be chosen. Previous versions of Inkscape used a unitless value. When the value is unitless, the line spacing is recalculated for each change in font size. This is the most commonly expected behavior. When the value has a unit, the line spacing is calculated at the point where the CSS 'line-height' property is defined and that value is used regardless of following changes in font size. This however, will not always lead to evenly spaced lines due to the idiosyncrasies of how line spacing is calculated in CSS. (See Tav's write up CSS Text Line Spacing Exposed for the details.) • When the "Outer Style" button is not enabled, the "Font size" and "Line height" boxes show the values of either the selected text or at the cursor point (if no text is selected). Changes in font size and line spacing will be applied to the selected text or to the whole text object (if no text is selected). Unlike other styling properties (e.g. fill color), there is no visual indicator of which characters have a particular 'line-height' value. One can step through character by character with the cursor to determine a span of characters with the same 'line-height' value. • To create a set of evenly spaced lines regardless of font size, set the 'strut' value to the desired line spacing and then set the inner 'line-height' values to zero. Live Path Effects • Now some suitable LPEs can be applied to clips and masks. • Helper lines come again to life. • The option to add a bend path directly was added to the pen/pencil shape combo box. Spiro Live Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y Based upon Spiro Live Path Effect, now shows the result while drawing. • Cusp nodes can be created by holding down the Shift key. • When you append a path in cusp and Spiro mode, the helper preview path will be displayed. Spirolive.gif BSpline Extended video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE Pen & Node mode Uses the BSpline Live Path Effect while creating and editing paths. • Works with Pen and Pencil tool directly. • Create cusp nodes by holding down the Shift key (Pen/Bézier tool only). • When a path is appended, a preview helper path will also be shown. • Hold down Shift key and drag on a handle to change the weight of a bspline in node tool. • Custom weight steps are applied by holding CTRL down and dragging on a handle with the node tool (no Shift key required). • Double-click on a handle resets weight to default Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode [170px-Bspline3] Bspline LPE The options in the Live Path Effect dialog give you full control over bspline paths. • Option to set to Default weight (0.3333 times curve segment) • Option to make nodes cusp • Numeric input for weight • Option to set number of Steps with CTRL to quickly snap the weight in node/ handle editing • Apply changes if weight ... applies changes in the widgets to all nodes with weight == 0 or weight > 0 or both, for example, retains cusp nodes when you change the weight and have unselected "Apply changes if weight == 0". • Change only selected nodes applies to all other widgets changes. • Shows a helper path with the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen [170px-Roughen] Roughen LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This path effect is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") and handles units. The parameters are similar to both extensions and adds a global randomizer. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects. Roughen.gif Simplify [170px-Simplify] Simplify LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Simplifies a vector element using a non-destructive live path effect. • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups of these. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects • The effect's threshold can be modified in the preferences dialog, by setting a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify multiple times in the same LPE. Simplify.gif This path effect can optionally be applied directly via the pencil/freehand drawing tool's tool bar when creating a new path. It then replaces the normal smoothing (which would be a destructive operation). Perspective/Envelope [170px-Perspective-envel] Perspective/Envelope LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Both deformations can be applied by specifying 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups. • Also works with vector clips and masks. Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 [170px-Latice2] Lattice Deformation 2 LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig • Deforms an object by 25 handles arranged in a mesh • Optionally deforms symmetrically along vertical or horizontal axis or both. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Also works on vector clips and masks. Latice2.gif Show Handles [170px-ShowHandles] Show Handles LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo An LPE version of the Show Handles extension. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Works on clones. • Node and Handle shapes are resizeable • If not applied to a clone, this is a destructive LPE, it does not save styles, better work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points [170px-TransformByTwoKno] Transform by 2 points LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transforms an element by two control points (e.g. moving, skewing, resizing and rotation). You can position the control points on the bounding box edge midpoints or by the index of the nodes of the original path. Thanks to Ivan Louette for the idea for this effect! • Works on paths, shapes. With groups you have limited features constrained to bounding box. • Allows snapping of both control points. • Allows to fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a rubber band path. • Two bounding box edge midpoints can be used as control points if 'From original width' is active. TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies [170px-LPERotateCopies] Rotate copies LPE Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Arranges identical elements dynamically on an arc or circle. • Works on paths, shapes and groups of paths. • Allows to fuse the result to create kaleidoscope-like effects • Allows to arrange the copies on an arc when the 360° copies checkbox is not checked. • Live editing. Mirror Symmetry [170px-LPEMirror] Mirror LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirrors an item dynamically. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Allows to fuse the result. • Different mirror lines: Free, bounding box center X, bounding box center Y, Document center X, Document center Y. Attach Path [80px-LPEAt] Attach Path LPE Connect a path to another path (optionally at each end), by attaching it to a specified location on the other path (specified as in <node number>.<fraction of segment length>, or by dragging a handle). The connecting curve segment can be shaped with handles, or by entering a number. This LPE makes it possible for the first time to have 'crossings' between paths that move with the path when it is modified, which isn't possible within the SVG specification. Bounding Box [80px-LPEBo] Bounding Box LPE An arbitrary path can be used to serve as a bounding box rectangle for the path that is linked. It will follow all transformations of the linked path. This can, for example, be used to provide a background for exporting as png. Ellipse by 5 Points [80px-LPEEl] Ellipse by 5 Points LPE An ellipse will be constructed, whose circumference will go through each of the nodes of a 5-node path. Fill between Many [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Many LPE Adds a fill to a collection of independent open paths, connecting their ends with straight lines. • The LPE is applied to one path (which will be converted into the fill, and serves as a 'container' for the effect). • The other paths, which are part of the drawing, can then be added to it by copy-pasting in the LPE dialog. • The order in which the paths are filled can be changed, and the direction can be reversed for each path independently. Now it is possible to apply the kind of path effects which only work on a path without subpaths (PowerStroke, Taper Stroke, ...) to the single paths (see image for an example). Fill between Strokes [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Strokes LPE Similar to 'Fill between Many', but can only be used on two open paths, to fill them seamlessly. • Requires a 'container' path, which will turn into the fill after the first path has been added to the LPE. • Connects one couple of path ends with a stroke, if the path that functions as a container has a stroke set. • Can also be used to apply a duplicate stroke. Interpolate Points [80px-LPEIn] Interpolate Points LPE variations This LPE redraws all path segments, using one of the following interpolation methods: • Centripetal Catmull-Rom • CubicBezierFit • CubicBezierJohan • Linear • SpiroInterpolator Join Type [80px-LPEJo] Join Type LPE variations The LPE allows you to set the type of connection to be used on cusp nodes and path end caps. • Available join types: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated Arc □ Extrapolated Arc Alt1 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt2 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt3 □ Miter □ Miter Clip □ Rounded • Available end cap types: □ Butt □ Peak □ Rounded □ Square • Set Miter limit • Set stroke width Taper Stroke [80px-LPETa] Taper Stroke LPE variations Draw tapered strokes with different settings for open paths without subpaths. • Change width of stroke ends with handles on both ends, or by entering offset numerically • Different amounts of rounding can be applied • Stroke width can be changed • Join type for cusp nodes can be selected: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated □ Miter □ Rounded Pen / Bézier tool • New shortcut to automatically close a path when it is being drawn: Shift + Enter Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w • New eraser mode • More pressure toggles added • "No overlap" option with optional multiple elements • "No overlap" option between different background colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply picked color to fill • Apply picked color to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent background areas • Spray over non-transparent background areas • Makes use of "Trace the drawing" options from Tiled Clones dialog Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Measure is kept until a new one is made (only visible when using measure tool) • Repositioning of origin/end • Convert to object • Convert to guides • Add just the distance measurement, consisting of editable text and a line indicating start and end • Display a 'phantom measurement' temporarily to be able to compare two measurements • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Change precision Gradient tool • To accomodate for keyboards that do not have an Insert key, the keyboard combination Shift+I can now also be used to insert a new stop into a gradient. Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. Import / Export Export PDF / EPS / PS • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Export Optimized SVG • Completely redesigned settings dialog • Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape uses the Scour version installed on the system (e.g. via "pip install scour") instead of a bundled version so you can always profit from the latest improvements • A lot of new features and fixes in the Scour module itself, check out the release notes (Scour 0.26 from 2011-05-09 was the version that has been bundled with Inkscape 0.91) Export to PNG • PNG file extension is now enforced, to prevent exporting with invalid / misleading file extensions. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808, can be used to fix the scaling problem of raster images in SVGs created with previous Inkscape versions) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained) • Arrange > Deep Ungroup (Bug #171117) Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. • Render > Barcode was updated with new EAN2 code and extended EAN13 with automatic EAN2 and EAN5 additions • Color > Randomize now allows to set the range for randomization, and (with some limits) can now also randomize opacity • Modify Path > Jitter nodes was partially rewritten and now also supports Pareto and Log-Normal distributions. Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (See Bug #171287 for an example extension). Filters / Blend Modes New Filters • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. New Blend Modes Blend Modes can now be applied to single objects as well as to layers. In addition to the previously available modes 'Multiply', 'Screen', 'Darken' and 'Lighten', the following modes are now available: • Overlay • Color Dodge • Color Burn • Hard Light • Soft Light • Difference • Exclusion • Hue • Saturation • Color • Luminosity Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Menus • 'Resize page to selection' added to Edit menu, shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+R • 'Pop selection out of group' available in context menu of objects which are part of a group, when the group has been entered, and via the 'Objects' menu. It will move the object up by one level in the grouping hierarchy. • 'Create Clip Group' from context menu groups the selected objects and clips that group with a clone of itself. This allows for quick creation of, for example, inset shadows. Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. Panning Panning with space bar can now be deactivated in the Preferences (uncheck Behavior > Scrolling > Mouse Move pans when Space is pressed). SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn (buttons will be available in the Fill and Stroke dialog). • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml:space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies • The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net • Export to Optimized SVG now depends upon an external copy of the Scour python module, which can be obtained via pip (pip install scour), package management (version may be outdated) or from the scour project github site. For Windows versions, the module is included. Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Konkani (Latin and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devanagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). Many other translations have been updated and improved. Notable Bugfixes • Severe performance issues on MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds on systems with Intel graphic cards (hiding the rulers was a workaround for Inkscape 0.91) (bug #1351597) • On MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds, printing may result in mostly black pages when partial opacity is used in the document (bug #1418865) • Printing offsets page (Windows) (bug #918319) • "Tiled Clones" inside transformed groups/layers in resized documents are displaced (bug #168651) • Displaced clones, offsets (bug #844909, bug #653574, bug #1152657, bug # 1245339, bug #168013, bug #177751) • Crash on quit before saving has completed, resulting in incompletely saved files (bug #967416) • Guides: Colour not rendered opening saved document (bug #1374870) • Text tool: Fails to set new default font family (bug #1227232) • Extensions: Failure with documents lacking width/height attributes (bug # 1461346, bug #1463623) • UI: Missing icons with Gtk+'s built-in icon theme (Windows, OS X) (bug # 1269698) • Text rendering cuts off trailing character (bug #1283194, bug #1450675) • Paste style - markers are omitted (bug #1467674) • DXF export doesn't support <line> and <circle> elements (bug #1474347, bug #1489320) • Crash when importing raster images of different file types (bug #1467103) • Filter effects and blur quality options broken (bug #1512729) (To get the same render quality in 0.92 as you had in 0.91, you need to set filter effects quality to 'Better' and the blur quality to 'Average'.) • Shape: 'Triangle in' and 'Triangle out' are identical (bug #1525401) Many other crashes, memory leaks and lots of little things have also been fixed. For an exhaustive list of bugs that have been fixed, please see the milestones page for Inkscape 0.92 and the milestones page for the (not released) Inkscape version 0.91.1. Known Issues • Fonts that are loaded by font managing software on Windows are not available for selection in Inkscape (bug #1416674) • Dialogs that have been minimized do not open again until their icon in the dock is clicked on (bug #1270295, will be fixed in 0.93) • The opacity indicator isn't initialized correctly (0% opacity even when the object is fully opaque, bug #1463078, will be fixed in 0.93) [Please fill in] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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967 lines Inkscape 0.92 (Definitely not released yet — AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • Mesh Gradients are now supported. • Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode). Not all are available from the GUI. • The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all • Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure • Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement • Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies • There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features • Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features • Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool • BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool • Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies Important changes • The default resolution was changed from 90dpi to 96dpi, to match the CSS standard. For more background information, please see the Wiki article about handling of units in Inkscape. Inkscape 0.92 will attempt to identify 'legacy' Inkscape files that need to be converted. If such a file is detected, the user will be offered three options: 1. Set 'viewBox'. Inkscape will add an appropriate 'viewBox' which will do a global scaling of the document. It will also adjust the document width and height if necessary. 2. Scale elements. Inkscape will scale each internal element. 3. Ignore. Do nothing. This is an appropriate choice for documents meant for screen display. [See release blocker bug report for more details.] • For developers and packagers, the switch from autotools to CMake is a relevant change (users who do not compile their own version will not be affected). While the old system is still available for 0.92, it is now also possible to compile Inkscape using CMake (Background info about why this change was made and How to work with CMake). Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Lock, and hide one or more items. • Use Ctrl+F to search for an item. • Select one or more objects in the drawing. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Usage: • Open Dialog with 'Object > Selection sets' • To create a new selection set: 1. click on the '+' button at the bottom of the dialog (double-click on its label to edit) • To add objects to a selection set: 1. select object on the canvas 2. in the 'Selection sets' dialog click on the '+' icon before the selection set in the list • To select all objects of a selection set: 1. deselect any existing selection and click on the selection set in the list • To remove an object from a selection set 1. select the selection set in the dialog 2. click on 'Items' to show all objects in the set 3. select an object on the canvas or in the Items list in the dialog 4. click on the 'Delete' icon (trashbin) before the object in the list • To delete a selection set: 1. select it in the list and click on the '-' button at the bottom of the dialog Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. For this, a third tab ('Variants') has been added to the 'Text and Font' dialog. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Line Spacing Line spacing in Inkscape now follows the CSS standard for the 'line-height' property. Note the following points: • The minimum spacing between lines is determined by the 'strut' value. This is determined by the product of the 'font-size' and 'line-height' values on the outermost text element. These values are shown and can be set when the "Outer Style" button is enabled in the Text Tool's Tool Control bar. To set the 'strut' to zero, set the outer style 'line-height' to zero. • The unit for 'line-height' can now be chosen. Previous versions of Inkscape used a unitless value. When the value is unitless, the line spacing is recalculated for each change in font size. This is the most commonly expected behavior. When the value has a unit, the line spacing is calculated at the point where the CSS 'line-height' property is defined and that value is used regardless of following changes in font size. This however, will not always lead to evenly spaced lines due to the idiosyncrasies of how line spacing is calculated in CSS. (See Tav's write up CSS Text Line Spacing Exposed for the details.) • When the "Outer Style" button is not enabled, the "Font size" and "Line height" boxes show the values of either the selected text or at the cursor point (if no text is selected). Changes in font size and line spacing will be applied to the selected text or to the whole text object (if no text is selected). Unlike other styling properties (e.g. fill color), there is no visual indicator of which characters have a particular 'line-height' value. One can step through character by character with the cursor to determine a span of characters with the same 'line-height' value. • To create a set of evenly spaced lines regardless of font size, set the 'strut' value to the desired line spacing and then set the inner 'line-height' values to zero. Live Path Effects • Now some suitable LPEs can be applied to clips and masks. • Helper lines come again to life. • The option to add a bend path directly was added to the pen/pencil shape combo box. Spiro Live Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y Based upon Spiro Live Path Effect, now shows the result while drawing. • Cusp nodes can be created by holding down the Shift key. • When you append a path in cusp and Spiro mode, the helper preview path will be displayed. Spirolive.gif BSpline Extended video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE Pen & Node mode Uses the BSpline Live Path Effect while creating and editing paths. • Works with Pen and Pencil tool directly. • Create cusp nodes by holding down the Shift key (Pen/Bézier tool only). • When a path is appended, a preview helper path will also be shown. • Hold down Shift key and drag on a handle to change the weight of a bspline in node tool. • Custom weight steps are applied by holding CTRL down and dragging on a handle with the node tool (no Shift key required). • Double-click on a handle resets weight to default Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode [170px-Bspline3] Bspline LPE The options in the Live Path Effect dialog give you full control over bspline paths. • Option to set to Default weight (0.3333 times curve segment) • Option to make nodes cusp • Numeric input for weight • Option to set number of Steps with CTRL to quickly snap the weight in node/ handle editing • Apply changes if weight ... applies changes in the widgets to all nodes with weight == 0 or weight > 0 or both, for example, retains cusp nodes when you change the weight and have unselected "Apply changes if weight == 0". • Change only selected nodes applies to all other widgets changes. • Shows a helper path with the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen [170px-Roughen] Roughen LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This path effect is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") and handles units. The parameters are similar to both extensions and adds a global randomizer. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects. Roughen.gif Simplify [170px-Simplify] Simplify LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Simplifies a vector element using a non-destructive live path effect. • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups of these. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects • The effect's threshold can be modified in the preferences dialog, by setting a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify multiple times in the same LPE. Simplify.gif This path effect can optionally be applied directly via the pencil/freehand drawing tool's tool bar when creating a new path. It then replaces the normal smoothing (which would be a destructive operation). Perspective/Envelope [170px-Perspective-envel] Perspective/Envelope LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Both deformations can be applied by specifying 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups. • Also works with vector clips and masks. Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 [170px-Latice2] Lattice Deformation 2 LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig • Deforms an object by 25 handles arranged in a mesh • Optionally deforms symmetrically along vertical or horizontal axis or both. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Also works on vector clips and masks. Latice2.gif Show Handles [170px-ShowHandles] Show Handles LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo An LPE version of the Show Handles extension. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Works on clones. • Node and Handle shapes are resizeable • If not applied to a clone, this is a destructive LPE, it does not save styles, better work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points [170px-TransformByTwoKno] Transform by 2 points LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transforms an element by two control points (e.g. moving, skewing, resizing and rotation). You can position the control points on the bounding box edge midpoints or by the index of the nodes of the original path. Thanks to Ivan Louette for the idea for this effect! • Works on paths, shapes. With groups you have limited features constrained to bounding box. • Allows snapping of both control points. • Allows to fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a rubber band path. • Two bounding box edge midpoints can be used as control points if 'From original width' is active. TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies [170px-LPERotateCopies] Rotate copies LPE Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Arranges identical elements dynamically on an arc or circle. • Works on paths, shapes and groups of paths. • Allows to fuse the result to create kaleidoscope-like effects • Allows to arrange the copies on an arc when the 360° copies checkbox is not checked. • Live editing. Mirror Symmetry [170px-LPEMirror] Mirror LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirrors an item dynamically. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Allows to fuse the result. • Different mirror lines: Free, bounding box center X, bounding box center Y, Document center X, Document center Y. Attach Path [80px-LPEAt] Attach Path LPE Connect a path to another path (optionally at each end), by attaching it to a specified location on the other path (specified as in <node number>.<fraction of segment length>, or by dragging a handle). The connecting curve segment can be shaped with handles, or by entering a number. This LPE makes it possible for the first time to have 'crossings' between paths that move with the path when it is modified, which isn't possible within the SVG specification. Bounding Box [80px-LPEBo] Bounding Box LPE An arbitrary path can be used to serve as a bounding box rectangle for the path that is linked. It will follow all transformations of the linked path. This can, for example, be used to provide a background for exporting as png. Ellipse by 5 Points [80px-LPEEl] Ellipse by 5 Points LPE An ellipse will be constructed, whose circumference will go through each of the nodes of a 5-node path. Fill between Many [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Many LPE Adds a fill to a collection of independent open paths, connecting their ends with straight lines. • The LPE is applied to one path (which will be converted into the fill, and serves as a 'container' for the effect). • The other paths, which are part of the drawing, can then be added to it by copy-pasting in the LPE dialog. • The order in which the paths are filled can be changed, and the direction can be reversed for each path independently. Now it is possible to apply the kind of path effects which only work on a path without subpaths (PowerStroke, Taper Stroke, ...) to the single paths (see image for an example). Fill between Strokes [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Strokes LPE Similar to 'Fill between Many', but can only be used on two open paths, to fill them seamlessly. • Requires a 'container' path, which will turn into the fill after the first path has been added to the LPE. • Connects one couple of path ends with a stroke, if the path that functions as a container has a stroke set. • Can also be used to apply a duplicate stroke. Interpolate Points [80px-LPEIn] Interpolate Points LPE variations This LPE redraws all path segments, using one of the following interpolation methods: • Centripetal Catmull-Rom • CubicBezierFit • CubicBezierJohan • Linear • SpiroInterpolator Join Type [80px-LPEJo] Join Type LPE variations The LPE allows you to set the type of connection to be used on cusp nodes and path end caps. • Available join types: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated Arc □ Extrapolated Arc Alt1 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt2 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt3 □ Miter □ Miter Clip □ Rounded • Available end cap types: □ Butt □ Peak □ Rounded □ Square • Set Miter limit • Set stroke width Taper Stroke [80px-LPETa] Taper Stroke LPE variations Draw tapered strokes with different settings for open paths without subpaths. • Change width of stroke ends with handles on both ends, or by entering offset numerically • Different amounts of rounding can be applied • Stroke width can be changed • Join type for cusp nodes can be selected: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated □ Miter □ Rounded Pen / Bézier tool • New shortcut to automatically close a path when it is being drawn: Shift + Enter Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w • New eraser mode • More pressure toggles added • "No overlap" option with optional multiple elements • "No overlap" option between different background colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply picked color to fill • Apply picked color to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent background areas • Spray over non-transparent background areas • Makes use of "Trace the drawing" options from Tiled Clones dialog Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Measure is kept until a new one is made (only visible when using measure tool) • Repositioning of origin/end • Convert to object • Convert to guides • Add just the distance measurement, consisting of editable text and a line indicating start and end • Display a 'phantom measurement' temporarily to be able to compare two measurements • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Change precision Gradient tool • To accomodate for keyboards that do not have an Insert key, the keyboard combination Shift+I can now also be used to insert a new stop into a gradient. Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. Import / Export Export PDF / EPS / PS • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Export Optimized SVG • Completely redesigned settings dialog • Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape uses the Scour version installed on the system (e.g. via "pip install scour") instead of a bundled version so you can always profit from the latest improvements • A lot of new features and fixes in the Scour module itself, check out the release notes (Scour 0.26 from 2011-05-09 was the version that has been bundled with Inkscape 0.91) Export to PNG • PNG file extension is now enforced, to prevent exporting with invalid / misleading file extensions. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808, can be used to fix the scaling problem of raster images in SVGs created with previous Inkscape versions) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained) • Arrange > Deep Ungroup (Bug #171117) Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. • Render > Barcode was updated with new EAN2 code and extended EAN13 with automatic EAN2 and EAN5 additions • Color > Randomize now allows to set the range for randomization, and (with some limits) can now also randomize opacity • Modify Path > Jitter nodes was partially rewritten and now also supports Pareto and Log-Normal distributions. Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (See Bug #171287 for an example extension). Filters / Blend Modes New Filters • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. New Blend Modes Blend Modes can now be applied to single objects as well as to layers. In addition to the previously available modes 'Multiply', 'Screen', 'Darken' and 'Lighten', the following modes are now available: • Overlay • Color Dodge • Color Burn • Hard Light • Soft Light • Difference • Exclusion • Hue • Saturation • Color • Luminosity Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Menus • 'Resize page to selection' added to Edit menu, shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+R • 'Pop selection out of group' available in context menu of objects which are part of a group, when the group has been entered, and via the 'Objects' menu. It will move the object up by one level in the grouping hierarchy. • 'Create Clip Group' from context menu groups the selected objects and clips that group with a clone of itself. This allows for quick creation of, for example, inset shadows. Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. Panning Panning with space bar can now be deactivated in the Preferences (uncheck Behavior > Scrolling > Mouse Move pans when Space is pressed). SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn (buttons will be available in the Fill and Stroke dialog). • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml:space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies • The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net • Export to Optimized SVG now depends upon an external copy of the Scour python module, which can be obtained via pip (pip install scour), package management (version may be outdated) or from the scour project github site. For Windows versions, the module is included. Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Konkani (Latin and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devanagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). Many other translations have been updated and improved. Notable Bugfixes • Severe performance issues on MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds on systems with Intel graphic cards (hiding the rulers was a workaround for Inkscape 0.91) (bug #1351597) • On MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds, printing may result in mostly black pages when partial opacity is used in the document (bug #1418865) • Printing offsets page (Windows) (bug #918319) • "Tiled Clones" inside transformed groups/layers in resized documents are displaced (bug #168651) • Displaced clones, offsets (bug #844909, bug #653574, bug #1152657, bug # 1245339, bug #168013, bug #177751) • Crash on quit before saving has completed, resulting in incompletely saved files (bug #967416) • Guides: Colour not rendered opening saved document (bug #1374870) • Text tool: Fails to set new default font family (bug #1227232) • Extensions: Failure with documents lacking width/height attributes (bug # 1461346, bug #1463623) • UI: Missing icons with Gtk+'s built-in icon theme (Windows, OS X) (bug # 1269698) • Text rendering cuts off trailing character (bug #1283194, bug #1450675) • Paste style - markers are omitted (bug #1467674) • DXF export doesn't support <line> and <circle> elements (bug #1474347, bug #1489320) • Crash when importing raster images of different file types (bug #1467103) • Filter effects and blur quality options broken (bug #1512729) (To get the same render quality in 0.92 as you had in 0.91, you need to set filter effects quality to 'Better' and the blur quality to 'Average'.) • Shape: 'Triangle in' and 'Triangle out' are identical (bug #1525401) Many other crashes, memory leaks and lots of little things have also been fixed. For an exhaustive list of bugs that have been fixed, please see the milestones page for Inkscape 0.92 and the milestones page for the (not released) Inkscape version 0.91.1. Known Issues • Fonts that are loaded by font managing software on Windows are not available for selection in Inkscape (bug #1416674) • Dialogs that have been minimized do not open again until their icon in the dock is clicked on (bug #1270295, will be fixed in 0.93) • The opacity indicator isn't initialized correctly (0% opacity even when the object is fully opaque, bug #1463078, will be fixed in 0.93) For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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Inkscape 0.92pre3 Source Tarball
Bryce Harrington
IMPORTANT: If you're using CMake to compile, please compile with the -DWITH_MESH=ON flag to enable meshes. 914 lines Inkscape 0.92 (definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all • Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure • Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement • Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies • There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features • Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported for rendering (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode) • Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features • Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool • BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool • Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies Important changes • The default resolution was changed from 90dpi to 96dpi, to match the CSS standard. For more background information, please see the Wiki article about handling of units in Inkscape. [The best way to convert images that have been created with old Inkscape versions still needs to be decided and worked on, see release blocker bug report.] • For developers and packagers, the switch from autotools to CMake is a relevant change (users who do not compile their own version will not be affected). While the old system is still available for 0.92, it is now also possible to compile Inkscape using CMake (Background info about why this change was made and How to work with CMake). Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Lock, and hide one or more items. • Use Ctrl+F to search for an item. • Select one or more objects in the drawing. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Usage: • Open Dialog with 'Object > Selection sets' • To create a new selection set: 1. Click on the '+' button at the bottom of the dialog to create a new selection set (double-click on its label to edit) • To add objects to a selection set: 1. select object on the canvas 2. in the 'Selection sets' dialog click on the '+' icon before the selection set in the list • To select all objects of a selection set: 1. deselect any existing selection and click on the selection set in the list • To remove an object from a selection set 1. select the selection set in the dialog 2. click on 'Items' to show all objects in the set 3. select an object on the canvas or in the Items list in the dialog 4. click on the 'Delete' icon (trashbin) before the object in the list • To delete a selection set, select it in the list and click on the '-' button at the bottom of the dialog Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. For this, a third tab ('Variants') has been added to the 'Text and Font' dialog. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Other Line height setting now allows you to select a unit. Live Path Effects • Now some suitable LPEs can be applied to clips and masks. • Helper lines come again to life. • The option to add a bend path directly was added to the pen/pencil shape combo box. Spiro Live Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y Based upon Spiro Live Path Effect, now shows the result while drawing. • Cusp nodes can be created by holding down the Shift key. • When you append a path in cusp and Spiro mode, the helper preview path will be displayed. Spirolive.gif BSpline Extended video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE Pen & Node mode Uses the BSpline Live Path Effect while creating and editing paths. • Works with Pen and Pencil tool directly. • Create cusp nodes by holding down the Shift key (Pen/Bézier tool only). • When a path is appended, a preview helper path will also be shown. • Hold down Shift key and drag on a handle to change the weight of a bspline in node tool. • Custom weight steps are applied by holding CTRL down and dragging on a handle with the node tool (no Shift key required). • Double-click on a handle resets weight to default Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode Bspline3.gif The options in the Live Path Effect dialog give you full control over bspline paths. • Option to set to Default weight (0.3333 times curve segment) • Option to make nodes cusp • Numeric input for weight • Option to set number of Steps with CTRL to quickly snap the weight in node/ handle editing • Apply changes if weight ... applies changes in the widgets to all nodes with weight == 0 or weight > 0 or both, for example, retains cusp nodes when you change the weight and have unselected "Apply changes if weight == 0". • Change only selected nodes applies to all other widgets changes. • Shows a helper path with the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen Roughen.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This path effect is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") and handles units. The parameters are similar to both extensions and adds a global randomizer. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects. Roughen.gif Simplify Simplify.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Simplifies a vector element using a non-destructive live path effect. • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups of these. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects • The effect's threshold can be modified in the preferences dialog, by setting a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify multiple times in the same LPE. Simplify.gif This path effect can optionally be applied directly via the pencil/freehand drawing tool's tool bar when creating a new path. It then replaces the normal smoothing (which would be a destructive operation). Perspective/Envelope Perspective-envelope.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Both deformations can be applied by specifying 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups. • Also works with vector clips and masks. Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 Latice2.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig • Deforms an object by 25 handles arranged in a mesh • Optionally deforms symmetrically along vertical or horizontal axis or both. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Also works on vector clips and masks. Latice2.gif Show Handles ShowHandles.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo An LPE version of the Show Handles extension. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Works on clones. • Node and Handle shapes are resizeable • If not applied to a clone, this is a destructive LPE, it does not save styles, better work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points TransformByTwoKnots.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transforms an element by two control points (e.g. moving, skewing, resizing and rotation). You can position the control points on the bounding box edge midpoints or by the index of the nodes of the original path. Thanks to Ivan Louette for the idea for this effect! • Works on paths, shapes. With groups you have limited features constrained to bounding box. • Allows snapping of both control points. • Allows to fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a rubber band path. • Two bounding box edge midpoints can be used as control points if 'From original width' is active. TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies [170px-LPERotateCopies] Rotate Copies LPE Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Arranges identical elements dynamically on an arc or circle. • Works on paths, shapes and groups of paths. • Allows to fuse the result to create kaleidoscope-like effects • Allows to arrange the copies on an arc when the 360° copies checkbox is not checked. • Live editing. Mirror Symmetry [170px-LPEMirror] Mirror LPE Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirrors an item dynamically. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Allows to fuse the result. • Different mirror lines: Free, bounding box center X, bounding box center Y, Document center X, Document center Y. Attach Path [80px-LPEAt] Attach Path LPE Connect a path to another path (optionally at each end), by attaching it to a specified location on the other path (specified as in <node number>.<fraction of segment length>, or by dragging a handle). The connecting curve segment can be shaped with handles, or by entering a number. This LPE makes it possible for the first time to have 'crossings' between paths that move with the path when it is modified, which isn't possible within the SVG specification. Bounding Box [80px-LPEBo] Bounding Box LPE An arbitrary path can be used to serve as a bounding box rectangle for the path that is linked. It will follow all transformations of the linked path. This can, for example, be used to provide a background for exporting as png. Ellipse by 5 Points [80px-LPEEl] Ellipse by 5 Points LPE An ellipse will be constructed, whose circumference will go through each of the nodes of a 5-node path. Fill between Many [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Many LPE Adds a fill to a collection of independent open paths, connecting their ends with straight lines. • The LPE is applied to one path (which will be converted into the fill, and serves as a 'container' for the effect). • The other paths, which are part of the drawing, can then be added to it by copy-pasting in the LPE dialog. • The order in which the paths are filled can be changed, and the direction can be reversed for each path independently. Now it is possible to apply the kind of path effects which only work on a path without subpaths (PowerStroke, Taper Stroke, ...) to the single paths (see image for an example). Fill between Strokes [80px-LPEFi] Fill Between Strokes LPE • Similar to 'Fill between Many', but can only be used on two open paths, to fill them seamlessly. • Requires a 'container' path, which will turn into the fill after the first path has been added to the LPE. • Connects one couple of path ends with a stroke, if the path that functions as a container has a stroke set. • Can also be used to apply a duplicate stroke. Interpolate Points [80px-LPEIn] Interpolate Points LPE variations This LPE redraws all path segments, using one of the following interpolation methods: • Centripetal Catmull-Rom • CubicBezierFit • CubicBezierJohan • Linear • SpiroInterpolator Join Type [80px-LPEJo] Join Type LPE variations The LPE allows you to set the type of connection to be used on cusp nodes and path end caps. • Available join types: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated Arc □ Extrapolated Arc Alt1 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt2 □ Extrapolated Arc Alt3 □ Miter □ Miter Clip □ Rounded • Available end cap types: □ Butt □ Peak □ Rounded □ Square • Set Miter limit • Set stroke width Taper Stroke [80px-LPETa] Taper Stroke LPE variations Draw tapered strokes with different settings for open paths without subpaths. • Change width of stroke ends with handles on both ends, or by entering offset numerically • Different amounts of rounding can be applied • Stroke width can be changed • Join type for cusp nodes can be selected: □ Beveled □ Extrapolated □ Miter □ Rounded Pen / Bézier tool • New shortcut to automatically close a path when it is being drawn: Shift + Enter Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w • New eraser mode • More pressure toggles added • "No overlap" option with optional multiple elements • "No overlap" option between different background colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply picked color to fill • Apply picked color to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent background areas • Spray over non-transparent background areas • Makes use of "Trace the drawing" options from Tiled Clones dialog Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Measure is kept until a new one is made (only visible when using measure tool) • Repositioning of origin/end • Convert to object • Convert to guides • Add just the distance measurement, consisting of editable text and a line indicating start and end • Display a 'phantom measurement' temporarily to be able to compare two measurements • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Change precision Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. Import / Export Export PDF / EPS / PS • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Export Optimized SVG • Completely redesigned settings dialog • Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape uses the Scour version installed on the system (e.g. via "pip install scour") instead of a bundled version so you can always profit from the latest improvements • A lot of new features and fixes in the Scour module itself, check out the release notes (Scour 0.26 from 2011-05-09 was the version that has been bundled with Inkscape 0.91) Export to PNG • PNG file extension is now enforced, to prevent exporting with invalid / misleading file extensions. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808, can be used to fix the scaling problem of raster images in SVGs created with previous Inkscape versions) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained) • Arrange > Deep Ungroup (Bug #171117) Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. • Render > Barcode was updated with new EAN2 code and extended EAN13 with automatic EAN2 and EAN5 additions • Color > Randomize now allows to set the range for randomization, and (with some limits) can now also randomize opacity • Modify Path > Jitter nodes was partially rewritten and now also supports Pareto and Log-Normal distributions. Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (See Bug #171287 for an example extension). Filters / Blend Modes New Filters • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. New Blend Modes Blend Modes can now be applied to single objects as well as to layers. In addition to the previously available modes 'Multiply', 'Screen', 'Darken' and 'Lighten', the following modes are now available: • Overlay • Color Dodge • Color Burn • Hard Light • Soft Light • Difference • Exclusion • Hue • Saturation • Color • Luminosity Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Menus • 'Resize page to selection' added to Edit menu, shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+R • 'Pop selection out of group' available in context menu of objects which are part of a group, when the group has been entered, and via the 'Objects' menu. It will move the object up by one level in the grouping hierarchy. • 'Create Clip Group' from context menu groups the selected objects and clips that group with a clone of itself. This allows for quick creation of, for example, inset shadows. Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. Panning Panning with space bar can now be deactivated in the Preferences (uncheck Behavior > Scrolling > Mouse Move pans when Space is pressed). SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn (buttons will be available in the Fill and Stroke dialog). • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml;space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies • The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net • Export to Optimized SVG now depends upon an external copy of the Scour python module, which can be obtained via pip (pip install scour), package management (version may be outdated) or from the scour project github site. For Windows versions, the module is included. Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Konkani (Latin and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devanagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). Many other translations have been updated and improved. Notable Bugfixes • Severe performance issues on MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds on systems with Intel graphic cards (hiding the rulers was a workaround for Inkscape 0.91). (bug #1351597) • On MS Windows, 64bit Inkscape builds, printing may result in mostly black pages when partial opacity is used in the document (bug #1418865) • Printing offsets page (Windows) (bug #918319) • "Tiled Clones" inside transformed groups/layers in resized documents are displaced (bug #168651) • Displaced clones, offsets (bug #844909, bug #653574, bug #1152657, bug # 1245339, bug #168013, bug #177751) • Crash on quit before saving has completed, resulting in incompletely saved files (bug #967416) • Guides: Colour not rendered opening saved document (bug #1374870) • Text tool: Fails to set new default font family (bug #1227232) • Extensions: Failure with documents lacking width/height attributes (bug # 1461346, bug #1463623) • UI: Missing icons with Gtk+'s built-in icon theme (Windows, OS X) (bug # 1269698) • Text rendering cuts off trailing character (bug #1283194, bug #1450675) • Paste style - markers are omitted (bug #1467674) • DXF export doesn't support <line> and <circle> elements (bug #1474347, bug #1489320 • Crash when importing raster images of different file types (bug #1467103) • Filter effects and blur quality options broken (bug #1512729) (This means if you had your filter effects set for Average in 0.91, you may need to reset to Better or Best in 0.92 to have the same quality of display.) • Shape: 'Triangle in' and 'Triangle out' are identical (bug #1525401) Many other crashes, memory leaks and lots of little things have also been fixed. For an exhaustive list of bugs that have been fixed, please see the milestones page for Inkscape 0.92 and the milestones page for the (not released) Inkscape version 0.91.1. Known Issues • Fonts that are loaded by font managing software on Windows are not available for selection in Inkscape (bug #1416674) • Dialogs that have been minimized do not open again until their icon in the dock is clicked on (bug #1270295, will be fixed in 0.93) • The opacity indicator isn't initialized correctly (0% opacity even when the object is fully opaque, bug #1463078, will be fixed in 0.93) [Please fill in - unit change, extension] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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663 lines Inkscape 0.92 (definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». • The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all • Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure • Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement • Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies • There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features • Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported for rendering (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode) • Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features • Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool • BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool • Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies [Please, if someone knows that any of these will not be in the release, remove them from the list. Should we add the font features, too?] Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Find, lock, and hide individual items. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Usage: • Open Dialog with 'Object > Selection sets' • To create a new selection set: 1. Click on the '+' button at the bottom of the dialog to create a new selection set (double-click on its label to edit) • To add objects to a selection set: 1. select object on the canvas 2. in the 'Selection sets' dialog click on the '+' icon before the selection set in the list • To select all objects of a selection set: 1. deselect any existing selection and click on the selection set in the list • To remove an object from a selection set 1. select the selection set in the dialog 2. click on 'Items' to show all objects in the set 3. select an object on the canvas or in the Items list in the dialog 4. click on the 'Delete' icon (trashbin) before the object in the list • To delete a selection set, select it in the list and click on the '-' button at the bottom of the dialog Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Other Line height setting now allows you to select a unit. Live Path Effects • Now some suitable LPEs can be applied to clips and masks. • Helper lines come again to life. • The option to add a bend path directly was added to the pen/pencil shape combo box. Spiro Live ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y> Based upon Spiro Live Path Effect, now shows the result while drawing. • Cusp nodes can be created by holding down the Shift key. • When you append a path in cusp and Spiro mode, the helper preview path will be displayed. Spirolive.gif BSpline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE> Pen & Node mode Uses the BSpline Live Path Effect while creating and editing paths. • Works with Pen and Pencil tool directly. • Create cusp nodes by holding down the Shift key (Pen/Bézier tool only). • When a path is appended, a preview helper path will also be shown. • Hold down Shift key and drag on a handle to change the weight of a bspline in node tool. • Custom weight steps are applied by holding CTRL down and dragging on a handle with the node tool (no Shift key required). • Double-click on a handle resets weight to default Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode Bspline3.gif The options in the Live Path Effect dialog give you full control over bspline paths. • Option to set to Default weight (0.3333 times curve segment) • Option to make nodes cusp • Numeric input for weight • Option to set number of Steps with CTRL to quickly snap the weight in node/ handle editing • Apply changes if weight ... applies changes in the widgets to all nodes with weight == 0 or weight > 0 or both, for example, retains cusp nodes when you change the weight and have unselected "Apply changes if weight == 0". • Change only selected nodes applies to all other widgets changes. • Shows a helper path with the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Roughen.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This path effect is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") and handles units. The parameters are similar to both extensions and adds a global randomizer. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects. Roughen.gif Simplify ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Simplify.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Simplifies a vector element using a non-destructive live path effect. • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups of these. • Can be applied to clips and masks, if they are vector objects • The effect's threshold can be modified in the preferences dialog, by setting a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify multiple times in the same LPE. Simplify.gif This path effect can optionally be applied directly via the pencil/freehand drawing tool's tool bar when creating a new path. It then replaces the normal smoothing (which would be a destructive operation). Perspective/Envelope ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Perspective-envelope.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Both deformations can be applied by specifying 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope • Can be used on paths, shapes and groups. • Also works with vector clips and masks. Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Latice2.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig • Deforms an object by handles arranged in a mesh • Optionally deforms symmetrically along vertical or horizontal axis or both. • Can be applied to paths, shapes and groups. • Also works on vector clips and masks. Latice2.gif Show Handles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ShowHandles.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo An LPE version of the Show Handles extension. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Works on clones. • Node and Handle shapes are resizeable • If not applied to a clone, this is a destructive LPE, it does not save styles, better work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points TransformByTwoKnots.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transforms an element by two control points (e.g. moving, skewing, resizing and rotation). You can position the control points on the bounding box edge midpoints or by the index of the nodes of the original path. Thanks to Ivan Louette for the idea for this effect! • Works on paths, shapes. With groups you have limited features constrained to bounding box. • Allows snapping of both control points. • Allows to fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a rubber band path. • Two bounding box edge midpoints can be used as control points if 'From original width' is active. TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies File:RotateCopies.png 170px Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Arranges identical elements dynamically on an arc or circle. • Works on paths, shapes and groups of paths. • Allows to fuse the result to create kaleidoscope-like effects • Allows to arrange the copies on an arc when the 360° copies checkbox is not checked. • Live editing. Mirror Symmetry Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirrors an item dynamically. • Works on paths, shapes and groups. • Allows to fuse the result. • Different mirror lines: Free, bounding box center X, bounding box center Y, Document center X, Document center Y. Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w todo: a video showing all features joined • New eraser mode • More pressure toggles added • "No overlap" option with optional multiple elements • "No overlap" option between different background colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply picked color to fill • Apply picked color to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent background areas • Spray over non-transparent background areas • Makes use of "Trace the drawing" options from Tiled Clones dialog Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Persistent measure • Reposition of origin/end • Convert to measure item • Convert to guides • Convert measure to quote • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Add precision • Add scale Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. File Format Support • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained) • Arrange > Deep Ungroup (Bug #171117) Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. • Render > Barcode was updated with new EAN2 code and extended EAN13 with automatic EAN2 and EAN5 additions • Color > Randomize now allows to set the range for randomization, and (with some limits) can now also randomize opacity Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (Bug #171287). Filters New • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Menus • 'Resize page to selection' added to Edit menu, shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+R Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn (buttons will be available in the Fill and Stroke dialog). • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml;space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Kokani (Roman and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devnagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). Notable Bugfixes [Please fill in] Known Issues [ Please fill in - unit change, extension] For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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0.92pre1 Source Tarball
Bryce Harrington
583 lines Inkscape 0.92 (definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Find, lock, and hide individual items. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Live Path Effects Now some suitable LPE's are applied to clips and mask. Helper lines come again to live Added to pen/pencil shape combo box the option to add a bend path directly Spiro Live ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y> Based in Spiro Live Path Effect, now show result while drawing. • Nodes cusp (SHIFT) and Spiro. • Handle append path on cusp and Spiro mode whith helper preview path. Spirolive.gif BSpline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE> Pen & Node mode Use BSpline Live Effect while creating and editing paths. • Pen and Pencil use • Modes cusp(SHIFT) and BSpline while drawing. • Handle append parhs with preview helper path. • Handle weight of bspline (node tool) with handle movement. SHIFT key required. • Handle custom weight snaps with CTRL Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode Bspline3.gif The options in the Live effect dialog give you control on bspline paths. • Set to Default weight (0.3333 time of his curve segment). • Make cusp nodes. • Numeric input for weight. • Steps with CONTROL snaps in node/handle editing. • Ignore cusp nodes, affect to all other widgets changes and, for example, retain cusp nodes when you change the power. • Change only selected nodes, affect to all other widgets changes. • Show a helper path whith the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Roughen.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This filter is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") + handle units. The parameters are similar to both extensions + a global randomizer. • Apply to paths, shapes and groups. • Apply to clip and masks -if are vectors- Roughen.gif Simplify ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Simplify.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Send the simplify command to a non-destructive live path effect. • Use on paths, shapes and groups of them. • Apply to clip and masks -if are vectors- • User can change modify the threshold -preferences dialog- used by a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify on stack. Simplify.gif Perspective/Envelope ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Perspective-envelope.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Apply both deformations by 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope. • Apply on paths, shapes and groups. • Apply on vector clips and mask Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Latice2.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig Add deformations by a mesh. Vertical,horizontal or both symmetry. • Apply to paths, shapes and groups. • Apply to vector clips and mask Latice2.gif Show Handles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ShowHandles.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo A LPE version of Show Handles extension. • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Work on clones • Node and Handle shapes resizeables • If not a clone, is a destructive LPE, dont save styles, work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points TransformByTwoKnots.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transform a element by two control points. You can position the control points by bounding box or by original path node index. Thanks Ivan Louette for the idea of the effect. • Work on paths, shapes and groups with less power. • Allow snapping of both control points • Allow fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a flex path • From original width, set the control points based on bounding box TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies File:RotateCopies.png 170px Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Transform a element by two control points. You can position the control points by bounding box or by original path node index. Thanks Ivan Louette for the idea of the effect. • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Allow fuse the result to make kaleidoscope • Allow non 360 fuse. • Live editing Mirror Simmetry Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirror a item • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Allow fuse result • Different mirror line: Free, X, Y, Middle Document[X], Middle Document[Y] Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w todo: a video showing all features joined • New mode eraser • Add more pressure toggles • No overlap option with optional multiple elements • No overlap between colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply color picked to fill • Apply color picked to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent • Spray over non-transparent • Allow picker enabled sprays to use "Trace Clones" options Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Persistent measure • Reposition of origin/end • Convert to measure item • Convert to guides • Convert measure to quote • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Add precision • Add scale Geometric Construction Tool • Helps to create: line segments, circles by specific points, parallels, perpendicular lines, angle bisectors, mirrored paths by applying a Live Path Effect. [Needs usage instructions!] Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. File Format Support • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (Bug #171287). Filters New • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn. • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml;space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Kokani (Roman and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devnagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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0.92pre0 Source Tarball
Bryce Harrington
583 lines Inkscape 0.92 (definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning092) Release highlights Released on «YYYY-MM-DD». Manipulating Objects Objects Dialog New dialog for manipulating the object tree. • Drag and drop reordering of objects. • Find, lock, and hide individual items. • Shows individual objects as well as layers. • Ability to change highlight color of objects. • Ability to set blend mode per object. Imported from Ponyscape. Selection Sets Dialog New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected by document structure. Text Font Features It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font. Note that browser support is still limited. Inkscape must also be linked with a recent version of the Pango library. Vertical Text Support for vertical text layout has been improved. • The default behavior for Latin bases glyphs has been changed. They are now rotated sideways as required by the SVG 1.1 standard. • Support for the CSS 3 'text-orientation' property has been added. (Note that this property is not yet fully supported by browsers.) • The CSS 3 values for the 'writing-mode' property are supported in rendering. Saving still uses the deprecated SVG 1.1 values. Accessibility Converting text to a path will save the text in the 'aria-label' attribute. This is useful for accessibility and could eventually be used by Inkscape to reconstruct the text. Live Path Effects Now some suitable LPE's are applied to clips and mask. Helper lines come again to live Added to pen/pencil shape combo box the option to add a bend path directly Spiro Live ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y> Based in Spiro Live Path Effect, now show result while drawing. • Nodes cusp (SHIFT) and Spiro. • Handle append path on cusp and Spiro mode whith helper preview path. Spirolive.gif BSpline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extended video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwV0DHvA-OE> Pen & Node mode Use BSpline Live Effect while creating and editing paths. • Pen and Pencil use • Modes cusp(SHIFT) and BSpline while drawing. • Handle append parhs with preview helper path. • Handle weight of bspline (node tool) with handle movement. SHIFT key required. • Handle custom weight snaps with CTRL Bspline.gif Bspline2.gif Live Path Effect mode Bspline3.gif The options in the Live effect dialog give you control on bspline paths. • Set to Default weight (0.3333 time of his curve segment). • Make cusp nodes. • Numeric input for weight. • Steps with CONTROL snaps in node/handle editing. • Ignore cusp nodes, affect to all other widgets changes and, for example, retain cusp nodes when you change the power. • Change only selected nodes, affect to all other widgets changes. • Show a helper path whith the final shape and the generated new nodes. Roughen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Roughen.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130Dbt0juvY This filter is a semi-clone of two extensions, ("add nodes" and "jitter nodes") + handle units. The parameters are similar to both extensions + a global randomizer. • Apply to paths, shapes and groups. • Apply to clip and masks -if are vectors- Roughen.gif Simplify ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Simplify.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWujN_iTSk Send the simplify command to a non-destructive live path effect. • Use on paths, shapes and groups of them. • Apply to clip and masks -if are vectors- • User can change modify the threshold -preferences dialog- used by a numeric parameter. • Apply Simplify on stack. Simplify.gif Perspective/Envelope ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Perspective-envelope.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKGatyxTZ8 Apply both deformations by 4 points. • Two modes, perspective and envelope. • Apply on paths, shapes and groups. • Apply on vector clips and mask Perspective-envelope.gif Lattice Deformation 2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Latice2.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE Symmetry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuVjqFA6ig Add deformations by a mesh. Vertical,horizontal or both symmetry. • Apply to paths, shapes and groups. • Apply to vector clips and mask Latice2.gif Show Handles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ShowHandles.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo A LPE version of Show Handles extension. • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Work on clones • Node and Handle shapes resizeables • If not a clone, is a destructive LPE, dont save styles, work on a copy! ShowHandles.gif Transform by two points TransformByTwoKnots.png Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Extended video (Elastic rubber): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWTeZC_LjM Transform a element by two control points. You can position the control points by bounding box or by original path node index. Thanks Ivan Louette for the idea of the effect. • Work on paths, shapes and groups with less power. • Allow snapping of both control points • Allow fix angle or distance. • Elastic mode to simulate a flex path • From original width, set the control points based on bounding box TransformByTwoKnots.gif Rotate copies File:RotateCopies.png 170px Extended video (partial fuse path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 Extended video (live editing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Extended video (kaleidoscope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Transform a element by two control points. You can position the control points by bounding box or by original path node index. Thanks Ivan Louette for the idea of the effect. • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Allow fuse the result to make kaleidoscope • Allow non 360 fuse. • Live editing Mirror Simmetry Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo Mirror a item • Work on paths, shapes and groups. • Allow fuse result • Different mirror line: Free, X, Y, Middle Document[X], Middle Document[Y] Spray tool Extended video 1 (No overlap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehj4ATOWos Extended video 2 (No overlap multiple items): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1eTG2U3qlb4 Extended video 3 (Over visible, pick color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= aTdKu7mAZE8 Extended video 4 (Pressure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdQnxd_z30 Extended video 5 (Trace -clones- dialog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Zn3vzf-yA_w todo: a video showing all features joined • New mode eraser • Add more pressure toggles • No overlap option with optional multiple elements • No overlap between colors • Configurable offset for overlaps • Color picker from center or average area • Apply color picked to fill • Apply color picked to stroke • Invert picked colors • Spray over transparent • Spray over non-transparent • Allow picker enabled sprays to use "Trace Clones" options Measure tool Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM • Persistent measure • Reposition of origin/end • Convert to measure item • Convert to guides • Convert measure to quote • Reverse origin/end • Measure global • Measure only current layer • Add precision • Add scale Geometric Construction Tool • Helps to create: line segments, circles by specific points, parallels, perpendicular lines, angle bisectors, mirrored paths by applying a Live Path Effect. [Needs usage instructions!] Align and Distribute • NEW: drop-down chooser with options to align nodes relative to each other in node editing mode. File Format Support • The default PostScript level for exporting from the command line changes from 2 to 3 (consistent with the user interface PS exporter which defaults to level 3). Level 3 is required for gradient support. Extensions New • Render > Seamless Pattern (Screencast) • Images > Set Image Attributes (Bug #1357808) • Render > NiceCharts (github repo, not maintained Plotter Driver Multiple Pens The Plotter driver (Extensions -> Export -> Plot) can now handle multiple pens to create colorful drawings on Pen Plotters: • Create a layer for every pen to use and move the corresponding drawings into it • Name the layer with a title like "Pen 1" or "MyLayerName Pen 1", where the number corresponds to the pen number the plotter should use • The layer name always overrides the standard pen setting in the plot menu Serial Connection The connection settings now allow you to specify rarely used serial connection settings like byte size, stop bits and parity. Most plotters use the default settings, so only change these if you know what you are doing. HPGL Export The HPGL export (File -> Save as -> HP Grafics Language file) has now the same multiple pens feature as the #Plotter Driver. HPGL Import The HPGL import (File -> Open -> Select .hpgl file) can now import multiple pens into corresponding layers, see #Plotter Driver for more information. PDF Import The image 'interpolate' value is now used to determine how to display bitmaps (interpolated or blocky). Miscellaneous Improvements • Arrange > Restack has new options to reverse and shuffle the z-order of selected objects. • Render > Random Tree has new option to omit redundant segments. • Visualize Path > Measure Path has additional text layout options. Extension Development • It is now possible for an extension to retrieve a list of selected nodes (Bug #171287). Filters New • Color > Color Blindness filter allows to simulate different color blindness conditions. Other dialogs Document Properties: Licences All selectable licences have been updated to most current version. Filter Editor Filter list now displays how often a filter is used. Other user interface Node Snapping Snapping in the node tool has been improved: • When double clicking to insert new nodes, the position of these new nodes will snap to for example path intersections and to path-guide intersections • When grabbing a segment of a path and dragging it to deform it, the pointer will now snap Checkerboard Background It is now possible to use a checkerboard background when editing. This allows one to clearly see the transparency of objects. View Box One can now set the SVG 'viewBox' attribute from the GUI. This attribute sets the scale of the drawing by determining the real-world value of the SVG user unit (pixel size). Lock Guides Now guides can be locked and unlocked globally or individually. SVG and CSS • The 'marker-orientation' property now recognizes units ('deg', 'rad', 'grad' and 'turn'). • The new SVG 2 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' properties are implemented which allows the auto-matching of arrowhead fill color to path stroke color. • The new SVG 2 marker orientation attribute value 'auto-start-reverse' is implemented. This allows one arrow marker to be used for both ends of a path. • The new CSS 3 'mix-blend-mode' and 'isolation' properties are implemented, allowing setting the blend mode between objects without using filters. • The new SVG 2 'paint-order' property is now supported. This allows setting the order in which the fill, stroke, and markers are drawn. • The new SVG 2 'mesh' paint server is supported, including bicubic auto-smoothing. A primitive GUI is available. • The SVG 1.1 'text-decoration' property is now rendered (underlines, strike through, etc.). CSS 3 'text-decoration' properties are also rendered. • The new SVG 2 'hatch' paint server is now supported. • The CSS 'white-space' property is now supported. Use of this property was added in SVG 2 to replace the now deprecated 'xml;space' attribute. • The SVG 1.1 'textLength" and 'textAdjust' attributes are implemented, however, there is no GUI for these attributes. • Rendering of the Component Transfer filter primitive has been corrected. • Units are now recognized in the text and tspan 'x', 'y', 'dx', and 'dy' attributes. • Percentage values are now interpreted correctly for shapes. New SVG 2 and CSS 3 features are generally not enabled in the GUI until widespread support in browsers. New dependencies The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net Translations New UI translations for Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari), Kokani (Roman and Devanagari scripts), Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (Meetei Mayek and Bengali scripts), Marathi, Odia, Santali (Devnagari and Ol-Chiki scripts), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Urdu (Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts). For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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