Translations:Release notes/1.2/226/en
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- The Align and Distribute dialog no longer starts out with node alignment options, this is strictly limited to when the Node tool is in use.
- Improved Boolean Operation algorithm (MR #3724)
- The Calligraphy tool no longer inverts the tilt direction (MR #3782, Bug #1692)
- the Calligraphy tool no longer leaves any blots on locked layers when trying to draw on them (MR #3882, Bug #3154)
- There's no longer a grey line present that starts on the top left page corner when holding Ctrl and drawing with the Calligraphy tool (MR #3174, Bug #2203)
- Cloning objects that do not have an ID works now (MR #3180, Bug #2389)
- macOS users can now close Inkscape from the Welcome screen (MR #2762)
- The Zoom buttons are back in the Commands bar:
Zoom to fit selection in window
,Zoom to fit drawing in window
,Zoom to fit page in window
andCenter page in window
(Bug #1910, MR #3638) - The search results in the Commands palette are now ordered in a more helpful way ([1])
- Copy-pasting groups using CSS classes for objects inside them no longer turns them all black (MR #3656)
- Dialogs that have just been opened receive focus again, so they can be used with a keyboard, too (Bug #3482, MR #4381)
- When the canvas has the focus, open dialogs do not steal keyboard shortcuts from it anymore (Bug #2409, MR #3176)
- Document properties dialog and menu agree about whether guides are visible and/or locked now (Bug #663, MR #4346)
- Inkscape no longer slows down when using grids and having the Document Properties dialog open on macOS
- Units in the Document Properties dialog now adjust properly when scaling the document (MR #3403)
- For files without a viewbox, the Document properties dialog no longer refuses to change the Display unit (MR #3866, Bug #872)
- The Eraser tool no longer leaves red traces when it cannot erase (MR #4079, Bug #540)
- The Eraser tool now even cuts paths with only two nodes or arcs and clones (unlinking them) ([2], MR #4008)
- Export file names are now saved relative to the file's location (previously, we were saving absolute paths in the SVG document) (MR #4166, Bug #804)
- Exported raster images without alpha layer (no transparency) such as RGB and Greyscale PNGs, or JPG now use the page background color for export instead of black (MR #3994, Bug #1357)
- running extensions no longer fails when you've run them many times already (MR #3871, Bug #2861)
- the Extension Manager now works on macOS (MR #3579)
- Scaling a stroke by percentage in the Fill and Stroke dialog no longer changes the stroke pattern and no longer shrinks instead of growing (MR #4189, Bugs #792, #793, #1238)
- The long lost 'Burnt Edges' filter has returned (MR #3567)
- It is no longer possible to create invalid filters using a non-existing feComposite operator (Bug #1647, MR #2766)
- The default value for 'saturate' in the color matrix filter has been fixed (MR #3626)
- Find and Replace now works better if a text has a description and nested tspans (MR #3551)
- Find and Replace now more reliably finds all occurrances of a string (MR #2999, MR #4352)
- Editing fonts with the Font Editor dialog now also works for SVG fonts without a label (as created by FontForge)
- Guides do not move around anymore when resizing the document (MR #4127, Bug #1230)
- Guide handles are always correctly centered on the guide line. This change also fixes a similar positioning error that affected node handles (Bug #2022, Bug #2604, MR #3870).
- When a linked image can not be found, Inkscape now no longer uses (and saves the file with) altered image sizes (Bug #3115, MR #3842)
- Imported images are now rotated according to their metadata (MR #3587, Bug inbox#4235)
- Embedded SVG images with markers or their own CSS styles are now displayed properly (Bug #1757, MR #3147)
- Imported .cdr files will now use correct measurements (MR #3879, Bug #2983)
- The Measure tool handles angles close to 180° better now (MR #2918)
- Node tool handles for smooth and symmetrical nodes now scale along with the other handles, according to the preferences setting (MR #3679, MR #3699)
- Opening a file without a file extension now only gives a warning when the file contents is not valid SVG (MR #3500)]
- Perspective/envelope LPE now works on objects with 0 width or height . (edge cases for single line stroke) (MR #2712)
- The Preferences option to 'enable dynamic relayout for incomplete sections' has been removed, because it has started to break the interface (MR #3887)
- The Preferences options for the dockbar style have been removed as they were no longer in use (MR #3660)
- When a search term can not be found in the Preferences, the whole Preferences tree stays available now (MR #2636)
- Preferences now store more exact numbers, and these numbers are also more exact when given to extensions (MR #3340)
- SVG files can now be saved without file extension again (MR #3500)
- Saving to .odg format works again (Bug #3385, MR #4316)
- When scaling and snapping with the Selector tool, the snapping now uses the correct location when geometrical bounding box is being used (MR #3990, Bug #2212)
- When clicking and dragging an object with the Selector tool, the correct object is now always dragged (affected Windows) (MR #3735)
- Improvements to snapping with the node tool (performance, add useful snap targets, remove useless snap targets) (MR #3890, more info in MR #3889)
- Text tool is more verbose again in the status bar when editing flowed texts (MR #4201, Bug inbox#4449)
- Transform handle keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in the status bar (MR #3809)
- A small margin was added on the right end of the status bar, to prevent canvas rotation when the user's intention was to resize the Inkscape window (MR #3824, Bug #918)
- Symbols from custom symbol libraries created with Inkscape are now inserted in the correct size (MR #4228, Bug #1319)
- The last line in a flowed text paragraph is not justified anymore (MR #3780)
- When moving a flowed text and its flow shape together, the flowed text now stays where it belongs (MR #3695)
- Multiline vertical texts in legacy Inkscape documents that have been edited in current Inkscape now are placed correctly in browsers (MR #3537)
- The preview in the Text and Font dialog no longer contains tofu (ugly placeholder character) where there is a linebreak (Bug #2577, MR #3359)
- Tracing Pixel Art can now warn users again when the image they're trying to trace is too large (Bug #2455, MR #3306)
- Zoom shortcuts from the numpad work again (MR #3773)