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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;MPetroff: /* Scaling images to fit in webpages/HTML */ Update with respect to recent changes&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{Other languages|en=Tricks and tips}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Generic tricks and tips ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The tips and tricks are collected to share/tutorials/tipsandtricks.svg and made apart of the release. If you want to contribute further, please add your tips and tricks to the SVN copy of the aforementioned. Also, you can add them below and they will be collected from time to time as a part of that tutorial.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== New Tips and Tricks Scratchpad ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please enter your new tips and tricks here...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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=== PDF/EPS bounding boxes ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of version 0.45:  when you export an object to PDF or EPS, the figure's bounding box is the canvas (probably the page) rather than a tight box around the object.  If you want a tight box, select your object (with the rubber band selector) and use &amp;quot;Fit Page to Selection&amp;quot; in the &amp;quot;Document Properties&amp;quot; dialog to crop the canvas tightly around the object.  Then, you can export to PDF or EPS and get the bounding box you want.  There isn't really a way to automate this process by using Inkscape's command-line options.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Changing languages==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remember when you first installed Inkscape, and there were a bunch of language options?&lt;br /&gt;
To switch to Espanol, select Espanol when installing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Adjusting the Canvas Size to Fit Your Image ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So, you've done a bunch of drawing, and now the canvas is too big/small.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;File &amp;gt; Document Preferences&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* Check &amp;quot;Show canvas border&amp;quot; if not already checked, just to get some feedback.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* Set Canvas size to &amp;quot;Custom&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Back in the Document window drop-down select box to the right of the height/width boxes, set the units to the same units as shown in the Document Preferences window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Edit &amp;gt; Select All in All Layers&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Copy the Width and Height now shown in the Document window into the Width and Height of the Document Preferences window.  Press the enter key after changing each number.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Back in the Document window change the X and Y coordinates, both, to 0.  Again, press the enter key after changing each number.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Clean up after yourself:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Edit &amp;gt; Deselect&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* Close Document Preferences window&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Note: Starting with version 0.44, you can use instead the button &amp;quot;Fit Page to Selection&amp;quot; under &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;File &amp;gt; Document Properties&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;. If nothing is selected then the page is adjusted to the whole drawing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Scaling images to fit in webpages/HTML==&lt;br /&gt;
When using the object tag to embed SVG images inside of webpages, it is useful to set the size in the object tag.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To do this you need to add a &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;viewBox&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; attribute.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Using the XML editor, select the SVG root element (the first item in the list on the left)&lt;br /&gt;
*Next, add the &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;viewBox&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; attribute. In the one line text-box on the right hand side, type &amp;quot;viewBox&amp;quot;. Underneath this type &amp;quot;0 0 100 100&amp;quot;, then click set.&lt;br /&gt;
*Change the width and height attributes to 100%.&lt;br /&gt;
*Re-use process above to set the canvas size to the drawing's size.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You may also want to add &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;preserveAspectRatio=&amp;quot;none&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; to the SVG root element if you want to change the width/height disproportionately.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Alternatively, use the extensions attached to [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169966 'Saving Plain SVG with viewBox extension' bug].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with 0.48, it is possible to do this using the &amp;quot;optimised SVG&amp;quot; output filetype. Go to &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;File &amp;gt; Save as... &amp;gt; Optimised SVG&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; , then check &amp;quot;Enable ViewBoxing&amp;quot; to do the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with 0.49, a &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;viewBox&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; is added automatically, and the above procedure is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Position guides ==&lt;br /&gt;
Position a guide roughly, then double click it to bring up a dialog box in which you can enter the desired position. --[[User:Pbhj|Pbhj]] 13:00, 1 July 2006 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
* ''AFAIK you can't do this any other way ... I've been using Inkscape since not long after the split from sodipodi and I just today (1st July 06) found this out! Super! This was in the AI users tips.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adding fill to Shapes drawn with the Calligraphic Pen tool ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Quick tut on how to add fill to shapes you've drawn with the calligraphic pen.&lt;br /&gt;
A far easier solution to creating fills for  closed shapes drawn with the calligraphic tool than I described previously.  Simple enough I should be able to do without pics, so here gos&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Draw the shape with the calligraphic tool&lt;br /&gt;
* Duplicate it. (ctrl + D)&lt;br /&gt;
* Draw another line in the region that will be filled.&lt;br /&gt;
* Select this line and the duplicate of the original.&lt;br /&gt;
* Do union (ctrl &amp;amp; + )&lt;br /&gt;
* break apart (ctrl + shift + K)&lt;br /&gt;
* Union again (ctrl &amp;amp; + )&lt;br /&gt;
* Send it backwards (Page down)&lt;br /&gt;
* Fill it with a whatever color you want.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second and penultimate steps are only needed if your keeping the calligraphy line as a stroke. Alternatively, use the fill bounds tool :)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mirror modelling ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inkscape is a drawing application, not CAD, so maybe the word &amp;quot;modelling&amp;quot; is not appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- broken link: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModellingDone.png --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070315004454/http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModellingDone.png Mirror Modelling] (PNG)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- broken link: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModelling.tar.gz --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If you want to play with the image, the inkscape source available [http://web.archive.org/web/20070317180357/http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModelling.tar.gz here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== How to make an edge ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- broken link: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.png --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070318073051/http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.png Join Two Nodes] (PNG)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- broken link: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.tar.gz --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Source is [http://web.archive.org/web/20070317063930/http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.tar.gz here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Comment : &lt;br /&gt;
# This doesn't explain anything to me. HOW do you break apart a node? HOW do you join two nodes? I see steps I through III, but those little graphics don't explain how to do it.&lt;br /&gt;
# I think this is trying  to explain how to [apparently] join something to a closed loop; I'd like to see n-way nodes for this (is that in the spec?). What they are doing is taking a node on that loop and making it in to two nodes in the same place using -0-0- (that's my ASCII art for the node duplicate icon! it's on the menu bar when you are using the node edit tool on a path). Then we split using -0 0-. Then join one of the coincidental nodes to the other shape. It now looks like you have a spur off from your closed loop. But you don't. Is that it, do I get a cookie?? --[[User:Pbhj|Pbhj]] 15:08, 7 July 2006 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== How to rotate and duplicate == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Need more appropriate name, like: how to make a swatch.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Not finished yet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Khiraly]] - Feel free to comment on tips, if its not clear. Any comment are useful.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:User Documentation]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Text on circle ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you want to put text on a circle, you can do the following:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* create a circle&lt;br /&gt;
* create a text object with the text you want to put on the circle&lt;br /&gt;
* select both&lt;br /&gt;
* go to Text | Put on Path&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So far so good, nothing special. Anyway, you'll notice that the text is always put on the outside of the circle - what if you want to put the text '''inside''' the circle? I've found this trick:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* create a circle&lt;br /&gt;
* select it and go to Path | Object to Path&lt;br /&gt;
* go to Path | Reverse&lt;br /&gt;
* create a text object with the text you want to put on the circle's internal&lt;br /&gt;
* select both the text and the circle&lt;br /&gt;
* go to Text | Put on Path&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you want to have the text to start at a specific position on the circle:&lt;br /&gt;
* follow either of the steps above&lt;br /&gt;
* then select the circle&lt;br /&gt;
* go to Object | Transform | Rotate&lt;br /&gt;
* change the angle until the text starts at the desired position&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That's it!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Created punched-out text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This will create a punched-out text with shadow effect that looks like this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext8.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First, create the object you want to cut the text out from. Here I use a red rectangle:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then, create the text.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duplicate the text (&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Ctrl+D&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;) so you have two copies of it in exactly the same place, then select one of the copies of the text and the object at the same time by holding &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Shift&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; and clicking on both of them. Now either open the &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Path&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; menu and click &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Difference&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;, or press &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;Ctrl+Shift+-&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext3.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You will now (although it will be hidden behind the remaining piece of text, so you won't be able to see it) have an object with the text as a hole in the middle and the second (duplicate) piece of text. To create the shadow, create another rectangle&amp;amp;mdash;which must cover the area of the text&amp;amp;mdash;in the color of the shadow you want, like this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext4.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now repeat the previous process. First, send the new rectangle/object behind the remaining text (you can use &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;PgDn&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;) and select both of them, then do a difference between them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext5.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make this object look like a shadow, you can add some blur to it. Open the Fill &amp;amp; Stroke sidebar and change 'blur' to whatever you want. I've chosen 2.0 here.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext6.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, send this object behind the other object. You will see this kind of effect:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Punchtext7.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make it look more like a shadow/better, feel free to change the colour, amount of blur and position. I, for example, ended up with this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:PunchtextFinal.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See the [[Media:PunchtextFinal.svg|source of the final result]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Old tips==&lt;br /&gt;
The tips here are out of date / incomplete or the issue they addreess has been worked around&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Export to PDF Workaround===&lt;br /&gt;
As of version 0.45 saving as pdf results in unclipped images. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The following is a good workaround (On Windows):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Install [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PDF Creator].&lt;br /&gt;
Print to the PDFCreator device.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Printing or Producing PDFs in ISO A4 rather than US Specific Letter Paper ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I've been messing with this for ages, and as it turns out it's got a very simple solution (much easier than emailing your SVG to a friend with Illustrator ;-).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With Inkscape 0.42, if you create an A4 canvas and print it, it will quite happily print properly on an A4 printer. It'll even produce suitable PostScript too. However, if you produce a PDF (either by Save As... or by using the command line ps2pdf or by using Adobe Acrobat) you'll always get a US Letter PDF. I think this is because the PostScript doesn't mandate A4 or suggests Letter, after all, most .ps files will convert perfectly like this. However, you can force ps2pdf to use A4, although sadly not in Inkscape. Do it on the command line after printing PostScript to a file:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(it'll produce myfile.pdf, which should be an A4 PDF rather than the default Letter).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hopefully one day, Inkscape will have a dialogue asking you what paper size you'd like when it produced PDFs (much like saving .eps asks you a couple of things). After all, Inkscape just uses ps2pdf to produce PDFs anyway, so it ought to be able to pass in the paper size specification when it does so.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape ...Coofer Cat]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
==Broken links ;-(== &lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Release notes/0.91</title>
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&lt;div&gt;{{Other languages|en=Release_notes/0.49}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Inkscape 0.49==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''(not released yet - [[AnnouncePlanning049]])'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Release highlights==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Released on '''YYYY-MM-DD'''.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Cairo rendering for display and PNG export&lt;br /&gt;
* OpenMP multithreading for all filters&lt;br /&gt;
* Major improvements in the Text tool&lt;br /&gt;
* Measure tool&lt;br /&gt;
* Type design features&lt;br /&gt;
* Symbol library and support for Visio stencils&lt;br /&gt;
* Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export&lt;br /&gt;
* Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer&lt;br /&gt;
* Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters&lt;br /&gt;
* Numerous usability improvements&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Rendering and performance==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inkscape 0.49 includes a new renderer based on the Cairo library. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 projects.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Improved performance.''' The new renderer is significantly faster on most drawings. Renderings of the most complex objects are automatically cached to improve responsiveness during editing.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''OpenMP multithreading for filters.''' Filters use all available processor cores for computation. This results in substantial speedups when editing drawings containing large filtered objects on multi-core systems.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Substantial memory savings.''' Inkscape now uses less memory when opening complex drawings, in some cases using only 25% of the memory used by Inkscape 0.48. Larger files can now be opened.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Responsiveness improvements.''' The rendering of the SVG drawing is now cached. This results in massive improvements in responsiveness of path highlights, object selection / deselection, and path editing in delayed update mode.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Rendering bug fixes.''' Most of the rendering glitches in our bug tracker are no longer present in Inkscape 0.49. The following things now render correctly:&lt;br /&gt;
** Pattern fills (no more gaps between tiles, regardless of transformation)&lt;br /&gt;
** Stroke of transformed objects in patterns&lt;br /&gt;
** Patterns containing clipped objects&lt;br /&gt;
** Nested clipping paths&lt;br /&gt;
** Masked and clipped objects with large masks / clipping paths in Outline view&lt;br /&gt;
** Paths with wide strokes and long miters&lt;br /&gt;
** Fonts&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Color display mode===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A '''grayscale''' display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale. '''Shift+numpad5''' toggles the color display mode between normal and grayscale.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Tools==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Node tool ===&lt;br /&gt;
The Node tool's toolbar contains new buttons to insert new knots on the selected path segments' extreme values. Click the dropdown arrow next to the insert knots button.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Measurement tool ===&lt;br /&gt;
New.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Text tool ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Text size default unit is now points (pt) and is customizable (px,pt,pc,mm,cm,in,em)&lt;br /&gt;
* Text toolbar shows full list of font style variants for that font&lt;br /&gt;
* Files with text in em units read correctly&lt;br /&gt;
* Font substitution warning dialog&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Gradients  ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Gradient toolbar enhanced to select and modify gradient stops, invert, repeat, and link gradients&lt;br /&gt;
* On-canvas gradient editing fixes  - double clicking to create stops, correct focus on select&lt;br /&gt;
* Gradients sortable by color, name and usage in Fill/Stroke&lt;br /&gt;
* Gradients can be renamed in Fill/Stroke&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Dialogs, etc. ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Align and distribute ===&lt;br /&gt;
* New &amp;quot;Exchange position of selected objects&amp;quot; feature. It adds three buttons in the Align and Distribute dialog (rearrange group) that exchange the positions of the selected objects: 1. according to the selection order, 2. according to the Z-order, and 3. clockwise.&lt;br /&gt;
* Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Keypad numbers) for align operations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Find/Select ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* It is now easier to select items which are not at the top of the Z-order: use Alt+mouse wheel scroll to cycle through all items that are stacked on top of each other at the location of the mouse pointer (use Shift+Alt+mouse wheel scroll to add to the existing selection). At present, groups are not honoured, i.e., only individual items within groups are considered.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Find/Replace dialog can operate on text or any attribute&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Select Same&amp;quot; by Color/Style/Type added to main and context menu&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Layers  ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Drag and drop to reorder layers and create sublayers&lt;br /&gt;
* Show All / Hide All layers options in context menu&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Symbols ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. Inkscape 0.49 includes two example libraries, one for logic symbols and another for AIGA/DOT transportation symbols. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. &lt;br /&gt;
(A symbol is defined by an SVG &amp;amp;lt;symbol&amp;amp;gt; element.) Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library. Simply copy it to the ''symbols'' directory in your configuration directory (typically ''share/inkscape''). If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Visio Stencil files (.vss) can also be used by dropping them in the same &amp;quot;symbols&amp;quot; directory. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See the [http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog Symbols Dialog] Wiki page for more details.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Transform ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Rotation of objects clockwise or counterclockwise&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Markers ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Markers now take objects color&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Trace Bitmap ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Trace bitmap preview updates live and is resizeable&lt;br /&gt;
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===Live Path Effects===&lt;br /&gt;
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An object's Live Path Effects are now forked upon object duplication.&lt;br /&gt;
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====PowerStroke====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and '''anything can change'''. I think this is the most efficient place of keeping track how the powerstroke LPE works.&lt;br /&gt;
* stroke knots are purple diamonds&lt;br /&gt;
* when first applied, 3 stroke knots are added one at start, one at end, one somewhere in the middle along the path.&lt;br /&gt;
* adding nodes: Ctrl+click purple knot&lt;br /&gt;
* deleting nodes: Ctrl+Alt+click purple knot&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;sort points&amp;quot; reorders the stroke knots according to where they lie along the path (where they are closest to the path), instead of keeping them in original order.&lt;br /&gt;
* start and end caps can be specified. The SVG cap types are available, as well as an extra type, &amp;quot;Zero width&amp;quot;, that is identical to adding a width control knot at the start/end of the path with zero width.&lt;br /&gt;
* join type can be specified. In addition to the SVG join types, there are two new types:&lt;br /&gt;
** '''Extrapolated''': this extrapolates the contour of the stroked path to obtain a more natural looking miter join.&lt;br /&gt;
** '''Extrapolated arc''': [http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN/index.html Mathematical explanation].&lt;br /&gt;
** '''Spiro''': rounds the join using a spiro curve (the '''rounded''' type rounds the curve using an elliptical arc).&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png example screenshot]&lt;br /&gt;
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====Clone original====&lt;br /&gt;
The Clone original LPE ignores the path data of the path it has been applied to; instead, it '''copies the original-d path data''', i.e. the path data before LPE calculation, from the path linked to by the Linked path parameter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Clone original LPE is made to be used in conjunction with powerstroke. Powerstroke creates a path with a variable stroke, but this path can then not be filled (because the fill is used as the stroke). To fill a powerstroked path, one must create a second path (dummy path), apply the Clone original LPE and link it to the powerstroked path. Because this second path clones the original path data before the Powerstroke LPE, it can be used to fill the powerstroked path.&lt;br /&gt;
To quickly create a dummy path and apply this effect, one can select the path to 'clone' and click the menu item '''Edit &amp;gt; Clone &amp;gt; Clone original path (LPE)'''.&lt;br /&gt;
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Like for normal clones, pressing Shift+D, when the selected path has the Clone original LPE applied, selects the path referred to by the LPE.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another very useful ability of the Clone original LPE is to create a clone with a different style than its referred path. To facilitate this, the LPE dialog will add the Clone original LPE when a clone is selected and the &amp;quot;+&amp;quot; button is pressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Filters===&lt;br /&gt;
The new Custom predefined filters allow users to create predefined filters with custom parameters. See [[SpecCustomPredefinedFilters]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Trace Pixel Art (libdepixelize) ===&lt;br /&gt;
A [https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize new library] developed for Inkscape to automatically vectorize raster images specialized in Pixel Art was integrated in the form of the &amp;quot;Trace Pixel Art&amp;quot; dialog. Good and old general &amp;quot;Trace Bitmap&amp;quot; is still there. Check the [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/index.html supplementary material] of the algorithm authors to see a preview of how the algorithm behaves.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Other user interface==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== General ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Canvas background color can be set without exporting it (background transparency is only used for export but not the canvas).&lt;br /&gt;
* Guides visibility can be toggled by clicking the ruler&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Menu/Access ===&lt;br /&gt;
* New keyboard shortcut editor&lt;br /&gt;
* The interface elements are accessible through the keyboard with ALT+key in many more dialogs.&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Text and Font&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Fill and Stroke&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Check Spelling&amp;quot; dialogs are added to the text object context menu (right click).&lt;br /&gt;
* Menu items renamed - Edit-&amp;gt;Preferences, Edit-&amp;gt;Input Devices, File-&amp;gt;Cleanup Document&lt;br /&gt;
* Checkboxes to indicated status of View-&amp;gt;Grid/Guides/Snap/Color Management&lt;br /&gt;
* Group/Ungroup from the context menu&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Dialogs ===&lt;br /&gt;
* Dialog status and position is remembered between sessions&lt;br /&gt;
* Most dialogs now dockable (including &amp;quot;Object properties&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Object attributes&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Text and Font&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Check spelling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Export PNG image&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;XML editor&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Find/Replace&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Tiled clones&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
* New preference to allow Windows users to choose between native and Gtk open/save dialog&lt;br /&gt;
* Preferences dialog cleanup&lt;br /&gt;
* Document Metadata dialog merged into Document Properties&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Simple calculations in spinboxes===&lt;br /&gt;
In most spinboxes (a spinbox is an entry field with up and down &amp;quot;spinbuttons&amp;quot; next to it) you can now write simple calculations. For example: &amp;quot;2 * 3&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;50 + 100&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;((12 + 34) * (5 + 5) - 2) / 2&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
Moreover, you can use units in entering values, like &amp;quot;2 + 2 cm&amp;quot;. The result will be converted to the selected unit for the particular entry.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Configurable Control Handles===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
New preferences have been added to allow for the size of the on-canvas controls to be increased or decreased. The &amp;quot;Input Devices&amp;quot; section has been updated to control this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Translations==&lt;br /&gt;
* The ''Keyboard and mouse reference'' (inkscape-docs project) and the labels of color palettes are now translatable.&lt;br /&gt;
* New UI translation in Latvian.&lt;br /&gt;
* New tutorial translations in Galician and Greek.&lt;br /&gt;
* New man pages in Chinese (zh_TW) Greek (el), Japanese (ja) and Slovak (sk), and updated French translation. ''[Galician (gl) and Polish (pl) in progress]''&lt;br /&gt;
* Man pages now use PO files for translation (inkscape-docs project).&lt;br /&gt;
* The tutorial generation system now fully supports RTL languages.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==File format support==&lt;br /&gt;
* New Flash XML Graphics (FXG) export format.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Synfig Animation Studio (SIF) export format.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Visio (VSD) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libvisio libvisio].&lt;br /&gt;
* New internal CorelDraw (CDR) import format, based on [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libcdr libcdr].&lt;br /&gt;
* XAML export improvements.&lt;br /&gt;
* Compressed SVG and media export extension improvements. New options: set an image directory in the zip file, and add a text file that lists the fonts used in the SVG document.&lt;br /&gt;
* New preference to allow users to always link, embed or ask when importing bitmaps.&lt;br /&gt;
* New preferences that allow the checking of SVG on input and/or export for invalid or not useful elements, attributes, and properties. Options control whether such items generate warnings (when Inkscape is run from the command line) or in removing such items.&lt;br /&gt;
* The --export-text-to-path option now works with Plain SVG export.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===EMF/WMF===&lt;br /&gt;
EMF and WMF input and output filters have been completely rewritten and are now cross-platform. It is now possible to copy and paste EMF files between Windows applications running in Wine and a native Linux version of Inkscape.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Gimp XCF===&lt;br /&gt;
* The &amp;quot;Save Background&amp;quot; option allows users to choose if the page background is saved with each Gimp layer.&lt;br /&gt;
* The exported layers now use the label attribute or, if not set, the id attribute.&lt;br /&gt;
* New help tab.&lt;br /&gt;
* Some bugs and warnings fixed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===PDF===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Bleed/margin&amp;quot; : Added an option to specify an extra margin by which the bounding box to be exported is expanded. This may be helpful to export a PDF with a small white margin around the drawing, or for exporting a bleed region a few mm outside the area of the page.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===PDF/EPS/PS + LaTeX===&lt;br /&gt;
* Added the possibility of scaling the image. The 'calc' package must be included in the preamble. Then the image can be scaled by defining '\svgscale' instead of '\svgwidth'.&lt;br /&gt;
* The font shape is now also exported. '\textit{}' for italic text, '\textbf{}' for bold text, and '\textsl{}' (slanted) for oblique text. It is important to note that '''Arial''' has an '''oblique''' font shape and not '''italic''', so the result in LaTeX will be '''slanted instead of italic'''. It is better to '''use another font''' in Inkscape when you want true italics.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Extensions==&lt;br /&gt;
===New===&lt;br /&gt;
* The new guillotine extension is used for exporting png slices from a drawing. The slice rectangles are defined by adding horizontal and vertical guides within the canvas boundary, the canvas boundary serves as the outside of the sliced area.&lt;br /&gt;
* The new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code G-code] tools extension converts paths to G-code (using circular interpolation), makes offset paths and engraves sharp corners using cone cutters.&lt;br /&gt;
* New [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR code] generator.&lt;br /&gt;
* New isometric grid generator.&lt;br /&gt;
* New bitmap crop extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New &amp;quot;Extract text&amp;quot; extension outputs the text elements of the document in a chosen order.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Merge text extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New HSL adjust extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Replace font extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New N-Up layout extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Voronoï diagram extension (creates Voronoï diagrams and Delaunay triangulations based on the selected objects' barycenter).&lt;br /&gt;
* New Interpolate Attribute in a group extension.&lt;br /&gt;
* New Typography extensions menu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Improvements===&lt;br /&gt;
* Number nodes. New parameters allowing users to choose the starting dot number and the numbering step between two nodes.&lt;br /&gt;
* Color Markers to Match Stroke extension improvements. The markers can now inherit the fill and stroke colors and alpha channels from the object, or be customized with color selectors in a separate tab.&lt;br /&gt;
* Optional sliders added on float and int extension parameters (full and minimal modes).&lt;br /&gt;
* Extension parameters values (''except attributes!'') can now be contextualized for translation (with msgctxt).&lt;br /&gt;
* New sub-menus in the Render menu, grouping the bar-codes, grids and layout extensions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==SVG Support==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;clip-rule&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; property is now supported. No UI to set it exists at the moment, other than the XML editor.&lt;br /&gt;
* The &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;color-interpolation-filters&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; property is now supported meaning that non-Inkscape filters that specify &amp;quot;linearRGB&amp;quot; color interpolation will render properly. No UI is yet available to set the property. Filters created inside Inkscape will still use &amp;quot;sRGB&amp;quot; color interpolation by default.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Snapping ==&lt;br /&gt;
* The snapping preferences and the snap toolbar have been reworked, both in the underlying code as well as in the GUI. This should make the snapping preferences easier to understand, easier to maintain, and make it easier to find and fix any remaining snapping bugs&lt;br /&gt;
* Inkscape now also snaps perpendicularly and tangentialy to paths, when creating paths in the pen tool, when dragging nodes, or when manipulating guides. Newly created guides (dragged off the ruler) will snap perpendicularly or tangentialy to any curve that is being snapped to. Two checkboxes have been added to the document properties dialog (on the snapping tab). Please note that snapping perpendicularly or tangetialy will not work in the selector tool when transforming an object or a selection of objects.&lt;br /&gt;
* Intersections of paths and guides can now be snapped to too&lt;br /&gt;
* Snapping has been implemented fully for transforming selections of multiple nodes in the node tool&lt;br /&gt;
* Snapping to text anchors and baselines has been implemented properly&lt;br /&gt;
* If one has chosen for only snapping the snap source closest to the mouse pointer, then the tab key can be used to cycle to the next closest snap source&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notable bug fixes==&lt;br /&gt;
Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release ([[Release notes/0.48.4|0.48.4]]):&lt;br /&gt;
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/871563]&lt;br /&gt;
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with [[Release notes/0.47|0.47]]).&lt;br /&gt;
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.&lt;br /&gt;
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.&lt;br /&gt;
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X/Y/width/height) are much more accurately applied.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Known issues==&lt;br /&gt;
* '''On MS Windows when the desktop colordepth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape is unusable because of exploding memory usage.''' Please set the colordepth to 32-bit.&lt;br /&gt;
* The Cairo library used in the new renderer does not implement downscaling, which causes large bitmaps to be pixelated on export. [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/804162] The issue can be fixed with an out-of-tree patch to Cairo. [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41745]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Previous releases==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.48]] ([[Release notes/0.48.1 |0.48.1]], [[Release notes/0.48.2 | 0.48.2]], [[Release notes/0.48.3 | 0.48.3]], [[Release notes/0.48.4 | 0.48.4]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.47]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.46]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.45]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.44]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.43]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.42]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.41]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.40]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.39]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.38]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.37]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.36]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Release notes/0.35]]&lt;br /&gt;
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