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==Release highlights== | ==Release highlights== | ||
Released on '''2018-03-23''' | |||
Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. | Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters. | ||
Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts. | Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts. | ||
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=== Text tool === | === Text tool === | ||
Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added ( | Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added. | ||
[[File:RTLtext.png]] | |||
(On narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right.) | |||
=== Circle/ellipse/arc tool === | === Circle/ellipse/arc tool === | ||
New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181127 1181127]) | New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. <br /> | ||
(Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181127 1181127, Ellipse control bar should include Rx, Ry, or width and height]) | |||
[[File:EllipseRxRy.png]] | |||
=== PDF+LaTeX export === | === PDF+LaTeX export === | ||
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* ''Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/410250/understanding-line-height-line-spacing-baselinskip-in-latex results might be unexpected].'' | * ''Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/410250/understanding-line-height-line-spacing-baselinskip-in-latex results might be unexpected].'' | ||
=== | === Performance: New preferences option === | ||
A new option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added under Rendering preferences. It can adjust the size of rendering tiles (tiles are portions of canvas area that are calculated in one go). Rendering larger areas with complex content at once requires more computational time, but modern computers come with powerful hardware and many should be up to the task. | |||
Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas). | |||
The new default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). A more detailed explanation is available [https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/211#note_62157385 here]. | |||
[[File:RenderingTileMultiplier.png]] | |||
=== Startup Performance === | === Startup Performance === | ||
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* Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1720330 1720330]) | * Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1720330 1720330]) | ||
* gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92 (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1680760 1680760]) | * gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92 (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1680760 1680760]) | ||
* | * The 'Clone original' path effect that was partially broken in Inkscape 0.92.2 works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1715433 1715433]) | ||
* The preferences dialog was tiny by default (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1360213 1360213]) | * The preferences dialog was tiny by default (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1360213 1360213]) | ||
* Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1568644 1568644]) | * Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1568644 1568644]) | ||
* Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1654034 1654034]) | * Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1654034 1654034]) | ||
* Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from [http://openclipart.org/ OpenClipart] when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1745521 1745521]) | * Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from [http://openclipart.org/ OpenClipart] when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1745521 1745521]) | ||
* Texts that are written in vertical direction now have their marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/2abe0bb681044d972e171189395a2afdbc39bf28 gitlab commit]) | |||
==Important bugfixes== | ==Important bugfixes== | ||
* Fix shortcuts not working as expected on systems with non-latin primary keyboard layout. (Bugs #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1226962 1226962], #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1730246 1730246], #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1734308 1734308]) | |||
* Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1691406 1691406]) | * Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1691406 1691406]) | ||
* Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412365 1412365] and #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715339 1715339], also causing #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714278 1714278]) | * Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412365 1412365] and #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715339 1715339], also causing #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714278 1714278]) | ||
* File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/4d599528d1d927aee14018cda577f6e8313ae347]) | * Fix "Open recent" not including files with special characters on Windows. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/629608 629608]) | ||
* File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/4d599528d1d927aee14018cda577f6e8313ae347]) | |||
* Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716516 1716516]) | * Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716516 1716516]) | ||
* Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719629 1719629]) and when setting the autosave location manually. | * Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719629 1719629]) and when setting the autosave location manually. | ||
* Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1195929 1195929]) | * Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1195929 1195929]) | ||
* Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics | * Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output (Bugs #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771957 771957], #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417470 1417470]) | ||
* Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490866 490866], #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1733424 1733424]) | * Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490866 490866], #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1733424 1733424]) | ||
* Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the <code>--export-id</code> command line switch (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1306662 1306662], #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707368 1707368]) | * Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the <code>--export-id</code> command line switch (Bug #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1306662 1306662], #[https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707368 1707368]) | ||
* Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1672066 1672066]) | |||
* Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/608fa56e839649839c57d52e23e962c2c740c289 gitlab commit]) | |||
* The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1460858 1460858]) | |||
* The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1510831 1510831]) | |||
== More bug fixes == | == More bug fixes == | ||
There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these | There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only. | ||
For | For a complete list, visit [https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.92.3 our launchpad bug tracker] and see the [https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commits/0.92.x commit history on gitlab] (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date). | ||
==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
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==Known issues== | ==Known issues== | ||
* DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653230 1653230],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653236 1653236],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654342 1654342],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654796 1654796],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654880 1654880],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654903 1654903],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655005 1655005],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655053 1655053],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1660228 1660228]) | * DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653230 1653230],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653236 1653236],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654342 1654342],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654796 1654796],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654880 1654880],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654903 1654903],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655005 1655005],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655053 1655053],[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1660228 1660228]) | ||
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* Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656383 1656383]) | * Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656383 1656383]) | ||
* Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652100 1652100]) | * Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652100 1652100]) | ||
* Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #[https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1431274 1431274]) | |||
== Other releases == | |||
{{:Release notes}} | |||
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Release highlights
Released on 2018-03-23
Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters.
Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts.
Improvements
Command line usage
Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format:
--export-area-drawing
(feature requests in bug #1597921 and bug #1722844)--export-area-page
while using--export-id
--export-margin
Text tool
Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added.
(On narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right.)
Circle/ellipse/arc tool
New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar.
(Bug #1181127, Ellipse control bar should include Rx, Ry, or width and height)
PDF+LaTeX export
Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added. (Bug #771959)
Please note:
- Currently only the line-spacing of the top level text element is considered, i.e. all lines in one text element share the same line spacing.
- LaTeX is much more clever with respect to line spacing, so layout might not always be exactly the same as in Inkscape.
- Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise results might be unexpected.
Performance: New preferences option
A new option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added under Rendering preferences. It can adjust the size of rendering tiles (tiles are portions of canvas area that are calculated in one go). Rendering larger areas with complex content at once requires more computational time, but modern computers come with powerful hardware and many should be up to the task.
Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas).
The new default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). A more detailed explanation is available here.
Startup Performance
The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now.
This is the result of improvements in fontconfig 2.13.0, a third party library which handles font related tasks for Inkscape. One of the tasks is creating an index of all fonts available on the system which is much faster now. If the new indexing causes any issues (i.e. fonts or glyphs not available that could be used before) make sure to let us know or report the issue directly to the fontconfig project.
Extensions
Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves. Tkinter provides functionality for creating interactive graphical user interfaces. This is used, for example, by the TexText extension that renders mathematical LaTeX formulas to SVG (feature request at bug #1735451).
Regression fixes
- Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7. (Bug #1714278)
- Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #1720330)
- gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92 (Bug #1680760)
- The 'Clone original' path effect that was partially broken in Inkscape 0.92.2 works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #1715433)
- The preferences dialog was tiny by default (Bug #1360213)
- Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected (Bug #1568644)
- Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows (Bug #1654034)
- Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests (Bug #1745521)
- Texts that are written in vertical direction now have their marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again (gitlab commit)
Important bugfixes
- Fix shortcuts not working as expected on systems with non-latin primary keyboard layout. (Bugs #1226962, #1730246, #1734308)
- Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #1691406)
- Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #1412365 and #1715339, also causing #1714278)
- Fix "Open recent" not including files with special characters on Windows. (Bug #629608)
- File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links ([1])
- Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #1716516)
- Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml (Bug #1719629) and when setting the autosave location manually.
- Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #1195929)
- Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output (Bugs #771957, #1417470)
- Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages (Bug #490866, #1733424)
- Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the
--export-id
command line switch (Bug #1306662, #1707368) - Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box (Bug #1672066)
- Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash (gitlab commit)
- The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #1460858)
- The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #1510831)
More bug fixes
There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only.
For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date).
Translations
The following UI translations received updates:
- French
- German
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Korean
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
The following installer translations received updates:
- Korean
Contributing to interface translations
Want to help with translations? Learn how to help!
Documentation
Documentation Relaunch
The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab.
Documentation Updates
The man page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated.
Where to find recent documentation
Continuously updated man page (for command line usage), keyboard and mouse shortcut list, tutorials and translation statistics for the various parts of the Inkscape project are available on the inkscape.org website:
- Man page
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tutorials
- Translation statistics for Inkscape 0.92 series / development branch
Tutorials, as always, are also included with your Inkscape installation.
Contributing to documentation and documentation translation
Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository.
Known issues
- DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (1653230,1653236,1654342,1654796,1654880,1654903,1655005,1655053,1660228)
- DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly (Bug #1653893)
- Line height: Changing "baseline spacing" stops working (#1707808)
- Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings (Bug #1656383)
- Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time (Bug #1652100)
- Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #1431274)
Other releases
- Inkscape 1.5 — development branch
- Inkscape 1.4 — current stable release branch
- Inkscape 1.3 (1.3.1, 1.3.2)
- Inkscape 1.2 (1.2.1, 1.2.2)
- Inkscape 1.1 (1.1.1, 1.1.2)
- Inkscape 1.0 (1.0.1, 1.0.2)
- Inkscape 0.92 (0.92.1, 0.92.2, 0.92.3, 0.92.4, 0.92.5)
- Inkscape 0.91
- Inkscape 0.48 (0.48.1, 0.48.2, 0.48.3, 0.48.4, 0.48.5)
- Inkscape 0.47
- Inkscape 0.46
- Inkscape 0.45
- Inkscape 0.44
- Inkscape 0.43
- Inkscape 0.42
- Inkscape 0.41
- Inkscape 0.40
- Inkscape 0.39
- Inkscape 0.38
- Inkscape 0.37
- Inkscape 0.36
- Inkscape 0.35