Release notes/0.92

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Inkscape 0.92

(definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning092)

Release highlights

Released on «YYYY-MM-DD».

Manipulating Objects

Objects Dialog

Now 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.

Imported from Ponyscape.

Selection Sets Dialog

New dialog that allows the creation of selection sets that are not affected 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

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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.

BSpline

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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

Live Path Effect mode

The options in the Live effect dialog give you control on bspline paths.

• Set to Default weight (0.3334 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.

 

Fillet/Chamfer

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Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJKzGhJULfc

• Four types: fillet, inverse fillet, chamfer and inverse chamfer.
• Fillet/Chamfer knots are green diamonds
• Change Fillet/Chamfer types: Ctrl+click green knot
• Fillet/Chamfer knot dialog: Shift+click green knot
• Handle units.
• Methods Auto,Force Arcs or Force Bezier. Auto use arcs for straight lines and bezier for curves.
• Numeric radius input.
• Optional helper path with knot direction
• Two kind of radius, fixed and flexible.
• Optional Knot distance to node instead radius
• Ignore 0 radius knots.
• Change only selected nodes.
• Chamfer subdivisions input. -double-chamfer, triple chamfer....-
• Hide Knots, some times useful. ex: 0 radius knot.
• Type change buttons

Roughen

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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-

Simplify

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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.

Perspective/Envelope

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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

Lattice Deformation 2

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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

Show Handles

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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!

Transform by two points

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Extended video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw

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

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)

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.

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).

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

Bug fixes

• 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.

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).