Release notes/0.93

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Inkscape 0.93

(definitely not released yet - AnnouncePlanning093)

Release highlights

Released on «YYYY-MM-DD».

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New Features and Improvements

• Inkview was considerably improved and got some new features

• Support folders as input (will load all SVG files from the specified folder)
  The -r or --recursive option will even allow to search subfolders recursively.
• Implement -t or --timer option which allows to set a time after which the next file will be automatically loaded.
• Add -s or --scale option to set a factor by which to scale the displayed image.
• Add -f or --fullscreen option to launch Inkview in fullscreen mode
• Many smaller fixes and improvements

• Shortcuts

• Allow to use "Super", "Hyper" and "Meta" modifier keys
• Improve shortcut handling code. This should fix a lot of issues and allow to use a lot of shortcuts which were inaccessible before, especially on non-English keyboard layouts.

• Customizable share folder - All files in /share can be over-ridden by placing files in the user's configuration folder (e.g. ~/.config/inkscape). These include keyboard files (no change) to user interface files (glade files) and menu xml files to configure the menus, toolbars and interfaces of Inkscape (very raw themeing support).
• Inkscape is starting to use glade for it's dialogs so they can be reconfigured by users. Only one is currently supported.
• Allow Inkscape to load fonts that are not installed on the system. By default Inkscape will load additional fonts from Inkscape's share folder (/share/inkscape/fonts) and the user's configuration folder (~/.config/inkscape/fonts). Custom folders can be set in preferences (see Tools → Text → Font directories).
• Clip and Mask now support inverse in the menu using PowerClip and PowerMask LPE
• Symbols dialog now can handle a lot of symbols dialog without delay on startup, also allow searching, sybols and symbols set are order alphabeticaly

Important changes

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The icon preview dialog now correctly shows the page background (Bug #1537497). As a side effect, custom UI icons SVG files need updating to have their background color alpha channel set to 0 so that they display correctly (see Bug #1661989).

Tools

• Eraser
  New option to erase as clip, to allow erase over all kind of elements.

Live Path Effects

BSPline and Spiro improvements in Pen/Pencil mode. With "Alt" you can move previous node. Please consider backport to 0.92.x as they are "new" tools and seems OK users get the best using mode as soon as possible. On trunk in r.b04f74f9

• Measure Line
  This new path effect add DIN and custom style meassure lines to "straight" segments in a path.
  Here are a video working:Meassure Line LPE

• Clone original Improvements
  This path effect now allow items instead paths and has a lot of power behaind.
  Here are a video working:Clone Original Improvements

• Mirror Simmetry and Rotate Copies Split feature
  This new feature allow custom style for each piece without unlinking LPE
  Here are the video: Mirror Symmetry and Rotate Copies LPE Split option

• Power Clip and Power Mask LPE
  This new LPE add options to clips and masks.
  Here are the video working PowerClip and PowerMask LPE

• Fillet/Chamfer
  This new LPE add fillet and chamfer to paths. Also add a new internal class that allow to handle extra info per node, the LPE itself is a example of use the new classes.
  Here are the video working Fillet/Chamfer LPE

• Boolean Operations LPE
  Allow boolean operations non destructives...

• Embrodery Stich
  A LPE to handle embrodery...

Import / Export

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Extensions

• All INX Parameters now have the common attribute indent="n" where n specifies the level of indentation in the extension UI.
• Add appearance="url" for INX Parameters of type "description". You can now add clickable links to your extension UI.

SVG and CSS

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Command Line

• xverbs (command line commands that take parameters, e.g. for saving the selection under a specified filename as svg file) (mailing list thread)
• New verb allows to swap fill and stroke from command line: EditSwapFillStroke (a keyboard shortcut can now be assigned to it) (bug 675690)
• Files can now also be saved as Inkscape SVG without calling the GUI save dialog (new command: --export-inkscape-svg)

New dependencies

• libsoup - Used for making http requests without the need for dbus and gvfs.

Translations

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Notable Bugfixes

• Symbols: Visio Stencils loaded from .vss files now use their actual name instead of a placeholder derived from the symbol file's name (bug 1676144)
• Shapes on Pen and Pencil tools now retain color and width (bug:1707899).

For an exhaustive list of bugs that have been fixed, please see the milestones page for Inkscape 0.93..

Known Issues

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Previous releases

• Release notes/0.92 (0.92.1, 0.92.2)
• Release notes/0.91
• Release notes/0.48 (0.48.1, 0.48.2, 0.48.3, 0.48.4, 0.48.5)
• Release notes/0.47
• Release notes/0.46
• Release notes/0.45
• Release notes/0.44
• Release notes/0.43
• Release notes/0.42
• Release notes/0.41
• Release notes/0.40
• Release notes/0.39
• Release notes/0.38
• Release notes/0.37
• Release notes/0.36
• Release notes/0.35