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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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, which allows to non-destructively erase (parts of) all kinds of elements, including raster images and clones.
Clipping / Masking
Clip paths and masks now have an inverse mode in the menu, using the PowerClip and PowerMask LPEs
Live Path Effects
BSPline and Spiro
Improvements in Pen/Pencil mode. With "Alt", you can move the previous node.
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 Symmetry and Rotate Copies Split feature
This new feature allows custom styles for each part of the resulting drawing without unlinking the LPE.
Video: Mirror Symmetry and Rotate Copies LPE Split option
Power Clip and Power Mask LPE
This new LPE add options to clips and masks.
Video: PowerClip and PowerMask LPE
Fillet/Chamfer
This new LPE adds fillet and chamfer to paths. Also adds a new internal class that allows to handle extra info per node, the LPE itself is an example of use the new classes.
Video: Fillet/Chamfer LPE
Boolean Operations LPE
Allows non-destructive boolean operations...
Embroidery Stich
An LPE to handle embroidery...
Import / Export
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Extensions
Extension development
- All INX Parameters now have the common attribute
indent="n"
wheren
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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Symbols
- The Symbols dialog can now handle a lot of symbols without delay on startup, and also allows searching. Symbols and symbol sets now displayed in alphabetical order.
Customization
All files in /share
can be over-ridden by placing files in the user's configuration folder (e.g. ~/.config/inkscape
).
Configurable contents now includes extensions, filters, fonts, gradients, icons, keyboard shortcuts, preset markers, palettes, patterns, about screen, symbol sets, templates, tutorials and some user interface configuration files.
Fonts
- Inkscape can now 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).
Keyboard 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.
User interface customization
- Inkscape is starting to use glade files for its dialogs so they can be reconfigured by users. Only one is currently supported (filter editor).
- The contents of the menus can be configured by customizing the menus.xml file.
- Toolbar contents for the command bar (commands-toolbar.ui), the snap bar (snap-toolbar.ui), the tool controls bars for each tool (select-toolbar.ui), the toolbox (tool-toolbar.ui) is now configurable.
- The file keybindings.rc allows you to... (TODO: do what? What does it do in comparison to keys.xml?)
- The interface colors and some more UI styles can be customized in style.css (very raw themeing support).
Inkview
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
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
New UI translations for [please fill in].
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