Inkscape 0.44.1pre1 review
DownloadInkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
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Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.
What's New:
fix hang in page size widget
on Mac OS X, removed problems with home folder path names containing spaces;
inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it previously failed to do so
several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. RHEL4);
allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; recognize if boost is too old
inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x.
fixed a bug where stderr output from scripts was not shown
fixed a bug affecting the recent files menu
resolution information is now saved in exported PNG files
fix some ODG export bugs
fix dia import
fix several include issues affecting building on Solaris (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, and similar ones on OpenBSD)
added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German keytable to tarball
applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape strings
interactivity improvements at high zooms
fix for specifying CSS colors with percentages
re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside the new one
minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is still in the works)
fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become widespread in Inkscape documents
Mac OS X packaging updates
miscellaneous build fixes.
Requirements:
Apple's X11 windowing environment.
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