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To enable this, add the following line to your preferences. Keyboard profiles The previous release allowed sets of keybindings keymaps to be created for Inkscape in the style of other applications. Two more keymaps have been added: Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Freehand Of course not every feature in these other programs has a direct match to features in Inkscape; so, if you can, please help us out by reporting any problems you may have or improvements you would like to request.

Additionally, a keymap that focuses on tablet-based illustration and drawing work has been added: right-handed-illustration. Extension effects Inkscape's extension effects, written in Python using the inkex utility class, are currently a major growth point of the project. This makes it easy to create a variety of patterned and shaped strokes. This obsoletes the old "Kochify" extension which is removed. Deformation type can be one of: Snake bends the pattern flatly in the plane of the drawing, the width not depending on direction; Ribbon bends it as a vertical ribbon or like a calligraphic stroke with maximum fixation, so that width depends on direction minimum for vertical parts of the stroke, maximum for horizontal.

Several parameters allow you to adjust spacing between the copies of the pattern for Multiple modes and their offset in two directions along the skeleton path and perpendicular to it. Normally the effect assumes that the pattern object is horizontal and bends its horizontal axis at mid-height along the skeleton path. There's a checkbox that allows you to use a vertical pattern instead. Color effects : A new group of extensions in the Color submenu of the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at once.

These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including gradients but not bitmaps. Some examples of using this effect are shown on a screenshot at [2][Link no longer available]. Note: undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an object seems to "disappear"; this is only a display issue caused by the order in which gradients and their users are restored on undo not causing any loss of information.

Also, on large documents and large selections with gradients, Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these shortcomings, we decided to add this extension, because it's genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in Inkscape. It is no longer necessary to hand-edit XML to recolor arrowheads; just change the stroke color of your path and call this effect to recolor its markers to match.

Lorem ipsum in "Render" submenu is a new extension that creates the traditional Latin-like random text for design mock-ups. The number of paragraphs, the number of sentences per paragraph and the possible fluctuation of the number of sentences for uneven paragraphs can be adjusted.

If no flowed text element is selected, a new one in a new layer is created, matching the size of the canvas. Fractalize in "Modify Path" submenu replaces each segment of the selected path by a crooked line, subdivided to the given depth, with randomly displaced nodes. Then just create a group for each icon, and with the extension, each group ends up in its own PNG file. Improved effects The Function Plotter has been extended, providing greater flexibility in x- and y-range definition.

The Measure Path extension is improved with several new parameters added units, scale, precision, distance from path. The Extract One Image extension is fixed to automatically append filename extension to the created bitmap file.

Infrastructure 3 new parameter types have been added to the extension effect UI: tabs , enumerations and optiongroups radio buttons. Examples are available of how to use these parameters in INX files: the new Function Plotter uses tabs; enumerations are used by the Pattern along path extension; and a small developer example is given to illustrate the use of optiongroups identical to enumerations. This indicates that the extension does not process the current SVG document, and Inkscape will not bother saving and restoring the document from a temporary file which allows this extension to run faster and smoother.

This is used for the new open-in-default-browser Help menu commands which are technically implemented as extensions. This has been clarified in the Open and Save As lists. Changed behavior: the pointless text to path question is gone. Note that in 0. This is the number of significant digits written for each number into SVG. You can lower this number to get slightly more compact SVG at the expense of precision.

Set this to 0 to disable indentation. If nonzero, attributes are placed on the same line as their tags; otherwise they are separated by newlines. Bitmap tracing A new color quantization algorithm for multiscan traces works faster especially for large numbers of colors and gives more adequate results with less colors used. This improves tracing results both for full-color photographs and for limited-color drawings.

The Trace Bitmap dialog now provides access to three more tracing parameters: Suppress speckles : If set, spots or speckles larger than the given size in pixels are suppressed in the trace. Smooth corners : This parameter controls how much smoothing is applied to corners in the traced path. Optimize paths : If set, trace paths are optimized by joining adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance.

All controls in the Trace Bitmap dialog are reorganized to be easier to find. The dialog is redesigned to use two main tabs: Mode where you select the tracing mode, such as brightness cutoff or color multiscan and Options where you set various tracing options, such as corner smoothing.

The preview is placed horizontally to the right of the tabs. Most labels and tooltips are rewritten for clarity. The trace preview image is made twice larger. This makes opacity values easier to read, type, and say. A Save a copy command has been added to the file menu, similar to the 'Save a copy' functionality of e.

Adobe Illustrator. With this command, you can save your document under a new filename, but Inkscape will then "forget" it has done this: later saves will be to the old filename.

Text and flowed text objects behave more consistently. Now you can put a flowed text on path or re flow it into a shape just as you would do with a regular unflowed text.

Previously, the need to convert a flowed text to text before these operations was a stumble for many users. All these commands open the corresponding web pages in the user's default web browser.

Exported PNG images have the correct resolution set in the header. Use this to remove self-intersections in path objects. We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.

Those who use older versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2. Unless you have specific resolution or minimum size set for this command in preferences. Also, a 90 dpi bitmap with its pixels exactly 1 px in size will be snapped to the pixel grid. This makes it easy to use Create Bitmap for quick rasterization preview of an object or document. Note: if you have used a previous version of Inkscape, your preferences.

Using extended input i. With extended input disabled, you can still use your tablet as a mouse. Simplify Path now has two modes when working with a group of paths: the default mode, which treats all of the paths as one large object to simplify, or the new mode, which acts the same as using Simplify on each path in a group separately.

In preferences. For long Simplify operations more than 20 paths at a time , Inkscape provides user feedback via the status bar as to how many paths have been simplified. This change also prevents Inkscape from appearing to have locked up during the operation. This will help video and DVD authoring with Inkscape. Examples With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially blur - Inkscape is now able to produce extremely photorealistic art. But with the addition of Gaussian Blur, this feature suddenly got within reach.

A new example file, gradient-mesh-experimental. Although Inkscape does not support animation yet, you can add any animation scripts and attributes to your SVG file manually in a text editor - and the file will still be editable in Inkscape.

Tavmjong Bah used this technique to create animated-clock. If loaded in Inkscape, the image is static, but instead you can freely edit any of the objects. Translations, tutorials, templates Remarkable improvements are in the Danish , Finnish , Nepalese and the Vietnamese translations of the user interface.

They all jumped from 0 to over 90 percent in a very short timespan. All people which are familiar with pig latin are now able to use Inkscape's user interface in that language. Isthay isway oughtbray otay usway ybay away ewnay anslatortray.

A new Esperanto translation added including default document template. Default Lithuanian template was not installed before, which is now fixed. New tutorial "Easter Eggs" by Steve Karg. Added Catalan default template and elements tutorial. Russian header and footer templates for tutorials are added. There are also new Russian and Japanese translations of Windows installer strings. However, it is highly recommended to use at least the version 2.

Notable bugfixes When deleting a node, neighboring smooth nodes are converted to cusp. Releasing the mouse button while dragging nodes using a tablet will now always release the nodes. Before this, a race condition could occur where dragging could continue after the mouse button was released. Transforming an object and its clone no longer behaves unexpectedly when they are both within a transformed group.

Previously, Inkscape didn't check if there's enough free memory for its pixel buffers and could crash without warning due to insufficient memory e. This problem became much worse after implementing Gaussian blur, because rendering blurred objects at high zooms may require a pixel buffer much bigger than the visible canvas.

Now this situation is handled more gracefully: if a display operation requires more memory than available, or more than Mb which corresponds to a x pixel buffer , it is skipped. This may result in blurred objects "disappearing" at high zooms. This is purely a display issue, however, and it never corrupts data; just zoom out or reduce blur radius and the disappeared object will show up OK.

When resizing objects, scaling numbers in the statusbar are no longer overwritten by other text when pressing the modifier keys Alt, Shift, Ctrl. To work around problems some users had with pressure-sensitive tablets bug [Link no longer available] , the pressure sensitivity can be disabled from the Misc tab of Inkscape Preferences dialog.

After that, the tablet can still be used as a regular mouse. The layer widget in the statusbar used to lose its current layer after an effect run; this is fixed. When using different display resolutions or a dual screen setup, dialogs could be displayed off-screen; this is fixed: now Inkscape checks whether the saved position of the dialog is offscreen, if so it will move the dialog to the center of the screen.

Note that this not solve all problems. If the dialog is still not visible, go to the bug [Link no longer available] where a procedure is given to make the dialog visible by editing preferences.

Grid and guidelines no longer vanish when changing their color. Group transformation is now correctly re-applied when ungrouping and then undoing the ungroup operation. Text dialog no longer discards the style of the selected text. Inkscape no longer crashes when you try to unflow an empty flowed text. When the document window is minimized, the dialogs remain visible, i. Because of this, it is not possible to get the document window back by clicking its taskbar button.

A workaround to this problem is to right-click the Inkscape taskbar button and select "Restore". We expect that future releases of GTK will solve this problem.

Numerical Python required for Perspective effect This effect will not work until you install a python module called numpy Numerical Python. It can be downloaded at numpy. The Windows package already contains this module. Either unlink the clone first, or clip one clone of a source object not the source itself by another clone of the same. Digital artists use it to produce professional quality work. Engineers and scientists use it to create clear drawings to explain their ideas.

Everyday people use it to create simple drawings, develop their design skills, and just have fun. This new version features faster and more accurate rendering, new and improved tools, as well as better and wider file-format support. Inkscape 0. This work was done mainly during Google Summer of Code and projects. A grayscale display color mode has been added, that shows a preview of your drawing in grayscale.

The tool control bar for the Node Tool features a new dropdown to insert new nodes on the selected segments extreme values. For example, as demonstrated in the image below it is possible to add a new node at the highest point in a curve using Insert Node at Max Y. The Measurement tool is a new feature for the artist to measure the elements in their drawing. To use the measurement tool, simply choose the tool, click anywhere on the drawing and drag the ruler out.

The measurement tool will live-update with measurements of length and angles as you pass over objects in your drawing. In the following example, three objects were selected, and their positions were exchaged with each other using this new feature according to their selection order.

Also there are other choices available to select same, including: matching both Fill and Stroke, matching just stroke, matching stroke style, or matching on object type. The Gradient view in the fill and stroke dialog now displays a list of all the gradients in the document.

The list displays the gradient, the gradient name, and number of uses of that gradient in the document. Inkscape has a new Symbols dialog. The dialog displays symbols from a symbol library. The dialog will also create a pseudo-library of all existing symbols in the current Inkscape drawing. Symbols can be dragged from the dialog onto the Inkscape canvas. Any document with symbols can serve as a source for a symbol library.

If proper care is taken, symbols can be provided with default fill and stroke colors that later can be overridden by the user. Visio Stencil files. Results may not be as satisfactory as using SVG symbol libraries.

See the Symbols Dialog Wiki page for more details. Here a list of the current state. Note that this is very much work in progress and anything can change.