Inkscape Version 0.91 Released
"Four years since the last major Inkscape release, now news is out about version 0.91 of this powerful vector drawing and painting tool. The main reason for the multi-year delay is that they've switched from their old custom rendering engine to using Cairo now, improving their support for open source standards. This release also adds symbol libraries and support for Visio stencils, cross platform WMF and EMF import and export, a native Windows 64-bit build, scads of bug fixes, and much more. Check out the full release notes for more information about what has changed, or just jump right todownloading your package for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X." -- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/01/31/1914255 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:16:09 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"...they've switched from their old custom rendering engine to using Cairo now..."
Yay! Lawrence yet another Cairo fan
I just downloaded and built it from source. To those accustomed to Gimp, where filter effects destructively modify the pixels of the image, it’s worth noting that Inkscape’s effects are non-destructive: apply a pixel filter to a path, and your original path is unaffected and remains editable as it was before. So as you edit the path, the filters get continuously re-applied to the new path. This does slow things down somewhat, but it is very useful to be able to let you try different things and change your mind, or even remove the filter altogether. Or you can temporarily disable a filter to speed up editing without removing it, then turn it on again afterwards.
I just downloaded and built it from source. To those accustomed to Gimp, where filter effects destructively modify the pixels of the image, it’s worth noting that Inkscape’s effects are non-destructive: apply a pixel filter to a path, and your original path is unaffected and remains editable as it was before.
So as you edit the path, the filters get continuously re-applied to the new path. This does slow things down somewhat, but it is very useful to be able to let you try different things and change your mind, or even remove the filter altogether.
Or you can temporarily disable a filter to speed up editing without removing it, then turn it on again afterwards.
Good stuff! Cheers, Peter
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