Inkscape 0.47 Released 225
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kdawson
from the drawing-not-quartering dept.
from the drawing-not-quartering dept.
derrida writes "After over a year of intensive development and refactoring, Inkscape 0.47 is out. This version of the SVG-based vector graphics editor brings improved performance and tons of new features, including: timed autosave, Spiro splines, auto-smooth nodes, Eraser tool, new modes in Tweak tool, snapping options toolbar & greater snapping abilities, new live path effects (including Envelope), over 200 preset SVG filters, new Cairo-based PS and EPS export, spell checker, many new extensions, optimized SVG code options, and much more. Additionally, it would be wrong to not mention the hundreds of bug fixes. Check out the full release notes for more information about what has changed, enjoy the screenshots, or just jump right to downloading your package for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X." We've been following the progress of Inkscape for years (2006, 2005, 2004).
Re:Inkscape is great (Score:4, Funny)
Often something you can't easily tweak in R can be fixed very quickly in Inkscape.
Do you per chance work for the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia?
Re:The closed circle (Score:1, Funny)
Where would that be?
In the Microsoft world, 1.0 is prototype, 2.0 is feature preview, 3.0 is alpha, 3.1 is beta, 3.y where y>1 is stable, and 4.0 is oh f*ck, they broke everything.
From x>=5, x.0 is alpha, SP1 is beta, and somewhere between SP2 and SP6 is stable.
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
And why is the spec almost 700 pages, and why does everybody I know who has tried to work with it cursed it up and down?
Re:A "must-have" package (Score:2, Funny)
Why did you reply with something unrelated? Were you trying to get easy karma by posting something trite at the top of the discussion?
For those that scrolled to the bottom (Score:5, Funny)
Let me summarise the thread:
* beelsebob quite rightly pointed out PDF should be under Export and not Save, since Inkscape can't load PDFs
* BitZstream wrote many rambling pieces about how it wasn't compliant with the full SVG standard, most other people found it a jolly useful piece of software and were quite happy using it
* people were generally unimpressed with bytesex's idea of merging Inkscape into GIMP
* a few lamented the demise of Artworks/Xara
Phillip.