Inkscape new release
Inkscape 1.2 is the latest major Inkscape release that brings you many fresh new features and new functionality.
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This is for testing, bug reporting and giving user feedback!
Application for contacts backup
Automatically store your contacts to your SD card
I was missing auto export of contacts in cvs file in many FOSS contact manager apps. I came across this app, using it with syncthing is working like charm.
Previously, I was using https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.decsync.cc/ issue was that I could not restore backups.
<p><img alt="New discoveries await... by Chris Hildenbrand (CC-By-SA 4.0)" src="https://media.inkscape.org/media/news/uploads/About_Screen2_v1-2_ChrisHildenbrand_750x625-fs8.png" style="width: 30%; float: left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0" /></p> <p>Congratulations to Inkscape artist <strong>Chris Hildenbr...
Inkscape about screen contest really showed fine pieces of art 😍
Rejoice all, for the infamous “Korners” bug has been fixed! This issue caused 3rd-party window decoration themes with rounded corners to display a square blur area when using burred bac…
Ever since I started contributing to Kate there has been one feature request that was being requested in almost every blog post or discussion about kate: multiple cursor support. I am happy to say that after 3 or 4 days of really pushing myself to implement this and address all the issues we just me...
Multicursor will be available in 5.25
Inkscape 1.1.1 Released
Release Notes
New Features
Menus We've added a link to our donation page in Help → Donate, to make it easier for users to contribute to the project financially (MR #3325)
Bug fixes
General
Thanks to the upstream fix in gtk3, pressure sensitivity works again with Windows Ink activated (Bug #1437, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1563)
Stroke to Path works on text again (Bug #2333)
Undoing Stroke to Path no longer loses the object's id (Bug #2759)
Undoing Object to Path for an object with a Live Path Effect is now possible without also undoing the preceding action (Bug #1504)
Saving no longer leaks memory (Bug#2800)
Startup times improved, 3.3 seconds to 3 seconds on one Windows machine (Commit 228b6a)
Hide unnecessary warnings in terminal about optional font directories not being used (Commit 76fb99)
Canvas no longer blurred when moving window from HiDPI to a regular display (Commit f7162b)
Clicking selects objects again on wmii and some other window managers (Bug #2801)
Caps lock no longer stops Delete, Page Down and some other shortcut keys from working on Windows (Bug #2496)
Dialogs
Clicking the resize separator will toggle visibility of docked dialog (Commit 3c8683, Bug #4676, MR #2969)
Welcome dialog: Fixed a paper size typo (Bug #2570) Renamed some confusing device size names (Bug #2570)
Removed an unnecessary warning when choosing the keyboard shortcuts set (Bug #2529)
Transform dialog: Matrix tab no longer stubbornly insists on using display units instead of the units the user selected (Bug #2429)
Text and Font dialog: Font features load in under a second, instead of minutes for fonts with lots of font features. More font feature glyphs shown too (Commit 0dacc4, MR #3449)
Filters
Fast crop: Transparency is now respected when applying the Filters → Fill and Transparency → Fast Crop filter (Bug #2419)
Import
EPS: Users that have installed Inkscape in the snap packaging format can open EPS files again (Bug #1406)
Export
Optimized SVG: Save as → Optimized SVG works again in Linux AppImage (Bug #1738)
Markers
Start / end markers: A bug was fixed where the path tip protruded over the arrow marker's end (Bug #2593).
Menus
Help menu: Now using a different set of web links to link to the documentation from the Help menu (MR #3325)
Packaging
Snap remembers user preferences even when the home directory is not available to the snap. This may occur in LDAP, SSSD, or other set ups where there is a modified nsswitch.conf and NSCD is not acting as a proxy to snaps. (MR #3474)
Build fixes:
Building Inkscape works again on systems with musl libc (MR #3410)
Building Inkscape works again on NetBSD (Commit 1029bb, Commit bfb81a, Commit 160dc7, Commit e12966)
Building Inkscape works again on FreeBSD (Commit 06b143)
Building Inkscape works again with GCC 7 (Commit 3d8be5)
Templates
All templates generated from the 'Welcome' dialog now use a document scale of 1, making it easier to hand-edit documents created using them (Bug #2728)
Tools
Measure tool: Settings for font size and precision for the Measure tool work again (MR #3343)
Position dialog moves handles to the right place again (Commit 1fcc33)
Measurements no longer reset on right click or tool switch (Commit bd9349, Commit 341a0e)
Crash fixes
Fixed a crash when …
… using a grid with the Document Properties dialog open on Windows. This also fixes a memory leak on other operating systems, that did not necessarily lead to a crash. (Bug #2585)
… trying to copy an object without ID (Bug #2714)
… stroke to path applied on paths with no area, fill, stroke, or markers (Bug #2502, Bug 2572)
… entering a space character in the 'Attributes' field of the 'Clone Original' LPE settings dialog (Bug #1709)
… closing a window while the filter editer dialog is floating and a filter is selected (Bug #2753)
… pasting 3D boxes when the 3D box tool is active (Bug #2741)
… multiple objects selected for spray tool in single path mode (#2740)
… quitting in command line or when opening windows if done before window fully loads (Bug #2776, Bug #2487)
… Homebrew or MacPorts used and XDG_DATA_DIRS is not defined (Commit 1a6c62)
Extension bug fixes
Fix LaTeX extension on Windows (MR #309)
Add version for inkex (MR #360, Bug #409)
Inkscape snapping bar is changing into new menu
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Snapping bar only had icons , which make hard to know what does option do , this new menu solves this problem with icons along text.
A Primitive Infinity of arguments about Inkscape - Update 10th April 2021
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Inkscape extension manager | Is that Package Safe Sir? - Inkscape update 20th March 2021
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NEW FEATURE! Cut, Copy and Paste Nodes
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Inkscape new feature
A welcome review of node deselection and crash fixing, Update March 23th 2021
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