Inkscape 0.48.2-1

Inkscape is an useful drawing application 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.

Inkscape supports the drawing of regular shapes (rectangles, circles, etc.), arbitrary paths, and text. These objects can be given a wide variety of attributes such as color, gradient or patterned fills, alpha blending, and markers. Objects can be transformed, cloned, and grouped. Hyperlinks can be added for use in web browsers. The Inkscape program aims to be fully XML, SVG, and CSS compliant.

Inkscape is available prepackaged for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. The program and its source code are freely available.

Requirements:

· Apple's X11 windowing environment.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Regression fixes:
· Shift will turn off snapping in the node tool. Bug #588628
· Duplication of nodes in the node tool using Shift+D works again. Bug #555449
· Changing all selected segments into straight lines in the node tool using Shift+L works again. Bug #532905
· Changing the type of nodes to cusp will retract their handles only if all selected nodes are already cusp. This improves usability when working with selections that contain both cusp and smooth nodes.

Important bugfixes:
· Exporting of masks has been substantially improved in all Cairo-based output formats.
· Several crash bugs in the node tool have been fixed. Bug #544599, Bug #591986, Bug #605575
· Rulers are redrawn properly with recent versions of GTK. Bug #627134
· Unlinking an orphaned clone no longer causes a crash. Bug #675309
· Problems with extensions sometimes not working at all on Mac OS X have been fixed. Bug #482993
· Inkscape should no longer crash due to missing icons at startup or when opening the document properties dia...