Inkscape 1.0 Alpha Released

Inkscape have hit a major milestone with their first public 1.0 release, Inkscape 1.0 alpha 1.  Inkscape 1.0 comes with several new features, not the the least of which is improved performance. 

Key features from the Inkscape WIP release notes:

  • Themeing support
  • Origin in top left corner (optional)
  • Canvas rotation and mirroring
  • Better hidpi screen support
  • Control width of PowerStroke with pressure sensitive graphics tablet
  • Fillet/chamfer LPE and (lossless) Boolean Operation LPE
  • New PNG export options
  • Path operations and deselection of a large number of paths are much faster now
  • Variable fonts (only if compiled with pango library version >= 1.41.1)

Along side the 1.0 alpha, Inkscape 0.92.4 was also released:

  • Align multiple objects as a group relative to a single object
  • Write image data to standard output and read from it
  • Experience extensions working faster within complex documents
  • See improved speed when deselecting a path with many nodes
  • Ungroup text elements won’t result in changed font size of children
  • Able to print and / or print correct paper size with printers (especially Canon, EPSON, Konica Minolta)
  • See improved performance of the measure tool when grids are visible
  • See proper opacity of partially transparent embedded bitmap images in PDF export
  • Able to Shift/Ctrl-click on control handles of shapes without crashing
  • Build Inkscape with up-to-date poppler library 0.72.0 – useful for Mac users building with Homebrew

For Windows or Mac users, you unfortunately have to build the 1.0 alpha from sources available here, with build instructions available here.

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