Version history for Inkscape for MacOS X

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Changes for v0.91 - v0.92.2

• Improvements
• Add a control point to the centers of rectangles, circles/ellipses and stars to make it easier to move them and to align them in a precise way. (Video)
• DPI Change: Command line option --dpi-update-method=[none|scale-viewbox|scale-document] to batch-process legacy files (Bug #1659489)
• Improve selection chemistry z-stack ordering (Bug #1395452)
• Rework the object panel, including making shortcut handling respect user-defined shortcuts.
• Add ability to generate one path from multiple paths with LPEs in them (Bug #1664632)
• Automatically fix baseline spacing of flowed text elements when importing legacy documents. (Bug #1661771)
• Regression fixes
• GUI: Fix file preview on Windows when using the native file open dialog (Bug #802904)
• Printing: Fix crash when printing on Windows (Bug #1665768)
• Text: Fix tiny font size for sub/superscripts (Bug #1658029)
• Text: The default style of the text tool can now be changed when nothing is selected.
• Important bugfixes
• GUI: Window position/size was often wrong on startup and when opening new documents (Bugs #1190828, #1654464, #195683, #568867)
• Symbols: Fix loading of Visio Stencils from .vss files with special characters in file name (Bug #1662465)
• SVG import/export: Special characters in the document's "title" field could result in invalid SVG output and prevent re-opening the file on Windows (Bugs #576126, #1627551)
• EMF/WMF import/export: Fix many issues that occurred when the system's locale was set to a language using comma (,) as decimal separator. Notably text was often positioned wrongly after import (Bugs #1089857, #1335660, #1599763, #1675755) and the export option "Convert gradients to colored polygons series" made Inkscape crash (Bug #1549015)
• LaTeX+PDF export: Fix export for text inside a masked or clipped group. (Bug #1417470)
• Extensions: The attribute xml:space="preserve" for INX Parameters of type description was ignored but they were untranslatable without it (Bug #1668115). The attribute is now respected and translations work properly in all cases, however please note that this might change formatting in cases that were broken before, i.e. whenever omitting the attribute. To maintain visual appearance please add the attribute.
• Import: Fix many issues with importing large files. Many files that could not be opened before (especially those containing large raster graphics) should import fine now. (Bugs #1572280, #1412912, #1373322, #1243011, #1627004, #1687090)
• Fonts: Do not load fonts with illegal characters in font family name which caused a crash. (Bugs #1508928, #1495386)
• Inkview: Fix loading files with non-ASCII characters in filename (Bug #488997)
• Shortcuts
• Fix "Shift" modifier being added incorrectly for many user defined shortcuts (making them unusable)
• Allow to set shortcuts with characters that need to be escaped (e.g. "&", "<", ">")
• Fix crash when exporting user defined shortcuts on Windows (Bug #1639701)
• Improved performance of shortcut list in preferences
• Fill and Stroke: Fix HSL color selector sometimes showing corrupted colors with a non-functioning 5th slider (Bug #1635982)
• Fix occasional crash when closing Inkscape or saving the document (Bug #1670688)
• Fix tearing and glitching while moving objects. Don't stop() the rubberband until it has actually been started. (Bug #1510704)
• Fix various memory leaks (Bug #1662686, #1662683)
• Fix temporarily disappearing transformation handles (Bug #1663952)
• Fix bug on rotate copies with one line vertical input (Bug #1665463)
• Fix nodes reverting back during editing (Bug #1270989)
• Fix crash when moving objects by null-checking return from sp_svg_transform_write [1]
• Don't block data entry into the text-tool font-size entry widget after an empty entry [2]
• Reduce overall height of the options dialog (Bug #1666939, #1659446)
• Fix unfilled rectangles missing when importing WMF (Bug #1665421)
• Fix extraneous numbers inserted with color rename (Bug #1658320)
• Fix --export-latex crash with a svg file (Bug #1464987)
• Fix EMF export glitch with GDI clipping, by starting it with a COPY instead of an OR (Bug #1405292)
• Fix linking of duplicated text on paths (Bug #312116)
• Fix stroke width of edges for extrude extension (Bug #1680833)
• Fix incorrect scaling in extensions when document units are not px (Bug #1660474, #1660967)
• Fix hang in linked flowed text when setting outer line-height to zero (Bug #1655308)
• Fix displacement of text when moving a selection of frame and text-flowed-into-frame (Bug #1426613)
• Fix crash when trying to move svg symbol (Bug #1662439)
• Fix crash on editing path created by the rotate copies LPE (Bug #1665463)
• Fix crash loading files with certain LPEs such as mirror symmetry (Bug #1665595)

Changes for v0.48.5 - v0.91

• Release highlights
• Released on 2015-01-28.
• Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
• OpenMP multithreading for all filters
• C++ code conversion
• Major improvements in the Text tool
• Measure tool
• Type design features [1],[2]
• Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
• Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
• Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
• Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
• Numerous usability improvements
• Native Windows 64-bit build
• Notable bug fixes
• Notable bug fixes since last bug fix release (0.48.5):
• Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3]
• Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47).
• Many rendering glitches were fixed.
• The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
• Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied.
• Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading. (Bug #488247)
• More here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91

Changes for v0.48.4 - v0.48.5

• Adobe Illustrator SVG files containing entities can be loaded again
• Support for Poppler 0.26
• Support for Boehm-GC 7.4.0 and later
• Several crash bugs were fixed
• 64-bit compilation is now possible on Windows

Changes for v0.48.2-1 - v0.48.4

• A security bug was fixed.
• Some major bugs causing crashes when using extensions or the filters editor were fixed.
• A bug affecting the outline mode was fixed.
• Inkscape can now be built on platforms with new versions of the Poppler library (v0.20 and higher). (bug #1005565)
• Relative path names can be used again on the command line for EPS/PS and other file types handled by script extensions (bug #695120)
• Translations: Basque, Belarusian, French, Ukrainian: UI translation updated

Changes for v0.48 - v0.48.1

• Regression fixes
• Many small regressions in the node tool were fixed. Here are some examples:
• 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 dialog. Bug #658055, Bug #651678
• Shift-clicking on the top rounding handle of a rectangle will no longer cause a crash. Bug #680520
• Inkscape builds correctly with recent versions of Poppler. Bug #676271

Changes for v0.47pre4 - v0.47

• Timed autosave: no more lost work
• Spiro splines: an exciting new way to work with paths, fully supported in Pen, Pencil, and Node tools
• Auto smooth nodes: a new type of node that keeps the path as smooth as possible as you move it or its neighbors
• New modes in Tweak tool: pushing and jittering whole objects, scaling/rotating objects, deleting and duplicating using the "soft brush"
• Reworked, much more usable snapping system and a Snapping toolbar
• New path effects, including sketch, hatching, envelope deformation; effects can be stacked and assigned to groups
• A huge collection of preset filters in the new Filters menu
• New cairo-based PS and EPS export: improved quality, more features supported, fallback rasterization for filters and transparency
• Spell checker for text objects in a document
• Many new extensions: restacking, calendar, printing marks, cartesian and polar grids, interpolating attributes
• Optimized SVG code options, now with their own Preferences page
• Many other improvements, usability tweaks, memleak stops, and misc bugfixes

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