has:
This release has been slow in coming, but it was worth the wait: Inkscape
0.40 brings a huge amount of new features, usability enhancements,
documentation, and bugfixes. The three most important new features are:
* Layers are almost complete in this version; this fills a major gap in
functionality, making Inkscape usable for complex artwork.
* The Potrace bitmap tracer is incorporated into Inkscape - now
vectorizing bitmaps is easy and interactive. A matching command,
"Create bitmap copy", converts from any object to bitmap.
* The text-on-path implementation is complete and very flexible. Both
the text and the path remain fully editable and transformable.
...
* Bugfixes: too many to mention (in total, 228 bugs closed in the
tracker since 0.39), including several important SVG compatibility
fixes.
More information at http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes040
This package now depends on boehm-gc. And it uses libsigc++2
and gtkmm24 instead of libsigc++ and gtkmm.
Many new templates added. And a new library added: libgimpgrad.
Patches removed. (The landscape printing support was added to 0.40.)
