The highlights of this release are:
* multipath editing
* improved text tool: subscript, superscript, numerical input for text kerning,
tracking and more
* new Airbrush tool
* LaTeX export with PDF/PS/EPS
* JessyInk extension to create presentations
* numerous bugfixes
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Inkscape 0.47 brings a host of important improvements all across the program:
* 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
with color profiles to implement caching): pass NULL (which disables
the cache), depend on new poppler headers and bump PKGREVISION
(While this is a poppler API change, it is in an unofficial interface,
so inkscape just gets what it deserves.)
problem reported by Tobias Nygren
Shared directories can now be created independently by the pacakges
needing them and will be removed automatically by pkg_delete when empty.
Packages needing empty directories can use the @pkgdir command in PLIST.
Discussed and ok'd in thread starting at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2009/06/30/msg003546.html
to fix the bug where the colors slider doesn't move past value 245 when
using GTK>=2.14.0.
Also include desktopdb.mk as told by pkglint. Bump PKGREVISION.
* Paintbucket tool
* Tweak tool
* 3D Box tool
* Live path effects
* Color management
* New SVG filters and UI
* Native PDF and AI import
* XAML import/export
* Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export)
* Stock patterns
* Bitmap editing extension effects
* Full on-canvas gradient editing
* Engraver's Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool
* Touch selection
* Dockable dialogs
* Command-line access to verbs
* Snapping made usable
* "3D" / axonometric grid
* Angled guidelines
* Conversion of objects to guidelines
* Significant speed and interactivity improvements
* Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes
* Patch [ 1667939 ]: fix crash when tile-tracing with too small
clones
* Patch [ 1666532 ]: Broken link in inkview man page
* Patch [ 1665447 ]: fix for the blur quantization bug 1617082
* Patch [ 1664849 ]: fix for 1662589: increase blur margins
* Patch [ 1664004 ]: embedimage.py with fixed search order
* Patch [ 1662649 ]: markers.svg with reversed order
* Crudely improve check-markup for { markup, fix translations with
bugs in that area (dz and zh_TW).
* Patch [ 1659404 ]: Set locale directory from environment variable
* Patch [ 1657072 ]: fix for bug 1654495
* Patch [ 1654636 ]: defocus dropper checkboxes
* Updated slovak translation
* Adding japanese.nsh and russian.nsh into files that should go into
the release tarball
* Correct russian translation
* Patch [ 1651797 ]: fix for attributes when saving/save-a-copy
* Patch [ 1651752 ]: fix dropper tool
* Pattern along path extension fixed on Windows
* Include libtiff3.dll in the Windows distribution, fixing crash
when opening TIFF files
* Patch [ 1673067 ]: fix blur export on flowtext
* Patch [ 1678075 ]: fix FontInstance.cpp compile issue
* Patch [ 1673502 ]: fix broken Envelope (Summers Night) effect
* Security: fixed format string overflows in dialogs (CVE-2007-1463)
and whiteboard Jabber protocol (CVE-2007-1464).
This release brings the exciting new features developed by the Google
Summer of Code 2006 participants, as well as tons of other
improvements across the board. Here are the highlights:
* Gaussian blur is the first SVG filter supported by Inkscape. You
can blur any object to any extent - yet it remains vector and
fully editable. This gives a huge boost to Inkscape as a creative
art tool.
* Display speed and interactivity: not only does Inkscape render
faster, but it can now respond to user input before it finished
redrawing the screen, which greatly improves the interactivity of
the program.
* History dialog makes it easy to to review your editing session and
jump to any step of it, undoing and redoing multiple actions with
one click.
* Several important tool features are added, notably the new
selection mode in Node tool and the adjustable rounded caps in
Calligraphic pen.
* Bitmap tracing works better for multi-color traces, sports a
redesigned dialog and several new options.
* Many new extension effects are added, including Color effects and
Pattern along path.
* The Outline mode has got many fixes and improvements, including a
keyboard shortcut.
* Several new commands in Help menu open various Inkscape-related
pages in your default browser, making Inkscape reference
information more accessible as you work.
* Dozens of smaller features are added throughout the program, and
hundreds of bugs are fixed.
* fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by
providing that dll in the package;
* fix hang in page size widget
* on Mac OS X, removed problems with home folder path names
containing spaces;
* inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it
previously failed to do so
* several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g.
RHEL4);
* allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers;
recognize if boost is too old
* inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x.
* fixed a bug where stderr output from scripts was not shown
* fixed a bug affecting the recent files menu
* resolution information is now saved in exported PNG files
* fix some ODG export bugs
* fix dia import
* fix several include issues affecting building on Solaris
(there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, and
similar ones on OpenBSD)
* added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made
corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German,
and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German
keytable to tarball
* applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape
strings
* interactivity improvements at high zooms
* fix for specifying CSS colors with percentages
* re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside the new one
* minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is still in the
works)
* fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become
widespread in Inkscape documents
* Mac OS X packaging updates
* miscellaneous build fixes
