Inkscape

Inkscape 0.92.4 is open source graphics software that uses SVG markup language (Scalable Vector Graphics), a graphics standard developed by W3C. This technical graphics software has many graphic editing features similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw.

Inkscape interface

The program's intuitive interface allows all users easy access, even if they are amateur graphic artists. With Inkscape , you can design logos, paintings, software icons or banners for your website, very simple but extremely impressive.

The main feature of Inkscape

Creative object

• Drawing tools: pencils (hand-drawn with simple paths), pens (creating curves and straight lines), artistic writing services (using calligraphy lines)
• Shaping tools: rectangles (containing rounded corners), ellipses (including circles, arcs, segments), stars or polygons (can be circular or random), spiral shapes
• Writing tool (multi-line text, comprehensive editing on canvas)
• Velvet bitmap (with the command to create a bitmap embedded the selected object)
• Cloning: Directly linked object copy, including texture creation and clone tool

Working on objects

• Convert (move, expand, rotate, move), both interactively and precisely by numerical values
• Activity in order (increase or decrease)
• Group objects ('select in group' without leaving the group, or 'enter the group' to create a temporary layer)
• Layer (lock or hide layers, rearrange together, layers can form a layered tree
• Align order and distribution

Fill and contour

• Color selection (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS)
• Color picker
• Copy and paste
• Gradient correction has the ability to create multi-point gradients
• Textured background (bitmap / vector)
• Brick strokes with many optional textures
• Mark the path (end point, middle and start, e.g. arrow mark)

Edit on the link

• Node editing: remove nodes and Bezier commands, align and move nodes .
• Convert paths (for text objects and shapes)
• Simplify paths with many different levels
• Inset and Outset paths, including dynamic offset objects and links
• Bitmap tracking (both color and monochrome paths)

Text support

• Multiline text
• Use any installed font font, including the script right to left
• Kerning, spacing between letters, line spacing and editing
• Text on the link (both text and the path are editable
• Text in shapes (Completing shapes with lines)

Structure

• Anti-aliased screen
• Support Alpha transparency property for screen and PNG output
• Complete when you drag the display object during the interactive transition

File format

• Perfectly suitable for creating and editing SVG format files
• View and edit the document tree directly in the XML editor
• Export to PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript and more
• Output and conversion command line options

Updated Inkscape

Inkscape 0.92.4

• Align multiple objects as a group relative to the individual object.
• Record image data into standard export format and read it.
• Experience extensions that work at faster speeds when processing complex documents.
• Improve speed when selecting paths containing multiple nodes.
• Text elements that are not part of the group will not affect the changed font size for children.
• The correct page size can be printed (especially when using Canon, EPSON, Konica Minolta).
• Improve measurement tool performance when displaying grid layouts.
• The embedded bitmap image opacity is suitable when exporting to PDF.
• Press Shift / Ctrl key to handle shapes without crashing.
• Updated interface languages ​​Hungarian, Romany, Spanish, Portuguese .

Inkscape 0.92.3

Use the command line

3 new command line options to fine-tune page size when exporting as SVG:

• --export-area-drawing
• --export-area-page while using --export-id
• --export-margin

Text tool

Added support for switching between RTL (right to left) and LTR (left to right).

Tool to draw circles / ellipses / arcs

New panels for vertical / horizontal radius (Rx / Ry) settings on the tool control bar.

Export PDF + LaTeX

Multiline text support with basic support for line spacing properties

New performance configuration options

The new "Rendering tile multiplier" option in Rendering configuration, can adjust the size of the display block. The larger display area contains complex content that requires more computational time, but modern computers with powerful hardware can easily accomplish the task.

Boot performance

Improved fontconfig 2.13.0, handling related fonts faster. One of the entire indexing tasks is available on the system.

Extension

Windows extensions can now use Tkinter without installing it.

Translation

Updated translations of the following support languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Ukrainian, Icelandic, Korean.