On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi all,
The 0.44.1 release has been finalized and the code is now available for download:
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Everyone else, please do not submit information about this release to any online sites until Monday evening, so that folks have time to do packaging, website updating, etc.
* Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including optional Xara X compatibility
In hindsight it would have been an option to backport - no actual porting required - the Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand keybindings to 0.44.1 and would still be an option if you feel the need to have a 0.44.2 release.
Outline mode
An Outline ("wireframe") display mode is implemented. Use the View > Display Mode > Outline to activate it. In this mode:
Given how often this was referred to as Wireframe during development and again now I wish this was just called Wireframe. It would avoid the confusion and it is nothing like the kind of document structure ouline you would expect from an outliner program like OmniOutliner or Microsoft Powerpoint.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1538427&gr...
* any opacity and gradients are ignored.The outline mode is usually not drastically faster than regular mode (usually 10% to 50% faster), and in some special cases it may even be
Now is as good at time to mention that Macromedia Freehand has both a Keyline mode and a seperate Fast mode to turn off additional features to help those with a need for speed. There will be cases where you can speed at the expense of correctness so I can see how it was the easier option for the Freehand developers to split things rather than trying to as hard as the Inkscape developers to maintain the right balance. I encourage you to take a look at it if you have a chance to play with Freehand (possibly by downloading an older trial/demo version like I did).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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