Thanks a lot for your welcome again ;)

I reply to Joshua togheter in this message.

I don't think there will be too much broken things in filters when colours problems will be fixed. Only some tunings which may be done probably in a short time.

But the most problematic issue for illustration quality output remains as Niko told it last week :

"256 levels is not a limitation of SVG itself, but a limitation of Inkscape rendering engine. Using more than 8 bits per colour component would help with this problem, but likely would require quite a bit of work."

It has some consequences on the blur quality (banding problems) and also the progressiveness of the height maps (odd plateaus). I don't know if this work could be done for the 0.47 release. I can't evaluate the amount of work because I am not a programmer. However that's not a limitation for my work on filters.

About the zooming problem (here I mean zooming in the work space and not resizing filtered objects) it occurs only with three Bevel filters : Badge, Glowing metal and Pastel bevel.

Otherwise, no major issue. Only some little things not completely implemented (feImage and feTile for example) but I am a patient person and I am sure that will be very refreshing for me to work with these functions when they will be freshly implemented, and so even if they aren't for 0.47 ! Filters are very attractive but there are probably more important things to solve in other areas.

And finally I must apologize for not being able of stopping a bit my so fascinating and addictive filters researches and take more time to document them properly. I must do it not only to facilitate their use but also to give taste to the others of exploring their possibilities.

Thanks again and friendly,
ivan