On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 17:39 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
- I understand from a user of Inkscape that it has not been upgraded in
a while. Are there any plans to upgrade it soon?
We will have a major upgrade in the very near future. Inkscape's rendering engine underwent a complete rewrite resulting in a significant speed up in rendering complex drawings while reducing memory use. There were a number of regressions that have had to be dealt with. We are down to a small number of blocking bugs (one?).
Currently 2 blocker bugs and 83 open "regression" tagged bugs milestoned for 0.49. Since these are things that previously worked, the fewer that are open at the time of release the better off we'll be.
Actually, I think I "fixed" one of them. However, I've found another bug that I think should be a blocker. The drawing of a circle with small r is off a bit from being a true circle. The conversion of the circle -> path with arcs -> SBasis -> Bezier gives a non-optimal value for the Beziers. I am still investigating.
Tav