2013/3/9 Bric <bric@...2538...>:
Thanks. I forgot yet another feature/function: (4) Rotation of a node subset. Or is that already part of the "transformation handles" ?
Yes, it's already covered. To enter rotation / skew mode, enable the handles, select some nodes and single-click one of the nodes - basically the same thing you'd do in the selector tool.
I'll try version 0.48 asap. (I tried installing via ppa on an old Ubuntu, 10.04LTS, but am running into a glitch ("...is already the newest version..."))
AFAIK, the PPA contains a package called 'inkscape-devel', not 'inkscape' and it's a snapshot of the unreleased 0.49 version. It's even better than 0.48 (e.g. much better performance) but has a few serious bugs which are blocking its release, for example large bitmaps are not scaled down correctly.
Regards, Krzysztof