I have a drawing that I’ve been working on and it’s slowly coming together (done 100% in inkscape baby!), however if I open it in any of the newer builds since .39 (the autobuilds by Daniel) some of the places where I have some gradients and transparency are being “rendered” differently. I don’t want to say they’re displaying “wrong” (given I don’t know what modifications have been made to source and it may have always done it wrong before and now it’s fixed), but it’s definitely not the same as it used to be... Here’s a link showing a comparison of old & new, so perhaps someone can help me to understand what’s different. http://scislac.com/ink/inkprob.jpg

As you can see, the one on left is the way I intended, and the right is just “rendering” things much differently. The translucent part of her shirt appears to just be mostly clear... the gradient objects I have on the midriff area (skin shading) are also not looking the same... and the biggest change of all is all the stuff with the skirt. There are many objects that are used to achieve the effects needed (lighting/shading mostly), and when it shows them, it displays how truly crude my work is... but hey it’s faster & easier. Back on topic... so does anyone know if this is because of a permanent change that was made? Or is it a temporary thing? My main concern at this point is that some of the objects showing through the skirt are at a lower # in the z-order than the actual skirt, and I can’t seem to get them “behind” it. So fixing it isn’t working too well and it’s not worth my time if this is a temporary issue (plus I’m curious as to what causes it).

And this is a little OT, and probably belongs in another list... but... Does anyone know if there are plans to have better “node manipulation” tools? Meaning, the current way of being able to add nodes is ok... (a pain to work with for the most part... but can be VERY handy at other times) but are there plans to add a way to directly add nodes wherever you want on a line (versus the “in the middle” method)? I guess something akin to Illustrator’s node tools where you directly work with them is what I’m looking for...

Thanks!

-Josh