Thanks for the PDF export with transparency. Thanks for the ability to see native format in Firefox.

"The font-family drop-down contains names and previews of all fonts; unlike other programs, we didn't apply each font to its name, but added a separate preview string displayed with gray color after each font's name. This design ensures readability of font family names and provides maximum useful information in a limited space."

great idea

"Several specialized color palettes, useful in color-coordinated projects, were created or borrowed from GIMP: Grays, Reds, Greens, Blues, Gold, Royal, Khaki, Hilite, and Topographic."

another great idea

"A button was added to fit the canvas to the current selection or, if there's no selection, to the entire drawing. The button resizes the canvas and, if necessary, moves the drawing into place. It is now very easy to size the canvas to an illustration after it is ready."

another great idea

"The contents of the Effects menu are categorized into submenus, and several effects are renamed to use more intuitive names."

thanks

"Inkscape has a new default icon set titled "Crispy" provided by Andre Sousa. The new icons are intended to add a more professional and cohesive look to our application, as well as to make the functions the icons represent more self-evident."

great idea

"Even when using a graphics tablet with pressure sensitivity, the Calligraphy pen's strokes often look too smooth and artificial. To enable a more natural look, the new Tremor parameter is added to the Calligraphy tool in this version. Adjustable in the Controls bar from 0.0 to 1.0, it will affect your strokes producing anything from slight unevenness to wild blotches and splotches. This significantly expands the creative range of the tool."

great idea

"The stroke you're drawing is now shown, while you're drawing it, with the correct color and opacity that it will eventually have, instead of always black as before."

great improvement

"A new RazorWire path marker was added. By applying it as a mid-marker you can get a good approximation of a razor wire."

cool

"Inkscape's PDF export is now native (i.e. does not require any external applications) and supports transparency, including gradients with transparency. This replaced the old export extension that required Ghostscript and worked via Postscript, losing any transparency. The new PDF export is still immature; in particular it does not handle text, so you should check "Convert text to path" on the export options dialog. Other things not yet supported include: gradients on stroke; eccentric elliptic gradients; patterns, masks, and clipping paths; embedded images."

great improvement

"The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e. layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them into an XCF for procesing in the Gimp. Requires Python, PyXML and Gimp. Gimp 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A version of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path. Does not function in Windows."

thanks

"Inkscape on Mac OS X will now notice fonts in your ~/Library/Fonts directory, in addition to the other standard places."

thanks

under selected style indicator, it says L and R gradient. Could you say Linear and Radial so common users like me will understand.

"Last set color: Applies to the selected objects the fill/stroke color that was last applied to anythig."

"Anything" spelled wrong

"Drag and Drop of colors onto a fil/stroke indicator sets the fill and stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly."

"Fill" spelled wrong

"Starting with this version, there is a limited ability to export Inkscape drawing shapes as Open Document Format drawings (.odg files). Currently the export is limited to text, shapes, and solid fill and strokes. This output of course will be improved greatly in the coming months. In the meantime, however, ODG output should be a very useful tool for people wanting to get their SVG drawings into the Open Dcument world, and into an office suite such as OpenOffice.org."

"document" spelled wrong

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:43 -0400, bulia byak wrote:

I have finished filling in blanks and pruning loose ends in the Release Notes, and now this document needs attention from as many eyes as possible. Please proofread it, copyedit it, complete it or rewrite it, or just report if you see something missing or wrong:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes

In particular, translators, please fill in the Translations section with an overview of current status and progress.

Thanks!