Hi,

For Windows users, there is a new pre-release version of Inkscape 0.46 available on Sourceforge from here; http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9...

Please note, this is a *Windows only* pre-release test version, as there were some bugs that could not be sorted out prior to the regular 0.46.0 release.

If you've already seen this, a slight error has been fixed in 0.46pre4-2 since yesterday. This version is quite stable, but please it for any further bugs and report to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ If there are no other major problems, we will release 0.46.0 early next week.

Note, there are some known issues that won't be fixed for 0.46.0, as per the readme; * (LP: #180890) Blend modes do not work correctly over transparent backgrounds. A workaround is to place an opaque rectangle underneath the bottom-most layer. * (LP # 202704) Blur and other filters are very slow when applied to an object with transform= attribute with rotation or skew. To avoid this slowdown, either do not rotate/skew objects you use with filters, or apply filters only to paths (but not shapes to text) because paths, by default, get no transform= attribute when you rotate or skew them. * Windows printing has two known issues. In both cases the workaround is to print to bitmap (Print -> Rendering -> Bitmap). - (LP # 205732) Blurred objects are misaligned when printing. - (LP # 208217) Masked objects disappear when printing.

To read the full release notes, see here; http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046

Draw Freely,

Rygle.