Inkscape 0.91 Released!
The Inkscape community announces the release of Inkscape 0.91. Inkscape is an multi-platform, Open-Source Vector Graphics Editor that uses SVG as its native file format. Digital artists use it to produce professional quality work. Engineers and scientists use it to create clear drawings to explain their ideas. Everyday people use it to create simple drawings, develop their design skills, and just have fun. This new version features faster and more accurate rendering, new and improved tools, as well as better and wider file-format support.
Just a few of the highlights in this release:
- Rendering
- Under-the-hood, Inkscape has moved to the Cairo rendering library which results in fast, high quality rendering while reducing memory usage. Filter effects are now accelerated with OpenMP multithreading.
- Measurement Tool
- This new tool allows designers to measure between or across objects; especially useful for font design.
- Text Tool
- All available font-variants are now displayed and selectable. Currently used font faces are displayed at the top of the font-selector. CSS 2 font lists are supported.
- Symbols
- Symbol library dialog with drag and drop support. Visio stencils supported.
- On-screen Editing
- Multi-colored and labeled guide-lines, better snapping, dialog status and position preserved between editing sessions.
- Pixel Tracing
- New routine for high quality vectorization of pixel art.
- Import/Export
- Cross-platform WMF and EMF import and export, improved Visio (VSD) and Coral Draw (CDR) import, new Flash XML Graphics (FXG), Synfig Animation Studio (SIF), and HTML5 Canvas export.
For a complete list of new and improved features see the 0.91 Release Notes.
The new version of Inkscape for Windows, Linux, and OSX can be obtained from our download page.