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Inkscape Version 0.91 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Bryce writes: Four years since the last major Inkscape release, now news is out about version 0.91 of this powerful vector drawing and painting tool. The main reason for the multi-year delay is that they've switched from their old custom rendering engine to using Cairo now, improving their support for open source standards. This release also adds symbol libraries and support for Visio stencils, cross platform WMF and EMF import and export, a native Windows 64-bit build, scads of bug fixes, and much more. Check out the full release notes for more information about what has changed, or just jump right to downloading your package for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X.

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  1. Re:O...okay? by timothy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Inkscape is one of the handful of apps (along with The GIMP, Firefox, OpenOffice, and some others that could round out a nice top-10 or top-20) that together make up a good base set of software that's more than good enough for most people's computerizing needs. (And, in keeping with that idea, it's included in the defaults for many distros, which is appropriate.)

    What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Windows (a bit better on Mac OS X, but still falls short), if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download. The GIMP is not PhotoShop (you know how you can tell? You don't have to keep buying it each month ... ), and Inkscape is not Illustrator (ditto), but they're both *good,* and mean you / the 900 students in the school down the street / etc. can be playing with and using them now, for free, forever.

    No one can make anyone care about this or much of anything, but quality open-source / Free software has a lot of person-hours behind it, and its worth celebrating, especially when the releases are separated by such a long time.

    Serious answer for a question I suspect is pure troll, but Hey, it's my day off, and everyone needs a hobby ;)

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    jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
  2. Windows Users - Performance Tweak by ZeroNullVoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    For Windows, the UI will seem to lag or not redraw in real-time while drawing or using it.
    Disable Rulers (ctrl + r, or Menu: View -> Show/Hide -> Rulers) will fix it.
    I spoke with the very helpful people on Inkscape's IRC Channel for this tip.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ink...

    This may also apply to some versions of The G.I.M.P.