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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:Alright, time to pirate it! by jonwil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually Inkscape is more of a competitor to Adobe Illustrator than Adobe Photoshop.

  2. Re:Alright, time to pirate it! by Bonker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The GIMP *wishes*.

    Inkscape is one of those 'Best of Breed' open source apps where it's pretty much all you need to do the task you're downloading it for. It beats the ever-living SNOT out of Illustrator on simplicity, ease-of-use, and, of course, price. You're not locked into Adobe's new SasS model or a huge license fee, yet can create great looking vector art with fantastic compatibility.

    Compare to, say, PuTTY, or VLC Media Player. They do a single job, and they do it REALLY freakin' well.

    GIMP does not. GIMP's UI is STILL a cluster@#$@ after years and years of development and user feedback, and the last time I checked, it still lacked the support for color matching that would make it viable for creating images that were print-ready.

    Frankly, if you're working on Windows, you are far more behooved to use Paint.Net than you are The GIMP.

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  3. Software patents by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the last time I checked, [GIMP] still lacked the support for color matching that would make it viable for creating images that were print-ready.

    Have the patents on practical methods of color matching expired yet? If not, then it's impossible for free software to support proper color matching.