Inkscape 0.92.4

Inkscape 0.92.4 is a stability and bugfix release. It also brings some notable performance improvements for filter rendering, measure tool, saving and moving paths (with a live path effect) and includes a couple of small, but impactful usage improvements.

Improvements:
Command line usage -
Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format:
--export-area-drawing.
--export-area-page while using --export-id.
--export-margin.
Text tool:
Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added.
Circle/ellipse/arc tool:
New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar.
PDF+LaTeX export:
Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added.
Performance: New preferences option:
A new option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added under Rendering preferences. It can adjust the size of rendering tiles (tiles are portions of canvas area that are calculated in one go). Rendering larger areas with complex content at once requires more computational time, but modern computers come with powerful hardware and many should be up to the task.
Startup Performance:
The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now.
Extensions:
Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves.
Regression fixes:
Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7.
Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows.
gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92.
The 'Clone original' path effect that was partially broken in Inkscape 0.92.2 works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons).
The preferences dialog was tiny by default.
Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected.
Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows.
Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests.
Texts that are written in vertical direction now have their marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again (gitlab commit).
Important bugfixes:
Fix shortcuts not working as expected on systems with non-latin primary keyboard layout.
Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join.
Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows.
Fix "Open recent" not including files with special characters on Windows.
File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links.
Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations.
Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml and when setting the autosave location manually.
Allow cancellation of bitmap export.
Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output.
Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages.
Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the --export-id command line switch.
Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box.
Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash (gitlab commit).
The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too.
The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens.
More bug fixes.
Translations:
The following UI translations received updates:
French.
German.
Icelandic.
Italian.
Korean.
Spanish..
Ukrainian
The following installer translations received updates:
Korean.
Documentation:
Documentation Relaunch:
The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab.
Documentation Updates:
The main page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated.

# Regression fixes
- Text: baseline-spacing related issues with regular and flowed text in legacy Inkscape SVG files (Bug #1655483 and others).
- Text: Default baseline spacing stored in relative units is always converted to document units (Bug #1645016)
- Path effects: Crash on ungroup if group contains elements with path effects (Bug #1657591)
- Clipboard: Pasting a path effect from clipboard fails (Bug #1656093)
- Clipboard: Fix copy&pasting of groups which contain elements with path effects (Bug #1656527)
- Selection: Node tool can selected objects on locked layers (Bug #1656141)
- Clones: Critical warnings with clones and symbols (Bug #1653184)
- About screen missing for several UI languages (Bug #1659426)
- Selection: Missing transformation handles after reset of rotation center (Bug #1657874)
# Important bugfixes
- Bitmap images: Crash when opening files with invalid image links (Bug #1660142)
- Bitmap images: Fix path separators in relative image links (Windows) (Bug #1659347)
- File import: Failure to open CDR/Visio/WPG files from paths with special characters (Windows) (Bug #1656763)
# Translations
- Catalan: Tutorial translation ("Basic") added
- Czech: UI translation updated
- English (GB): UI translation updated
- French: UI translation updated
- French: Man page, Readme and Keys & mouse reference updated
- German: Man page and Keys & mouse reference updated
- Icelandic: UI translation updated
- Italian: UI translation updated
- Latvian: UI translation updated
- Russian: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Russian: UI translation updated
- Spanish: UI translation updated
- Slovak: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Slovak: UI translation updated
- Ukrainian: UI translation updated
# Documentation
- Shortcuts: Add shortcut '7' for cycling through path effect parameters in node tool
- Shortcuts: Add new Shift+I shortcut to keys and mouse reference
- Man page: Add new --no-convert-text-baseline-spacing command line option

- Mesh Gradients are now supported.
- Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode). Not all are available from the GUI.
- The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all
- Selection sets make it possible to 'group' objects together regardless of document structure
- Guides can now be locked to avoid accidental movement
- Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies
- There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features
- Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features
- Interactive smoothing for lines created with the Pencil tool
- BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool
- Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies

# Notable bug fixes :
* Images are no longer recompressed when embedding or exporting them. [3]
* Relative image paths are no longer stored as absolute (regression introduced with 0.47).
* Many rendering glitches were fixed.
* The rendering of the stroke on transformed objects now matches the SVG specification.
* Values entered in the numeric input boxes for the selector tool (X, Y, width, height) are much more accurately applied.
* Inkscape launches faster due to new icon cache (on disk) and improved font loading.

* Important bugfixes
- Adobe Illustrator SVG files containing entities can be loaded again.
- Support for Poppler 0.26.
- Support for Boehm-GC 7.4.0 and later.
- Several crash bugs were fixed.
- 64-bit compilation is now possible on Windows.

# Important bugfixes
- A security bug was fixed.
- Some major bugs causing crashes when using extensions or the filters editor were fixed.
- A bug affecting the outline mode was fixed.
- Inkscape can now be built on platforms with new versions of the Poppler library (v0.20 and higher).
- Relative path names can be used again on the command line for EPS/PS and other file types handled by script extensions
# Translations
- Basque, Belarusian, French, Ukrainian: UI translation updated

# Regression fixes
* (Windows) The "Save as" dialog now again proposes the current filename for saving.
# Important bugfixes
* PDF/EPS+LaTeX export should give better spacing around figures now ("%" was added after each line in the TeX file)
* Inkscape 0.48 crashes in sp_stroke_style_line_update() when drawing with opened "Fill and Stroke" dialog.
* Inkscape coredumps on opening SVG files with gradients (FreeBSD amd64).
* Gradients crashing Inkscape 0.48 on OpenBSD/FreeBSD (amd64).
# Translations
* Dutch: UI translation updated
* Galician: UI translation updated
* Indonesian: UI translation updated
* Japanese: UI translation updated, docs translation added
* Russian: UI translation updated

* Exporting of masks has been substantially improved in all Cairo-based output formats.
* Several crash bugs in the node tool have been fixed.
* Rulers are redrawn properly with recent versions of GTK.
* Unlinking an orphaned clone no longer causes a crash.
* Problems with extensions sometimes not working at all on Mac OS X have been fixed.
* Inkscape should no longer crash due to missing icons at startup or when opening the document properties dialog.
* Shift-clicking on the top rounding handle of a rectangle will no longer cause a crash.
* Inkscape builds correctly with recent versions of Poppler.

* multipath editing
* improved text tool: subscript, superscript, numerical input for text kerning, tracking and more
* new Airbrush tool
* LaTeX export with PDF/PS/EPS
* JessyInk extension to create presentations
* numerous bugfixes

# Important improvements

* Timed autosave: no more lost work
* Spiro splines: an exciting new way to work with paths, fully supported in Pen, Pencil, and Node tools
* Auto smooth nodes: a new type of node that keeps the path as smooth as possible as you move it or its neighbors
* New modes in Tweak tool: pushing and jittering whole objects, scaling/rotating objects, deleting and duplicating using the "soft brush"
* Reworked, much more usable snapping system and a Snapping toolbar
* New path effects, including sketch, hatching, envelope deformation; effects can be stacked and assigned to groups
* A huge collection of preset filters in the new Filters menu
* New cairo-based PS and EPS export: improved quality, more features supported, fallback rasterization for filters and transparency
* Spell checker for text objects in a document
* Many new extensions: restacking, calendar, printing marks, cartesian and polar grids, interpolating attributes
* Optimized SVG code options, now with their own Preferences page
* Many other improvements, usability tweaks, memleak stops, and misc bugfixes

Highlights in this release:
* Paintbucket tool
* Tweak tool
* 3D Box tool
* Live path effects
* Color management
* New SVG filters and UI
* Native PDF and AI import
* XAML import/export
* Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export)
* Stock patterns
* Bitmap editing extension effects
* Full on-canvas gradient editing
* Engraver's Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool
* Touch selection
* Dockable dialogs
* Command-line access to verbs
* Snapping made usable
* "3D" / axonometric grid
* Angled guidelines
* Conversion of objects to guidelines
* Significant speed and interactivity improvements
* Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes