Uh, okay. Let me first apologize for not being more active during the past few weeks. See, I've been pretty stressed out and all and I've just started doing some serious coding for Inkscape.
Which brings me to....
Inkscape 0.91 custom
I was going to release this later when it was ready, but I figured since I have 200 watchers why not push a test build?
I haven't exactly been aimlessly coding for the past few weeks, it's coding with a purpose. What I have done is started to merge Ponyscape features into Inkscape development builds (and fix a few bugs, too!). Why would I want to do that? Age. The most recent release of Ponyscape is getting very old. Some newer features in Inkscape .91 very much outperform the older versions (for example, rendering speed is about 20~40% faster than before).
And what exactly from Ponyscape made it in?
-Objects dialog (you know, not layers.)
-New Live Path Effects (Ellipse by 5 Points, Attach Path, Fill Between Many, Fill Between Strokes, Bounding Box)
-CubicBezierSmooth Power Strokes (still a bit too buggy so far)
My custom path effect
Join types also made it in (it's not fully debugged yet, but many thanks to
and
)
What from Ponyscape will not be making it in?
-Inverse clips. Not until the SVG standard says so. (However, I may implement an SVG-compatible version. Don't count on it, though.)
-Clip Groups. A tangled mess of XML.
-Refactored swatches. Why? Generally, the use cases between .48 swatches and Ponyscape swatches remain nearly identical. I've been talking to a few of the UI designers for the swatches dialog and they could possibly implement a swatch book feature (which is all you really wanted, right?) and add the stupid "Link" checkbox in the selector menu. Oh, and the ability to save .gpl swatches.
What from Ponyscape will still make it in but has not yet?
-Tagging system. This is more commonly known as "Selection Sets." (also "Not Layers") Several feature requests on Launchpad have been submitted and it will make it in, don't worry too hard.
Anything else that might make it in the future?
-Taper strokes. The fast, easy way to make a line taper off. Add, drag handles, done! Currently a WIP.
So now that I'm done talking about all this stuff,
where's the download?Source code, for the lazy (16.5 MB):
goo.gl/9wN3c8MD5: 68ba8c399da56627d4ef15293a612c2c
Source code, Bazaar (175.8 MB):
code.launchpad.net/~inkscapebr…Windoze binary (43.9 MB):
goo.gl/AROMi1MD5: bf7fb7a78666cc81888154a453c4758e
Linux .deb 64bit (26.8MB):
goo.gl/wZOW2OMD5: af3c1ddfe00ef0a7832fe3d87bedd36b
Special thanks to:
flutterguy317 For making this all possible.
dasprid For testing out early versions of this.
MrBarthalamul For testing out beta versions of Join Types.
200 watchers deviation? Soon enough.
If you have any questions feel free to hit me up on IRC at irc.freenode.net, either on
#inkscape or by query (nick LiamW);