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Release highlights

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.

Important changes

This Inkscape version will not work with Windows XP / Vista anymore. Inkscape 0.92.3 is the last supported version on those OSs.

The Inkscape project has opened a new, user-facing bug tracker on gitlab: https://inkscape.org/report . Please use this new tracker to report issues that occur with Inkscape 0.92.4 and with development builds.

Improvements

Align and Distribute

You can now align multiple (ungrouped) objects as a group relative to another, single object.

This makes 'treat selection as group' useful with the selections 'Last selected / First selected / Biggest object / Smallest object' in which case all elements will be moved as a group relative to the 'focused' element which will be kept fixed.

Example aligning multiple (ungrouped) objects to first selected object:

Color sliders

The movement of the color sliders can now be constrained by holding the 'Ctrl' key while dragging.

(step size is 16 if the max value is 255, and 10 if the max is 100)

Extensions

• Previously, the current selection was lost after running an extension. Now, whenever possible, Inkscape will try to keep the objects selected.
• Extensions developers can again rely on the order of inkex.Effect.selected.iteritems() reflecting the user's selection order properly.
• Extensions work faster now in documents consisting of a large number of objects.

Automated Graphics Processing

Inkscape is now able to read and write pipes. You can use this to process data without using temporary files.

You can read from standard input:

You can write image data to standard output and directly convert to JPEG:

Also a full processing chain is possible by reading and writing to pipes:

Other improvements

• Improved saving speed (especially some extreme slowdowns with certain large files like those created by Adobe Illustrator have been resolved, see also bug # 1793877 )
• Improved filter rendering speed ( Commit )
• Improved performance of the measure tool, when grids are visible ( Commit )
• Dragging paths with a live path effect works faster now (Bug # [1] 245078)

Regression fixes

• Deselecting a path with many nodes would take a long time (Bugs # 1652100 and # 1745763 )
• Ungrouping text elements would result in a changed font size. (Bug # 1733651 )
• Some files with live path effects that could not be opened in Inkscape 0.92.3 work again in 0.92.4 (Bug # 1769679 )

Notable bugfixes

• Some printer drivers (reportedly Canon, EPSON, and Konica Minolta drivers) either failed to print at all, or scaled documents to the wrong paper size. Inkscape would send print jobs with a custom paper size, instead of sizes supported by the drivers. (Bug # 630635 comments 3-7; bug # 1289733 ; GitLab MRs 258 and 259 )
• The measure tool became confused by mirrored text. Now it measures distances between letters correctly, even when mirrored. (Bug # 1738504 )
• Fixed reduced opacity of partially transparent embedded bitmap images in PDF export. (Bug # 381677 )
• Fixed reduced opacity of partially transparent filtered objects in PDF export when 'Rasterize filter effects' is active. (Bug # 381677 )
• Fixed a very annoying crash when Shift/Ctrl-clicking on control handles of shapes. (Bug # 1594877 )
• Inkscape can now be built with up-to-date poppler library 0.72.0. This is especially useful for Mac OS users, using Homebrew for building Inkscape. ( Commit )
• Filter editor no longer crashes when removing the last blend filter (Bug # 1795847 )
• Fixed a crash upon closing a document, when the default template was missing ( Commit )
• Copy-pasting the power stroke LPE from one path to another works better now (Bug # 1005036 )

More bug fixes

There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only.

For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from March, 11th 2018 until release date).

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Romanian
• Spanish

The following documentation translations received updates:

• Hungarian
• Ukrainian

Contributing to interface translations

Want to help with translations? Learn how to help!

Documentation

• Layout of HTML Keyboard Shortcut Reference improved
• Indicate correct keyboard shortcut for the measurement tool in Keyboard Shortcut Reference
• Clarification in the man page for usage of the -z / --verb options in combination

Contributing to documentation and documentation translation

Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository .

Known issues

See bug tracker

Inkscape 0.92.4 is currently available via MacPorts only, both as an X11 build and as a native Quartz build. The native Quartz build can potentially be less stable, and less well integrated into the desktop environment (e.g. for copy-pasting).
We suggest sticking with the X11 build for the time being until Inkscape has fully made the transition to go native on macOS. The instructions below are for the X11 build.

Prerequisites

MacPorts requires a working installation of Xcode and its commandline tools, so install this first. You are good to go if running gcc --version in Terminal gives some meaningful output.

We strongly encourage installing MacPorts via the binary installers (*.pkg) offered on their website. They install MacPorts into the default location (/opt/local/bin) and also configure important things like binary repositories so it can use pre-compiled packages and not compile everything itself when you install new software. This does not only save you valuable time but also avoids some issues/hickups that occur if MacPorts builds everything from source.

We also encourage the installation of Xorg via MacPorts and not the (outdated) version supplied by https://www.xquartz.org.

Installation

macOS 10.13 High Sierra

If you want Inkscape to show up in your Applications folder:

macOS 10.14 Mojave

Please logout of your Desktop and back in after having installed xorg-server.

If the installation of xorg-server fails, complaining about mkfontdir vs mkfontscale, this is a quick & dirty fix:

If you want Inkscape to show up in your Applications folder:

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(10.4 (Tiger) to 10.12 (Sierra) are not supported.)

The MacPorts Inkscape builds are provided by MacPorts. If you encounter issues with installing via MacPorts, please contact them via their their bugtracker.

FAQ

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Why do I get the message 'Nothing to do!' from Inkscape?

• You have installed Inkscape but not Xorg.
• You have not logged out and back in to your Desktop after having installed Xorg.

How can I launch Inkscape with Finder?
Since there is no application bundle you have to launch the main binary directly. You can either run /opt/local/bin/inkscape form Terminal, navigate with Finder to /opt/local/bin and double click on inkscape or create a symlink for you own convenience to have it appear in your Applications folder (ln -s /opt/local/bin/inkscape /Applications/Inkscape).

Why is MacPorts compiling everything?
The ability to use pre-compiled packages depends on the default installation path (/opt/local/bin) and MacPorts being configured to use binary packages if available. Both things are taken care of for you when using the *.pkg installers. Consult the MacPorts documentation for more info.

Why does Inkscape look like a Windows 95 app?
What you're seeing is the default GTK theme/engine. You can change the theme, e.g.

and the next time you run Inkscape, it should have a different look.

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