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Inkscape 1.2 is Now Available to Download
A major update to open source drawing app Inkscape is now available to download for
Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Inkscape 1.2 is packed with a variety of new features that designers, artists, and other
illustrative innovators are sure to love.
Plus, this update features a swathe of stability improvements, performance enhancements, and
bug fixes.
For some, the headline feature addition in Inkscape 1.2 is support for multiple page
documents.
Fulfilling this long-standing request from the client’s enthusiastic fanbase means
users can now create new standard or custom-size pages within the same document.
A brand-new page tool is included to make managing the multi-doc powers a little easier.
A redesigned export dialog offer previews and the ability to select different objects,
layers, or pages within a document prior to export.
Additionally, the batch export dialog now makes it possible to export to multiple file
formats at the same time.
Also of note (well, to me anyway) are a crop of new gradient options including support
for gradient dithering (this is a go-to avoid banding often visible in gradients).
It’s now possible to edit gradients from the ‘Fill and Stroke’ dialog too (see
screenshot below) which I personally find a real time-saver!
Talking of colours, it’s now possible to change the size, border, spacing of the colour
blocks at the bottom of the window (as well as quickly switch between different colour
swatches via a menu – this may not be new, but I hadn’t noticed it until now).
Other new features include:
Editable markers and dash patterns Layers and objects dialog merged
On-canvas alignment snapping New ‘Tiling’ live path effect
Selectable object origin Flowing text around shapes and text padding
Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths
Configurable toolbar Plus plenty more — check out the official
release notes for a comprehensive rundown of all the changes, big and small.
Download Inkscape 1.2 Want to try it out?
Download the latest release direct from the Inkscape website (including as an AppImage,
which is what I used for the screenshots in this post).
Alternatively, wait for the Inkscape 1.2 update to roll out via Flathub, the Snap Store, etc.
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor used for editing vectors (resolution-independent
pixels that scale perfectly, e.g., .svg) rather than raster graphics (pixels at a fixed resolution,
e.g., .png).
This update builds out the editor’s already impressive feature set, underlining exactly
why this app is considered one the best that open source has to offer.
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Vector Graphics Editor Inkscape 1.2 is now available
Inkscape is an open source cross-platform vector graphics editor.
Inkscape 1.2, released on May 16, 2022, is the first major release of 2022.
It includes a large number of changes, including multi-page support, batch exports, performance
improvements and more.
Inkscape 1.2 Inkscape 1.2 is available for Windows, Linux
and Mac OS devices.
The program is free and open source.
Windows users may run into SmartScreen warnings when they run the installer; this is a false
positive, likely because the executable file is new.
One of the main new features of Inkscape is support for multiple pages.
Inkscape users may activate the "new page" icon after selecting the Page Tool in the
interface to add pages to the current document.
Each page may have different dimensions; the selected dimension is applied automatically
to the new page when the button is activated.
The application's interface has seen several improvements.
Context menus display only items that are available at the time.
Items that are not available are no longer grayed out, but removed to help users find
actions quicker.
The color palette and the Swatches dialog has been overhauled as well in the release.
A preview line for the selected color palette is shown now when you switch palettes in the
interface.
It is now possible to display up to 5 palette rows in the interface.
Tools can be hidden from the toolbar under Edit > Preferences > Interface > Toolbars.
Another change allows users to change the width of the toolbar.
Here are other changes in the new Inkscape release:
Extract images, a command to save images, supports multiple images in Inkscape 1.2.
Dithering is used when exporting raster images and displaying gradients on canvas; this is
done to reduce gradient banding.
Inkscape users may turn Dithering off under Preferences > Rendering > Use dithering.
Extensions installed via the Extensions Manager do not require a restart of Inkscape anymore.
Panning and Zooming performance improvements, as well as general performance improvements
on Mac devices.
Page shadows look more realistic.
Default color of pages is white, and the default desk color is light gray.
This has been done to make the differentiation between what is on and outside of a page easier.
Snap bar was replaced with a popover-dialog.
Two new on-canvas snapping modes added.
The new modes make "aligning and distributing objects a very easy drag-and-drop operation".
Size of guide handles is adjustable.
The tools pen, pencil, text and tweak tool use the last used style by default.
Mass value of the Eraser tool has been increased.
Default font unit for Text is pt.
Lasso selection has two new features: node deselection and inverted node selection.
The layers and objects dialog has been merged.
New Tiling Live Path effect.
Option to import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources
added.
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