The release of an update of the free vector graphics editor «Inkscape 1.1.2″ along with which at the same time, alpha testing for a major new version of inkscape 1.2, which proposed notable changes in the interface.
For those who are unfamiliar with Inkscape should know that is professional quality vector graphics software It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU / Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists around the world to create a wide variety of graphics, such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps, and web graphics.
Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with comparable capabilities to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. You can import and export various file formats including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS, and PNG.
It has a full feature set, a simple interface, multilingual support, and is designed to be extensible, users can customize Inkscape's functionality with plugins.
The editor provides flexible drawing tools and provides support for reading and saving images in SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript, and PNG formats.
What's new in Inkscape 1.1.2?
The new corrective version bug fix arrives implemented and it stands out that they solve almost 60 problems, as well as improved translations for 15 languages have been implemented. This version includes many bug fixes and resolve issues with various broken extensions.
On the part of alpha testing for version 1.2 It is highlighted in the ad that added support for multi-page documents, allowing you to place multiple pages in a document, import them from multi-page PDF files, and selectively select pages when exporting.
Besides that sThe palette display has been redesigned and a new dialog has been added to customize the appearance of the palette panel, which allows you to dynamically change the size, number of items, layout, and indents in the palette with an instant preview of the result.
It is also highlighted that added a new interface to control snapping to shape boundaries (Snap to Guides), which allows you to align objects directly on the canvas, minimizing the need to use the “Align and Distribute” panel.
While the panel was redesigned to work with gradients, since the gradient control is combined with the fill and stroke control dialog. Fine-tuning of gradient parameters has been simplified. Added a list of anchor point colors to make it easier to select the gradient anchor point.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Dither support has been added to improve the export and display quality of images with a limited size palette (missing colors are recreated by mixing existing colors).
- The 'Layers' and 'Objects' dialogs have been merged.
The ability to edit markers and line textures is provided.
All alignment options have been moved to a dialog.
Provided the ability to customize the content of the toolbar.
Implemented "Copies" live effect to create mosaic textures on the fly.
Added support for exporting in batch mode, allowing you to save the output in multiple formats at once, including SVG and PDF.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it you can check the details In the following link.
How to install Inkscape on Linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version for those who are users of Ubuntu and other systems derived from Ubuntu, they must open a terminal in the system, this can be done with the key combination "Ctrl + Alt + T".
And in her we are going to type the following command with which we will add the application repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable sudo apt-get update
Done this to install inkscape, we just have to type the command:
sudo apt-get install inkscape
Another method of installation is with the help of the flatpak packages and the only requirement is to have the support added to the system.
In a terminal we just have to type the following command:
flatpak install flathub org.inkscape.Inkscape
Another method offered directly by the Inkscape developers is using AppImage file which you can download directly from the app's website. In the case of this version, you can open a terminal and in it you can download the appimage of this latest version by typing the following command in it:
wget https://inkscape.org/gallery/item/31669/Inkscape-0a00cf5-x86_64.AppImage
Done the download, now you just have to give permissions to the file with the following command:
sudo chmod +x Inkscape-0a00cf5-x86_64.AppImage
And that's it, you can run the app image of the application by double-clicking on it or from the terminal with the command:
./Inkscape-0a00cf5-x86_64.AppImage
And for those who prefer to install through the Snap package, this can be done with:
sudo snap install inkscape