Inkscape 0.47 Released

A new version of the free vector graphics editor Inkscape has been released. The number of innovations justifies the gap in a year and eight months between versions. Briefly about the main thing:

• the new Eraser tool that erases inside vector objects;
• new modes in the Corrector tool that change the position and size of objects in different ways;
• drawing modes of straight lines using the Pen (Bezier curves);
• more than two hundred pre-installed SVG filters;
• new dynamic contour effects;
• Spiro curves (clothoids), with which you can quickly get figures with smooth bends;
• improved export to PS and PDF, added export to JavaFX and import DXF.
• the build for Windows comes with UniConvertor (support for CDR and related Corel formats).

A detailed illustrated review can be read here (attention: it is multi-page). The review does not include a description of the added support for SVG fonts, since this function is extremely unstable and seems to want some specific version of the Cairo library.

In the next version, two new tools may appear ( Geometric constructions and Airbrush ), the ability to write scripts using the Inkscape toolkit rather than writing XML directly, editing several contours at the same time, and much more. This is only what has already been written, but not sufficiently tested and therefore not included in 0.47.

As usual, the screenshot gallery has been updated on the site .