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 the year and eight months between versions. Briefly about the main thing:

• New Eraser tool, erasing inside vector objects;
• New modes in the Proofreader tool, changing the position and size of objects in different ways;
• Modes of drawing straight line segments using Per (Bezier curves);
• more than two hundred pre-installed SVG filters;
• New dynamic contour effects;
• Spiro curves (clothoids), with the help of which you can quickly get figures with smooth curves;
• Improved export to PS and PDF, added export to JavaFX and import DXF.
• Windows build comes with UniConvertor (support for CDR and related Corel formats).

A detailed illustrated review can be read here (note: it is multipage). The review does not include a description of the added support for SVG fonts, since this function works extremely unstable and apparently wants some specific version of the Cairo library.

In the next version, there may be two new tools ( Geometry and Airbrush ), the ability to write scripts using Inkscape tools, rather than writing XML directly, editing multiple paths at once, and much more. This is only what is already written, but not tested enough and therefore is not included in 0.47.

As usual, the site has updated screenshots gallery .