Inkscape 1.4 is Ready!

[@obkf-too]

Support inkscape's development people.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

"Don't accept an Inkscape that crashes." This is the way.

[@disekjoumoer]

Thank you, Martin, and the whole Inkscape team.

[@rolandixor]

I've been daily driving 1.4 for some months now (lost track of how long exactly) and I have to say, it's well worth the upgrade. May not seem like the ground-breaking release that was 1.3 (in the eyes of some) because the feature diff is lower, but it's been a game changer for me. Performance is better overall, and the seemingly little things, such as gradient rotation support, smart alignment, etc - actually make a real impact on my workflow. Don't underestimate the impact of the smaller things.

[@frksilva]

There are many ways to support Inkscape, but financial support is very important because the work done by this team is incredible. Let's support Inkscape financially. I look forward to the implementation of CMYK.

[@doctormo]

Thanks frksilva, are you joining as a sponsor? I remembered to put the links in above.

[@frksilva]

@@doctormo Hello, yes, I will be offering my support through Patreon. I’m not in a position to be the top contributor, but I’ll do my part. Thank you for your work!

[@Drugvigil]

Love inkscape. Helps me a lot related to my business.

[@doctormo]

❤ Please consider supporting my work on Patreon, Ko-fi or LiberaPay so I can continue to keep this software going.

[@escornatouros]

Thanks to the entire team that worked on developing this version!

[@ВладимирТокарев-ч8р]

I teach graphic design to children in Inkscape. You and your team are creating big deal. Long-awaited release, thanks for your work!

[@beko-ll4it]

Thank you Martin and all the work teams, I hope that the program becomes free forever

[@Kīīng-Skull]

I proudly say, I am learning vector art in Inkscape.

[@Chandwell]

This is super, Martin! I can't wait to get my hands on it... Waiting for that 404 to go away. Thank you to the entire Inkscape team, and to you for these wonderful update videos. Inkscape is the engine that supports absolutely everything I do!

[@mineral520]

when 1.4 comes out i finally get to have my work computer officially updated! i've been able to sneakily use the dev builds and the RC with the compressed archive windows downloads. 1.4 has had some killer quality of life updates! i thoroughly enjoy it!

[@VeitLehmann]

Congrats on the release! It came just in time for me! I was moving something that I'm working on to Inkscape and had version 1.3.2 installed on my Mac. The experience wasn't all that great: some weird little UI bugs with color sliders moving on hover, dialogs that couldn't be closed etc. And no way to easily rotate gradient fills. It was pretty frustrating. But then I saw that version 1.4 was available. I installed it, and all problems were gone, and even gradients can be easily rotated now! Now it's really enjoyable to use and it does everything that I want it to do! I will keep using it for sure, keep up your great work!

[@janbrocher6824]

Thanks for all the efforts to the complete Inkscape team

[@LarixusSnydes]

First of all: Thank you and the Inkscape Team for all the hard work you all do to make Inkscape better. The fact that CMYK is even mentioned and not being dismissed as "Will not Fix" is fantastic to hear. Swatches for line styles would be a great improvement on my work flow when working on Origami Designs.

[@Grant_S_M]

HYPE! Thank you Martin and devs!

[@PicSta]

Inkscape is a great piece of software. Thanks to you and team for your numerous hours of effort and excellent work. Each release offers new features and improvements. Already curious to discover what's new in 1.4.

[@SKMRify]

Support both GIMP and Inkscape, friends. Peace.

[@Volt-Eye.]

New Object Properties Panel looks awesome.

[@BoldCarnivore]

It is still in beta on the website. I am very hopeful for this release. I love Inkscape.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Honestly Martin, I can't wait. I am really looking forward to the release. I will continue to leave feedback and report anyy bugs I encounter. Keep up the great work my friend. Looking forward to the future

[@Open5to6]

It's here! It's here!🎉

[@seoverus7805]

AWESOME. Thank you !

[@NYProductions]

I like the preview for extensions and filters. Thank you!

[@apatsa_basiteni]

Thanks. The filter gallery is an amazing UX edition to the software.

[@slizgi86]

Great work, congratulations! Hopefully, Flatpak will be available within days :)

[@imadsaddik]

Oh Owens, thank you so much for the effort you and the team are putting on the project.

[@giovanith]

Thank you Martin as well as to all the Inskape Team. Free and Excellent piece of software

[@TrondHus]

InkScape is the only OpenSource graphic Design tool that can compete with an Adobe product and other competitor of Adobe. Keep up the good work!

[@GraphicDesignStudio]

Yes we was waiting .

[@wimdg4230]

🥳🥳🥳what a great community driven project this is to watch unfold, even from the sides as a very marginal, hobbyist user..

[@aliencreation8744]

thanks man, love your work, appreciate all you do.

[@itsPenguinBoy]

Excited to try it, especially with performance improvements!

[@jimmac]

Thanks for the update and congratulations to a successful release. I am looking forward to trying the modular grid to aid in our symbolic icon workflow. ❤

[@ThePriceIsNeverRight]

Thank you for all your efforts

[@aemonwarrick4654]

I can't wait for vector brushes!

[@iRockbard]

Inkscape for the win 🎉

[@Artiick]

LETSGOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉. Also, I've been thinking about this for a bit now. Would it be maybe possible to have the ui based on a "theme.css" file for example, so that us users can mess around with them and make custom themes to share in the community for everyone to use? As always thanks for all the hard work🎉❤

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Great! Thanks for all the work 💯

[@Zejole]

Inkscape 1.4 really took some doing this time but it was worth the effort. A lot of nice new features and dialogs. And finally the "Stroke to Path" Bug is history which found its way into 1.3.2.

[@sebbosebbo9794]

......happy inking ....... 💪💥🗯🔥💭❤💨🕊 .............🕯.................

[@alexandrekarvalhooficial]

Obrigado Martin vou já instalar aqui e parabéns pelo trabalho duro.

[@chihauccisoilconte4474]

Fantastic, thanka a lot!

[@LaimisL]

Hell yeah

[@SteveMacSticky]

I must find out how to use swatches. Sometimes I just need the colours used in the document.

[@plinsburg]

Hi Martin. thank you for your work. I recently needed to move a layer all they way down in layers list in a huge document. and I noticed the older versions of inkskape had a button in layers window to move all the way up and all the way down. this button is not there in the modern inkskape. I only see buttons to move up/down one position at the time. how do I solve it?

[@vxmediaxv]

Awesome!!

[@rolandixor]

YES!!!!

[@beko-ll4it]

It is one of the best free programs

[@VIROCON-qy9qx]

Thanks

[@ganeshborade3706]

A feature request, Rotating any svg drawing in 3d space. For example, if I draw a circle, feature for rotating it along xz, zy, planes because skewing it to get the desired shape is very difficult.

[@berntlie6799]

I'm a amateur user of Inkscape, using it for technical drawings (incl. LaTeX text). To achieve consistency, it would be nice if I can make my own "swatch" where I can define labels for colors (e.g., liquid, gas, etc.) and select RGB/color values for the labels. The idea is that if I assign a color label to an object in a drawing, and later change the RGB value associated with the label, the color in the object will automatically be updated. Is this possible with Inkscape 1.4?

[@doctormo]

Yes, custom swatches have been possible for a while, but you have to save the gpl file in the config directory which is not very easy to use. We should improve the UX and then it will become obvious.

[@fablewalls]

Open Affinity files? That is so cool! I dropped Illustrator a long time ago to use Affinity Designer partnered with Inkscape and the ability to open an AF file will be much appreciated. Question: will Inkscape respect the brush work in an Affinity file? I love using a brush with vector apps (and pressure sensitivity) and it would be a amazing if Inkscape respected pressure created data.

[@BarbaraTostes]

super!

[@rogertruttmann3311]

I have tried the AppImage from 1.4 once. Unfortunately, I cannot open or import any of my afdesign files (current files and back to 2018)...🤔😥 Otherwise a great update 👍 It should be noted that the files were all created on Windows.. "Logos by Mike" does not seem to have these problems on the Mac 🤷‍♂️ I am on Linux Mint 22.

[@mikoajneronowicz582]

Thank you very much for your tremendous work! You are wonderful. I don't want to be perceived as a newbie, but what is the stability and performance issue? Will it be more reliable than 1.3?

[@betterfosset]

LOL, just got an Adobe ad before this vid, someone is worried

[@CorinneIsIn]

I know the geeks will say "skills issue" but I've tried to install it several times only to get constant requests to kill gdps.exe...and I can't find it in my process explorer. It won't ignore and won't allow the install. Windows 11 user.

[@doctormo]

This seems like a bad bug. Are you able to come to chat.inkscape.org and ask there? I think the community will be able to help you.

[@CorinneIsIn]

@@doctormo Hi Martin. I appreciate your quick response. I decided to try it a fourth time, but this time I closed down my Opera browser. It appears that whatever this GDPS.EXE was, must have been part of the Opera processes as it finally worked this time. It's opened just fine and successfully updated. I think this gdps has to do with the python part of installation, but for whatever reason, it worked this time around.

[@FabioRaitz]

Would Inkscape be released officially as flatpak for Linux anytime soon? Thank you and the Inkscape team for all the work!

[@BahnNachrichtenEuropa]

I don't know if it's been mentioned here, but if Inkscape and Blender were compatible with each other, that would be helpful and a real game changer. At work I often need to design something in Inkscape, save it as an SVG file and later import it into Blender to use it as a logos on a 3D models for example. The problem is that editing or changing vector graphics in Blender is really difficult, mainly because Blender doesn't have a real vector graphic editor. It would be nice, if it was possible to use Inkscape in some way to edit vector graphics directly in Blender, because it would combine the best programs from the 2D and 3D world.

[@BahnNachrichtenEuropa]

A possible workflow could be to design something in Inkscape, save it as an SVG file and use this SVG file as the source for the vector graphic in Blender. If you want to change the vector graphic later, you simply edit the SVG file and save it. At this point, the vector graphic is automatically updated in Blender.

[@user-munm]

​@@BahnNachrichtenEuropa You could also make it so that when you want to edite a vector graphic in blender you can eihter use tab key to use benders internal basic vector editor, or you could right click an choose "edite externaly" to utilize Inkscapes vast capibilities.

[@Skeleman]

grids! :D

[@larscwallin]

🎉🥳

[@orozcoapaza1660]

Amazing, thanks to the developers of this great program 😊

[@EternalAI-v9b]

Hello, can I use this to send stuff to my future laser engraving machine?

[@doctormo]

Usually yes, though check the model and make sure from other people who have used SVG or DXF for the laser.

[@EternalAI-v9b]

@@doctormo I would love a tutorial, as I said my "future" machine, meaning I am still learning. Some people say we don't even need paid tools like lightb..., so if you have any tutorail with inskape I would follow it.

[@RebelliousX]

🎉🎉🎊🎊

[@talk2devid]

@doctomo I have made several times feature requests. 1. Changing the bounding bix style to modern style 2. Text filters for t-shirt designers. Please consider them if possible.

[@bobdowling6932]

Will the SVG exported by 1.4 be readable by 1.3?

[@doctormo]

Yes, the standard hasn't changed and we haven't added many new tags. Modular grids won't, but everything else should.

[@vmisev]

What about native CMYK and CMS support?

[@doctormo]

See some of my other videos this year.

[@vmisev]

@@doctormo Thanks for quick response and for your videos! Please, don’t get me wrong, I’m very much rooting for Inkscape but lack of CMS & and native CMYK immediately turns off any professional user. I’ve been using Freehand, Illustrator and Corel since ’92 (mostly Freehand), but I still don’t get why is so hard to use libs and code like Little CMS and Scribus have? Anyway, thanks for hard work!

[@doctormo]

@@vmisev If you watch the videos, I go through many, many, many of the problems that getting CMS into proper shape is requiring. I've done almost nothing but CMYK and CMS for more than a year now on inkscape and it is a bit insulting to say that you don't know why it's hard. I know you don't mean this insult, but it hurts all the same. FWIW; Inkscape has supported CMYK CMS for ten years, no one uses it because it's badly designed and you can't use the CMYK svg files in anything else, so what's the point. What you want isn't CMS, it's PDF output and a UX that doesn't suck. Using LittleCMS is the easy part, that's why it was done all those years ago. The best video to watch is the interview I did with the project historian Josh Andler.

[@vmisev]

@@doctormo Hey, sorry! It wasn’t my intention to hurt you, not at all. I’m not a dev; I know my sh, awk and some basic Python, but that’s it - I’m not trying to look down on your hard work. I said “I still don’t get why is so hard” not as someone who knows how to do it, but as someone who is exporting CMYK EPS (and later PDF) from all kinds of programs on various OSes for more than three decades (yes, I’m PS Level 1 old ;) ). As I said, I very much appreciate any work on OpenSource (I’m FreeBSD user myself), especially for the projects I care about, like Inkscape, so please don’t get offended, my only wish is that Inscape succeeds. To use OpenSource in the reprographics environments/workflows only decent vector editor is needed - Scribus and Krita are very much usable and Little CMS is decent and getting better, and we have a myriad of diff pdf and ps libs. And not only OSS, world in general needs good vector editor, because IMHO there is none since Adobe killed Freehand. I hate only whining, so is it there anything that I, as a non-dev, can help with?

[@doctormo]

@@vmisev I have a Patreon or LiberaPay that you can join in order to help me spend time on the project. It's taking longer than expected, but it should be really comprehensive when it's complete. The real problem for us is that Scribus wrote it's own pdf code and didn't share, and Krita doesn't have to support vectors to the same degree. There's a bunch of really technical reasons and blind alleys that previous inkscape developers drove down that means the whole thing is a rebuild from scratch while pulling apart all the old code to keep everything working. Thanks for your understanding.

[@mosesfrancis4976]

But there is no install version like .deb for Linux...

[@doctormo]

There's an error on launchpad that's stopping the ppa from making a deb.

[@mosesfrancis4976]

@@doctormo oh... ok brother... Thank you

[@vincebaker3384]

I have 1.3 how do I report bugs?

[@doctormo]

You can always report bugs to inkscape.org/report/ always say which version you are using and test the latest version if you can.

[@TechieSewing]

Menu Help>Report a bug There is a page with a wall of text... read the very first sentence (it's the most important one), then the actual link for reporting is in the bottom. You'll need a GitLab account to both search if this bug exists, and to post a new one.

[@ken830]

F5, F5, F5, F5...

[@sharpeye6366]

Make mirror drawing simple and obvious like in Krita, or better. Make folders for color sets, inside the palette. And already give the ability to choose the shape and size of the markers of the selection container (which appears when selecting and rotating an object or objects). Allow the user to choose at least from 4 shapes: the terrible double-headed arrow, a square, a triangle and a circle. I am writing through a translator.

[@marlanjn.baptiste8715]

Busy as always

[@EngineerNick]

[@mitchhoneysett7674]

Has the point of origin put in the bottom left and 0degree is pointing north as per normal tech drawing setup

[@doctormo]

I can't see why that's not the case if you set the document to origin bottom-left.

[@PeppertopComics]

This option has been present for a while, but it may require you to change a value in the Inkscape preferences dialog. It's in the 'Interface' pane, "Origin at upper left with y-axis pointing down" - uncheck that, then quit and restart Inkscape. The origin in the top-left is due to Inkscape's heritage as an SVG editor, and SVG is a largely web-oriented format used in web browsers. On a browser the page starts at the top left and grows downwards, causing a scrollbar to appear if necessary. Switching this option won't actually change the SVG files, so they'll still be based on a top-left origin and be transparently mapped when loaded into Inkscape.

[@mitchhoneysett7674]

@doctormo I did that, but the compass point 0 degree is still on the horizontal. Should be at bottom left in start.

[@johnpapadopoulos5687]

CMYYYYYYYYYYK.... Come on! I am desperate. Who do I have to kill, to make CMYK happen? Just give me a name... lol

[@doctormo]

You could just join my Patreon, a lot less blood. Then you get CMYK without the violence. :wink:

[@LarixusSnydes]

You might ask the J-Pop Band with the same name to do a cross sponsorship and feature their likeness on the release that finally features CMYK as a usable colour model.