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Inkscape 1.3 Released!

Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing work efficiently | Inkscape

https://inkscape.org/news/2023/07/23/inkscape-launches-version-13-focus-organizing-work/

<img alt="Inkscape 1.3 About Screen CC-By-SA 4.0 by Denis Kuznetzky" src="https://media.inkscape.org/media/news/uploads/about-screen-banner-1-3.png" style="width: 30%; float: left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0" title="Inkscape 1.3 About Screen CC-By-SA 4.0 by Denis Kuznetzky" /> With version 1.3 of Inkscape, you’ll find improved performance, several new features, and a solid set of improvements to a few existing ones. This version is squarely focused on helping users get organized and work more efficiently with our free and open source vector-editing software.

Lots of new features in Inscape 1.3

4 comments

TheNumberOfGeese

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That is good news. I have to draw a lot of diagrams and I find myself stuck between a few tools, none of which is perfect. Any one of those that improves is a great thing!

Draw.io is brilliant for quickly creating stuff, but you can't easily reshape shapes
Visio is ok, but for software that aims to be diagram -focused, compared to draw.io, its connectors are appalling
Affinity designer is good, and not too expensive, but the lack of (outline+text*) objects (compared to draw.io and visio) quickly becomes a pain with complex diagrams. Plus complete lack of support for variable fonts is a showstopper for me.
I was really pleasantly surprised by inkscape when I tried it again the other year after many years of not using it. It's really come along and improved. I know its not intended for diagrams, so dynamic connectors and (outline+text*) shapes aren't there. If they were, it would be the perfect tool.

I'm looking forward to trying out the new features of this release.

*When I say (outline+text) I mean a shape with text in it that isn't two separate objects I have to wrangle with careful alignment or grouping etc. If you don't know what I mean, take a look at how easy it is to put text in shapes in draw.io compared to inkscape

ian

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Inkscape connectors were much improved last year I remember. Although I never used connectors. And I don't know what you need.

TheNumberOfGeese

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Thank you for letting me know! I didn't realise that it had connectors at all. I'm looking forward to checking it out tomorrow :) Cheers!