no more auto-expanding layers in the Layers dialog when only activating them, and improved behavior on deleting and moving layers.activating a layer in the Layers dialog no longer requires you to double-click to enter the layer on the canvas to be able to work in it.the Shape Builder tool now creates an appropriate number of nodes.a new feature to split text into its letters (characters), while keeping the kerning (letter distances) intact.a new feature to disable snapping to grid lines, while still snapping to grid intersections.more than 30 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import and Live Path Effects.The highlights of this major Inkscape version are: People report successfully using Inkscape in a lot of very different projects (web graphics, technical diagrams, icons, creative art, logos, maps). While Inkscape does not have all the features of the leading vector editors, the latest versions provide for a large portion of basic vector graphics editing capabilities. An imported bitmap becomes yet another object in your vector graphics, and you can do with it everything you can do to other kinds of objects (move, transform, clip, etc.) Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too.

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