New features on the way for Inkscape

From Inkscape Homepage.... Normally we tend to post news items regarding what new features are showing up in our repository. As people can see, news has been a bit thin for the past couple months... but don't let this fool you. ;)

New Features or improvements added after 0.43 was released:

Outline mode - an oft-requested feature that allows toggling an alternate view mode to see only the outlines of all shapes. That would be as opposed to normal view mode which shows fills an strokes.

Selected style indicator - this indicator is a bit more powerful than implementations you'll see in other software. Inkscape's can give insight into more than color. It can tell you if it's a pattern, radial or linear gradient, if there are multiple styles selected, it can mix multiple flat fill colors, all opacity controls are right there, and much more.

Remove overlaps - a new function in the Align & Distribute dialog to do just what it says, remove overlaps from selected objects.

Snapping improvements - snapping is now more advanced and will allow snapping to paths and nodes. Additionally objects will now only snap to visible guidelines.

Connector improvements - you can now set the spacing value for objects that you designate to be avoided.

Swatches are being moved into the main interface.

Improvements to the Transformation dialog.

Retention of transformation rotation centers between sessions.

Rendering speed improvements, and too much more for us to continue listing.

To see the full list of changes since 0.43, please visit the following link in our wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes