Moreover, you can unset paint on some of the objects in a group, clone the group, and paint the clone; only those objects with unset paint will accept the paint, while others will retain their original paint. Here are the highlights: Flowed text : text objects that automatically reflow in any shape not only rectangle. Gradient tool : a completely redesigned and much easier to use gradient interface, with gradient handles displayed right on canvas.

Effects are now usable from within Inkscape on all platforms; this version ships with a collection of effects including path interpolation, randomization, and various fractal algorithms.

Color swatches : a standard facility in most graphic software, now in Inkscape too. Colored clones : clones can now be painted differently from their original. Tile tracing : the Tile Clones dialog can trace the existing image with the tiling, producing a multitude of exciting effects. Grid arrange , baseline align , unclumping : new powerful ways to arrange objects.

Text The text layout engine is completely rewritten to make it easier to maintain, faster, and more memory-efficient. Inkscape now features a complete support for flowed text : Creation of flowed text is simple. Just drag anywhere on canvas except over an existing text object using the Text tool to create a rectangular frame.

After you release mouse, the frame is created and you can type text into it. You can press Esc while dragging to cancel flowed text creation. Resizing a frame is as simple as dragging the handle in the bottom right corner to change its width or height.

Drag with Ctrl to restrict resizing to horizontal or vertical. Such resizing can be done by Text tool, Node tool, or any shape tool; however, only Text tool also highlights the frame border when a flowed text is selected. Transforming a flowed text is straightforward.

It is selected as a single object including both the frame and the text, and can be moved, scaled, rotated etc. Dragging with the Text tool creates a regular flowed text object whose frame is internal does not appear as a standalone object on canvas and rectangular. You can, however, create a different kind of flowed text: linked flowed text that can use as its frame any existing shape, including non-rectangular ones. It can also use a chain of frames , with the text flowing from one frame to the next one in chain.

When two or more shapes or paths were selected, they become a chain of frames for this flowed text. A linked flowed text is in some ways similar to a clone.

It will reflow when the frame is changed, but it is a separate object that can be moved away and transformed independently from its frame. Statusbar description of a selected object will identify regular text, flowed text, and linked flowed text as different kinds of objects. Full on-canvas editing of flowed text is now possible. Pressing Enter starts a new paragraph.

Letterspacing and linespacing adjustments but not manual kerns work in flowed text as well. Another command, Convert to Text , also converts flowed text to a regular text object, but fully preserves appearance i.

The resulting object does not reflow anymore but it is still editable. It is recommended to use this command if you have flowed text in a document but want it to be viewable in SVG 1. Text selection in Text tool now works.

Drag with mouse over any text object. Double click on a text to select one word, triple click to select one line. The Cut, Copy, and Paste Style commands apply only to the selection. International text support is greatly improved, especially for right-to-left scripts.

This means you can now type Unicode code points consisting of other than 4 hex digits. A preview of the current character is shown in the statusbar as you type the hex digits. To complete your input, press Enter. To enter more characters without leaving the Unicode mode, press Space instead of Enter. This is especially useful when doing baseline snapping, alignment, or distribution see below. Any number of selected objects can simultaneously display handles and direction lines for the linear and radial gradients in their fills or strokes.

You can drag these handles directly in the drawing, to interactively adjust gradient positions. Gradient handles can be enabled in the Node tool, shape tools, Text tool, and Dropper tool on by default , as well as in Selector and Zoom tools off by default. Use the Inkscape Preferences dialog to change this. Any gradient handle, if dragged close to a handle of another gradient, will merge with that handle drag with Shift to prevent merging.

Dragging such a merged handle will adjust any number of gradients attached to it. To separate merged handles, drag them away one by one with Shift.

Radial gradients display handles in the center and at the ends of two radii, which allows you to move, rotate, squeeze, or stretch the gradient to form an arbitrary ellipse. Also, you can independently adjust the focus of the gradient; drag the central handle with Shift to separate the focus handle.

When dragged, handles will snap to the edges and their continuations and the central axes of the bounding boxes of all selected objects drag with Shift to prevent snapping.

Dragging with Ctrl will snap the angle of the linear or radial gradient to the user-settable angle increments default is 15 degrees. A center of a radial gradient, dragged with Ctrl, will be constrained to horizontal and vertical movement relative to its previous position.

Gradient handles for each gradient are connected by blue lines for fill gradient and yellow lines for stroke gradient. Existing gradients can be edited by dragging their handles not only in Gradient tool, but in any tool that has on-canvas gradient editing enabled.

If the selected object already had a gradient, the new gradient will use the same colors as the old one; otherwise it will go from fully opaque to fully transparent with the color of the selected object.

However if you start dragging from another object, the tool will pick up the gradient or the color of that object. If you have several objects selected, or if your selected object is behind another one, you can double-click with Ctrl to create gradients on selected object s without changing selection.

The selected blue on-canvas gradient handle can be nudged by arrow keys with all the regular modifiers Alt to move by 1 screen pixel, Shift to move by 10 times the distance. Pressing Esc or a click in empty space deselects the selected handle; if no handles are selected, it deselects selected objects. This means that two-stop gradients can be completely edited without ever opening the Gradient Editor dialog.

Paste style if the pasted style contains both fill and stroke style, the stop will take the fill style. Fill and stroke dialog this allows you to set the color of several gradient stops at once if their handles are merged together; both Fill and Stroke tabs of the dialog work to set color on a handle.

Swatches dialog. Correspondingly, choosing a gradient definition from the list applies it to the gradient s of the selected handle or, if none, to all selected objects. The Duplicate button creates a copy of the selected gradient definition and applies it to the selected objects; use that when you have several objects sharing one gradient definition but want to change that. The Edit Before, the actual direction of the linear gradient was not always perpendicular to the line connecting it handles if the bounding box of the object was not a square.

This is now fixed, though the fix only works for new gradients that you create i. The Gradient Editor dialog can now delete the first or last stop if there are more than 2 stops in a gradient. Pressing this button removes the fill or stroke property from the style of selected objects, which has the visible effect of painting the fill black and removing the stroke. Then click Next on both the following welcome screen and license agreement screen.

On the Choose Components screen you can select which features you want to install or not install. In most cases the default options should provide all that the user needs, so click Next. If you do want to install Inkscape in a specific location on your computer, click the Browse button and in the resulting window either make a new folder for Inkscape and select it or select the destination folder you want Inkscape to be installed to.

Once you click Install , a progress bar will appear showing how long it will take for your program to install. After the installation is complete, click Finish and the installer will automatically open Inkscape for you. You are ready to begin working with Inkscape. You can also install Inkscape onto your Windows computer from the Microsoft App store. If you have the Windows 10 Education version this will be the only way you can install Inkscape.

You will need a Microsoft account to install apps from the Microsoft store. If you already have an account, skip the following steps on how to make one. On the following page enter in the email address or phone number that you would like to link your Microsoft Account to and then click Next. There is also the option to get a new email address from Microsoft. We will be using a preexisting email for this example but if you want to create a new email the process for making a Microsoft email is pretty straight forward.

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