
To learn more, see the full release notes for Inkscape 1. Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and of an optional persistent snap bar.Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering.Shape Builder Tool for building up shapes on canvas (Boolean tool).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). Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that.

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.) Next we get options for which type of format we want to download for the installer. Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too. Course materials have been updated for Inkscape version 1.3.
