Other highlights include new palettes and gradients, alignment tools, simplified line height settings, and templates for different screen sizes.

Some new features are aimed at those making technical drawings, including grid alignment, path length indicators, a tool to measure segments, and a Fillet/Chamfer tool for precise corner rounding. Pen support is improved with pressure-sensitive effects. In freestyle drawings you can mirror and rotate the canvas. There are many new or improved Live Path Effects, which apply transformations to existing drawing objects, and the user interface for this is updated, with a search option and the ability to mark specific effects as favourites. There are numerous new features, including a Trace Bitmap dialog that lets you convert bitmap images into vector drawings. The announcement noted: 'This latest version is labelled as 'preview', which means that additional improvements are scheduled for the next versions.' Bitmaps, transformations, palettes and font-work This is no longer required and Inkscape 1.0 is now a native macOS application – though it is not all good news. Previous releases for macOS required a compatibility component called XQuartz, which enables applications designed for the X windowing system to run on macOS Quartz, part of Apple's Core Graphics framework.

Inkscape 1.0 is most significant for Mac users.

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