The open-source, 100% free illustration and editing program has been the go-to for thousands upon thousands of professional and casual users around the world. Back in May, the much-anticipated version 1.0 was released. Inkscape Blur What’s new in Inkscape 1.0? With more than three years of “beta” development under its belt, Inkscape brought a truckload of updates and features drops in the official 1.0 release and it’s the version to use if you’re looking for a robust, versatile illustrator app that’s completely free.Theming support and more new customization options.

Better HiDPI (high resolution) screen support.Native support for macOS with a signed and notarized.Coordinate origin in the top left corner by default.PowerPencil for drawing editable, variable-width strokes with a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet.Integrated centerline tracing for vectorizing line drawings.New Live Path Effect (LPE) selection dialog.New Corners (Fillet/chamfer) LPE, (lossless) Boolean Operation LPE (experimental), Offset LPE and Measure Segments LPE (and more!).Path operations, deselection of a large number of paths as well as grouping/ungrouping are much faster now.Much improved text line-height settings.Variable fonts support (only if compiled with Pango library version >= 1.41.1). Extensions programming interface updated, with many new options – Note: this introduces breaking changes, some third-party extensions will have to be updated to work with Inkscape 1.0.

No doubt that Inkscape is a powerful and popular tool. For us Chromebook users, Inkscape has been in the toolbox since the days of Crouton. Now that Chrome OS supports Linux applications without the “hackiness”, you can actually install Inkscape via the Linux terminal.

Inkscape centerline trace