thingsiplay , 10 hours ago

My first few minutes trying out.

• Filter Gallery: The new Filter Gallery is amazing! I never used filters before, because the effects seem to be random if you don’t have a preview. So much better than a standard menu.
• Font Browser: And the new Font Browser is also amazing. Fonts are finally listed as a preview with the actual font. What’s cool is, it goes a bit beyond that and allows for custom text to display. We can limit the list to specific type of fonts, such as “serif only” in example. Which is terrific.
• Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: I never tried this before, but its actually a great idea! If any pixel based image is part of the composition, then being able to use it withing Shape Builder makes the workflow even more fluid! Pretty cool.

Admittedly, both of these preview features are basic functionality of many other programs. So it’s more like Inkscape catches up on that front. But I’m not complaining here, just explaining that these are nothing groundbreaking. I’m personally not that involved, only created a handful icons. This new release is shaping up to be legendary (to me).