As a result, during such operations those parts that you're working on redraw often and feel snappy and responsive, while areas further away may lag behind more. Moreover, the redraw is interruptible, so each mouse movement starts new redraw from the mouse cursor area. For example, when you are node-editing part of a complex path, the entire path needs to be redrawn on each change, but now this redraw starts from the point you're working on. This significantly improves program's responsiveness in some situations. Now the redraw always starts at your mouse cursor location and proceed upwards and downwards from it, so that the area near the cursor is always redrawn first. Smart redraw directionality: With complex images and/or on slow computers, you may have noticed that Inkscape redraws the screen image in horizontal strips, and these strips are painted in order from top to bottom.More impressive are memory savings: thanks to cairo, in outline mode Inkscape now takes only about 50% of the memory used by 0.45 for the same file. It is now used for outline mode display which, thanks to using cairo and other optimizations, redraws faster by about 25%. In this version, Inkscape starts using the cairo library for rendering.Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes.Significant speed and interactivity improvements.Engraver's Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool.Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export).13.7 Preserving zoom/view of reverted documents.13.3 Swatches panel, color drag-and-drop.11.8 Open Clip Art Library import and export.11.5 Adobe Illustrator SVG clean import.
9.1 Calibrated SVG color including CMYK.3.5.2 Tracing background by stroke width.3.5 Calligraphy tool: Engraver's Toolbox.3.4.4 Automatic duplication of gradients.