Inkscape Portable 0.92 (scalable vector graphics editor) Released

Gord Caswell's picture
Submitted by Gord Caswell on January 25, 2017 - 6:46pm

logoInkscape Portable 0.92 has been released. Inkscape Portable is an open source scalable vector graphics editor packaged as a portable app, so you can do your graphics work on the go. It has all the same great features of Inkscape including markers, clones, alpha blending and has a streamlined interface. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Inkscape Portable is made available in conjunction with the Inkscape team.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

ScreenshotInkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Inkscape Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Inkscape Portable is available for immediate download from the Inkscape Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

Gord Caswell's picture

It appears there's an updater mismatch with the DownloadPath field.

Currently, DownloadPath is showing as https://portableapps.com/redirect/?a=InkscapePortable&t=http%3A%2F%2Finkscape.org%2Fen%2Fgallery%2Fitem%2F4460%2F

However it should be https://portableapps.com/redirect/?a=InkscapePortable&t=http%3A%2F%2Finkscape.org%2Fen%2Fgallery%2Fitem%2F10623%2F

Gord Caswell's picture

It seems to be working here, I believe it was fixed overnight.

It seems that there's no option to choose from 32 or 64 bits versions as in other apps that I have downloaded from here. Not important in many cases but for graphic programs like Inkscape a note or clarification would be good.

Leoram

Gord Caswell's picture

This app is available as a portable app in 32-bits only.

While many of our apps are becoming available in dual 32 and 64 bits, unless there is a good reason to do so, we don't automatically make them that way, as there would be a significant increase in size.

In this way, the application just works wherever you need it to.

My experience with graphic intensive and processor demanding applications like Inkscape is that they give out more in 64bits terminals, something very widespread in the last years, so why don't you make it available in PortableApps?, after all in your post you seem to imply there are possibilities. I'm sure many users will receive it with a big THANKS.

Leoram

John T. Haller's picture

We only do dual mode 32-bit and 64-bit apps when there is a genuine advantage to do so and it offsets the increase in size. Inkscape, for example, is already 300MB. Adding in the 64-bit version would make it 600MB. How much of a speed advantage does the 64-bit version of Inkscape offer? (7-Zip is a bit under 10% for instance) What percentage of users will be able to take advantage of that speed increase? (If only those who do batch processing, then not many) What percentage of the time will that speed increase be noticeable? (If most of the time the app is awaiting user interaction, not often)

An app like 7-Zip made sense since it is a very small size increase and would help users who handle large archives. With GIMP, for instance, the size increase vs speed increase + users who would be helped meant that it didn't make sense.

Fun fact: Contrary to popular believe, 64-bit apps are usually no faster than their 32-bit counterpart. They're even slower a chunk of the time.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Inkscape has released v92.1 on 2-13-17 which integrates an extension which fixes the bug with legacy text. With the newly released v.92 it requires this extension to be downloaded and put in extension file location in order to fix text line spacing problems with .91 and prior version documents. This process might be above the heads of many. Do you have plans to make v92.1 available soon?

Thanks for all you do.