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-Inkscape 0.45: overview
-
-   This release brings the exciting new features developed by the Google
-   Summer of Code 2006 participants, as well as tons of other
-   improvements across the board.
-
-SVG filters: Gaussian blur
-
-   Thanks to Google's Summer of Code program, Inkscape now has basic
-   support for [44]SVG filters. The only filter enabled so far is
-   Gaussian blur.
-
-   With it, you can softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects:
-   paths, shapes, groups, text], images. Clones inherit blurring from
-   their original, but they can also be blurred independently from the
-   original (you can create blurred clones with Tile Clones, too). Both
-   the fill and stroke of an object are blurred together, creating
-   semitransparent margins that smoothly blend into the background.
-
-   Gaussian blur enables a wide range of photorealistic effects:
-   arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows,
-   glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other
-   objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect.
-     * To blur selected objects, open the Fill and Stroke dialog
-       (Ctrl+Shift+F) and use the Blur slider. The blur value is a
-       percentage, with 100% corresponding to a blurring radius of 1/8 of
-       the object's bounding box' perimeter (that is, for a square, a
-       blur of 100% will have the radius equal to half a side).
-
-     * The Tile Clones dialog also supports blurring. On the Blur &
-       opacity tab, you can set the blur percentage per row or per column
-       of your tiling, as well as randomize blurring and make it
-       alternate (all the same options as for Opacity).
-
-     * The quality of on-screen blur display is controlled by the Blur
-       quality option on the new Filters tab of Inkscape Preferences
-       (Ctrl+Shift+P). The available options range from best
-       quality/slowest display to worst quality/fastest display, the
-       default being in the middle of the range. Any setting except the
-       "best quality" may introduce some rendering artifacts, especially
-       when blurring thin strokes; on the other hand, the "best quality"
-       setting may make Inkscape extremely slow at high zooms. These
-       settings only affect the screen display of blurred objects; bitmap
-       export always uses the best quality.
-
-   Here are a few tips on using blur:
-     * Masks and clipping are applied after blur. That is, if you clip an
-       object and then blur it (or blur it first and then clip - it makes
-       no difference), the clipped edges will remain crisp. Often, this
-       is what you want. If, however, you want to blur the clipped/masked
-       edges too (possibly with a different radius), you can use
-       grouping: group the clipped object with some other object (which
-       you can then delete from the group) and blur the group.
-
-     * A simple drop shadow is now very easy to do: just copy the object,
-       paint the copy black, blur it, shift away a bit and lower it to
-       the bottom. However, such a shadow does not update when you edit
-       the foreground object. If your object is already black (or, more
-       generally, if you want the shadow to be the same color as the
-       object), you can clone instead of copy to make the shadow
-       auto-updating. But what if your foreground object is not black but
-       you need a black shadow? Here's a recipe: unset the object's fill
-       (it becomes black); create two clones of it; put one clone on top
-       and paint any color you want; put the other clone at bottom, blur
-       it and shift sideways. Now you can edit the unset-fill original
-       (use Alt+click to select it) and everything will update.
-
-     * If an object has a fill that you don't want to blur (e.g. pattern,
-       or if it's a bitmap), but you just want to feather its edges, use
-       a blurred transparency mask. For this, copy the object; paint it
-       white; blur it as needed; scale the blurred copy down so its blur
-       margins are entirely within the original object; select both the
-       original and the blurred mask; do Object > Mask > Set.
-
-     * Transforming a blurred object transforms its blur, too. This
-       applies to a non-uniform scaling as well, so by squeezing a
-       blurred object you make its blur squeezed as well. So, the easiest
-       way to blur a path horizontally more than vertically is this:
-       stretch it upwards without blur, then apply blur and squeeze it
-       back into the original shape.
-
-     * You can combine blurring with gradients. For example, an ellipse
-       with elliptic opacity gradient will look much softer and more
-       natural when blurred. An object with a horizontal linear opacity
-       gradient, when blurred, will look like it is more blurred on its
-       transparent side than on its opaque side.
-
-     * A clone of a blurred object inherits the blur of the original.
-       Therefore, such a clone can be blurred more, but you can't
-       "unblur" it to make the clone sharper than its original (unless,
-       of course, you unlink it). The Fill and Stroke dialog shows you
-       the amount of the blur applied to this particular object; however,
-       if the object is a clone of an already blurred original, the
-       dialog does not reflect that.
-
-     * Note that Firefox 2.0 does not support SVG filters, so your files
-       will be displayed in Firefox 2.0 without blur. However, support
-       has been added in the current development version ("trunk") and
-       will be included in Firefox 3.0. The Opera web browser, as well as
-       librsvg (used by Wikipedia) and Batik, support filters correctly.
-
-
-Undo history
-
-     * Inkscape now features a History Dialog accessible through
-       Ctrl+Shift+H or Edit->Undo History. All changes to the document
-       since it was opened are recorded here.
-          + In the dialog, changes are listed from the oldest (top) to
-            the newest (bottom).
-          + The type of each change is indicated by an icon and a short
-            description.
-          + For readability, consecutive changes of the same type are
-            placed in a collapsable branch showing a triangle marker and
-            the number of the hidden actions in the branch.
-          + By clicking on an event event in the list, you can easily
-            move through the undo history, i.e. undo or redo any number
-            of actions with one click.
-
-     * The Undo and Redo commands in the Edit menu display the
-       descriptions of the commands to be undone and redone,
-       correspondingly. (These are the same descriptions that you see in
-       the History dialog.)
-
-
-Rendering improvements
-
-     * Interruptible display: Previously, Inkscape could not do anything
-       until it finishes the current screen redraw. Now the redraw is
-       made interruptible, so that Inkscape responds to mouse and
-       keyboard input and can abort the current redraw and start over if
-       you do some screen-changing operation. As a result, Inkscape now
-       feels much snappier and more interactive. This interruptibility is
-       fine-tuned for some interactive operations (such as node dragging)
-       so that a balance is achieved between responsiveness and
-       completeness of display.
-
-     * Radial gradients are rendered faster by at least 10%.
-
-     * Screen render is faster by 2-3%, up to 5% for complex drawings
-       with transparency.
-
-     * Display is more responsive when working at high zoom levels when
-       using a tablet.
-
-     * Rendering (compositing) quality has been improved. This is most
-       visible with (partially) transparent gradients, banding is a lot
-       less pronounced now. Speed has also been improved in some cases.
-
-
-Tools
-
-
-Node tool
-
-     * You can grow or shrink node selection by hovering the mouse
-       pointer over a node and using mousewheel (up = grow, down =
-       shrink) or the keys PageUp (grow) and PageDown (shrink). Growing
-       adds the closest unselected node to the selection; shrinking
-       deselects the farthest selected node. There are two modes that
-       differ by how the closest/farthest nodes are chosen:
-
-     *
-          + Spatial selection (Mousewheel, PageUp/PageDown): distances to
-            nodes are measured directly, regardless of which subpath a
-            node belongs to.
-
-     *
-          + Linear selection (Ctrl+Mousewheel,
-            Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown): node distances are measured along
-            the path, and only the nodes belonging to the same subpath as
-            the hovered node are considered (i.e. other subpaths are
-            never selected).
-
-          This technique is convenient for quickly selecting an area in a
-          complex path starting from a center - for example, for node
-          sculpting.
-
-
-Dropper
-
-     * Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for
-       the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha",
-       which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and,
-       using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and
-       0.5 opacity (half-transparent).
-          + If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will
-            get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill
-            opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque).
-          + If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off,
-            the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and
-            fill opacity will be at 1.0.
-          + If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected
-            object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity
-            will be at 0.5 (half-transparent).
-
-          If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be
-          made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note
-          that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of
-          the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does
-          any other kind of opacity.
-
-
-Calligraphy
-
-     * A new numeric parameter, Caps, controls the amount of protruding
-       at the ends of calligraphic strokes. This parameter can range from
-       0 (flat caps, default behavior in previous versions) through 1
-       (approximately half-circle caps) and up to 5 (long elliptic caps).
-       Rounded caps much improve the look of low-fixation strokes,
-       simulating a rounded pen.
-
-     * The "Drag" parameter has been renamed to Wiggle with a value
-       inversion (i.e. low drag corresponds to high wiggle, and vice
-       versa). Increase this parameter (default is 0) to make the pen
-       waver and wiggle in curly patterns.
-
-
-Outline mode
-
-     * A new menu command (View > Display Mode > Toggle) and a new
-       keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+<keypad 5>) switch the display mode from
-       Normal to Outline and back.
-
-     * The window title displays "(outline)" next to the file name when
-       that editing window is in Outline mode.
-
-     * An object with mask and/or clipping path, when viewed in Outline
-       mode, now displays both the object itself and its clipping path
-       and mask as objects, using different outline colors. By default,
-       clippaths use green outlines, and masks use blue.
-
-     * Images in Outline mode are displayed as red (by default) frames
-       with two diagonals.
-
-     * An object with no fill and no stroke, invisible and not selectable
-       by mouse clicking in normal mode, can now be picked by a mouse
-       click in the Outline mode using its visible outline.
-
-     * The bug whereby stroked shapes didn't change stroke width when
-       switching to Outline mode or back is fixed.
-
-     * All outline colors are changeable by editing the "wireframecolors"
-       group inside "options" in the preferences file
-       (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). The "onlight" and "ondark"
-       attributes set the colors of the regular object outlines on light
-       and dark backgrounds (default black and white correspondingly);
-       the "images", "clips", and "masks" attributes set the colors of
-       images, clipping paths, and masks (defaults are red, green, and
-       blue correspondingly). Each attribute is a decimal integer
-       corresponding to the hex RRGGBBAA of the color.
-
-     * To cater for specialized uses, such as preparing input for
-       personal media cutters, Inkscape now has an option to start in the
-       Outline mode upon launch. To enable this, add the following line
-       to your preferences.xml file:
-
-                <group id="startmode" outline="1"/>
-
-          placing it after the <group id="options"> opening tag.
-
-
-PDF export
-
-     * A new Cairo-based PDF exporter has been added to Inkscape.
-       Inkscape 0.45 can export shapes, strokes, transparency, gradients,
-       patterns, text, and images correctly to Cairo. While clipping
-       paths and masks are known to be faulty or missing. Cairo will
-       write a PDF with vector graphics when possible and fall back to
-       raster graphics when needed. What can be exported as vectors and
-       how much of the image will be rasterized when the fallback kicks
-       in depends on your version of Cairo. Cairo version 1.2 with the
-       pdf backend compiled in is the minimum requirement for any
-       Cairo-based PDF exports.
-
-     * [removed? - mental] The native PDF exporter introduced in Inkscape
-       0.44 is improved along with the new Cairo-based PDF exporter.
-       Changes since Inkscape 0.44 include: New features: bitmap images
-       can be embedded, pdf files can be exported from commandline.
-       Changed behaviour: the pointless text to path question is gone.
-       Fixed bugs: save failure is now detected, miter limits are now >=
-       1, pdfs with transparent gradient are now embeddable, eccentric
-       elliptic gradients fixed, dash style inheritance fixed,
-       transparency inheritance fixed.
-
-
-PS/EPS export
-
-     * There's a new option to embed the fonts used in the document in
-       the PS or EPS exported file. As of now, this works for Type 1
-       fonts only, not TrueType. The option is available when performing
-       the export from the GUI as well as from the command line via the
-       --export-embed-fonts option.
-
-
-EMF export
-
-     * Inkscape has a limited support for exporting EMF (Enhanced Meta
-       File) format. This works only on Windows, and only exports strokes
-       and fills with constant colours. No text, no images, no gradients,
-       no transparency.
-
-
-Command line
-
-     * The new --export-pdf command line parameter allows exporting an
-       SVG image to PDF from command line.
-
-
-Keyboard profiles
-
-   The previous release allowed sets of keybinding to be created for
-   Inkscape in the style of other applications. Two more sets of
-   keybindings have been added.
-     * Adobe Illustrator
-     * Macromedia Freehand
-
-   Of course not every feature in these other programs has a direct match
-   to features in Inkscape so if you can please do help us out by
-   reporting any problems you may have or improvements you would like to
-   request.
-
-   Additionally, a keybinding that focuses on tablet-based illustration
-   and drawing work has been added:
-     * right-handed-illustration.xml
-
-   This keybinding places all commonly-used commands under the left hand,
-   so that the user's hands rarely leave the keyboard or the
-   tablet/stylus.
-
-   (To enable a profile, copy it into default.xml in the same directory,
-   overwriting the old file. To restore the default Inkscape set, copy
-   inkscape.xml into default.xml.)
-
-   More of Inkscape's keys are implemented as actions and are therefore
-   available for remapping via keyboard profiles. New actions include
-   EditSelectNext and EditSelectPrev for selecting next/previous object
-   or node (by default, they are bound to Tab/Shift+Tab; as a result of
-   becoming global actions, these keys now work in all tools and not only
-   in Selector and Node tool as before).
-
-Extension effects
-
-     * 3 new parameter types have been added to the extension effect UI:
-       tabs, enumerations and optiongroups (radiobuttons). Examples are
-       available of how to use these parameters in the definition of
-       extensions: the new function plotter uses tabs; enumerations are
-       used by the 'Pattern along path' extension; and a small developer
-       example is given to illustrate the use of optiongroups (identical
-       to enumerations).
-
-     * A new extension, Render > Lorem ipsum creates the traditional
-       Latin-like random text for design mock-ups. The number of
-       paragraphs, the number of sentences per paragraph and the possible
-       fluctuation of the number of sentences (for uneven paragraphs) can
-       be adjusted. If no flowed text element is selected, a new one in a
-       new layer is created, matching the size of the canvas.
-
-     * Pattern along path: A new powerful extension (in "Generate from
-       path" submenu) allows you to bend, repeat and/or stretch a pattern
-       object (which can be a path or a group) along a "skeleton" path.
-       This makes it easy to create a variety of patterned and shaped
-       strokes. This obsoletes the old "Kochify" extension which is
-       removed.
-
-     * Color effects: A new group of extensions in the Color submenu of
-       the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at
-       once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including
-       gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands include a full set of
-       HSL adjustments (increasing/decreasing hue, saturation, or
-       lightness by 5%), Brighter and Darker (adjust brightness by up or
-       down by 10%), Desaturate, Grayscale, Negative, commands for
-       removing or swapping the Red, Green, Blue channels, as well as a
-       Custom command where you can set your own formulas for modifying
-       the color channels. These extensions are a temporary solution; in
-       a future version, similar functionality will be added to Inkscape
-       core.
-
-          Note: undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an
-          object seems to "disappear"; this is however only a display
-          issue (caused by the order in which gradients and their users
-          are restored on undo) not causing any loss of information.
-          Also, on large documents and large selections with gradients,
-          Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these
-          shortcomings, we decided to add this extension, because it's
-          genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in
-          Inkscape.
-
-     * The Function Plotter has been extended, providing greater
-       flexibility in x- and y-range definition.
-
-     * g2png: The new group-to-PNG Python extension (g2png) is an easy
-       way to export any group or layer to individual PNG files. It was
-       first created for use in the [58]Inkscape User Manual (also
-       available in SVN's user_manual module) but is also interesting for
-       many other uses. If e.g. you have to draw a set of icons, you can
-       draw them in the same document, thus making copying, duplicating,
-       cloning etc. easier. Then just create a group for each icon, and
-       with the extension, each group ends up in its own PNG file.
-
-     * [color markers to match stroke - acspike]
-
-     * The "Blur Edge" extension is renamed into Inset/Outset Halo to
-       avoid confusion with the real Gaussian blur that we now support,
-       as well as to better describe what this extension actually does:
-       From the selected path, it creates a group of inset and outset
-       paths that form a stepped "halo" around the object.
-
-     * The Extract One Image extension automatically appends filename
-       extension to the created bitmap file.
-
-     * In an extension's INX file, you can specify <effects-menu
-       hidden="yes"/> to hide that extension from the Effects menu.
-       However, such a "hidden" extension can still be assigned a
-       keyboard shortcut (by using its id as an "action" in your
-       ~/.inkscape/keys/default.xml).
-
-
-SVG output
-
-   For specialized uses, several aspects of Inkscape's SVG output can now
-   be customized via editing the preferences.xml file (there's no UI for
-   these options). A <group id="svgoutput"> inside <group id="options">
-   can have the following attributes:
-     * usenamedcolors (default is 0). If nonzero, Inkscape uses symbolic
-       color names (such as "white" or "lime") and three-digit color
-       designations (such as $dfe) where appropriate; otherwise, it
-       always uses six-digit colors (such as $d0f0e0). Note that in 0.44,
-       the default was to use named colors, which created problems for
-       some extension effects.
-
-     * numericprecision (default is 8). This is the number of significant
-       digits written for each number into SVG. You can lower this number
-       to get slightly more compact SVG at the expense of precision.
-
-     * minimumexponent (default is -8). In transform= attributes, any
-       number whose absolute value is less than 10 to the power of
-       minimumexponent (i.e. less than 10^-8 by default) is written as 0.
-
-     * indent (default is 2) controls the number of spaces that each
-       level of nesting in SVG is shifted. Set this to 0 to disable
-       indentation.
-
-     * inlineattrs (default is 0). If nonzero, attributes are placed on
-       the same line as their tags; otherwise they are separated by
-       newlines.
-
-
-Bitmap tracing
-
-     * A new color quantization algorithm for multiscan traces works
-       faster (especially for large numbers of colors) and gives more
-       adequate results with less colors used. This improves tracing
-       results both for full-color photographs and for limited-color
-       drawings.
-     * The Trace Bitmap dialog now provides access to three more tracing
-       parameters:
-          + Suppress speckles: If set, spots or speckles larger than the
-            given size are suppressed in the trace.
-          + Smooth corners: This parameter controls how much smoothing is
-            applied to corners in the traced path.
-          + Optimize paths: If set, trace paths are optimized by joining
-            adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance.
-     * All controls in the Trace Bitmap dialog are reorganized to be
-       easier to find. The dialog is redesigned to use two main tabs:
-       Mode (where you select the tracing mode, such as brightness cutoff
-       or color multiscan) and Options (where you set various tracing
-       options, such as corner smoothing). The preview is placed
-       horizontally to the right of the tabs. Most labels and tooltips
-       are rewritten for clarity. The trace preview image is made twice
-       larger.
-
-
-Even more improvements
-
-     * A 'Save a copy'-function has been added to the file menu, similar
-       to the 'Save a copy' functionality of e.g. Adobe Illustrator. With
-       this function, you can save your document under a new filename,
-       but Inkscape will 'forget' it has done this: later saves will be
-       to the old filename. The default shortcut assigned to this
-       function is: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S.
-
-     * Text and flowed text objects behave more consistently. Now you can
-       put a flowed text on path or (re)flow it into a shape just as you
-       would do with a regular (unflowed) text. Previously, the need to
-       convert a flowed text to text before these operations was a
-       stumble for many users.
-
-     * [new Help commands]
-
-     * Exported PNG images have the correct resolution set in the
-       headers.
-
-     * [sculpt profiles - bbyak]
-
-     * [new toolbar: squeezable, expansion menu, right-click menus -
-       joncruz]
-
-     * [union of a single object - acspike]
-
-     * We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to
-       the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.10, GTK+
-       has finally restored this field in their standard file dialog. The
-       standard field at the top of the dialog supports type-ahead find
-       and performs the default dialog action (open or save) by pressing
-       Enter, which means you can now do a quick Ctrl+O, Ctrl+V, Enter
-       sequence to open the file whose path is in your clipboard (this
-       closes a long-standing usability bug). Those who use older
-       versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2.10 or use
-       Ctrl+L to open a pop-up filename box. (Our Windows builds are
-       shipped with GTK+ 2.10.)
-
-     * The Create Bitmap function (Alt+B in the default keymap) is made
-       more useful. Unless you have specific resolution or minimum size
-       set for this command in preferences.xml (<group
-       id="createbitmap"/>), it will take the resolution hint from the
-       object whose bitmap copy you are creating (in other words, it will
-       use the resolution that you specified for that object when
-       exporting it via the Export Bitmap dialog), or the default 90 dpi
-       if that object was not yet exported. Also, a 90 dpi bitmap (with
-       its pixels exactly 1 px in size) will be snapped to the pixel
-       grid. This makes it easy to use Create Bitmap for quick
-       rasterization preview of an object or document. (Note: if you have
-       used a previous version of Inkscape, your preferences.xml may
-       contain minsize="250"; delete this for objects' resolution hints
-       to work.)
-
-     * Using extended input (i.e. tablet pressure and tilt) can now be
-       disabled via Preferences (Misc tab). This is intended to be a
-       last-resort option for those platform/hardware combinations that
-       are not properly supported by GTK. With extended input disabled,
-       you can still use your tablet as a mouse.
-
-     * Simplify Path now had two modes when working with a group of
-       paths: the default mode, which treats all of the paths as one
-       large object to simplify, or the new mode, which acts the same as
-       using Simplify on each path in a group separately. In
-       preferences.xml, set options.simplifyindividualpaths to 1 to get
-       the new mode.
-
-     * For long Simplify operations (more than 20 paths at a time),
-       Inkscape provides user feedback via the status bar as to how many
-       paths have been simplified. This change also prevents Inkscape
-       from appearing to have locked up during the operation.
-
-     * New templates added for video formats (PAL, NTSC and HDTV 1080) as
-       well as DVD cover templates that were not installed in the
-       previous version. This will help video and DVD authoring with
-       Inkscape. The business card 85×54 template is now installed as
-       well.
-
-     * The opacity of objects is now displayed as percentage, from 0 to
-       100, both in the Fill & Stroke dialog (with one fractional digit)
-       and in the statusbar style indicator (with no fractional digits),
-       instead of from 0 to 1.0 as before. This makes opacity values
-       easier to read, type, and say.
-
-     * "Other" license type was added to the metadata/license dialog so
-       that people know that they are entering a URI to an "other"
-       license.
-
-     * Doxygen DoxyFile is updated.
-
-     * Thanks to patches submitted by users of our community, Inkscape
-       can now be built on SGI IRIX 6.5.28, gcc 3.4.0 systems and on
-       Tru64 systems.
-
-
-Examples
-
-     * With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially
-       blur - Inkscape is now able to produce extremely photorealistic
-       art. In the share/examples folder in Inkscape distribution, you
-       will find two brand new, stunningly realistic images of shiny
-       cars: car.svgz by Konstantin Rotkevich and gallardo.svgz by
-       Michael Grosberg.
-
-     * Inkscape 0.45 does not yet have gradient meshes. But with the
-       addition of Gaussian Blur, this feature suddenly got within reach.
-       A new example file, gradient-mesh-experimental.svgz, explains the
-       approach Inkscape will likely take to implement this feature in a
-       fully SVG-compatible way.
-
-     * Although Inkscape does not support animation yet, you can add any
-       animation scripts and attributes to your SVG file manually in a
-       text editor - and the file will still be editable in Inkscape.
-       Tavmjong Bah used this technique to create animated-clock.svg
-       which, when loaded in an SVG viewer supporting animation (such as
-       Firefox, Opera, or Batik), demonstrates the intricate moving
-       clockwork of a watch - and shows real time to boot! If loaded in
-       Inkscape, the image is static, but instead you can freely edit any
-       of the objects.
-
-
-Translations
-
-     * Remarkable improvements are in the Danish, Finnish, Nepalese and
-       the Vietnamese translations of the user interface. They all jumped
-       from 0 to over 90 percent in a very short timespan.
-
-     * All people which are familiar with pig latin are now able to use
-       Inkscape's user interface in that language. Isthay isway oughtbray
-       otay usway ybay away ewnay anslatortray.
-
-     * default lituanian template was not installed before, which is now
-       fixed.
-
-     * Updated British English, Catalan, Bulgarian and Thai translations.
-
-
-Tutorials and Templates
-
-     * New tutorial "Easter Eggs" by Steve Karg.
-
-     * Added Catalan default template and elements tutorial.
-
-     * Russian header and footer templates are added.
-
-
-Bugfixes
-
-     * When deleting a node, neighboring smooth nodes are converted to
-       cusp.
-
-     * Releasing the mouse button while dragging nodes using a tablet
-       will now always release the nodes. Before this, a race condition
-       could occur where dragging could continue after the mouse button
-       was released.
-
-     * An object's mask and clipping path are now preserved after
-       Simplify, Object/Stroke to path, or boolean operations.
-
-     * Ungrouping a group containing clipped/masked objects might
-       sometime break the clip/mask (move it away); fixed.
-
-     * User-supplied templates in ~/.inkscape/templates can now be SVGZ
-       files in addition to SVG.
-
-     * Previously, Inkscape didn't check if there's enough free memory
-       for its pixel buffers and could crash without warning due to
-       insufficient memory e.g. upon zooming in. This problem became much
-       worse after implementing Gaussian blur, because rendering blurred
-       objects at high zooms may require a pixel buffer much bigger than
-       the visible canvas. Now this situation is handled more gracefully:
-       if a display operation requires more memory than available, or
-       more than 100Mb (which corresponds to a 5000x5000 pixel buffer),
-       it is skipped. This may result in blurred objects "disappearing"
-       at high zooms. This is purely a display issue, however, it never
-       corrupts data; just zoom out (or reduce blur radius) and the
-       disappeared object will show up OK.
-
-     * When resizing objects, scaling numbers in the statusbar are no
-       longer overwritten by other text when pressing special keys (alt,
-       shift, ctrl).
-
-     * To work around problems some users have had with pressure
-       sensitive tablets ([66]bug), the pressure sensitivity can be
-       disabled from the misc tab of Inkscape preferences dialogue. The
-       tablet can then be used, though with reduced functionality.
-
-     * The layer widget in the statusbar used to lose its current layer
-       after an effect run; this is fixed.
-
-     * When using different display resolutions or a dual screen setup,
-       dialogs could be displayed off-screen; this is fixed: now Inkscape
-       checks whether the saved position of the dialog is offscreen, if
-       so it will move the dialog to the center of the screen. Note that
-       this not solve all problems. If the dialog is still not visible,
-       go to the [67]bugreport where a procedure is given to make the
-       dialog visible (editting preferences.xml).
-
-     * Performing a boolean union without selecting an object no longer
-       crashes Inkscape.
-
-     * Grid and guidelines no longer vanish when changing their color.
-
-     * Group transformation is now correctly applied when ungrouping and
-       undo'ing the ungroup.
-
-     * Text dialog no longer discards the style of the selected text.
-
-
-Known problems
-
-
-Problem with Dialogs on Top on Microsoft Windows (win32)
-
-   [Describe minimizing of document window problem, and solution:
-   right-click taskbar button and press "Restore"]
-
-OSX 10.3.9: cannot open files
-
-   This bug is due to a missing symbol (_statvfs) in the system library
-   /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib on 10.3.9. The dependency is introduced by
-   one of the gnome-vf2 modules. It is not something we can easily fix
-   other than by not linking with gnome-vfs2, which we will do for or
-   upcoming 0.45 release if no other solution becomes apparent.
-   [mjwybrow]
-
-Problems with some Debian libgc-6.7 packages
-
-     * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with the first Debian
-       packaged version of the Boehm garbage collection library. This
-       problem was fixed in version 1:6.7-2 of the package. If you have
-       libgc 6.7 on your Debian-based system, make sure that you are
-       using that version of the package or later.
-
-
-Beware of defective themes on Linux
-
-     * Inkscape and other Gtk programs can crash on any Linux, when the
-       gtk2-engines-smooth / libsmooth package is installed. We have
-       filed a bug against libsmooth which is now in gtk-engine and part
-       of gnome. Removing the package resolves the problem. Update: this
-       bug appears to be fixed in newer versions of gtk-engines. If you
-       are affected by this problem please update to a newer version of
-       gtk-engines. If problems persist then please inform the
-       gtk-engines maintainers of the problem.
-
-     * A similar crash happens if the KDE Baghira theme or the package
-       gtk_qt_engine are installed. If you experience Inkscape crashes on
-       KDE, please try to install a different theme from Baghira, or
-       uninstall the gtk_qt_engine package from your system. Both
-       problems also affect older versions of Inkscape.
-
-
+Inkscape 0.46 pre-release.  More here later.
diff --git a/build-dw2.xml b/build-dw2.xml
index c1e120838..e8fd416e0 100644
--- a/build-dw2.xml
+++ b/build-dw2.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     </description>
 
   <!-- set global properties for this build -->
-  <property name="version"     value="0.46dev"/>
+  <property name="version"     value="0.45+0.46pre0"/>
   <property name="arch"        value="i686-pc-mingw32-"/>
   <property name="archutil"    value="${arch}"/>
   <!--<property name="archutil"    value=""/>-->
diff --git a/build-sjlj.xml b/build-sjlj.xml
index 330aaccd3..856441554 100644
--- a/build-sjlj.xml
+++ b/build-sjlj.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     </description>
 
   <!-- set global properties for this build -->
-  <property name="version"     value="0.46dev"/>
+  <property name="version"     value="0.$5+0.46pre0"/>
   <property name="arch"        value="i686-pc-mingw32-"/>
   <!--<property name="archutil"    value="${arch}"/>-->
   <property name="archutil"    value=""/>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 160e9b52b..ea8c4bffc 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     </description>
 
   <!-- set global properties for this build -->
-  <property name="version"     value="0.46dev"/>
+  <property name="version"     value="0.45+0.46pre0"/>
   <property name="src"         location="src"/>
   <property name="lib"         location="lib"/>
   <property name="build"       location="build"/>
diff --git a/packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi b/packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi
index 6e9dc022f..24ed56855 100644
--- a/packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi
+++ b/packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ; DEFINES
 ; #######################################
 !define PRODUCT_NAME "Inkscape"
-!define PRODUCT_VERSION "0.45+devel"
+!define PRODUCT_VERSION "0.45+0.46pre0"
 !define PRODUCT_PUBLISHER "Inkscape Organization"
 !define PRODUCT_WEB_SITE "http://www.inkscape.org"
 !define PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\inkscape.exe"
diff --git a/src/ui/widget/registered-widget.cpp b/src/ui/widget/registered-widget.cpp
index e582a117f..1bf562629 100644
--- a/src/ui/widget/registered-widget.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/widget/registered-widget.cpp
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ void RegisteredWidget<W>::write_to_xml(const char * svgstr)
     sp_document_set_undo_sensitive (local_doc, saved);
 
     local_doc->setModifiedSinceSave();
+
+    local_doc->setModifiedSinceSave();
     if (write_undo) {
         local_repr->setAttribute(_key.c_str(), svgstr);
         sp_document_done (local_doc, event_type, event_description);