Masking Horrible Things in PDF - Inkscape Developer Update, May 20th 2023

This week I've fixed a whole boat load of pdf importer regressions and included fixing some really old crusty bugs which should give our pdf files a lot more support and crucially, editability.

Also this week is a fix for David to allow pasting text directly from spreadsheets and office documents. As well as fixes to the pages tool bleed exports, lots of page related snapping fixes and some new cursors from Maren.

[chrispapademetrious]

Damn. Inkscape 1.3 is going to be amazing.

[victorwestmann]

I loved the extra 5 minutes of amazing bug squashing frenzy we had this week! Thank you for that ❤❤❤

[Grant_S_M]

Thank you, Martin. See you next week!

[federicodisante]

Great Martin! You're unbreakable!

[approxahmed]

Unrelated but thought of sharing.
I found out recently that PDF was initially released on the 15th of June, 1993. So in around a month the format will be 30 years old!
The video made me think of sharing the information.

[iamlinux]

Thank you Martin, Can't wait for the epic 1.3 release 🎉🎉 . Shape builder tool is getting more and more production-ready. I had no crashes and I noticed one cool improvement, too: when picking the shape builder without selecting the shape my canvas does not disappear anymore and I get a friendly reminder to select the shape first 😊 .

[SimpleProgrammerAU]

I learned a fair bit about the PDF format in this video. Thank you!
Just added you to my subs on Patreon. Inkscape is one of my favourite open source tools and you're going above and beyond to make it even better.

[approxahmed]

11:23 How the tables have turned 😂😂😂 Poor Jonathon

[andreazevedodesign]

Beauty brother. A suggestion, if it's not so complicated. An option to clone pages horizontally and vertically and add options to include crop marks. Thanks in advance.

[pranab]

Amazing work on the bug-fixes!

Would you mind sharing how you got into Inkscape development and how you learnt C programming, in terms of difficulties, useful resources, and milestones?

[sael_elu]

Don't be sorry Martin, I like longer videos! ❤

[healthfitness]

Hey, Martin why ( CTRL + ALT+ D) no longer work?