Recent Improvements to Inkscape's new Measurement Tool (June 19th 2011)

This week I have continued development of the Measurement Tool in Inkscape.

Improvements implemented this week:
* the tool now displays angle information
* if you hold the CTRL key, the tool has its angle constrained to multiples of 15 degrees so that you can have precise measuring. For instance, this makes it easy to have horizontal and vertical measurements.
* now you can also select in the toolbar, which units to be used in the measurements

Use it now

This tool will be available in the next release of Inkscape (0.49) that is due out in September or so.

If you want to give it a try earlier, we have nightly builds of our development version. Visit one of the following pages and download the first link you see:

* Ubuntu or Trisquel GNU/Linux
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/trunk

* Mac OS X
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D

* Windows
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?C=M;O=D

If you have any suggestions regarding this tool, or Inkscape in general -- both feature requests or bug reports -- be sure to let me know and I may consider addressing the issues to make Inkscape better.

If you feel like supporting my work on Inkscape development, you may consider sending a PayPal donation. My PayPal username is felipe.sanches@gmail.com

Please, let your friends know about the font features being added to Inkscape!

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