New Features, Updates and Fixes for the upcoming Ink/Stitch version

Ink/Stitch is in constant development. Here you can see all the changes made after the last official release.

Fonts

New Fonts

Apesplit

Font updates

Numerous updates to existing fonts were made. Thanks to everyone involved!

Translations

A big thank you to all translators. We’ve received new translations into:

Czech
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Portuguese, Brazilian
Spanish

How to translate Ink/Stitch

New Stitch Types

Cross Stitch

Cross stitch frog

Legacy Fill

Expand shape

Add expand parameter option #3988

Ripple Stitch

Adaptive width

Improved rendering for the adaptive width option #4079

Clipping

Ripple stitches render as clipped #4082

Swap and reverse satin guide rails

Add swap rail and reverse rail parameter options for satin guides #4083

This will affect pattern and/or stitch direction.

Running Stitch

Stitch length sequence

Allow a space separated sequence as an input value for the stitch length #4034. This sequence can also be applied to ripple stitches.

Image above: ripple stitch with a stitch length value of 1 1 5

Satin columns

Stroke to satin conversion under the hood

Simple strokes can be used as satin columns directly #3874.

the width of the stroke must be greater than 0.3mm
the position of the nodes can influence how the satin will be rendered:

Short stitch inset levels

Short stitch inset can now take more than one value separated by a space. When multiple values are set, the satin column will use these to level consecutive short stitches #3987.

Satin with two short stitch inset levels

Zigzag Stitch (Stroke)

Add bean stitch parameter option #4127

New extensions

Apply attribute

Edit > Apply attribute #3983

An extension for experienced users. Applies a given attribute to all selected elements.

Apply attribute gui

Organize Glyphs

Font Management > Organize Glyphs #3870

Helps font digitizers to organize their work in steps so that they can reuse previously digitized letters

Cross Stitch Helper

This extension helps to generate cross stitches in Ink/Stitch. It can:

Calculate stitch length for given grid spacing values
Apply cross stitch parameters to selected fill elements.
Pixelize outlines of selected fill elements.
Apply spacing values to page grid.

Cut Satin

A tool to cut satins at specified spots.

It is now possible to cut a satin at multiple positions at once. #4015

Break apart fill objects

A tool to repair and split up simple or complex (self overlapping) fill shapes.

Add threshold option ##4110

Break apart fill objects will remove elements and holes which are smaller than this value.

Element Info

A tool to gather embroidery information.

Add option to copy the list to the clipboard (accessible from the help tab) #3817

Font file naming conventions

Previously, font file names declared with arrows the stitch directions. This was troublesome on some operating systems when inkstitch was installed.

Now font files can be named ltr.svg, rtl.svg, ttb.svg, btt.svg to define the font variants #4087

Convert svg font to glyph layers

This is an extension for embroidery font digitizers.

Add option for font sizing #3799
Remove option to stop after a specific amount of imported glyphs #3937
Ignore glyphs from Z category unicode, as they do not render
Try to decypher glyph names from private unicode area #3883

Edit JSON

A tool for font digitizers. It let’s font authors edit font and kerning information.

It is now possible to set 0 as a value for horiz_adv_x_default. This is make Ink/Stitch use the width of the individual glyphs #3965
New input fields for: original font, original font url and the font license #4103

Generate JSON

A tool for font digitizers for the initial creation of the JSON file. The JSON file includes all information about the font.

New input fields for: original font, original font url and the font license #4103

Font sampling

A tool for font digitizers to validate the font output.

only render unlocked (sensitive) glyphs. This allows for partial sampling while creating the font #3870
Save and reload scale settings #3870

Force lock stitches

A tool for font authors to automatically set the force lock stitch option when an element meets a specified criterion.

add option to apply forced lock stitches on the last element of each selected group #3875

Jump Stitch to Trim/Stop command

Converts jumps to trim commands.

Add option to convert to either a trim or stop command #4038

Knockdown Fill

Adds a fill underneath selected objects.

Add stitch length option #4084

Row spacing will adapt accordingly to line up with the stitches.

Lettering

Text module to use pre-digitized fonts.

Add spacing options #4020

Preferences

Defines global settings or settings for the currently open SVG document.

Add rotate on export setting (affects single svg file only) #3840

Troubleshoot Objects

Points to troublesome (or potentially troublesome) spots in the design.

add display options (errors, warnings, type warnings) #3969

Magnifico thread palette #4022
Threadart thread palette #4022

Bugfixes

Fix issue with rgba thread color definitions #4126
Do not save empty embroidery files #4125
Remove embroidery settings: command param along with commands for trim and stop #4074
Fill to satin: process rungs within the fill shape better #4025
fill to satin: fix stroke width #4005
redwork: delete empty groups #4014
empty-d-object: define a default color (black) #4018
jump to stroke: add path label #4011
params: prevent settings error #4004
satin: do no error on one point zigzag underlay segment #3996
fix remove kerning #3995
fix redwork stroke width #3964
Fix transform issues in lettering along path #3972
Gradient color: fix cache key error #3966
Fill to satin: do not error out when one of multiple selected fills has no matching rung #3966
Satin: rely more on path length for invalid satins #3963
Stroke: filter invalid paths in clipped path #3989
Meander: fix clamp #3945
Stroke to satin: ensure a good starting point for closed paths #3944
Fill: tag last stitch in a row correctly #3940
Color fixes #3936
Satin: fix crash with tiny satin #3934
Preset-related fixes #3931
Stroke: do not overwrite stroke params with satin column values #3927
Satin: skip contour underlay if there are no pairs #3912
Presets: prevent that “add” overwrites existing presets #3896
Satin: fix first_stitch for invalid paths #3882
Satin: fix empty rail issue #3863
Zigzag to Satin: fix zerodivision error #3858
Switch from NFKC to NFC normalization form in the lettering tool #3828
Set trims=True for pyembroidery.write #3821
Fix issue with bad color names #3816
Fix simulator drawing panel attribute error when no stitch is loaded #3815

Builds, tests, workflows, code quality and house keeping

Move fonts to submodule #4061
debugger vscode adaption #3981
README: add contact information (forum, chat) #3979
removed shapely rebuild from macos builds #3960
Rename pyembroidery to pystitch #3889
Fix(test): fix output tests being fluky #3859
Fix type errors #3928
Ci: add workflow to run tests on pull requests and pushes #3830
Fix package build with Nix package manager #3826