Boxy SVG project goal is to create the best tool for editing SVG files. For beginners as well as for professional designers and developers. On any device and operating system.=== Core features: ===<ul><li>Clean and intuitive UI heavily inspired by Inkscape, Sketch and Adobe Illustrator</li><li>Extensive support for on-canvas editing of object geometry, transform, paint and other properties</li><li>Save to SVG and SVGZ formats, export to PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF and HTML5</li><li>Integration with Pixabay and other libraries with millions of free stock photos and vector assets</li><li>Google Fonts integration with hundreds of free fonts</li><li>Configurable keyboard shortcuts for over 100 commands</li><li>Manual guides, smart guides and grid</li><li>Path operations (unite, intersect, subtract, exclude, close, reverse, etc.)</li><li>Arrangement operations (align to, rotate, flip, order, group, etc.)</li></ul>=== For web developers: ===<ul><li>Chromium-based rendering engine</li><li>SVG and CSS code inspector similar to Chrome Dev Tools</li><li>Clean SVG output that preserves IDs, classes, titles and other metadata</li><li>SVG sprites editing support</li></ul>This package is officially published, maintained and supported by Boxy SVG developer.

Boxy SVG

<ul><li>[Added] Spanish localization</li><li>[Added] Bring back Linux armhf support</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Linux packages are missing package-lock.json</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't move cloud storage files</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Permission error thrown when saving user avatar</li><li>[Fixed] Sign in fails when there are multiple tabs open</li><li>[Fixed] Can't change "Settings -&gt; Authentication -&gt; Users"</li><li>[Fixed] Can't change "Settings -&gt; Public Profile"</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't export to PDF when using the PWA app</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Machine translation of user posts</li><li>[Added] "All" tab on the user profile page</li><li>[Improved] Update the Chromium rendering engine from version 106 to 108</li><li>[Improved] Migrate search indexes from Algolia to Typesense</li><li>[Improved] Migrate Linux and macOS apps to ES modules</li><li>[Improved] Lazy load post images</li><li>[Fixed] Post images have incorrect size while loading</li><li>[Fixed] Can't clip and mask symbol instances</li><li>[Removed] Linux binaries for armhf architecture</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't change the subscription plan</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Symbol instances created by dragging a symbol from the "Defs" panel have incorrect size</li><li>[Fixed] Combining two files with the same object class names causes CSS selectors to clash</li><li>[Fixed] Duplicate styles are created when copying and pasting objects within the same document</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Hide", "Unhide" and "Unhide All" commands</li><li>[Added] "Watch post" checkbox in the new comment form</li><li>[Fixed] "Defs Panel -&gt; +" button tooltip is split into multiple lines</li><li>[Fixed] New comment email notifications should not be sent to the comment author</li><li>[Fixed] User badges should not be shown in the search results</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Option to watch newly created posts</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Commands" panel</li><li>[Added] "Export Panel -&gt; Normalize -&gt; Remove hidden objects" option</li><li>[Added] Format icons in the "Export" panel</li><li>[Improved] Rename the "Preferences" dialog to "Settings" to follow the latest macOS HIG</li><li>[Fixed] Tool and panel commands not shown in "Preferences -&gt; Keyboard -&gt; Shortcuts" on macOS</li><li>[Fixed] Can't scroll docks when the app window is small</li><li>[Fixed] Menubar disappears when the app window is small</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't transform some objects due to Chromium bug #1379259</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Lock", "Unlock" and "Unlock All" object menu items</li><li>[Improved] Change the lock and visibility states recursively when holding down the shift key</li><li>[Fixed] Opening the context menu sometimes causes the "Objects" panel to misbehave</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Show user agent and staff badges next to the user avatar</li><li>[Added] Option to disable anti-aliasing when exporting to PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 104 to 106</li><li>[Fixed] Rulers have no whitespace between the number and the unit</li><li>[Fixed] Exported PDF files have incorrect size</li><li>[Fixed] Can't export the view area when the view box is missing</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Icon missing from "Library Panel -&gt; Fonts -&gt; Local Fonts"</li><li>[Improved] Icon missing from "Typography Panel -&gt; Font -&gt; Family -&gt; Local Fonts"</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Enable PDF export for "Standard" plan subscribers</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Internationalize and localize app store download buttons</li><li>[Fixed] Straight lines are snapped incorrectly after panning or zooming the canvas while drawing</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Use local currency when showing Mac App Store prices on the home page</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Settings -&gt; Subscription -&gt; Price" should use the local currency</li><li>[Fixed] "Settings -&gt; Subscription -&gt; Price" does not take into account manually applied discounts</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Typography Panel -&gt; Font -&gt; Face" widget does not show all available weights for local fonts</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't move selected path nodes using the arrow keys</li><li>[Fixed] Straight lines always selected when "Transform tool -&gt; Selection -&gt; Shape" is set to "Manual"</li><li>[Fixed] Locked objects should not be selectable with rubber band and Ctrl+A</li><li>[Fixed] Snapping not working when drawing Bezier splines</li><li>[Fixed] Snapping not working when drawing lines with the "Freehand" tool</li><li>[Fixed] In some edge cases an empty SVG file is written instead of throwing an error</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Scale" print dialog option is not working</li><li>[Fixed] Newly created color swatches fail to render in some edge cases due to missing gradientUnits attribute</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] App fails to load when using Chrome 107 (Canary)</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Group", "Ungroup", "Duplicate", "Delete" and "Inspect" context menu items</li><li>[Improved] Reimplement the rich text editor used by post and comment forms</li><li>[Fixed] Multiple filters applied on the same objects fail to export</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Sketchify" generator</li><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 102 to 104</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Incorrect canvas size when using --force-device-scale-factor=2 parameter</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] The context menu does not open at the correct position when moving the pointer very fast</li><li>[Fixed] Opening the context menu multiple times in short intervals causes the app to freeze</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Allow multiple filters to be applied on a single object</li><li>[Added] CSS filter functions</li><li>[Added] "Opacity" preset filter</li><li>[Fixed] Context menus are positioned incorrectly when triggered close to the right window edge</li><li>[Fixed] SVG file fails to load if the root element name contains an XML namespace</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Split "History" panel items into groups separated by lines</li><li>[Fixed] SVG files containing elements in non-standard namespaces are parsed incorrectly</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Internationalize and localize undo history checkpoints</li><li>[Improved] Add icons to the "History" panel items</li><li>[Improved] Reduce opacity of history items after the current position in the undo stack</li><li>[Improved] Automatically scroll the "History" panel view to show the current item</li><li>[Improved] Use the first selected object style as a reference when changing text decoration on multiple objects</li><li>[Improved] Add tooltips to fill rule buttons</li><li>[Improved] "Defs Panel -&gt; Gradients -&gt; Add Gradient from Library" item</li><li>[Fixed] "Register" form is not validated properly</li><li>[Fixed] Can't import SVGZ files by dragging them into the macOS or Linux app canvas</li><li>[Fixed] "Objects panel -&gt; Add -&gt; Crescent" not working</li><li>[Fixed] Blank page shown after opening the web app with an unsupported browser</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Enable "experimentalAutoDetectLongPolling" Firebase option</li><li>[Fixed] "Convert Stroke to Path" command does not preserve round line caps</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Bring back local fonts support in macOS app</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Disable local fonts support in macOS app to work around crashes on startup</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Internationalization</li><li>[Added] Polish localization</li><li>[Added] "Meta panel -&gt; Language -&gt; Unknown" option</li><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 98 to 102</li><li>[Improved] Show an extra "Edited" tab label suffix on macOS</li><li>[Improved] Capitalize menu and button labels to match the current theme HIG</li><li>[Improved] Allow opening and saving files to disk with Opera browser</li><li>[Improved] Make dock tooltips look consistent with other widgets</li><li>[Improved] Show tooltips when preferences tab labels are hidden</li><li>[Fixed] "Meta Panel -&gt; Accessibility -&gt; Role" should not list abstract ARIA roles</li><li>[Fixed] "Object -&gt; Opacity" and "Text -&gt; Font Size" commands have conflicting default shortcuts</li><li>[Fixed] Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- shortcuts should not change the browser zoom level</li><li>[Fixed] Linux app fails to delete defs when confirmation is needed</li><li>[Fixed] Broken object grabber state after dragging the pointer outside the app window</li><li>[Fixed] "Shape to Path" command does not respect the geometry and transform precision settings</li><li>[Fixed] "Shape to Path" command generates paths with redundant transforms</li><li>[Fixed] "startOffset" attribute value does not update in the "Elements" panel</li><li>[Fixed] Keyboard shortcuts dispatched while changing the cloud storage file name</li><li>[Fixed] Can't access local fonts with Chrome 102 or newer</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Printing marks" generator</li><li>[Fixed] Can't open SVG files containing non-symbol "use" references</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Fire" generator</li><li>[Improved] Increase the maximum zoom level from 6000% to 300000%</li><li>[Improved] Increase the size of "Objects" panel tree items</li><li>[Improved] Reduce the opacity of "Objects" panel hidden tree items</li><li>[Improved] Preserve "visibility" and "locked" state of descendant objects when changing the state of ancestors</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't export bitmaps using the Linux app</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Top level web app "Settings" button</li><li>[Improved] Redesign quick UI and account settings</li><li>[Improved] Move the search button to the main navigation area</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Eye dropper is not working when using the Linux app with Wayland</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Flatpak package release notes make use of unsupported tags</li><li>[Fixed] Flatpak package is missing information about older releases and supported pointing devices</li><li>[Fixed] "Stroke Panel -&gt; Dash -&gt; Array" inputs have incorrect border radius</li><li>[Fixed] Linux app icon size is not consistent with other GNOME apps</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Adwaita theme</li><li>[Added] Adwaita Dark theme</li><li>[Fixed] Keyboard shortcuts are fired while filling forms</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Flatpak package</li><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 96 (macOS) and 94 (Linux) to 98</li><li>[Fixed] Can't draw beziers and arcs using touchscreen</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Removed] Chrome OS backend</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Make the titlebar and menubar background uniform</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Show PWA app in the "Open with" file manager menu</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Enable persistent storage</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Tabbed application mode for PWA</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Middle mouse pan accidentally creates views</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Hide grids, guides and transform grippies while grabbing a color</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Catmull-Rom spline</li><li>[Added] Basis spline</li><li>[Improved] Colors can be grabbed from any point on the screen</li><li>[Fixed] Tap to click trackpad gesture is not always recognized on macOS 12</li><li>[Fixed] "Objects" panel misbehaves when dragging an item</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Update the codebase to use the latest ECMAScript features</li><li>[Improved] Automate the Mac App Store publishing process</li><li>[Fixed] Exporting fails silently when Font Access API is disabled and "Convert texts to paths" option is enabled</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Changelog" page</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't move objects when using desktop Linux app</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't export large PNG images</li><li>[Fixed] Local fonts with uppercase file extensions are ignored</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Google" font family picker tab</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Flash of unstyled content when starting the app</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Use system fonts instead of bundled fonts for UI</li><li>[Fixed] "Flip X" and "Flip Y" commands are not working properly with frame shapes</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Frame" shape</li><li>[Added] Linux binaries for arm64 and armhf architectures</li><li>[Fixed] Right-to-left text gets reversed when converted to paths</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Text Path" tool causes the app to freeze</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Better startup time thanks to dynamic dependency loading</li><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 94 to 96</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Other shape" tool (unifies existing "Triangle", "N-gon", "Star", "Cross", "Cog", "Ring", "Pie", "Crescent", "Arrow" and "Spiral" tools)</li><li>[Added] "Sharpen" filter preset</li><li>[Improved] Show extra indicators when the "Blob" tool is operating in the "Erase" mode</li><li>[Improved] Combine the "Circle" tool with the "Ellipse" tool</li><li>[Fixed] Zooming and scrolling becomes slow after toggling the "Blob" tool multiple times</li><li>[Fixed] Newly drawn lines, polylines and polygons don't use specified geometry precision</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Spline" tool (unifies existing "Quad Bezier", "Cubic Bezier", "Arc", "Line", "Polyline" and "Polygon" tools)</li><li>[Fixed] PDF export is not working in macOS and Linux desktop apps</li><li>[Fixed] Printing is not working in macOS and Linux desktop apps</li><li>[Fixed] Line, polyline and polygon nodes are not selectable</li><li>[Fixed] Incorrect start point used when extending a compound path with bezier curves</li><li>[Fixed] Arc is not updated correctly after scrolling or zooming the canvas</li><li>[Fixed] Bezier tools create empty paths when user cancels drawing the first segment</li><li>[Fixed] Polygon, polyline and line nodes do not support snapping</li><li>[Fixed] Converting texts to paths fails silently if necessary permissions are missing</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Edit -&gt; Paste" command causes the app to crash</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Update Firebase SDK</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 91 to 94</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Draw straight lines with the "Freehand" tool when holding down the shift key</li><li>[Fixed] "Quad Bezier", "Cubic Bezier" and "Arc" tools use inconsistent keyboard shortcuts and snapping angles</li><li>[Fixed] "Freehand" tool fails to draw paths when nodes are hidden</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Quad Bezier tool -&gt; View -&gt; Path nodes" option</li><li>[Added] "Cubic Bezier tool -&gt; View -&gt; Path nodes" option</li><li>[Added] "Arc tool -&gt; View -&gt; Path nodes" option</li><li>[Added] "Freehand tool -&gt; View -&gt; Path nodes" option</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Asciify" generator</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] File name input in the cloud browser should auto-focus</li><li>[Fixed] Enter key should save the file when the file name input is focused in the cloud browser</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Remix Icons" provider</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Add unique IDs" generator</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Text" menu</li><li>[Added] Configurable keyboard shortcuts for text commands such as "Bold", "Italic" and "Underline"</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] User subscription status is not always updated after login</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] User email verification status is not detected correctly</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Disable opening and saving files to disk on Opera due to upstream bugs</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Update to Firebase v9</li><li>[Fixed] Accessing navigator.storage and navigator.serviceWorker fails when using MS Edge in private mode</li><li>[Fixed] Fonts on Windows are too thin when using Fluent theme</li><li>[Fixed] Incorrect text selection color when using Fluent theme</li><li>[Fixed] "Export Panel -&gt; Convert texts to paths" option is not working</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Quick preferences widget</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Local system fonts support</li><li>[Added] Linked Google fonts support</li><li>[Added] Subset information in "Defs Panel -&gt; Fonts"</li><li>[Improved] Change the default font used by text tools to Arial</li><li>[Fixed] Ligatures are not converted to paths correctly</li><li>[Fixed] "Library Panel -&gt; Fonts -&gt; Subset" widget scrolls the app window offscreen</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Export Panel -&gt; Scale factor" option</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Garbage collector removes used base gradients and patterns in some edge cases</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Color scheme switch</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Boxy SVG is missing from the "Open with" Finder menu for some file types</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Linux desktop app has slow startup time</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "Content Security Policy of your site blocks the use of eval in JavaScript" error shown in console</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "File -&gt; New from Clipboard" creates a blank document</li><li>[Fixed] Fallback portal fails to render default avatars</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Do not close the dialog when user clicks the backdrop area of a popover</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Fetch Google Fonts list from the server rather than from a local JSON file</li><li>[Improved] Font family picker redesign</li><li>[Fixed] Newly created text objects inside transformed groups have wrong transform</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Google emojis"</li><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Twitter emojis"</li><li>[Improved] Use NPM package instead of CDN to load Firebase SDK</li><li>[Improved] Update Chromium rendering engine from version 89 to 91</li><li>[Fixed] "Library Panel -&gt; Gradients" previews missing when using a dark theme</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Client-side rendering of default user avatars</li><li>[Fixed] Current user avatar fails to load when offline</li><li>[Fixed] "Preferences -&gt; Profile -&gt; Edit Avatar" button opens a new browser tab instead of a new app window when running as PWA</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Cloud" provider</li><li>[Added] "File -&gt; Share -&gt; Cache control" option</li><li>[Added] "File -&gt; Share -&gt; Library" option</li><li>[Improved] Faster load time of all images stored in the cloud</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Auth state is not preserved between sessions when in free trial mode</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] "File -&gt; Open Recent" menu icons</li><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Gradients -&gt; uiGradients"</li><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Material Icons"</li><li>[Added] "Library Panel -&gt; Vectors -&gt; Fluent Icons"</li><li>[Fixed] Empty `&lt;div&gt;` elements are created by the "Text" tool in some edge cases</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] "File -&gt; Open Recent" menu is showing incorrect names for files stored in the cloud</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Can't open files from disk</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] Integration with pexels.com, unsplash.com and wikimedia.org photo libraries</li><li>[Added] Integration with wikimedia.org vector library</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Fixed] Algolia index not updated properly when moving posts</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Improved] Show full posts in search results</li><li>[Improved] Always search in comments</li></ul>

<ul><li>[Added] AVIF file format import support</li><li>[Added] Global search</li></ul>

Boxy SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics editor

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