Inkscape 0.48.3.1 and later packages for Windows (0.48.4, current development snapshot builds) use newer versions of the GTK+ stack ( GTK+ is the toolkit which Inkscape uses for the GUI) than Inkscape 0.48.2 and older packages - this could possibly have introduced some changes in the Windows backen...

After trying other version I can tell that a downgrade to 0.46 shows full fuctionality of the alignment options, while higher versions and even the portable one show the described issue. Another phenomenon not obvious to me at first sight is the following: In order to change the option Relative to y...

I'm using Windows7 Professional (64bit) as OS, as I said the current version of Inkscape I'm using without any problem is 0.48.2 r9819. The "upgraded versions" I tried to use are build 0.48.4 r9939 as well as the latest developer's version of the programm. In order to test if it's only a p...

After discovering a problem regarding the postscript export of an .svg file with a LaTeX compiling process I decided to upgrade Inkscape for version 0.48.2 r9819 to the latest version. This fixed the original problem, but since the update the alignment of objects seems to be broken somehow. E.g. I d...