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General Category => Software and games => Topic started by: Orange Brat on January 09, 2005, 10:00:04 AM

Title: Inkscape..free SVG editor
Post by: Orange Brat on January 09, 2005, 10:00:04 AM

http://www.inkscape.org/

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Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.

Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes.

Title: Re: Inkscape..free SVG editor
Post by: odnorf on January 09, 2005, 10:46:56 AM

I'm using this software for a few months now. It doesn't even come close to CorelDraw/Illustrator but it's improving really fast. At the current stage it has all main features of a vector-based drawing tool; node editing, paths, full text support (kerning etc), text on path, transform tools. I recomment it.

EDIT: It can also trace bitmap images (which means convert them to vector ones, mainly for black & white images but there is basic support for color in the cvs)