Inkscape
Inkscape 0.45 running under Ubuntu
Developed by	The Inkscape Team
Latest release	0.45.1 / 23 March 2007
Preview release	0.46 pre 3 / March 7, 2008
Written in	C++
OS	Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows
Available in	Multilingual (40)
Genre	Vector graphics editor
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.inkscape.org/

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Inkscape is primarily developed for Linux, but it is cross-platform and runs on Mac OS X (under X11) and other Unix-like operating systems, as well as Microsoft Windows. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete — most notably, it does not yet support most SVG filter effects, animation, or SVG fonts. Inkscape has multi-lingual support particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications. This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... Windows redirects here. ... A filter effect, in the SVG graphics format, consists of a series of graphics operations that are applied to a given source vector graphic to produce a modified bitmapped result. ... SVG redirects here. ... Complex Text Layout (CTL) refers to the typesetting of writing systems which require complex transformations between text input and text display for proper rendering on the screen or the printed page (also known as complex scripts). ...

As of 2008, Inkscape is under active development, with new features being added regularly. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Inkscape is free software. GPL redirects here. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ...

History

Inkscape began in 2003 as a code fork of the Sodipodi project. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Gill, the work of Raph Levien. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. ... Sodipodi is a free software vector graphics editor released under the GNU GPL It is designed specifically around the SVG standard, using the file format (with some extensions to hold metadata) as its native storage format. ... This article is about the year. ... Gill was a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. ... Raph Levien is an influential member of the free software developer community, through his creation of the Advogato virtual community and his work with the free software branch of Ghostscript. ...

The fork was led by a team of four former Sodipodi developers (Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, and MenTaLguY) who identified differences over project objectives, openness to third-party contributions, and technical disagreements as their reasons for forking. Inkscape, they claimed, would seek to focus development on implementing the complete SVG standard, whereas Sodipodi development had emphasized creating a general-purpose vector graphics editor, possibly at the expense of SVG.^[1] Nathan Hurst (born 1977) is an Australian programmer, mathematician, composer, and avid gardener of native plants. ...

Since the fork, Inkscape has, among other things, changed from using the C programming language to C++; changed to the GTK+ toolkit C++ bindings (gtkmm); redesigned the user interface and added a number of new features. Its implementation of the SVG standard has shown gradual improvement, but is still incomplete. C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System for creating graphical user interfaces. ... gtkmm is the official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets extensible via inheritance and a comprehensive set of widgets. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...

Rather than top-down governance, its developers claim to encourage an egalitarian culture where authority stems from an individual developer's abilities and active involvement in the project. As a result, the project places special emphasis on giving full access to its source code repository to all active developers, and on participation in the larger open source community (often in the form of inter-project initiatives and spinoff projects like the Open Clip Art Library). While the project founders are still well-represented in the decision-making process, many newcomers have also come to play prominent roles. Among them is "bulia byak", architect of the radical user interface changes that have given Inkscape its present appearance. The new interface is oriented on Xara Xtreme's GUI. Egalitarianism is the moral doctrine that equality ought to prevail among some group along some dimension. ... The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ... Examples of clip art from the Open Clip Art Library The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that can be used for free for any use. ... It has been suggested that Xara Xtreme LX be merged into this article or section. ...

After Xara announced plans to open source their own drawing application Xara Xtreme, they expressed interest in working closely with Inkscape to find ways the two projects can share code, coordinate efforts, and make open source graphics superior to anything available in the proprietary world. Xara is a UK-based software company founded in 1981, making it one of the oldest independent software developers. ... It has been suggested that Xara Xtreme LX be merged into this article or section. ...

In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Inkscape has participated in Google's Summer of Code program.^[2] This article is about the corporation. ... The Google Summer of Code is an annual program, first held during the northern hemisphere summer of 2005, in which Google awards cash prizes to students who successfully complete a free software / open-source coding project during the summer. ...

Up until the end of November 2007, Inkscape's bug tracking system was hosted on Sourceforge, however it was announced on 21 November 2007, that they would be moving to Launchpad.^[3] A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. ... SourceForge is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. ... is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Launchpad is a web application and web site supporting software development, particularly that of free software. ...

Features

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Object creation

• Drawing:
  • Pencil tool (freehand drawing with stroked paths)
  • Pen tool (creating paths with Bézier curves and straight lines)
  • Calligraphy tool (freehand drawing with calligraphic strokes, tablet pressure/angle support)
• Shape tools:
  • Rectangles (optionally with rounded corners)
  • Ellipses (optionally circles, arcs, segments)
  • Stars/polygons (optionally rounded or randomized)
  • Spirals
• Text tool (regular, multiline or flowed text)
• Linked bitmap images, either imported or rasterized from selected objects (a separate utility for embedding linked images comes with the program)
• Clones ("live" linked copies of objects). Other programs refer to similar functionality as "symbols".

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Object manipulation

• Affine transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying numeric values
• Z-order operations
• Grouping objects, with a way to "select in group" without ungrouping, or "enter the group" making it a temporary layer
• Layers, with a way to lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree
• Copying and pasting objects
• Alignment and distribution commands, including grid arrange, randomization, unclumping
• A tool to create patterns of clones, using wallpaper symmetries plus arbitrary scales, shifts, rotates, and color changes, optionally randomized
• Grid and guide snapping

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Styling objects

• Color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel), color palette, picker ("dropper") tool
• Fill opacity, stroke opacity, master opacity, gradient stop opacity
• Gradients: linear and elliptic, may have multiple stops; can be edited on canvas with draggable and mergeable handles
• Pattern fills made from any objects
• 7 filter effects
  • feGaussianBlur - Gaussian blur
  • feImage - used for using an external raster image
  • feBlend - used for object blending other than via alpha (development version only)
  • feComposite - used for altering one object, via another (development version only)
  • feConvolveMatrix - (development version only)
  • feOffset - used to offset the output relative to the input (development version only)
  • The development version also supports the rendering of some other filters (but does not support editing them through the UI) (e.g. Diffuse lighting)
• Masks and clipping paths
• Dashed strokes, with predefined dash patterns
• Path markers (e.g. arrowheads)
• Ability to copy/paste style between objects

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Operations on paths

• Node editing: moving nodes and Bézier curve handles, node alignment and distribution, scaling and rotating node groups, "node sculpting" (proportional editing of multiple nodes)
• Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
• Boolean operations (union, intersection, difference, exclusion, division)
• Path simplification, with variable threshold
• Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects
• Clipping paths (non-destructive clipping)
• Bitmap tracing (both color and b/w)
• Pattern along path: a general pattern object (such as a text or a path) can be bended, repeated and/or stretched on a reference path

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Text support

• Multi-line text (SVG 1.0/1.1 <text>)
• Flowed text in frame(s) (<flowRoot>, formerly proposed for SVG 1.2)
• Full on-canvas editability, including styled text spans
• Uses any outline fonts installed on the system
• Can use any scripts and languages supported by the Pango library including complex scripts (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Tibetan etc.)
• Kerning, letter-spacing, line-spacing adjustments
• Text on path (both text and path remain editable)

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Rendering

• 256x (25600%) maximum zoom
• Fully anti-aliased display
• Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
• Outline (wireframe) mode
• Complete "as you drag" rendering of objects during interactive transformations

Miscellaneous

• Connector tool for diagrams
  • automatic routing of connectors to avoid intersections with objects
  • automatic graph layout functionality to automatically arrange networks of objects and connectors
• Collaborative editing over a network (whiteboard)
• Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
• PNG export
• PostScript(EPS) and PDF export (with limitations, e.g. pattern fills are not exported as of version 0.45)
• Command line options for export, conversions, and analysis of SVG files
• RDF metadata (authorship, date, license, etc.)
• Extension support
• User interface is translated in more than 40 languages

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Interface and usability

One of the priorities of the Inkscape project is interface consistency and usability. This includes efforts to follow the GNOME Human interface guidelines, universal keyboard accessibility, and convenient on-canvas editing. Inkscape has achieved significant progress in usability since the project started. Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. ... This article is about the mythical creature. ... Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) is a software development document which offers application developers a set of recommendations. ...

The number of floating dialog boxes has been reduced, with their functions available using keyboard shortcuts or in the docked toolbars in the editing window. The tool controls bar at the top of the window always displays the controls relevant to the current tool.

All transformations (not only moving but also scaling and rotating) have keyboard shortcuts with consistent modifiers (e.g. Alt transforms by 1 screen pixel at the current zoom, Shift multiplies the transformation by 10, etc.); these keys work on nodes in Node tool as well as on objects in Selector. The most common operations (such as transformations, zooming, z-order) have convenient one-key shortcuts.

Inkscape provides floating tooltips and status bar hints for all buttons, controls, commands, keys, and on-canvas handles. It comes with a complete keyboard and mouse reference (in HTML and SVG) and several interactive tutorials in SVG.

The interface of Sodipodi (Inkscape's predecessor) was partly based on those of CorelDRAW and GIMP. The current Inkscape interface has been partially influenced by that of Xara Xtreme. Sodipodi is a free software vector graphics editor released under the GNU GPL It is designed specifically around the SVG standard, using the file format (with some extensions to hold metadata) as its native storage format. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Gimp (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Xara Xtreme LX be merged into this article or section. ...

Versions

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• Version 0.45.1 (March 23, 2007) was a bugfix release.
• Version 0.45 (February 5, 2007) has support for Gaussian blur, pattern along path and many other minor modifications to existing features.
• Version 0.44.1 was a bugfix release.
• Version 0.44 (June 24, 2006) added a Layers dialog, support for clipping and masking, improved PDF export with transparency, and performance improvements.
• Version 0.43 (November 19, 2005) added Connector tool, collaborative editing, tablet pressure/angle sensitivity, and Node tool enhancements.
• Version 0.42 (July 26, 2005) added flowed text support, styling text spans, enhanced effects support, and the new gradient tool.
• Version 0.41 (February 10, 2005) added the clone tiler tool and color tracing, plus many bugfixes.
• Version 0.40 added support for layers, bitmap tracing, and text on path.
• Version 0.39 was the first release to use the Pango library, bringing better support for more languages, as well as support for markers, clones, and pattern fills.
• Version 0.38 was a bug fix release, but it also featured text kerning and letterspacing, multistage gradients, and many usability enhancements.
• Version 0.37 saw the addition of boolean path operations and path inset/outset.
• Version 0.36 was the first release with the reorganized UI using a menu bar and docked context-sensitive toolbars in the document window.
• Version 0.35 (November 2, 2003) was the first release of Inkscape, very similar to Sodipodi version 0.32.

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See also

• Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape
• Comparison of vector graphics editors
• Open Clip Art Library
• List of vector graphics editors

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References

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