Inkscape is a free and open source, but powerful SVG compliant vector
graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or
Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file
format. By being focused in vectorized graphics, great tools and open
source expansion of all of its core capabilities, this great image
editor became very popular with both novices and professionals who use
it on daily basis in various projects.
Inkscape supports many
advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great
care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to
edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much
more. Because of the great care that was invested in mixing usable
interface and highly capable tools, many professionals are today using
Inkspace to craft images that are used in business environments ranging
from creation of ads to modeling of incredibly intricate visual
masterpieces that rely on vectorized graphics that can be zoomed up to
256 times without appearance of aliasing.
Developers also aim to
maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open,
community-oriented development that encourages creation of new third
party plugins that can expand capabilities of Inkscape, and creation of
friendly environment that can provide new users with tutorials, examples
and help whenever they need, no matter what version of app they are
using (in addition to all version of Windows after Windows XP, Inskpace
is also perfectly usable on Linux, Unix and Mac OS X).
Inkscape Main Features:
- XML compliant
- Has all the standard drawing tools like pencil, pen, calligraphy tool
- Supports Z-order operations
- Suppots grouping
- Objects copy and paste support
- Works with multi-line text
- Can import some standard image formats like JPEG, PNG, and TIFF
- And many more
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