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According to the blog entitled “Vector Graphics” which was
posted by Neil last December 2, 2004 at www.eightlines.com, the
author mentioned that he just found this program called InkScape
which appears to be an open source vector drawing program.
Inkscape is a program for viewing, creating and editing 2D
vector drawings. It is an open source Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator,
CorelDraw, Visio and other drawing programs. Its supported SVG
features include text, paths, layers, ellipses, gradients,
grouping, rectangles, transforms, basic shapes, node editing,
bitmap images, alpha blending, svg-to-png export, freehand
curves, and many more. And, as an added bonus, both vector and
bitmap objects can have alpha transparency and can be
arbitrarily transformed. Graphics can also be printed and
exported to png bitmaps.
“Vector" drawing in InkScape means that when you create a shape
like a rectangle, it retains its identity. You can easily go
back and resize it, change its color, or move it around without
disturbing the rest of the drawing. One of Inkscape's
distinguishing features is that it stores its drawings in a
web-friendly XML format – the SVG format – which is a standard
that is gaining support worldwide, in proprietary and public
software alike. The open source community is now adopting this
format for everything from desktop icons and company logos to
web page animation and artistic illustration.
The main motivation of Inkscape is to provide the open source
community with a fully XML, SVG and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing
tool. Its additional planned works include 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. In addition, this application runs on
Unix (including Linux), Windows and Mac OS X; however, the
primary development platform is Linux.
With the introduction of Inkscape, the world of vector graphics
will definitely continue to become more interesting and
compelling. Finally, I would like to commend the developers of
InkScape. And, I am looking forward for greater things to happen
to this software application. More Power and kudos!
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