Related programs

Inkscape Plugins, Scripts, and Templates

• Inkboard plans to add a shared whiteboard function to Inkscape via XMPP (used by Jabber). With Inkboard, a local copy of a diagram can be edited "live" by other users you are chatting with.
• SVGSlice allows a high-quality SVG image to be directly sliced into bitmap graphics.
• Inkscape Extension for Linerider: allows Inkscape to read and write LineRider (.sol) files; can draw straight lines, beziers, zooming, erasing, modifying nodes, text, shapes and other drawings.

Similar Applications

Free

graphics

• SodiPodi
• Karbon14 (Koffice)
• OpenDraw
• Skencil (formerly known as Sketch)
• Tuxpaint A child bitmap painting tool supporting SVG stamps and graphics. (GNU/GPL License)

page layout

• Abiword support SVG import/export with librsvg.
• Scribus Home Page (Contacts: irc.freenode.net #scribus )

animation

• Beez SVG animation software for Win32, written in Delphi. "As of 2004-09-30 07:29, this project is no longer under active development."
• The Gimp gfig
• mvComicsMaker vector + bitmap animation (not maintened since several years).
• Synfig Synfig is a two-dimensional vector animation studio, similar to the commercial product Moho.
• KToon
• Pencil free software (GPL) that support SVG import, manage bitmap/vector animation, serveral layers, drawing with tablet pressure, onionskin, export as flash SWF, movie, image sequence.

diagrams

• Dia (more for diagrams, less for illustrations)
• Kivio (Koffice)
• Xfig
• GLIPS Graffiti

Graphic notepad

• Gournal a gnome2-perl graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat.
• java-notebook a java graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat

Colors

• Agave A simple GNOME application for generating colorschemes in the .gpl (Gimp palette format, not the license) Inkscape/Gimp compatible format. (GNU/GPL License)
• LittleCMS Home Page Color Management System

Fonts

FontForge FontForge Home Page

• • Vector font editor and converter most bitmap/vector font format (ps,TTF,Type1 OpenType...)
  • Can load/save SVG fonts
  • Can import SVG curves to create characters.
  • Interesting feature that could be imported in inkscape: allow to modify curves by draging the curve itself.
  • (feature needed - an utility can be distributed with FontForge - an open .ttf viewer and printer like KeyTypeBook for MacOS Classic (7.0 to 9.6) )
  • (w32 MinGW version (instead of Cygwin) of FontForge is missing)

Conversion

• Magick Vector Graphics An interesting suite of programs which handle SVG and have the flavour of Image Magick. (GNU/GPL License)
• Libwmf provide the wmf2svg script we use for the extension.
• ps2svg A nice ps to svg converter written in postscript. Cannot handle text.
• pdf2svg A very useful pdf to svg converter. (GNU/GPL, requires Poppler and Cairo)
• fig2vect convert from fig format (used by Xfig) to several formats including SVG (BSD license).
• fti2svg.pl A perl script to convert SGI Irix .fti vector-based icons to SVG. (License : proprietary with sources)
• UniConverter UniConverter is in some way a substitution to Vectorsection. Currently it's based on sK1 code, but soon will be separated so that other applications could easier reuse it.

Non-free

• Cenon
• Gestalter
• Tgif

Drawing

• AdobeIllustrator
• CorelDraw
• MacromediaFreehand
• JascWebDraw
• Xara X
• Expression
• Sketsa
• Macromedia Fireworks Raster graphics for the web; infrastructure shared with other Macromedia software means it works very much like a Vector Graphics program. More comparable to Adobe ImageReady, but Fireworks is very specifically designed for effecient creation of web graphics.

Animation

• Ikivo Animator from Ikivo is an application that enables designing animated content for mobile devices. Most impressive is the integrated device pro-viewing for guaranteed content accuracy.
• MacromediaFlash
• Moho Moho is a 2D vector-based cartoon animation application.
• theTAB The TAB 2.2 Lite is an entry level animation application, intended for creating cartoons.

Digrams

• MicrosoftVisio

Colors

• Color Schemer A specialized tool for working with colors (for creating color schemes, finding harmonious colors, etc). The link is to an online version of the software.

math

• Vector vs Raster A comprehensive list of 67 Vector-based programs. 32 of the drawing programs support SVG.

Other

• XStudio
• Beatware Mobile Designer
• Real Draw Pro

Viewers

Adobe SVG Viewer

• Website
  • Download Page updated to v3.03 04/2005

Browsers supporting SVG

Konqueror web browser

• Website
  • [1] The Konqueror KDE web browser support SVG via librsvg plugin (see below).

Mozilla/Firefox SVG

• Website(s)
  • Official Mozilla SVG Project
  • http://www.croczilla.com/svg/
• As of 26 April 2005, SVG is now enabled in the Firefox trunk nightlies (read comments on activation). To get a Firefox-SVG version, you can:
  • Build directly from CVS source
  • Download automated builds
  • Download "Third Party/Unofficial" builds
• Cairo will replace the graphics engine in 1.9+.
• Contact
  • irc.mozilla.org #svg

Opera Webbrowser SVG Support

• Website(s)
  • "Opera 8 supports an extension of SVG 1.1 Tiny that includes opacity, font handling, and animation."
  • Opera KB:Installing the Adobe SVG Viewer plugin
  • "AdobeSVGViewer not working in Version 8"

• Contact
  • http://my.opera.com/forums/

Mobile phones

There are millions of phones sold with SVGt 1.1 support and the SVGt 1.2 phones will soon hit the market.

• Websites
  • A growing list at svg.org
  • Phones with the Ikivo Player
  • Sony Ericsson developer site include SVG guidelines (Inkscape is in the list of recommended tools).

See Also

SVG Implementations at the W3C - Inkscape is not on their list, but Sodipodi is.

SVGGeneralInformation on a separate page.

Transcribers/Platform Optimizers

• plazmic (BlackBerry)

Co-Projects

Open Clip Art Library

• Website(s)
  • SVG clipart library
• Contact
  • irc.freenode.net #openclipart

Cairo

• Website(s)
  • Official Cairo Project
• Contact
  • irc.freenode.net #cairo

XSVG

• Website(s)
  • XSVG Project sources

librsvg

• Website
  • Official librsvg Project

(version >= 2.8 include a good mozilla SVG plugin)

• Contact
  • irc.gnome.org #librsvg or irc.gimp.org #librsvg

wxSVG

• Website
  • wxSVG
• Description
  • A c++ library to create, manipulate and render SVG, for the wx toolkit.

Uber converter / Vectorsection

• Vectorstation is an open-source collection of programs which form a universal vector-graphics translation system

Libcaca

• libcaca (Colour AsCii Art library) is a library and a set of tools to convert pictures and video to colored ascii art. It allow to export rendered color ascii art to SVG, PNG, ANSI colored text, HTML and PS.

GD::SVG perl module

• GD::SVG allow any perl script using GD API to render graphics to render SVG using cairo instead of traditional GD bitmap by only replacing 'Use GD' by 'Use GD::SVG' and 'GD::Image->new();' by 'GD::SVG::Image->new();'

Ruby

There is at least 4 libs to manipulate/render SVG in Ruby : Two for managing SVG generally

• Ruby-SVG
• ruby-gnome2 contain a libRSVG binding for Ruby

And two more specialized in graph :

• Scruffy
• SVG::Graph

Note

(BEN) This page is now rather long, it should be split up ...
(TomB) agreed; some of the bullet points can be condensed (blank lines removed), & links directly about Inkscape can be put in a new page
(BEN) Please remove references to Uberconverter soonest