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Here is an overview of the features that are available in Inkscape. | |||
See the [[roadmap]] for an outline of planed features, as well as Lunchpad[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape] for detailed ideas for improving Inkscape. | |||
== Current Features == | == Current Features == | ||
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:''The above lifted from the'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape Wikipedia]. | :''The above lifted from the'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape Wikipedia]. | ||
[[Category: About Inkscape]] | [[Category: About Inkscape]] | ||
Revision as of 20:33, 3 April 2009
Here is an overview of the features that are available in Inkscape.
See the roadmap for an outline of planed features, as well as Lunchpad[1] for detailed ideas for improving Inkscape.
Current Features
Object creation
- Drawing: pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths), pen tool (creating Bezier curves and straight lines), calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)
- Shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spirals
- Text tool (multiline text, full on-canvas editing)
- Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)
- Clones ("live" linked copies of objects), including a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones
Object manipulation
- Affine transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact 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
Fill and stroke
- Color selector (RGB, HSV, color wheel)
- Color picker tool
- Copy/paste style
- A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
- Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)
- Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns
- Path markers (e.g. arrowheads)
Operations on paths
- Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.
- Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
- Boolean operations
- Path simplification, with variable threshold
- Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects
- Bitmap tracing (both color and b/w)
Text support
- Multi-line text
- Uses any installed outline fonts, including right-to-left scripts
- Kerning, letterspacing, linespacing adjustments
- Text on path (both text and path remain editable)
- Text in shape (fill shape following stroke)
Rendering
- Fully anti-aliased display
- Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
- Complete "as you drag" rendering of objects during interactive transformations
Misc
- Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
- PNG and PostScript export
- Command line options for export and conversions
- Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing
- The above lifted from the Wikipedia.