Related programs

<a name="plugins"></a>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.

<a name="outsidetut"></a>Outside Tutorials and Tips

• Spotcolors! Tutorial to create spotcolor separations using Inkscape
• Make business cards easily with Inkscape short tutorial and 85×54mm SVGz templates provided more Inkscape tutorials are available
• A Guide to Inkscape by Tavmjong Bah
• Stopped Clock Blog Has some good Flash tutorials & other Inkscape writings
• Icons in Inkscape - mini-tut by Daj
• Tutorial: A Simple Approach to Drawing Complex Characters With Inkscape
• Unofficial Inkscape Documentation a great work-in-progress by Kevin Charles
• Some Inkscape Know-How, a beginner's guide to creating complex shapes and flowing text into them
• Text following a circle's curve
• Making Icons With Inkscape A beginner's guide to creating nice icons in Inkscape.
• Using Free Software to Do Inexpensive Digital Paste-Up A guide to using The GIMP and Inkscape to paste up pages for minicomics.

Similar Applications

Free

• SodiPodi
• Beez SVG animation software for win32
• Cenon
• Dia (more for diagrams, less for illustrations)
• Gestalter
• The Gimp gfig
• Karbon14 (Koffice)
• GLIPS Graffiti
• mvComicsMaker vector + bitmap animation (not maintened since several years).
• OpenDraw
• Skencil (formerly known as Sketch)
• Tgif
• Xfig
• Kivio (Koffice)
• KToon

Other

• AdobeIllustrator
• CorelDraw
• MacromediaFreehand
• JascWebDraw
• Xara X
• MicrosoftVisio
• Expression
• MacromediaFlash
• Moho
• theTAB
• XStudio
• 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.
• Beatware Mobile Designer
• Real Draw Pro
• 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.
• 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.
• Vector vs Raster A comprehensive list of 67 Vector-based programs. 32 of the drawing programs support SVG.

Viewers

Adobe SVG Viewer

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

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 is 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

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)
  • Official XSVG Project

librsvg

• Website(s)
  • Official librsvg Project

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

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

Scribus

• Website(s)
  • Scribus Home Page
• Contact
  • irc.freenode.net #scribus

LittleCMS (Color Management System)

• Website
  • LittleCMS Home Page
• Contact
  • mailing list on sourceforge.net

ps2svg

A nice ps to svg converter written in postscript. Cannot handle text. http://thunder.prohosting.com/~rshi/svg/

libwmf

• Website
  • Libwmf provide the wmf2svg script we use for the extension.

FontForge

• Website
  • FontForge Home Page
• Description:
  • Vector font editor and converter (ps,TTF, ...).
  • 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)

(BEN) This page is now rather long, it should be split up ... (TomB) agreed; some of the bullits can be shunk up (blank lines removed), & links directly about Inkscape can be put in a new page