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* [[The Gimp gfig]]
* [[The Gimp gfig]]
* [http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/ Gournal] a gnome2-perl graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat.
* [http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/ Gournal] a gnome2-perl graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat.
* [http://java-notelab.sourceforge.net/ java-notebook] a java graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat
* [[Karbon14]] (Koffice)
* [[Karbon14]] (Koffice)
* [http://glipssvgeditor.sourceforge.net/ GLIPS Graffiti]
* [http://glipssvgeditor.sourceforge.net/ GLIPS Graffiti]

Revision as of 00:54, 14 November 2007

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.


Similar Applications

Free

Other

  • AdobeIllustrator
  • CorelDraw
  • MacromediaFreehand
  • JascWebDraw
  • Xara X
  • MicrosoftVisio
  • Expression
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Agave A simple GNOME application for generating colorschemes. (GNU/GPL License)
  • 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.
  • Magick Vector Graphics An interesting suite of programs which handle SVG and have the flavour of Image Magick. (GNU/GPL License)
  • Tuxpaint A child bitmap painting tool supporting SVG stamps and graphics. (GNU/GPL License)

Viewers

Adobe SVG Viewer

Konqueror web browser

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

Mozilla/Firefox SVG

Opera Webbrowser SVG Support

Mobile phones

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

See Also

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

SVGGeneralInformation on a separate page.

Transcribers/Platform Optimizers

Co-Projects

Open Clip Art Library


Cairo


XSVG


librsvg

(version >= 2.8 include a good mozilla SVG plugin)
  • Contact
    • irc.gnome.org #librsvg or irc.gimp.org #librsvg

wxSVG

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

Scribus

LittleCMS (Color Management System)

  • Website
  • 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.

fig2vect

  • Website
    • fig2vect convert from fig format (used by Xfig) to several formats including SVG (BSD license).

fti2svg

  • Script
    • fti2svg.pl A perl script to convert SGI Irix .fti vector-based icons to SVG. (License : proprietary with sources)

FontForge

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

Uber converter / Vectorsection

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

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.

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