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

• 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

General SVG Information

• CSVG
• Constraint Based Graphics
• Polygonal Fit
• Symmetry and Tessellations
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
• SVG Specification
• SVG Tutorial
• SVG and XForms
• svg.org community
• SVG Articles
• scale-a-vector English, German

Similar Applications

Free

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

Other

• AdobeIllustrator10
• CorelDraw
• MacromediaFreehand
• JascWebDraw
• Xara X
• MicrosoftVisio
• Expression
• MacromediaFlash
• Moho
• theTAB
• XStudio
• Sketsa
• Macromedia Fireworks Primarily for creating and editing web graphics; also useful for making icons, has some vector capabilities, but is not a vector editor. More comparable to the Gimp or Photoshop, though a little specialised.
• Beatware Mobile Designer
• Real Draw Pro
• Ikivo
• 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.

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/

See Also

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

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)

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