Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). With Inkscape, artists can freely create professional vector art for electronic and print illustration. Vector drawing applications like Inkscape work with nodes (points,) curves, lines and shapes to create visual illustrations. Inkscape contains a full set of tools, including both industry standard and unique, to create and edit the nodes, curves, lines and shapes of vector art. Objects can be rotated, sized, skewed, proportioned, filled and stroked. The position of individual points of a shape or line can be manipulated in precise detail. Advanced visual effects, like gradient and transparency, and boolean operations, enable Inkscape users to complete any vector drawing task. Original features, such as direct access to the document SVG source code, set Inkscape apart from other vector art editors.

Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Inkscape works natively in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape's commitment to the open, standardized and accessible format of SVG ensures that Inkscape will maintain the highest level of compatibility with other SVG compliant applications, offering greater flexibility, stability and portability across multiple computing platforms.

Inkscape is available in packages for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Rapid development, regular updates and Inkscape's exceptional stability are helping it to become one of the most active and widely used desktop open source projects. The high level of development activity, tightly integrated with feedback from its user base ensures that Inkscape will be the standard open source vector art editor of the future.

Features:

• Create, edit, color and manipulate shapes.

• Draw and edit Bezier curves with industry standard tool

• Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing

• WYSIWYG interface

• Export/Save As: SVG, PNG, EPS, PS,

• Control color in several colormetic modes, including: RGB, HSV, and CMYK

• Transparency and multi-color gradient fills with on-canvas gradient positioning

• Pattern fill

• Guides and grids

• Arrange and align objects

• Editable text

• Text on path

• Text in shape

• Bitmap import

• Bitmap trace

• Layers with locking and visibility toggle

• Integrated XML editor

• Scripting support

• Boolean operations