Calligraphy tool (Paths): creates freehand calligraphic or brush-like strokes, optionally the tool can use pressure and tilt readings from a graphics tablet.

Pen (Bézier) tool (Paths): creates a Bézier node-by-node curve and or line segments in the same path.

Pencil tool(Paths): which allows freehand drawing of lines.

Spirals tool: creates spirals that have a configurable number of turns (revolutions), divergence (density/sparseness of outer turns), inner radius (roll out from center).

Polygons with one control (base) handle can be used to create items based on the number of sides hexagons, pentagons, etc.

Stars & Polygons tool: Multi-pointed (3 to 1,024 points) stars with two (base and tip) radius control handles can be used to emulate spirographs.

Circles/Ellipses/Arcs tool: circles and ellipses can be transformed into arcs (e.g.

3D boxes are in fact groups of paths and after ungrouping can be further modified.

3D Boxes tool: creates 3D boxes that have adjustable XYZ perspectives and configurable values for vanishing points.

Rectangles & Squares tool: creates rectangles and squares, corners of squares and rectangles can be rounded.

Up until the end of November 2007, Inkscape's bug tracking system was hosted on SourceForge. Since 2005 Inkscape has participated in the Google Summer of Code program. Notably, Inkscape's implementation of the SVG standard, although incomplete, has shown gradual improvement.

With Inkscape, they said they would focus development on implementing the complete SVG standard, whereas Sodipodi development emphasized developing a general-purpose vector graphics editor, possibly at the expense of SVG.įollowing the fork, Inkscape's developers changed it greatly: they changed the programming language from C to C++ adopted the GTK+ (formerly GIMP Toolkit) toolkit C++ bindings (gtkmm) redesigned its user interface, and added a number of new features.

The Inkscape FAQ interprets the word Inkscape as a compound of ink and scape.įour former Sodipodi developers (Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, and MenTaLguY) led the fork they identified differences over project objectives, openness to third-party contributions, and technical disagreements as their reasons for forking. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Raph Levien's Gill (GNOME Illustration Application). Inkscape began in 2003 as a code fork of the Sodipodi project.

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