Since 2005, Inkscape has participated in the Google Summer of Code program. Inkscape's implementation of the SVG standard, although incomplete, has shown gradual improvement. įollowing the fork, Inkscape's developers 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. They said that Inkscape 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. įour former Sodipodi developers (Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, and MenTaLguY) led the fork, citing differences over project objectives, openness to third-party contributions, and technical disagreements. Inkscape FAQ interprets the word Inkscape as a compound of ink and -scape. One of the main priorities of the Inkscape project was interface consistency and usability by following the GNOME human interface guidelines.

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. Created shapes can be further manipulated with transformations, such as moving, rotating, scaling and skewing. Embedding and optional tracing of raster graphics is also supported, enabling the editor to create vector graphics from photos and other raster sources. These objects may be filled with solid colors, patterns, radial or linear color gradients and their borders may be stroked, both with adjustable transparency. rectangles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, spirals, stars and 3D boxes) and text. Inkscape can render primitive vector shapes (e.g. Other formats can be imported and exported. Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format.

Inkscape vector drawing