Inkscape - ( Open Source)
Inkscape is more than enough to create vector drawings, being based on the SVG standardized file format.
Inkscape is a program specially designed for editing or creation of vector graphics. The format used by the application is a W3C standard, SVG. It offers a large number of elements recognized by this format : basic shapes , paths, clones , transformations, Boolean operations , gradients , groups , layers. The basic functionalities of this standard are available as adding text, creating forms, duplication, transparency, changes or gradients. However Inkscape provides interesting tools such as support for metadata Creative Commons, layers, complex paths, etc.
The application also allows the import of documents in EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG or TIF. The backup will be in PNG format or other, depending on the future use of each image.
Inkscape offer the possibility to create web pages: the text can be added in the drawings for the information or descriptions and formatting Text varies according to needs of the user.
The interface is developed using the GTK libraries, popular Linux. This choice facilitates porting an operating system to another.
# Regression fixes
- Text: baseline-spacing related issues with regular and flowed text in legacy Inkscape SVG files (Bug #1655483 and others).
- Text: Default baseline spacing stored in relative units is always converted to document units (Bug #1645016)
- Path effects: Crash on ungroup if group contains elements with path effects (Bug #1657591)
- Clipboard: Pasting a path effect from clipboard fails (Bug #1656093)
- Clipboard: Fix copy&pasting of groups which contain elements with path effects (Bug #1656527)
- Selection: Node tool can selected objects on locked layers (Bug #1656141)
- Clones: Critical warnings with clones and symbols (Bug #1653184)
- About screen missing for several UI languages (Bug #1659426)
- Selection: Missing transformation handles after reset of rotation center (Bug #1657874)
# Important bugfixes
- Bitmap images: Crash when opening files with invalid image links (Bug #1660142)
- Bitmap images: Fix path separators in relative image links (Windows) (Bug #1659347)
- File import: Failure to open CDR/Visio/WPG files from paths with special characters (Windows) (Bug #1656763)
# Translations
- Catalan: Tutorial translation ("Basic") added
- Czech: UI translation updated
- English (GB): UI translation updated
- French: UI translation updated
- French: Man page, Readme and Keys & mouse reference updated
- German: Man page and Keys & mouse reference updated
- Icelandic: UI translation updated
- Italian: UI translation updated
- Latvian: UI translation updated
- Russian: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Russian: UI translation updated
- Spanish: UI translation updated
- Slovak: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Slovak: UI translation updated
- Ukrainian: UI translation updated
# Documentation
- Shortcuts: Add shortcut '7' for cycling through path effect parameters in node tool
- Shortcuts: Add new Shift+I shortcut to keys and mouse reference
- Man page: Add new --no-convert-text-baseline-spacing command line option