About Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
News
Inkscape used in schools
February 2, 2010In the Los Altos School District in California, they have a Digital Design program to teach the students about graphics software and programming. For the vector graphics course they are teaching the students how to use Inkscape.
Here is a gallery of art created by approximately 175 4th grade students of the seven schools that this course is being taught at. There is a link next to each of the images on the following page which will take you to the corresponding sub-gallery.
Plans for 0.48
January 15, 2010We've been talking about moving to shorter release cycles for a while now. So this time for 0.48 we are going to slow down development of new features in the second half of February, completely move to testing in April and release 0.48 sometime in May.
In the mean time we will do our best to help you help us test the upcoming version, so we hope to make nightly builds for Windows and Mac available again soon. We will let you know as soon as everything is sorted out.
