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[edit] Inkscape Plugins, Scripts, and Templates

  • Inkboard plans to add a shared whiteboard function to Inkscape via XMPP (used by Jabber). With Inkboard, a local copy of a diagram can be edited "live" by other users you are chatting with.
  • SVGSlice allows a high-quality SVG image to be directly sliced into bitmap graphics.
  • Inkscape Extension for Linerider: allows Inkscape to read and write LineRider (.sol) files; can draw straight lines, beziers, zooming, erasing, modifying nodes, text, shapes and other drawings.

[edit] Similar Applications

[edit] Free

[edit] graphics

[edit] page layout

[edit] animation

  • Beez SVG animation software for Win32, written in Delphi. "As of 2004-09-30 07:29, this project is no longer under active development."
  • The Gimp gfig
  • mvComicsMaker vector + bitmap animation (not maintened since several years).
  • Synfig Synfig is a two-dimensional vector animation studio, similar to the commercial product Moho.
  • KToon
  • Pencil free software (GPL) that support SVG import, manage bitmap/vector animation, serveral layers, drawing with tablet pressure, onionskin, export as flash SWF, movie, image sequence.

[edit] diagrams

[edit] Graphic notepad

  • Gournal a gnome2-perl graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat.
  • java-notebook a java graphic and text notepad using SVG as fileformat

[edit] Colors

  • Agave A simple GNOME application for generating colorschemes in the .gpl (Gimp palette format, not the license) Inkscape/Gimp compatible format. (GNU/GPL License)
  • LittleCMS Home Page Color Management System

[edit] Fonts

FontForge FontForge Home Page

    • Vector font editor and converter most bitmap/vector font format (ps,TTF,Type1 OpenType...)
    • Can load/save SVG fonts
    • Can import SVG curves to create characters.
    • Interesting feature that could be imported in inkscape: allow to modify curves by draging the curve itself.
    • (feature needed - an utility can be distributed with FontForge - an open .ttf viewer and printer like KeyTypeBook for MacOS Classic (7.0 to 9.6) )
    • (w32 MinGW version (instead of Cygwin) of FontForge is missing)

[edit] Conversion

  • Magick Vector Graphics An interesting suite of programs which handle SVG and have the flavour of Image Magick. (GNU/GPL License)
  • Libwmf provide the wmf2svg script we use for the extension.
  • ps2svg A nice ps to svg converter written in postscript. Cannot handle text.
  • pdf2svg A very useful pdf to svg converter. (GNU/GPL, requires Poppler and Cairo)
  • fig2vect convert from fig format (used by Xfig) to several formats including SVG (BSD license).
  • fti2svg.pl A perl script to convert SGI Irix .fti vector-based icons to SVG. (License : proprietary with sources)
  • UniConverter UniConverter is in some way a substitution to Vectorsection. Currently it's based on sK1 code, but soon will be separated so that other applications could easier reuse it.

[edit] Non-free


[edit] Drawing

[edit] Animation

  • Ikivo Animator from Ikivo is an application that enables designing animated content for mobile devices. Most impressive is the integrated device pro-viewing for guaranteed content accuracy.
  • MacromediaFlash
  • Moho Moho is a 2D vector-based cartoon animation application.
  • theTAB The TAB 2.2 Lite is an entry level animation application, intended for creating cartoons.

[edit] Digrams

[edit] Colors

  • Color Schemer A specialized tool for working with colors (for creating color schemes, finding harmonious colors, etc). The link is to an online version of the software.


[edit] math

  • Vector vs Raster A comprehensive list of 67 Vector-based programs. 32 of the drawing programs support SVG.


[edit] Other

[edit] Viewers

[edit] Adobe SVG Viewer

[edit] Browsers supporting SVG

[edit] Konqueror web browser

  • Website
    • [1] The Konqueror KDE web browser support SVG via librsvg plugin (see below).

[edit] Mozilla/Firefox SVG

[edit] Opera Webbrowser SVG Support

[edit] Mobile phones

There are millions of phones sold with SVGt 1.1 support and the SVGt 1.2 phones will soon hit the market.

[edit] See Also

SVG Implementations at the W3C - Inkscape is not on their list, but Sodipodi is.

SVGGeneralInformation on a separate page.

[edit] Transcribers/Platform Optimizers

[edit] Co-Projects

[edit] Open Clip Art Library


[edit] Cairo


[edit] XSVG

[edit] librsvg 

(version >= 2.8 include a good mozilla SVG plugin)
  • Contact
    • irc.gnome.org #librsvg or irc.gimp.org #librsvg

[edit] wxSVG

  • Website
  • Description
    • A c++ library to create, manipulate and render SVG, for the wx toolkit.

[edit] VectorSection

  • VectorSection is an open-source collection of programs which form a universal vector-graphics translation system

[edit] Libcaca

  • libcaca (Colour AsCii Art library) is a library and a set of tools to convert pictures and video to colored ascii art. It allow to export rendered color ascii art to SVG, PNG, ANSI colored text, HTML and PS.

[edit] GD::SVG perl module

  • GD::SVG allow any perl script using GD API to render graphics to render SVG using cairo instead of traditional GD bitmap by only replacing 'Use GD' by 'Use GD::SVG' and 'GD::Image->new();' by 'GD::SVG::Image->new();'

[edit] Ruby

There is at least 4 libs to manipulate/render SVG in Ruby : Two for managing SVG generally

And two more specialized in graph :


[edit] Note

(BEN) This page is now rather long, it should be split up ...
(TomB) agreed; some of the bullet points can be condensed (blank lines removed), & links directly about Inkscape can be put in a new page
(BEN) Please remove references to Uberconverter soonest

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