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.

Changelog:

• Timed autosave: no more lost work

• Spiro splines: an exciting new way to work with paths, fully supported in Pen, Pencil, and Node tools

• Auto smooth nodes: a new type of node that keeps the path as smooth as possible as you move it or its neighbors

• New modes in Tweak tool: pushing and jittering whole objects, scaling/rotating objects, deleting and duplicating using the "soft brush"

• Reworked, much more usable snapping system and a Snapping toolbar

• New path effects, including sketch, hatching, envelope deformation; effects can be stacked and assigned to groups

• A huge collection of preset filters in the new Filters menu

• New cairo-based PS and EPS export: improved quality, more features supported, fallback rasterization for filters and transparency

• Spell checker for text objects in a document

• Many new extensions: restacking, calendar, printing marks, cartesian and polar grids, interpolating attributes

• Optimized SVG code options, now with their own Preferences page

• Many other improvements, usability tweaks, memleak stops, and misc bugfixes

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 0.47 Size: 37MB Works on: Windows Product page: here