InkSpace

A powerful, free design tool

Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you!

Flexible drawing tools

Broad file format compatibility

Powerful text tool

Bezier and spiro curves

Features of Inkscape:

Object creation:

Drawing: pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths), pen tool (creating Bézier curves and straight lines), calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)

Shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spirals

Text tool (multi-line text, full on-canvas editing)

Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)

Clones ("live" linked copies of objects), including a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones

Object manipulation:

Transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values

Z-order operations (raising and lowering)

Grouping objects ("select in group" without ungrouping, or "enter the group" making it a temporary layer)

Layers (lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree)

Alignment and distribution commands

Fill and stroke:

Color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS)

Color picker tool

Copy/paste style

A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients

Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)

Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns

 Path markers (ending, middle and/or beginning marks, e.g. arrowheads)

Operations on paths:

Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.

Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path

Boolean operations

Path simplification, with variable threshold

Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects

Bitmap tracing (both color and monochrome paths)

Text support:

Multi-line text

Uses any installed outline fonts, including right-to-left scripts

Kerning, letterspacing, linespacing adjustments

Text on path (both text and path remain editable)

Text in shape (fill shape following stroke)

Rendering:

Fully anti-aliased display

Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export

Complete "as you drag" rendering of objects during interactive transformations

File formats:

Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing

Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor

PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more

Command line options for export and conversions

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