Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Its main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool.
What's New in version 0.46:
- Paintbucket tool
- Tweak tool
- 3D Box tool
- Live path effects
- Color management
- New SVG filters and UI
- Native PDF and AI import
- XAML import/export
- Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export)
- Stock patterns
- Bitmap editing extension effects
- Full on-canvas gradient editing
- Engraver's Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool
- Touch selection
- Dockable dialogs
- Command-line access to verbs
- Snapping made usable
- "3D" / axonometric grid
- Angled guidelines
- Conversion of objects to guidelines
- Significant speed and interactivity improvements
- Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes