Inkscape
Short description
Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Other formats can be imported and exported.
Some features
- Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing
- PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
- Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
- Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.
More features
- color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS)
- gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
- object transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing)
- object grouping
- Z-order operations (raising and lowering)
- multi-line text support
- fully anti-aliased display
- alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
- PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
- shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spirals