Inkscape [SEP] based on
colors, patterns, radial or linear color gradients and their borders may be stroked, both with adjustable transparency. Embedding and optional tracing of raster graphics is also supported, enabling the editor to create vector graphics from photos and other raster sources. Created shapes can be further manipulated with transformations, such as moving, rotating, scaling and skewing.
History.
Inkscape began in 2003 as a code fork of the Sodipodi project. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Raph Levien's Gill (GNOME Illustration Application
, Potrace: a polygon-based tracing algorithm, Sep 2003
- Elisa de Castro Guerra, "Inkscape: Apprenez, pratiquez, créez", Pearson Education France, 2007, , pp. 108–111
- Yannis Haralambous, "Fonts & encodings", O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007, , pp. 500–501
- Karel Píška, Creating Type 1 Fonts from METAFONT Sources: Comparison of Tools, Techniques and Results in "TeX, XML, and digital typography: International Conference on TeX, XML,