Talk:Inkscape
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Inkscape
Inkscape is a free vector graphics editor application. Its stated goal is to become a powerful graphic tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG and CSS standards.
Inkscape is primarily developed for Linux, but it is cross-platform and runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (under X11), and other Unix-like operating systems. As of 2007, Inkscape is under active development, with new features being added regularly. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete; most notably, it does not support SVG filter effects (with some exceptions, see below), animation, and SVG fonts. However, complete support for all three is on the roadmap (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap).
Inkscape has multi-lingual support particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications.
History
Inkscape began in 2003 as a code fork of the Sodipodi project. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Gill, the work of Raph Levien.
The fork was led by a team of four former Sodipodi developers (Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, and MenTaLguY) who identified differences over project objectives, openness to third-party contributions, and technical disagreements as their reasons for forking. Inkscape, they claimed, would seek to focus development on implementing the complete SVG standard, whereas Sodipodi development had emphasized creating a general-purpose vector graphics editor, possibly at the expense of SVG.<ref>{{ cite web | title = Initial announcement of Inkscape fork on sodipodi mailing list | url = http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3416220
