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Inkscape was originally a code fork from the Sodipodi project caused by differences over objectives and development approach. It places emphasis on open access to the codebase for all active developers, and participation in the larger open source community. The Inkscape fork has, among other things, changed from using the C programming language to C++; changed to the GTK toolkit C++ bindings (Gtkmm); redesigned the user interface and added a huge number of new features.
Inkscape supports grouping, affine transformations, z-order operations, direct node editing, freehand drawing, several flexible shape tools, converting to path, boolean operations, path simplification and offsetting, text kerning and tracking, multi-stop gradients, dashed strokes, path markers (e.g. arrowheads), clones (linked copies), pattern fills, live watching and editing the document tree in the XMLXML eXtensible Markup Language is a W3C recommendation for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured tex editor, PNGPNG Portable Network Graphics , sometimes pronounced as ping , is a relatively new bitmap image format that is becoming popular on the World Wide Web and elsewhere. PNG was largely developed to deal with some of the shortcomings of the GIF format and allo and PostScriptPostScript (PS is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. History The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans and Sutherland, a famous computer graph export, and more. Inkscape is currently under active development, with new features being added regularly.