Saturday, February 9, 2008

2D Graphics all OPEN

Inkscape

If you feel that Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw will make a hole in your budget then you might really like conisdering this othr alternative for your creative self and needs. It comes for almost all the OS's and setting it up is not more than eating ice-cream.

Inkscape's primary function is an editor for the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format- the 3C's standard XML format for vector graphics on the web. Because SVG is nothing but plain text that is rendered to an image by the broweser, it is very bandwidth-friendly, and when used right can create some very impressive graphics. Writing XML code to create graphics is something that only the gifted can do without assistance, however, so such graphical editors are much appreciated by the community at large.

Overall, Inkscape is light, easy to learn, and an undoubted essential if you want to create SVG images for your website. And with the three major browsers supporting SVG, it might just be time to consider that.