Document 2 on the right is the result of opening a new document from the File / New menu in the first window. The window on the left shows Inkscape launched as Document 1. The release notes for version 0.48 of Inkscape are also a useful reference.Ī number of Inkscape extensions are available from the Inkscape wiki. Another page called Adobe Tool Map lists the control equivalencies, where they exist, between Illustrator and Inkscape. There's a page on the Inkscape wiki for those familiar with Illustrator, Inkscape for Adobe Illustrator users. Memory use can be monitored through Help / About Memory. Multi-threading support is provided for the processor-intensive filters - File / Inkscape Preferences / Filters / Number of threads. Since Inkscape is FOSS it can be compiled in either 32-bit or 64-bit versions, and most Linux distributions will include the appropriate binary packages. The free and open-source software is released under the GNU GPL 2 June 1991 licence. Inkscape is cross-platform and runs on Unix, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple Mac OS X. The latest stable release of Inkscape is version 0.48.2 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Software Centre includes version 0.48.3.1).
Layers could easily be changed without having to recreate the entire image. This allowed the creation of a number of different versions of, for example, an advertisement, by adding, exchanging and removing layers.
Later, in commercial art and in animation, a stack of transparent sheets was used to build up a composite image with parts of the image on each layer. The early masters of oil painting learned how to use several layers of transparent paint applied over an opaque white base to create dazzling effects of light, shade and colour. The technique of using layers in art goes back a long way. We'll also briefly examine some iPad drawing apps. Part two (coming in September) looks at Adobe Illustrator and two simpler desktop applications - Microsoft's Visio and LibreOffice Draw. Part one of this article looks at the history and background of vector image creation and examines Inkscape, an open-source application, and CorelDRAW, a proprietary program. As a result, highly detailed vector images can take a long time to render and redraw. The advantage of vector images are that they scale well and have an efficient memory footprint, although they are also processor-intensive.
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