- Use SVG animation instead of other heavy animated formats to point out features, services and social media channels on your website. An SVG animation creator right at your fingertips You can access, edit, and export your files from any device, anywhere you are.
- The Vector Converter for Windows 10 Paid The Vector Converter is the simplest way to convert nearly any file to these formats: SVG, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, BMP, PS, ODD, WEBP 1.
Boxy SVG is a vector graphics editor for creating illustrations, as well as logos, icons, and other elements of graphic design. It is primarily focused on editing drawings in the SVG file format. The program is available as both a web app and a desktop application for Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and Linux -based operating systems.
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- 3Vectorize/trace
- 5Convert to/from SVG
- 5.1svg2pdf
- 6Color scheme & palettes
- 7Video editing, for building animation
- 8Multipage presentation or book
- 9Charts & Graphs
- 10Diagrams
SVG Validator
A validator service (and downloadable tool) is provided by the W3C. It will complain about sodipodi or inkscape namespaced items in the document, unless you've exported to plain SVG.
SVG::Metadata
Perl module and set of scripts to help in adding and processing metadata in SVG files.
Vectorize/trace
Potrace
Potrace is now embedded into Inkscape. You don't need to run it separately.
Alternatives to Potrace (Autotrace and Frontline)
- Autotrace
- An open source vectorization program by Martin Weber. That means you can convert bitmap images (like scans) to vector graphics. While not optimal for photos, it does good job on line art and poster-like images. Doesn't do too well with color.
- Autotrace has some features not available in the embedded Potrace dialog in Inkscape. For example, there is a centerline switch that is especially usefull for tracing roads (in maps) or font characters.
- Frontline
- A GUI frontend to Autotrace by Masatake Yamato. Frontline can be run as standalone aplication, but it can also be directly accessed from Inkscape and GIMP.
If you want to have tracing option, you have to install both Autotrace and Frontline before compiling Inkscape. Inkscape automatically detects these programs, and adds inline raster to vector conversion option to image menu.
Both Autotrace and Frontline can be downloaded from Sourceforge. Binaries are available for windows and linux.
Delineate
Front end written in java that does interesting things with color images.
Online SVG editors
- SVGReal is an online open-source SVG editor. With it you can open most SVG resources available on the Internet or your local PC, view them, edit them, combine them with other SVG resources, export the result back to SVG.
Convert to/from SVG
svg2pdf
This simple but useful application is kindly provided by Carl Worth (cairo).
How to obtain it:
And to update it dive into newly created directory called svg2pdf and type this in console:
(You must of course have git package installed)
Building
If build-time dependencies are satisfied
you only need to type
Usage
Note: from version 0.46 Inkscape can both read and write PDFs directly from the open/save dialogs. These tools however allow this conversion where 0.46 is not available, and also provide a means of validating if bugs encountered are Inkscape related.
ImageMagick (convert tool)
ImageMagick software suite of tools contains the convert utility that allow you to convert between different images format.And more specifically, convert allows you to convert from SVG to any image format you want.
uniconvertor
UniConvertor is an universal vector graphics translator. The project uses sK1 engine to convert one format to another. Project has following import filters: CDR, CMX, AI, CGM, WMF, XFIG, SVG, SK, SK1, AFF and export filters: AI, SVG, SK, SK1, CGM, WMF.
ill2svg
ill2svg (Illustrator to SVG) is a small script that helps turn Adobe Illustrator .ai files into SVG. While it doesn't always do a perfect job,it can sometimes be of great help.
To use the program, just type:
ai2svg.py
ai2svg (Illustrator to SVG, recoded in python) is as well a small script that helps turn Adobe Illustrator .ai files into SVG. The Python recode aims to help developers more familiar to python than perl, as well fixing some lacks from ill2svg.pl - supports dashes, layers, textboxes (ascii-latin), and joined pathes.
To use the program, just type:
available at http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/public/software/ai2svg.py
fig2vect
fig2vector (fig vector format to other vector formats, including SVG) is a converter from 'Fig format' long time used (at least since 1998) unix vector format (Xfig, figurine, jfig, winfig...), large kind of application output on this format in unix, mostly scientific applications.
gimp2sodipodi
Shandy Brown has assembled a somewhat obscure but useful set of tools to get from GIMP to Sodipodi (and thus to Inkscape). That is, convert raster to vector.
GIMP
GIMP is a bitmap graphics tool in the first place, but:
- it imports SVG (with help of librsvg) into bitmap or vector path, exports SVG.
- GIMP's selection can be converted to a vector path, and paths can be exported/imported as SVG.
GIMP can be used to create nice textures to use in Inkscape or shapes that can be vectorized in Inkscape. Importing SVG drawings from Inkscape to GIMP allows you to do several effects by filling and stroking shapes.
![Boxy Boxy](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/53/1b/4e/531b4ee5-d1be-82f0-e31a-340a2d8447c7/pr_source.png/800x500bb.jpg)
There is a limited support for drag'n'drop between GIMP and Inkscape:
- path, can be drag'n'dropped from Gimp path dialog to Inkscape
- pictures can be drag'n'dropped from Gimp document history to Inkscape if it's in a file format that Inkscape understands.
(Drag and Drop does not appear to work in windows.)
ConversionSVG
ConversionSVG is a GUI that send command line to Inkscape to export in batch SVG to PNG, PS, PDF or EPS. It features a Wizard to help novice to use it. You can choose a size in pixels for your export and give some others parameters.
InkscapeBatch
ConversionSVG is a GUI that send command line to Inkscape to export in batch SVG to PNG, PS, PDF or EPS. It features a Wizard to help novice to use it. You can choose a size in pixels for your export and give some others parameters.
Kig
Kig is a geometry educational tool, it can import from most of the free geom softwares format : kig (own format), kigz (own format compresed), kgeo, seg (Kseg), fgeo (Dr Geo) anf fig, and can export them to SVG, xfig, latex, and image. This can be useful to integrate a geometry activity in a more complet document realized in Inkscape for web reading or printing for schools.
svg_stack
svg_stack combines multiple SVG elements into a single SVG element. It can be called from the command line (less flexible) or called from the Python interface (more flexible).
This tool exists primarily exists to automatically composite SVG files into a single SVG file that remains compatible with Inkscape. If compatibility with Inkscape is not required, one can create an svg file with multiple, nested <svg> elements. Inkscape, however, doesn't seem to handle nested <svg> elements particularly well. Thus, this tool was born.
inkmake
Makefile inspired export from SVG files using Inkscape as backend with some added smartness.
Color scheme & palettes
Agave
Agave is a color scheme tool allowing to create palettes based on standard color composition rules, it can export its palettes in the format managed by Gimp and Inkscape (.gpl files).
KcolorEdit
KColorEdit is a palette editor from the KDE project. It has several colorchoosing tools:
- GTK: hue wheel + saturation/value triangle,
- KDE: 2D+1D picker (e.g., x = hue, y = saturation, z = value)
- A 'gradient' selector
- A 'color builder' dialog
- Picking colors from the screen
Both import and export of .gpl files is supported, and comments from the .gplfiles (e.g., descriptive color names), can be viewed and edited.
Several of the color composition features from Agave (complement, triadic, tetradic, and analogous) are supported.
Video editing, for building animation
Linux Video Editing System
LIVES is the Linux Video Editing System that permits editing andmaking video without worries about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It doesn't support SVG directly yet, but you can create animatedworks by moving your shapes in Inkscape and exporting as numberedpng's.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor for Linux, that allow editing, mixing several video and audio using several timelines with previews, add audio/video effects using effects stacks, add text for title or subtitle. It support SVG (but not svgz, at least in svn 20070410).
Open Movie Editor
Open Movie Editor is a non linear video editor, allowing editing, mixing several audio and vido, don't know if it supports svg, but as LIVES it can be used for work with png frames to build animation
Multipage presentation or book
ExportOverlays
ExportOverlays is a Perl script that exports in pdf format each layer of an Inkscape .svg file. One can then use pdftk to merge the .pdf's together, in a single file. This effectively converts a multi-layered Inkscape .svg into a multi-page .pdf file.
Download the script here.
Inkscape-pages
Inkscape-pages brings native multiple page support into Inkscape.
Inkscape Slide
Inkscape Slide is a simple tool to generate multi-pages PDF from a single multi-layered Inkscape SVG file.
It allows incremental display, as you specify the layers you want on each page, in a simple text box in your document.
Any feedback is welcome.
InkSlide
InkSlide is a presentation creation tool (a small python program) that uses an Inkscape SVG file as a template for rapidly producing slides with text, bulleted lists, images and slide specific SVG content.
svgslides
Svgslides is a command-line unix utility that can do various things.
- Create a PDF slide show. For example, make a PDF slideshow from a number of SVG files you have made with inkscape. Just put the files in a text file, each SVG filename on one line, and then run 'svgslides', and a PDF file will be created
- Create a picture perfect PDF from one svg file. Just use the utility svgslides-svg2pdf
- Create 'incremental' slides. Just give SVG objects special lables (e.g., 'part1', 'part2'), and svgslides will make a show in which these parts of an svg file will be displayed in a sequence.
- Written as bash shell script and uses common packages. Easy to install.
- Download and Online help on: http://volition.leeds.ac.uk/svgslides/
Scribus
Scribus is a publishing software supporting SVG, allowing to organise Inkscape documents as a full featured pre-press tool. It doesn't support SVG filters (blur/blend modes...), but manage most of other features.
JessyInk
JessyInk is a JavaScript that can be incorporated into an Inkscape SVG file. It turns every layer of the image into a frame of a slide show. The slide shows can be viewed in any browser supporting SVG and JavaScript. Current features include: different transitions between slides, automatic slide numbering and an index sheet view.
Sozi
Sozi creates JavaScript based presentations which pan through a large svg containing all slides at once. Portions of the large svg can be defined which are then shown in presenation mode. Also free panning and zooming is possible during presentations.
Charts & Graphs
Gnuplot
Gnuplot, the command line (with several frontends) driven interactive data and function plotting tool has SVG output for graphs & charts.
- Input can be functions or datasets
- Output in 2D, 3D...
matplotlib
Matplotlib is a python plotting library and can also output SVG.
Gnumeric
Gnumeric, the Gnome spreadsheet output a variety of graphs/charts in SVG format.
SVG Charter
SVG charter is a perl script dedicated to generate SVG charts on web servers.
JSpecView
JSpecView is a Java project with application and applet designed to display spectra in the JCAMP-DX format. It can export the display as standard SVG or as an Inkscape SVG document for import by Blender as a path.
Diagrams
Graphviz
Graphviz is a tool for automatic graph drawing, it produces structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks in SVG and other vector formats. Several diagrams softwares use this tool or dot file managed by this tool in variety application domains including:
- UML
- databases
- networks
- source code analysers objects/functions relations
- code profiling analalysis
- web server log analyser
- packages dependencies
- ...
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Developer(s) | Jarosław Foksa |
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Initial release | March 15, 2013; 7 years ago |
Stable release | 3.42.4 / August 2020; 2 months ago |
Written in | JavaScript |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS |
Type | Vector graphics editor |
License | Proprietary |
Boxy SVG is a vector graphics editor for creating illustrations, as well as logos, icons, and other elements of graphic design. It is primarily focused on editing drawings in the SVG file format. The program is available as both a web app and a desktop application for Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and Linux-based operating systems.
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History[edit]
Boxy SVG was originally designed for macOS and written in both Objective-C and CoffeeScript. The first version was published on 2013-03-15 on the Mac App Store.
The second version, released on 2014-08-01, was a complete rewrite in JavaScript and Electron to make the application work as both a web app in a browser and a regular desktop application.
The third major release (2017-06-06) introduced a new user interface based on Xel, an HTML5 widget toolkit.
Afterwards, the developers switched to a shorter release cycle, with new versions rolled out every 1 or 2 months.
Platforms and requirements[edit]
Boxy SVG is available on multiple platforms.
Platform | Distribution method | Requirements |
---|---|---|
macOS | Mac App Store | macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) or later |
Windows | Microsoft Store | Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Update) or later |
Chrome OS | Chrome Web Store | Latest stable version of Chrome OS |
Linux | Snap Store | A distribution with Snap package manager installed[1] |
Web | online | Chromium-based browser such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi or Opera. Can also be installed as a progressive web application. |
Devices support[edit]
Boxy SVG is compatible with Apple desktop computers and laptops, touchscreen-based devices such as Google Pixelbook and Microsoft Surface.
The program is partially compatible with mobile devices running Android. The device must be able to run the latest stable version of Google Chrome, only saving files to the cloud storage is available. It is not compatible with Apple mobile devices like iPad because of the dependency on the Chromium engine.
The program also has basic support for graphics tablets such as those manufactured by Wacom.
Compatibility[edit]
The program uses SVG and SVGZ (zlib compressed version) as its native file formats.[2] Some elements are in program's own namespace to either extend the feature set beyond what's available in the W3C SVG specification or provide a convenience layer for low-level details. Boxy SVG can also open SVG files authored with Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator, all software-specific elements and attributes will be dropped.
The application is based on the Electron framework and thus supports the same subset of the SVG format as Chromium-based web browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. A major exception is the lack of support for animation.
Boxy SVG reads and writes PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, and PDF files, and reads Adobe Illustrator documents saved with the PDF compatibility mode on.[3] Additionally, it can export HTML files.
Features[edit]
Markup inspection. The XML code of the SVG document can be viewed and edited directly in the Elements panel.
Objects manipulation. General transformations such as moving, rotating, scaling, and skewing can be performed right on the canvas.[4] Gradient and pattern fills can be customized using on-canvas handles.
Shapes. In addition to tools for drawing basic geometric shapes, such as rectangles and ellipses, the program features tools for drawing procedural shapes like cogwheels and crosses. This is done by using a custom namespace to extend the SVG specification. All shapes can be edited directly on the canvas. Additionally, numeric control over size, position, and other aspects of objects is available in the Geometry panel.
Path drawing tools. The program has dedicated tools for drawing quadratic (2nd order) and cubic (3rd order) splines, as well as an Arc tool to draw consecutive arcs in a single Bézier curve.
Reusable items. Boxy SVG can save colors, gradients, and patterns in the <defs> section of the SVG document so that multiple objects would be able to use the same fill definition and automatically update their look once that definition changes.[5] The same principle applies to more elements like filters, markers, and fonts.
Filters. The program has full support for SVG filter effects. It ships with a number of predefined filters such as Drop Shadow or Hue Rotation. New filters can be created with a graph-based filter designer.[6]
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Bitmap tracing. Boxy SVG provides a Vectorize generator to trace bitmaps into Bézier curves with color fills depending on user-defined color quantization settings.
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Asset libraries. The program allows using fonts from Google Fonts, clip art and photos from Pixabay, and color swatches from the online service called Color Hunt.
Licensing[edit]
Boxy SVG is proprietary software. The web version is available under the subscription model with an option for team licensing. Desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS are distributed under a perpetual license. The version for Linux is free and has all features of its macOS and Windows counterparts.
Competitors[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Install Boxy SVG Editor via Snap in Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, Higher'. UbuntuHandbook. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^'The best free Adobe Illustrator alternative'. TechRadar. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^'The 14 Best Adobe Illustrator Alternatives (+ Free Tools)'. AppSumo. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^'Boxy SVG Tutorial: How to Create a Custom Folder Icon'. MakeTechEasier. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^'Boxy SVG: A Fast, Simple, Insanely Useful, FREE SVG Editor'. SitePoint. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^'Full support for filters added'. BoxySVG. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
External links[edit]
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