Inkscape Graphics Editor, Drawing, File Conversion Software - Free | Mac & PC

Inkscape Instant Download for Mac & PC.  Great for converting embroidery files for use with the BAI and other embroidery machines.

Object creation

• Drawing:
  • Pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths)
  • Pen tool (creating Bézier curves and straight lines) with the following modes:
    • Bézier
    • Spiro Spline
    • B-Spline
    • Straight lines
    • Perpendicular lines
  • Calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)
• Shape tools:
  • Rectangles (includes squares, may have rounded corners)
  • Ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments)
  • Stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized),
  • Spirals
• Text tool (multi-line text, full on-canvas editing)
• Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)
• Clones and symbols ("live" linked copies of objects), including a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones
• Import from online image libraries

Object manipulation

• Transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing) - both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values
• Layers and Objects (lock, hide individual objects, rearrange them and organize hierarchically)
• Z-order operations (raising and lowering)
• Grouping objects 
• Alignment and Distribution commands
• Guide lines and grids (rectangular, axonometric/isometric, modular)
• Fine-grained snap controls

Fill and stroke

• Color selector (RGB, HSL, HSV, HSLuv, CMYK, Color wheel, CMS)
• Predefined and custom color palettes (over 20 included)
• Color picker tool
• Copy/paste style
• A gradient editor capable of multi-stop (radial or linear) gradients
• Mesh gradient
• Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors, more than 130 included)
• Dashed strokes: more than 30 predefined and custom dash patterns
• Swatches
• Path markers: ending, middle and/or beginning marks, e.g. arrowheads; with editable position, rotation, color and size, more than 30 included

Operations on paths

• Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.
• Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
• Boolean operations
• Shape builder
• Live Path Effects - non-destructive path modification:

• Path simplification, with variable threshold
• Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects
• Bitmap tracing (both color and monochrome paths)

Text support

• Uses any installed outline fonts, including right-to-left scripts
• Variable font support
• Kerning, letter spacing, line spacing adjustments
• Multi-line text
• Text on path 
• Text in a shape
• Text with fixed width
• SVG font editor

Rendering

• Fully anti-aliased display
• Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
• Complete "as you drag" rendering of objects during interactive transformations

File formats

• Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing
• Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
• PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, AI, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
• Command line options for export and conversions

Customizable User Interface

• Inkscape allows you to customize almost every aspect of its user interface:
  • Scaling of interface font, palette, on-canvas controls and icons
  • Changing color and style of canvas controls, desk, and page (including its borders)
  • Separate themes for interface, icons and code (including dark mode)
  • Dialog layouts and menus
  • Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
• Flexible dialog docking system (right / left, tabs, stacked, side-by-side)
• All interface elements can be hidden individually, or even completely for 'Zen' mode

View Your Art

• Zoom from 1 to 25600 %
• Move the canvas with the mouse or keyboard
• Rotate and mirror / flip the canvas
• Icon preview
• Various view modes:
  • Normal
  • Outline
  • Outline overlay
  • Enhance thin lines (for plotting/cutting)
  • No filters
  • X-Ray
  • Split mode
  • Print preview
  • Color managed
  • Greyscale

Extension System

• Extensions extend Inkscape's functionality by
  • Providing even more export and import file formats
  • Modifying selected objects
  • Adding entirely new elements to the drawing
  • Providing information about the drawing
  • Communicating with devices like plotters and CNC machines
• Extensions Gallery with more than 150 extensions included
• Hundreds of third-party extensions available for installation
• Built-in, community-filled extension store
• Python-based extensions system with well-documented API

Filters and Blend Modes

• Filters change the look of objects
• Filter Gallery with more than 250 filters included
• Filter editor to modify and create filters
• Share and find community-created filters on inkscape.org
• 16 Blend modes allow for object's colors to be influenced by the colors of other objects

Templates

• More than 90 templates included, ranging from card and paper sizes, to booklets, to social media, typography, video, icon and screen formats
• Custom default template
• Custom templates, including procedural templates
• Share and find community-created templates on inkscape.org

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