Boolean operations like yes or no conditions.Node Editing: Moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution etc.Beginning, middle and ending marks through path markers.Dashed Strokes can be used with few predefined dashed patterns.Define an image or selection and use it to pattern fill.Gradient editor helps creating and managing multi-stop gradients.Selecting colors on a continuous plot based on vectors of RGB, HSL, CMS, CMYK and color wheel.Layers form a hierarchal tree and can be locked or rearranged for various manipulations.Grouping and ungrouping objects to create a virtual scope for editing or manipulation.Performing raising and lowering Z-order operations.Skewing, moving, scaling, rotating objects through interactive manipulations and pacifying the numeric values.Create and embed bitmaps with simple commands.Helps draw various shapes like rectangles, ellipses, circles, arcs, polygons, stars, spirals etc and then resize, rotate and modify (turn sharp edges round) them.Manipulating text in plain text boxes, on paths or in shapes Creating, selecting, editing and formatting text through text tool.Drawing different colored sized and shaped freehand lines through pencil tool, straight lines and curves through Bezier (pen) tool, applying freehand calligraphic strokes through calligraphic tool etc.Lets review the outstanding features of this application categorically.

It is under continuous development and bug fixes and we will be reviewing its prominent features and installing process in the article. Its current latest stable version is 0.91. Inkscape development was started in 2003, Inkscape's bug tracking system was hosted on Sourceforge initially but it was migrated to Launchpad afterwards. It is a cross platform tool which runs fine on Linux, Windows and Mac OS. SVG is a widely-deployed royalty-free graphics format developed and maintained by the W3C SVG Working Group.

Inkscape is an open source vector graphic editing tool which uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and that makes it different from its competitors like Xara X, Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator etc.

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