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Inkscape installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon May 24 19:29:51 2004
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:29:46 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed Inkscape on Athena for Sun and Linux. Inkscape is a
GUI editor for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format drawing files,
with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio,
etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha
blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export and
grouping. SVG is a W3C standard XML format for 2D vector drawing, that
allows defining objects in the drawing using points, paths, and
primitive shapes. Colors, fonts, line thicknesses, and so forth are
specified as 'style' attributes to these objects.
To run it:
add inkscape
inkscape &
inkview file.svg & (will show a "slide show" of a presentation in svg format,
stored in file "file.svg")
There is an online help system that explains how to use it and supplies some
sample and tutorial files.
Alex
