[vox-tech] inkscape

[Jonathan Stickel]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> Henry House wrote:
> 
>> [Inkscape's] native format is a subset of SVG.
>>
> [] indicates modificiation of original quote.
> 
> IIRC, sodipodi, which I found out a few days ago became Inkscape(?), 
> could read in any SVG and would preserve markup it didn't fully 
> understand, even through modifications and changes.
> 
> I'm not actually sure about that: but I do remember using it to edit 
> some hand-written SVG into which I had placed arrow-style line-endings. 
> Sodipodi didn't understand the arrows, but didn't mess with 'em, either.
> 

I just installed inkscape to check it out.  It looks really nice; more 
inuitive editing than xfig.  However, I primarily make vector drawings 
to import into latex documents.  Xfig supports that very well, including 
ways to include latex math.

Jonathan