About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: AbiWord, XChat, Inkscape, GObject, Pidgin, Wireshark, PiTiVi, LiVES, Avidemux, Gtk-gnutella, GRAMPS, Brasero, OpenShot Video Editor, Cairo, OpenERP, Ayttm, Smuxi, Kino, Jokosher, GtkRadiant, Pango, Gedit, Gtkmm, Mp3splt, GTK-server, ROX Desktop, Glade Interface Designer, Gwyddion, Synfig, StarDict, Gretl, PHP-GTK, PyGTK, Gajim, GLib, GTKWave, Packetsquare, Claws Mail, Gobby, Grisbi, Geany, Wicd, GNOME Commander, Anaconda, GFTP, Java-gnome, QtCurve, Thoggen, GDK, Denemo, GKrellM, Gtk Sharp, FlyBack, Xzgv, GpsDrive, Grsync, Gummi, Gnome Wave Cleaner, Firestarter, Gentoo, Lanedo, HomeBank, X-CD-Roast, CeeMedia, Gnome Subtitles, Pybliographer, SciGraphica, Rawstudio, Devhelp, Gtk2-Perl, Accessibility Toolkit, QGtkStyle, Graveman, RGtk2, Asunder, Gtkam, Comix, Libart, VCSFrenzy, Linuxconf, Chemtool, GTK+ Preference Tool, PageStream, GTK-Qt, LXT, VZT, Source code annotation, TwinWave, GtkPlug. Excerpt: Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard. Inkscape is cross-platform and runs on Mac OS X (typically under X11, although the underlying GTK+ toolkit can be compiled to run natively under Quartz), Unix-like operating systems, and Microsoft Windows. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete. Most notably, it does not yet support animation. Inkscape has multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications. The word Inkscape is a portmanteau of the words ink and landscape. Inkscape began in 2003 as a code fork of the Sodipodi project. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Raph Levien's Gill (Gnome Illustration Application). The fork was led by a team of four former Sodipodi...