In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open W3C standard for describing two-dimensional graphics in a different way than traditional computer images, which are all bitmaps of some kind. A bitmap or ...

December 22, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google All platforms: Inkscape is an open source vector editing program. If you are looking for a free alternative to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows about GIMP, the open source graphics editor that competes with Photoshop for editing bitmap images, or images with ...

[Windell] developed an Inkscape extension called Hershey Text that helps you process fonts into vector representations. If you’ve tried to 3D print, plot, or mill text in the past you may have run ...

Open source software useful when dealing with so-called SVG format vector format image files. You can convert an opened SVG file to a PNG file of any resolution. It is also possible to create images ...

If you had a formal drafting class, you probably learned about making orthographic projections–engineering drawings with multiple views (for example, top, front, and right). Even if you didn’t take ...