Install Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. Inkscape is a drawing tool similar to Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape drawing tool can work upon the SVG (scalable vector graphics) format. In simple words, Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It’s free and open source.
Features of Inkscape
Object creation
- Drawing: pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths), pen tool (creating Bézier curves and straight lines), calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)
- Shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spirals
- Text tool (multi-line text, full on-canvas editing)
- Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)
- Clones (“live” linked copies of objects), including a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones
Object manipulation
- Transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values
- Z-order operations (raising and lowering)
- Grouping objects (“select in group” without ungrouping, or “enter the group” making it a temporary layer)
- Layers (lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree)
- Alignment and distribution commands
Fill and stroke
- Color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS)
- Color picker tool
- Copy/paste style
- A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
- Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)
- Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns
- Path markers (ending, middle and/or beginning marks, e.g. arrowheads)
Operations on paths
- Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.
- Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
- Boolean operations
- Path simplification, with variable threshold
- Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects
- Bitmap tracing (both color and monochrome paths)
Text support
- Multi-line text
- Uses any installed outline fonts, including right-to-left scripts
- Kerning, letterspacing, linespacing adjustments
- Text on path (both text and path remain editable)
- Text in shape (fill shape following stroke)
Rendering
- Fully anti-aliased display
- Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
- Complete “as you drag” rendering of objects during interactive transformations
File formats
- Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing
- Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
- PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
- Command line options for export and conversions
Install Inkscape 0.91 On Ubuntu
Inkscape 0.91 is the latest version available and has been released with the following changes:
- Cairo rendering for display and PNG export
- OpenMP multithreading for all filters
- C++ code conversion
- Type design features
- A new measure tool
- Cross platform WMF and EMF import and export
- Symbol library and support for Visio stencils
- Improved support for Corel DRAW documents, Visio importer
- Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters
- Numerous usability improvements
Inkscape 0.91 can be easily installed on Ubuntu Systems, via PPA. Run the following commands in Terminal to install Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install inkscape
If you wish to uninstall and remove Inkscape from Linux Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove inkscape