


It is also available for Mac OS, but the Mac version requires some extra software that must be downloaded and installed before Inkscape can be used.

It is available for Windows and for Linux. Inkscape can be downloaded from its web site at. Inkscape adds some extra data to the SVG files that it creates, but that data will be ignored by other programs. SVG images can be opened in many standard image viewers and can be used on the Web. It saves images in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, which is covered in Section 2.7. As a vector graphics program, instead of storing colors of pixels, Inkskape stores a list of the objects in a scene, together with their attributes. This section is a very brief introduction to Inkscape, a free program for creating and editing 2D vector graphics images.
