Design Tools

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Graphical Editors

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Drawing Applications

  • Sketsa (commercial) is a vector drawing application based on SVG. Sketsa features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity.
  • SViGio Excellent feature-rich WYSYWYG SVG graphics editor. Currently freeware while under development. Updated 24th April 2003. New release due just before Christmas
  • e-Picture by beatware
  • Scribus Scribus is a Linux DTP application which can import most well formed SVG 1.1. Scribus will export its files complete as an SVG file. Scribus also has a very high quality PDF exporter, suitable for commerical print as well as screen.
  • EVE Tiny, simple, cute, vector drawing app that exports to SVG.
  • Adobe Illustrator 9+ (commercial)
  • CorelDRAW 10 (commercial)
  • Jasc WebDraw Version 1 is still basic, but the canvas - source - preview tabbed workflow is nice. Great in combination with other tools. Runs on MS Windows only.
  • sphinx SVG
  • Realdraw
  • Mayura Draw
  • Maya
  • SVG Composer (commercial) SVG from the Inside Out
  • GentleMedia Factory (commercial) is a nice java-based svg authoring system, free for non-commercial use; runs on Linux, Solaris, MacOSX
  • Sodipodi is an SVG authoring system for Linux and Windows
  • Inkscape, an excellent SVG authoring tool, has replaced Sodipodi. It is available for Linux, Mac and Windows
  • Karbon14 is part of the KDE Office project for Linux/Unix systems
  • OpenOffice - the openoffice drawing application has limited svg export capabilities.
  • Virtual Mechanics (commercial) Suite of three WYSIWYG SVG authoring applications: Web Engine V2, Web Spinner V2, and WebDwarf V2.
  • GraPL Desktop (commercial) is a graphing and charting program which can take data from spreadsheets and other data sources, and generate a wide range of charts including analysis such as moving averages, smoothing and sorting. Output is in various formats including SVG.
  • C.a.R. (commercial) is a dynamic geometry program intended for schools and education exporting SVG (Deutsch: Z.u.L.)
  • XStudio Next (commercial) - gives full control over SVG with design, source, animation & scripting, code-synchronization, css, templates and much more. See also Xynamic
  • Aibase (commercial) is a knowledge editor with SVG import/export. Documents can contain structured text, tables, flow-charts and shapes.
  • JHotDraw is a framework for vector graphics editor. The framework comes with a sample program which supports SVG 1.2 Tiny.
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Animation Tools

  • Ikivo Animator (commercial) is an SVGT (1.1+) animation tool and does not do content creation.
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Presentation Authoring Tools

  • Flame Project Open Source cross platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris) GUI application for creating eLearning, similar to Macromedia Captivate.
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Text/XML Editors

  • Spket IDE (free for non-commercial use) SVG Editor with JavaScript Syntax highlighting and code completion support. Cross platform editor can run as Standalone application or as Eclipse plugins.
  • XMLSpy (commercial) is an XML development tool that supports SVG files. The XMLSpy 2005 Home Edition is free. Available for Windows.
  • <oXygen/> SVG Editor/Viewer (commercial) create, edit & validate SVG files. <oXygen/> can render SVG by two means: [1] The Standalone SVG Viewer which can display any SVG file and [2] The Preview Result Pane which can render the SVG result of an XSL transformation. Cross platform editor with a 30-day trial license.
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Other Information

See also Other Implementations

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