When it comes to typography, the tools available will seem pretty basic if you’re used to using a more advanced editor. It looks a little lonely when you’re used to other programs which fill half your screen with palettes, but again it does what it says on the tin and you can easily add, delete, rename and change the stacking order of layers. Likewise the Layers “palette” is a simple box which you pull out from the side of the screen. The menu and toolbar icons are a little clunky to look at but they do what they’re supposed to do. You can change fill and stroke color and opacity and stroke thickness. Drawing is easy, as is moving and transforming objects. When it comes to the drawing tools, this editor obviously won’t match up to Illustrator (nor is it trying to) but it still provides useful tools and many of the features that you would expect from a vector graphics editor including free-hand drawing, shapes, color and gradient picker. If you’re a die-hard Internet Explorer user, note that SVG-edit only works if you have installed the Google Chrome Frame plugin. Most vector editors these days can import and export SVG, and modern browsers (such as Firefox and Opera) can display it directly without requiring any plugins. SVG is an open, industry-standard XML-based format for vector graphics developed by the W3C. For the purposes of this post though, I was using version 2.4. The editor is available in a stable version 2.4 called Arbelos, with a newer version 2.5 called Bicorn waiting in the wings. SVG-edit is a free web-based scalable vector graphics (SVG) editor.
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