Inkscape, they claimed, would seek to focus development on implementing the complete SVG standard, whereas Sodipodi development had emphasized creating a general-purpose vector graphics editor, possibly at the expense of SVG. The fork was led by a team of four former Sodipodi developers (Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, and MenTaLguY) who identified differences over project objectives, openness to third-party contributions, and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) compliance as their reasons for forking. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Gill, the work of Raph Levien. Inkscape began in 2003 as a fork of the Sodipodi project. Inkscape has good multi-lingual support particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications. As of 2016, Inkscape is under active development, with new features being added regularly. Inkscape is for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (under X11), and other Unix-like operating systems. As of this writing, Inkscape is at version 0.91. Most notably, it does not support animations or SVG fonts. While the SVG 1.1 standard compliance is its main goal, other closely related standards are also on the horizon: XML, CSS and HTML5. The v0.91 reflects that Inkscape is at 82% compliance of the SVG 1.1 standard. As part of this challenge for standard compliance, Inkscape changed its version release notation to reflect its progress of the SVG 1.1 standard and changed its release identification between releases v0.48 and v0.91. Inkscape's stated goal is to become a powerful graphic tool and being fully compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 standard. Its capabilities are similar to those of commercial products and can be used for any number of pratical reasons such as letterheads, computer and material wallpapers, brochures, business cards and web page designs. The creations can be used in web, print and screen design as well as user interface designs, logos, icons, banners and material cutting. Inkscape is a free and open source (FOSS) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor software program. Wikipedia has related information at Inkscape

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