Inkscape Tutorial: Creating a Simple Ribbon Aug 08, 2008, 22:00
(0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Ryan Cartwright) "For the
benefit of the complete beginner: Inkscape is a vector drawing
program. That means that it creates graphics which can be scaled
without adverse effect on quality. These won't be photos or
other such graphic work, but more usually they are found in
logos, clipart and other places where the image may be scaled up
or down. If you enlarge a small photo or bitmap image you get
pixelisation and "jaggies". Do that with a vector graphic and
you'll find the linework is as smooth as the smaller version.
Inkscape uses the open standard Scalable Vector Graphic format
(svg), but it will import popular vector formats like Adobe
Illustrator and wmf."