[ Thanks to Roland
for this link. ]
“Let’s examine each design field in turn. We’ll start
by describing the leading program or programs in each, followed by
the smaller or younger projects, and end with the special-purpose
tools.“Drawing, Painting, and Illustration
Vector-based editors* Inkscape is the dominant player here, a full-featured SVG
editor with wide support for object manipulation, styling, text
rendering, scriptability and SVG image filters. Inkscape supports
the largest set of drawing primitives and effects.
* sK1 is an up-and-coming vector editor also aiming to be a
complete illustration program. It is a fork of an older vector
editor called Skencil that is no longer in development. One of
sK1’s biggest claims to fame is import support for a large set of
third-party file formats”