Sodipodi

Sodipodi

Sodipodi

Vector graphics editor

Sodipodi is a free and open-source vector graphics editor, superseded since 2003 by Inkscape, an independent Sodipodi fork.

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Development

Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill (abbreviated from "GNOME" and "illustration"),[1] a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. The main author is Lauris Kaplinski [et],[2][3] a son of the famous Estonian writer and poet Jaan Kaplinski,[4] and later there was several other people contributed to the project.

Sodipodi means "mish mash" or "hodgepodge" in Estonian child-speak.[5]

The primary design goal of Sodipodi was to produce a usable vector graphics editor, and a drawing tool for artists. Although it used SVG as its native file format (including some extensions to hold metadata), it was not intended to be a full implementation of the SVG standard. Sodipodi imports and exports plain SVG data, and can also export raster graphics in PNG format. The user interface of Sodipodi is a Controlled Single Document Interface (CSDI) similar to GIMP.

Sodipodi developed for Linux and Microsoft Windows. The last stable version 0.34 released on 11 February 2004. Released under the GNU General Public License, Sodipodi is free software.

Even there are no new releases since 2004,[6] Lauris Kaplinski continue development of Sodipodi for years with a low activity, mostly contributing in code refactoring and bug fixes. Latest commit contributed to trunk branch has been pushed on 12 September 2023.[7]

Derivatives

Sodipodi started a collection of SVG clip art containing symbols and flags from around the world.[8] This work helped inspire the Open Clip Art Library.[9]

In 2003 a group of Sodipodi developers decided to improve Sodipodi with different goals, including redesigning the interface and closer compliance with the SVG standard.[10] Initial idea was to create separate Sodipody Hydra (hydra-oct) branch,[11] planned to be merged into trunk, but as it was difficult to make such a merge developers later decided to create an independent fork and named it Inkscape.[12]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "SVG in Gnome". Levien.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  2. [2]
    Kaplinski, Lauris. "Lauris Kaplinski". lauris.kaplinski.com. Archived from the original on 2004-04-21. I have worked for several (mostly gnome-related) software projects, the main one being vector drawing program Sodipodi, whose principal author and project leader I am.
  3. [3]
    "Lauris Kaplinski CV, ETIS". www.etis.ee. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  4. [4]
    Verenich, Vadim (2013). "The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice". Signs and Society. 1 (2): 213–241. doi:10.1086/671817. ISSN 2326-4489. S2CID 154526430.
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    "Linux.com Interviews Lauris Kaplinski — 3/3". Linux.omnipotent.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  6. [6]
    "Sodipodi project management". SourceForge. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  7. [7]
    "Sodipodi / Code / Browse Commits". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  8. [8]
    "Sodipodi: Clipart". sodipodi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-09.
  9. [9]
    "OpenClipArt". OpenClipArt. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  10. [10]
    "SodiPodi — Inkscape Wiki". Wiki.inkscape.org. 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  11. [11]
    "Sodipodi Hydra - Inkscape Wiki". wiki.inkscape.org. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  12. [12]
    "Announcement to Sodipodi - Inkscape Wiki". wiki.inkscape.org. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
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