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    2 Inkscape. Draw Freely.
    3 ======================
    4 
    5 http://www.inkscape.org/
    6 
    7 Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to
    8 Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable
    9 vector graphics  format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include
   10 basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms,
   11 gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons
   12 meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path,
   13 and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript,
   14 JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based
   15 formats.
   16 
   17 Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community
   18 with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional
   19 planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm,
   20 emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through
   21 an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open,
   22 community-oriented development processes.
   23 
   24 Inkscape uses the standard procedure for compilation and installation: 
   25 
   26   ./configure
   27   make
   28   make install
   29 
   30 If a "./configure" file is not present, you can create it by running
   31 the "./autogen.sh" command, which calls in turn a number of other
   32 programs such as automake and autoconf.  See INSTALL for more
   33 details. 
   34 
   35 
   36 Required Dependencies
   37 =====================
   38 The Inkscape core depends on several other libraries that you will need
   39 install, if they're not already present on your system.  The most
   40 typical libraries you may need to install are:
   41 
   42    * Boehm-GC 
   43    * libsigc++
   44    * glibmm  
   45    * gtkmm  
   46 
   47 Please see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingInkscape for the
   48 most current dependencies, including links to the source tarballs.
   49 
   50 
   51 Extension Dependencies
   52 ======================
   53 Inkscape also has a number of extensions for implementing various
   54 features such as support for non-SVG file formats, etc.  In theory, all
   55 extensions are optional, however in practice you will want to have these
   56 installed and working.  Unfortunately, there is a great deal of
   57 variability in how you can get these functioning properly.  Here are
   58 some recommendations:
   59 
   60 First, make sure you have Perl and Python.  If you're on Windows you
   61 should also install Cygwin.
   62 
   63 Next, you'll need to ensure the dependencies for each extension is
   64 present.  Depending on which extensions you need, the dependencies are
   65 going to vary, but here are some you may need to install:
   66 
   67    * XML::Parser
   68    * XML::XQL
   69 
   70 If you install dependencies to non-standard locations, such as
   71 installing XML::Parser someplace in your home directory, you may need to
   72 take some extra steps to indicate where those dependencies are to be
   73 found.  For instance, with Perl modules, set the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB
   74 variable (see `man perlrun`)
   75