Sodipodi
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Sodipodi is a free and open-source vector graphics editor, superseded since 2003 by Inkscape, an independent Sodipodi fork.
Development
Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill (abbreviated from "GNOME" and "illustration"),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. The main author is Template:Not translated,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> a son of the famous Estonian writer and poet Jaan Kaplinski,<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref> and later there were several other people who also contributed to the project.
Sodipodi means "mish mash" or "hodgepodge" in Estonian child-speak.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 was developed for Linux and Microsoft Windows. The last stable version is 0.34 released on February 11th 2004. Released under the GNU General Public License, Sodipodi is free software.
Even though there are no new releases since 2004,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lauris Kaplinski continued development of Sodipodi for years in a minor way, mostly contributing code refactoring and bug fixes. The latest commit for the trunk branch was pushed on September 12th 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Derivatives
Sodipodi started a collection of SVG clip art containing symbols and flags from around the world.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This work helped inspire the Open Clip Art Library.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The initial idea was to create a separate Sodipodi Hydra (hydra-oct) branch,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>