Inkpad Libre 4+
Open-source vector graphics
Benjamin Burton
Designed for iPad
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- Free
iPad Screenshots
Description
The open-source vector graphics app is back! Inkpad allows you to draw vector illustrations on the iPad, with scaleable and editable components that include paths, text, images, gradients, and layers. You can access your drawings from anywhere on your iPad or iCloud Drive, and you can export your drawings as SVG, PDF or PNG.
This is a revival of the open-source Inkpad app by Steven Sprang, which lived on the App Store several years ago, and brings it up to date for modern devices and iPadOS versions. Like Steven's original app, the source code is freely available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://github.com/baburton/Inkpad, where you are welcome to contribute or suggest improvements.
Features include:
- A pen tool for drawing paths and bezier curves;
- Compound paths, masks and groups;
- Text objects, with the ability to import your own fonts;
- Gradient fills and arbitrary dash patterns in strokes;
- Layers and grids;
- Import photos or SVG graphics;
- Export drawings in several vector and bitmap formats.
There have been several spinoffs from Steven's original Inkpad over the years. What makes this app different? It follows Steven's intention for a community project: the source code remains free for you to view, modify and contribute to (under the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0), and of course the app remains free for you to use.
Enjoy!
What’s New
Version 2.1
Fully integrated with the iPadOS file browser. You can now open and edit documents from anywhere on your iPad, including iCloud Drive, and you no longer need to use Dropbox for imports and exports.
Ratings and Reviews
one issue
when I select something the copy/paste/duplicate options disappear how do I fix this?
Great app!
A great tool for simple and stylish illustrations - exactly what I need for semipro graphics
I’m a university scientist and know the value of quality illustrations in communicating complex concepts and ideas. This app is perfect for making simple and stylish graphics and is easy to learn and use (with an Apple Pencil).
Inkpad Libre is a great addition to the open-source graphics toolbox. It is a basic but sufficient app. SVG export allows export to other open-source software like Inkscape and (presumably) GIMP for more advanced work.
Some suggestions:
Objects tend to move when selected using the pick tool, presumably because pick-and-drag feature is too sensitive. Please add a short delay before between picking and dragging.
It would be helpful to have a transformation pop-up where object dimensions and rotations can be specified numerically.
WONDERFUL! 🥳✨
It’s back! This is the original Inkpad. Somebody else took the code that’s been open source for years and made a thing that works like the original Inkpad! I am so relieved, because the profiteering ones, built on the same code, always have something wrong with them. Or it’s a massive subscription. Thank you thank you for re-creating this! It’s totally free no upfront cost no subscription. Tutorial inside it that will teach you how to do vector drawing. I learned it from scratch on the original Inkpad. This one stores the pictures you make in your file app. That’s the only difference. You can send them from there to the photo app. It opens in the files app, just hit the + in the upper right corner to make a new drawing and that takes you into the apps UI. Thank you!
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Information
- Seller
- Benjamin Burton
- Size
- 5.2 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 Ben Burton
- Price
- Free