KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

What's new:

• Improve Image Insert to allow embedding SVG vector
• Add Public API TextEditorFactory
• Add SVG embed geometry panel
• Add Navigator
• Improved zoom synchronization
• Improved UI
• Improved Source History Find and Replace (add history)
• Improved Installer
• Fix and Improved Toolbox MoveTool
• Fix Toolbox tool and Canvas Focus problem
• Fix DirectSelectionTool NPE
• Fix Pretty Print Comment node space
• Updated to use Netbeans Platform 6.7
• Updated to use Apache Batik (rev 777417)

Features:

• SVG native file format
• Produces clean SVG without proprietary namespace
• Support SVG Profile Full
• Property palette
• DOM Editor
• SVG XML Source Editor
• Defs Editor: gradient and filter
• SVG specific shape tools rect, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon
• Additional illustration tools: Pencil tool for freeform shape and Pen tool for curve shape
• Transformation tool: rotate, skew, scale, and translate
• Basic Text Tool
• Export or rasterize to JPEG, PNG, and PDF (with Plugins)
• Plugins Support
• Build on top Netbeans Platform
• Written entirely in Java, cross platform

Sketsa SVG Editor Information:

• Product Page: http://www.kiyut.com/products/sketsa/index.html
• Features Page: http://www.kiyut.com/products/sketsa/features.html
• Screenshots Page: http://www.kiyut.com/products/sketsa/screenshots.html