Gravit Designer is not intended as a replacement for Inkscape but is more oriented toward the commercial design tool Sketch. Since then, the developers have released another major version, Gravit Designer 3.3, which includes "critical bug fixes" and "some long-requested features from the community." See the announcement at the Gravit Designer website for more on the new release. This article is based on version (3.2.6), which was the current version at the time I wrote this article. Meantime, well removed from the mainstream, another program with quite interesting features – Gravit Designer – is being developed, and it promises to be fully fledged vector graphic design software. Version 0.7 of the proprietary program is still available as a 32-bit binary in various repositories. The Xara Group made a less successful attempt with Xara Xtreme, which found very few friends in the Linux camp. Nevertheless, the powerful, well-documented, and widely used Inkscape has long left little room for other free vector graphics tools.
The application still provides the most comprehensive features for this format, although it does not support all aspects of SVG. However, Inkscape – a fairly comprehensive graphics program that is a mixture of two-thirds drawing program and one-third editor – could generate and load SVG data.
Even when web browsers started supporting SVG images, it was not enough to encourage more programs to work with this format. When the committee first published the XML-based format in 2001, the commercial programs prevalent at the time ignored it and continued to rely on their own, mostly proprietary formats. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made a huge breakthrough with the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, which supports far more than just employing and positioning standard objects.
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