
InkScape Features:
• Drawing: pencil tool, pen tool, and calligraphy tool
• Shape tools: rectangles, ellipses stars/polygons, and spirals
• Text tool (multiline text, full on-canvas editing)
• Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)
• Affine transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), exact
• Z-order operations
• Grouping objects, with a way to "select in group" without ungrouping
• Layers, with a way to lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc
• Copying and pasting objects
• Alignment and distribution commands
• Color selector (RGB, HSV, color wheel)
• Color picker tool
• A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients