When building applications in JavaFX, there are various tools available - for developers/programmers there is Netbeans. For the design/graphical side of applications, there are plugins available for Adobe PhotoShop / Illustrator, namely ‘Project Nile’. However, many people wanting to use JavaFX may not have Adobe graphic packages available to them. Photoshop-less or Illustrator-less people now have an alternative with the latest build of Inkscape, thanks to Silveira Neto and friends.
Inkscape is actually a fantastic program (I’ve used it for years), its native format is SVG, but it supports many other popular formats.
Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, that strives to be SVG Compliant, open source, responsive and extensible.
On a recent post, Inkscape and JavaFX working together, Silveira explains a little about the new JavaFX export feature for Inkscape.
You can get a pre-compiled, ready-to-use version of inkscape with JavaFX export support from here. I’ve download and test ‘Inkscape20225-0811201443.7z‘ dated (20-Nov-2008 14:4) and it works just fine. However, this is a test build version, so there may be bugs. You can actually download and use more than one version of Inkscape, so it may be worth while using the stable release for actual graphic work, and just use the above build to do the export to JavaFX.
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