Sketsa is a vector-based drawing application based on SVG. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a graphics format and technology based on XML developed by W3C.
For more information on SVG please visit W3C SVG site:
In the main window, you can find the menu bar. From the menus, you have access to all the top-level windows, such as the Canvas, Tools palette, Properties window, Resource window, and DOM editor window. The File menu allows you to open, save, and exit the application. The Help menu gives you access to online help.
The Toolbox panel consist of various tools that you can use to create and edit your artwork. It contains tools that allow you to select, draw, and edit objects.
The properties of most object (SVG Element) that are represented in the canvas window can be viewed in a Properties panel. In this window, the properties of selected object is shown. The properties window is divided into 4 categories: geometry, stroke, fill, and filter. In each of the category you can change the value and automatically shown in the canvas.
The Defs panel contains all the defs element for the current/selected SVG document. It is equivalent with the SVG <defs> elements. The defs can be referenced by using URI/XLINK reference syntax.
Document Object Model Panel is a DOM editor which is integrated with the Sketsa. In this panel you can examine, edit, add SVG code which represents the artwork displayed on the canvas.
Source Editor window is a XML source editor that is integrated with the sketsa. In this window you can examine, edit, add SVG code which represents the artwork displayed on the canvas. Similar to DOM Editor, but it show the plain xml code instead of DOM Tree.
Sketsa allows you to export SVG artwork into raster image.