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Sketsa SVG Editor 6.0 / 6.1 Beta 1 provides you with a professional and powerful vector drawing application which is based on SVG. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a graphics format and technology based on XML developed by W3C. With Sketsa, you can create vector graphics that can be scaled and printed at any resolution, without losing detail or clarity. You also get instant visual feedback on what you changed.

Sketsa features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, DOM editor, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools.

Major Features:

1. SVG Native File Format and produces very clean XML code: Sketsa uses SVG as its native file format. SVG is an open standard language for describing two-dimensional (2D) graphics in XML developed by W3C. As being a XML grammar lets SVG benefit from the various XML tools that make it so easy to manipulate, generate, search and edit SVG files. Sketsa also produces very clean SVG XML code. It is not using any proprietary namespaces.
2. Tool Palette, Canvas, and Visual Design Tool: It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. Its visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects easily. It support SVG specific shape tools < rect>, < ellipse>, < line>, < polyline>, < polygon>, < text> and support additional illustration tools such as Pencil tool for freeform shape and Pen tool for curve shape. It also support transform type: rotate, skew, scale, and translate. Designer could easily and visually create or edit SVG artwork.
3. Object Property: Designer can quickly inspect and change object properties in one centralized location. The Object Properties contains several categories: Geometry, Stroke, Fill, and Filter. In each of the category you can change the value and automatically shown in the canvas. Depending on the object selected, it allow designer to change the geometry, stroke, fill, or filter effect properties such as geometry attributes, color, stroke width, opacity, fill rule, etc
4. Resource Editor: The resource editor is a centralized location of resources for the current or selected SVG document. It allows you to create Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, and Filter. This is the place where object reuse is achieved. For example: Gradient or Filter element which could be applied to other SVG elements.
5. Source Editor with syntax highlighting: Although Sketsa allows designer to visually create and edit SVG artwork without worrying about underlying source code, Sketsa provide access to the underlying SVG source code. The integrated XML text editor allows them to view and edit SVG source code for greater control. It has built in SVG validation to ensure source code change are valid SVG Document.
6. Export to Raster or Bitmap: Sketsa allows you to export SVG artwork into raster image. It support JPEG and PNG format.
7. Plugins Support: Plugins supports allows Sketsa capabilities to be enhanced or extended by various plugins. For example Symbol Library Plugin or Emoticon Symbol.
8. Written in Java: Sketsa is a cross platform application that run on all popular operating systems. It runs on any platform which supports Java 1.4.2 eg: Microsoft Windows, Unix or Linux, etc.

Enhancements: This is a major release with many enhancements.

Requirements:

• Java 1.5 or higher
• 1024 x 768, 16-bit (thousands of colors) color display or higher
• Mouse or equivalent pointing device

Tasks project features a dynamic hierarchical view of your tasks, scheduling due dates, and associating URLs with and uploading and attaching files to tasks.
You have numerous tasks, projects with sub-tasks, related notes and files, billable tasks, and ideas that you want to publish to your blog. You need to access on various computers, PDAs, or web-enabled phones from anywhere. Tasks is your solution.
Recurring tasks and task templating features save you time by eliminating manual duplication. Task templates increase the accuracy and speed of repeated tasks and projects by providing predefined tasks and sub-tasks at the click of a button.
You may be on a sales call, in the grocery store, or at a friends house, but if you have internet access from a computer, PDA or web phone, you can reach Tasks. Tasks can also reach out to you through the optional daily email reminders. Now its impossible to forget what needs to be done!
With hierarchical organization, there is no need to create and manage categories; tasks grow organically. Create high-level tasks and fill out detailed sub-tasks as needed. Use visual prioritization and magic sorting to identify urgent tasks.
Main features:
Rich, powerful interface
- Tasks is built from the users perspective with a responsive and innovative user interface that makes it a real joy to use. This is software designed to stay out of your way and help you get things done.
Hierarchical organization of tasks
- The heart of Tasks is the hierarchical task structure. Tasks and notes are organized and categorized through these relationships. Put your high-level projects at the top and fill out the details as you go.
Prioritize
- Set priorities on your tasks so you can easily see what you need to do next. You can even sort tasks by priority across projects by using the Sortable screen.
Be Timely
- You can set a due date for each task, then view all upcoming tasks and receive daily e-mail reminders so you dont forget any deadlines.
Notes
- Store ideas and related information anywhere in the tree.
File Uploads
- Attach files to tasks and notes.
RSS Feeds
- Monitor status on specific tasks and let others do the same.
iCalendars
- Subscribe to and share iCalendars for all of your tasks or just for specific projects.
Auto-expand on Home Page
- View your home page with the tasks already expanded up to 4 levels deep.
Edit Multiple Tasks
- Select multiple tasks in the list views and apply changes to all of them at once.
Themes
- Choose from supplied theme options or make your own to personalize your Tasks experience.
Friendly Install Script
- A great installer including an upgrade from Tasks Jr. (or Tasks 1.x) option.
In-depth Documentation
- Tasks includes in-depth documentation covering all aspects and features of the software.

Ricebridge CSV Manager project allows you to read and write CSV files from within your Java application. This component covers all sorts of boundary cases and bad data that youd rather not think about.
Main features:
- Any CSV Format
Read and write Excel, UNIX and arbitrary CSV formats. Easily define the separation, quoting, escape and whitespace characters. We can handle multi-line data and missing fields. We provide detailed error reporting when badly formatted data is encountered.
- Access Data Directly
From ArrayLists to TableModels, from ResultSets to plain old Java arrays, we provide the data the way you want it. You can even create your own data models using callback interfaces.
- Great Documentation
Our documentation is something were really proud of. We cover everything you need to know, fully and comprehensively, from the basics to advanced usage.
- Easy to Use
Weve put lots of thought into making our components usable. Our interfaces and naming conventions are consistent, coherent and sensible. We take the time to find the least surprising way to do something.
- Fast and Scalable
Weve defined a proper grammar for CSV files to parse them cleanly and efficiently, and weve verified that our parser has linear performance for any file size.
- Learn from Open Source
Weve taken selected sections of the CSV Manager source code and released them under a BSD-style license. This means that you can get see in detail how to use our entire API.
Version restrictions:
- 30-day trial
Enhancements:
- Comments within lines were enabled by default, causing unexpected data loss.
- Comments are now only valid at the start of a line, unless CsvSpec.setCommentWithinLine is true.