SKRIBBLOR
An SVG-based sketching/note-taking app
PLANNED FEATURES
As I write this, SKRIBBLOR is only about a month old. It does most of what I need it to do already, but there are a few important features which will be added in upcoming releases. Here's the plan so far:
v1.1
Key feature: Ellipse tool
I'm not terrible at sketching ellipses on paper, but man do I struggle with it when working digitally. So at the top of my feature list is a tool for drawing ellipses, and especially one that will make the job of drawing foreshortened circles in perspective drawings easier.
v.1.2
Key feature: Linead tool
Another tool that's important for doing perspective drawings: a centrolinead. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a centrolinead is a device that lets you draw lines which converge to a vanishing point that's off the edge of the page.
v1.3
Key feature: Gradients and pattern fills
Flat colour fills are great, but SVG supports gradients and pattern fills, and they can really help bring a drawing to life. The patterns I'm most interested in having are a variety of halftone screens, but all kinds of textures, grids, and patterns are possible with SVG, so we might as well take advantage of the capability.
Features Not Tied To A Release Version
There are loads of additional goodies I want/need to put into SKRIBBLOR at some point. Here's a list of some features that I'd like to add, but don't have a timeline for:
- An eyedropper tool!
- User-defined pen presets
- Alternate preset and user-defined palettes
- Perspective transform
- Direct manipulation of underdrawings (the sliders are annoying)
- An improved "segment" eraser mode that erases smaller parts of a stroke (this worked better in the very first version I wrote, but at the expense of increased document complexity. I have a method in mind which will split the difference in terms of cost and effectiveness.)
- The ability to merge strokes into larger path-blobs, for more efficient documents
- Bezier curve strokes rather than (or in addition to) polygons
- "Select all" of same colour/style
- A more conventional "undo" facility for all image operations
- For the Android version, a file browser and recent file list that will show preview images of documents.
- UI improvements, including a graphical pen parameter adjuster
- ...and a bunch of other stuff!