

At some point in the near future, the Sozi extension will no longer work with Inkscape, and users will need to install the standalone version. However, to allow for a more flexible and user-friendly interface, Sozi developers have decided to make it a standalone program. It's editor started its life as an Inkscape extension (which has to be installed).


Sozi is a presentation application which produces translations, zooms and rotations to be viewed in web browsers, by means of embedding JavaScript in the SVG file. Their wiki contains tutorials and other documentation, and there is some info in the Inkscape manual, as well. It creates a slideshow type of animation for presentations, to be viewed in web browsers, by means of embedding JavaScript in the SVG file. JessyInk is an Inkscape extension, which as of version 0.91, comes installed with Inkscape. Programs which provide a graphical user interface include Inkscape extensions, which either come with Inkscape, or can be installed, as well as external or standalone programs.

(If you are interested in programming animation features into Inkscape, please start by joining the development team.) Meanwhile, there are several ways to animate images made with Inkscape (whether as SVG or exported to PNG), which are explored on this page. Inkscape does not support animation natively, although it might someday, if any individual programmer, or small team becomes interested in tackling the challenge.
