Open Source Drawing Software

Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. The latest stable version of Pencil is 3.1.0 which contains stability fixes and many new features. More details can befound in the releaste notes. Pencil provides various built-in shapes collection for drawing different types of user interface ranging from desktop to mobile platforms. Starting from 2.0.2, Pencil is shipped with Android and iOS UI stencils pre-installed. This makes it even easier to start protyping apps with a simple installation. Starting from 2.0.2 Pencil has even more shape collections included by default. The list of built-in collections now includes general-purpose shapes, flowchart elements, desktop/web UI shapes, Android and iOS GUI shapes.

LaTeXDraw is a graphical drawing editor for LaTeX. LaTeXDraw can be used to 1) generate PSTricks code; 2) directly create PDF or PS pictures.

Signature Pad is a JavaScript library for drawing smooth signatures. It's HTML5 canvas based and uses variable width Bézier curve interpolation based on Smoother Signatures post by Square. It works in all modern desktop and mobile browsers and doesn't depend on any external libraries. Demo works in desktop and mobile browsers. You can check out its source code for some tips on how to handle window resize and high DPI screens. You can also find more about the latter in HTML5 Rocks tutorial. This library is provided as UMD (Universal Module Definition) and ES6 module. When you modify width or height of a canvas, it will be automatically cleared by the browser. SignaturePad doesn't know about it by itself, so you can call signaturePad.clear() to make sure that signaturePad.isEmpty() returns correct value in this case.

GUI and command line tools for advanced users and administrators: wxdkdraw - Minimalistic drawing application for use with LaTeX, wxd2lat - Convert wxdkdraw files to LaTeX, bitmap2pp - Convert PNG/JPEG/TIFF/NetPBM to (E)PS or PDF, fig2lat - Convert XFig files to LaTeX, htmlbook - publish HTML like a book, dkcpre - C debugging and tracing preprocessor, itadmin - manage your IT using a MySQL/MariaDB database, dk-fic - file integrity checker, dk-ls - list files, output column order is configurable, dk-cat, dk-sort, dk-lines - text tools for *x and Windows, dk-send, dk-recv - transmit data stream, dk-t2h, dk-t2l - text to HTML or LaTeX conversion.

yagdt (Yet Another Graph Drawing Tool) is a plugin-based graph drawing application & distributed graph storage engine.

sql2diagram converts sql scripts to diagrams in the XML format dia, which can be viewed and further maintained with the dia drawing program. It is a good help for the documentation of a database structure. It provides HTML output as well.