![]() ![]() Pressing Alt and the underlined letter (it will become underlined once Alt is pressed) from the top menu, will open the according sub-menu.Single letters are mapped to tools for ease of access for example: S is the shortcut for the selection tool, and R is the shortcut for the rectangles tool.Zooming in and out using the two keys = and – respectively.The shortcuts are easy to learn because I think they are logical, for example, some keyboard shortcuts are: The rightmost side bar: here lives a quick access to the options of a powerful tool of Inkscape called Snapping, when snapping is turned on and for example snapping to node is also toggled, you can simply place objects near each other by just getting one of then near enough to the other object.The bottom area: this can be divided to two sub-sections: the upper portion contains bunch of color palettes grouped as tones, where it provides a quick way to color the objects you are drawing and lower portion contains data about either the file you are working in, or a selected object (if you have an object selected): like its color, the layer and the position.The biggest area in the center: this is the area you draw in, by default it will be a blank space with a rectangle in the middle called the canvas it is the main area for drawing, yet you can draw and where you like, there is also an option to hide the canvas page borders.If multiple menus are opened, they will appear as tabs at the top of this region. The main area on the right side: if you opened any menu from the top bar it will open in this area.The region under the top bar: this place encapsulates quick access to many tools these really boost the workflow as you don’t need to open any menu to access them. ![]() The top bar: this is where you find literally everything you want, from settings to filters to extensions, it is where all operations on files, objects and paths live, if you want to do something and you don’t know what to use you should either search this bar or just check the manual located in the help menu.The left side bar: here you can find the tools used to draw and manipulate vector graphics. ![]() The interface underwent several changes in the past few years, and in the latest version of Inkscape (1.2), you have the light mode and the dark mode, and a bunch of icons you can choose from. It has been around for nearly 2 decades, and it is actively updated, with the help of a community of developers and testers. Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor and creator. This movement gained a lot of momentum as time passes, and now you can find almost everything you want open-source. Open-sourceĪlso, when computers became popular, most of the software back then was proprietary, but when some programming languages were open-sourced, programmers, software engineers and just hobbyists started composing software and releasing it to the public, absolutely for free. ![]() Vector graphicsĬontrary to raster graphics, vectors are not built of small units (pixels) the shapes in every vector are described using mathematical equation, which are continuous, and that continuity of these equations ensures the non-pixelating property of vector graphics. These are the concepts of vectors, and the open-source movement. In this section, we will discuss basic concepts upon which Inkscape stands. ![]()
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