Inkscape Tips

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Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative process by providing shared space, shared tools, software, materials and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.

Inkscape is a multi-platform vector graphics software application. It is a free and open source.

It is installed on our Design Workstations 1-3 and our Ubuntu Workstation.

Classes

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Training -- PPM Trainer(s) needed

Consider the Manual, Tutorials, FAQs and more under the application's "Help" menu
Inkscape Tutorials -- from the Inkscape community
Product Home Page

SVG File Format

The native file format of Inkscape is .svg

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics, a document format (similar to HTML) to reproduce 2D graphics including some animation.

SVG can do that?! - talk by Sarah Drasner
Help:SVG -- at Wikimedia Commons
  • Software at PPM that previews SVG:
all web browsers
  • Software at PPM that opens (Imports) SVG:
Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, LightBurn, VCarve?
  • Software at PPM that saves (Save As, Export) SVG:
Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw
  • Live code in SVG with Visual Studio Code and the third party extension "SVG"

Tips

Links to external sites:

Inkscape tutorial: Tips and Tricks

For Additional Help

Use the PPM Slack channel #computing
List of all PPM Slack channels
Note that we have a Slack channel (#job-board) for members to post, discuss, or accept job opportunities either within PPM or from the community.

See Also

Links to other PPM Wiki pages:

Adobe Illustrator Tips
Canva Tips
  Ubuntu Workstation  
  Computers  

Curated Links

Links to external sites:

Inkscape Extensions

Other Fun Stuff

Links to external sites:

BodgedButWorks -- Inkscape Tutorial, For Engineers And Shaper Origin Users

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