Inkscape Tips
Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative process by providing shared space, shared tools, materials and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.
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Inkscape is a free and open source multi-platform vector graphics software application. It is installed on our Design Workstations 1-3 and our Ubuntu Workstation.
Classes
- Pikes Peak Makerspace announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup
Training -- PPM Trainer(s) needed
- Manual, Tutorials, FAQs and more under the application's "Help" menu
- Inkscape Tutorials -- from the Inkscape community
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 other sites (external links):
For Additional Help
Use the PPM Slack channel:
- #computing
See Also
Links to other PPM Wiki pages (internal links):
Curated Links
Links to other sites (external links):
Other Fun Stuff
Links to other sites (external links):
- BodgedButWorks -- Inkscape Tutorial, For Engineers And Shaper Origin Users
- PPM Tool Color Map — Interactive
- Search the PPM Wiki — include both Content pages and Multimedia
- Contact Us if you cannot find your answer here on our Wiki, or you notice something is outdated.