Inkscape Tips
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, our Ubuntu Workstation, and our Ubuntu laptop.
Tips
Links to external sites:
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"
Training — PPM Trainer(s) needed
Pikes Peak Makerspace announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup
- Consider the Manual, Tutorials, FAQs and more under the application's "Help" menu
- Inkscape Tutorials — from the Inkscape community
- Product Home Page
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:
Curated Links
Links to external sites:
Other Fun Stuff
Links to external sites:
- BodgedButWorks — Inkscape Tutorial, For Engineers And Shaper Origin Users
PPM Tool Color Map — Interactive
Search the PPM Wiki — include both Content pages and Multimedia
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