In our practice document, this page is very long, so that you probably won’t be able to see its borders right away. At the center of the canvas, there is the page area, which is framed by a thin dark border.

Here you can become creative and do most jobs using your mouse. The big white area in the center of your screen is the canvas. The Inkscape WindowĪfter you have opened the file, you should be seeing something like this (minus the docked dialog on the right side, as you haven’t opened any yet): When you click on the images, you can look at a larger version – and if you’re not using Javascript in your browser, you can just use the back button of your browser to return to this page. If there’s anything you think really needs a translation, please let me know in a comment. This is because I’m German, and I have used the German Inkscape interface to record the animations. Sometimes, you will also see a German word or tooltip. You will also note that in your files, you will see different color gradients and fonts in the lists than there are in the images here. The colors also don’t look like this in the real Inkscape! The number of colors used in the animations had to be reduced, so the files would not become too huge for downloading. This shows that it is even possible to adapt the icons in Inkscape to your liking – they are just another SVG file themselves! Their position, though, is identical, and often the only difference is the color. In the screenshots and animations for this article, the icons look different from the standard icons which come installed with Inkscape.

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