TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 When do you need Inkscape? 6
1.1 Artwork and Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Clip art, Icons and Logos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Layout and Prototyping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4 Technical Drawings and Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5 Physical Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2 Professional Software 14
2.1 What am I allowed to do with it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2 How much does it cost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Installing Inkscape on Windows 15
3.1 Method 1: Downloading and installing directly from Inkscape . . . . . . 15
3.2 Method 2: Installing from the Microsoft App store . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.3 Identifying Your System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.4 Method 1: Using Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.5 Method 2: Using the mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4 Installing Inkscape on a Mac 38
4.1 Installing Inkscape on macOS 10.11 and newer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.2 Installing Inkscape on OS X 10.7 - 10.10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.3 Homebrew and MacPorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5 Installing Inkscape on GNU/Linux 49
5.1 Preinstalled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.2 From your distro’s app store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.3 The latest stable version directly from the Inkscape project . . . . . . . . 49
6 The User Interface 50
7 Managing the Workspace 52
7.1 Document Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.2 Options in ‘View’ Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
8 Ways of Drawing in Inkscape 56
9 The Shape Tools 57
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