Software used for Project Drawing

Rediscovering Life Memories with SVG and Inkscape

Software

Inkscape¹ software is used for creating the artworks for the Project Drawing.

Inkscape Options

Following are the Inkscape options used in my work:

• Document Properties (Shift+Ctrl+D): Portrait or Landscape
• Rectangles and Squares (F4)
• Circles, Ellipses and Arcs (F5)
  • Start and End
• Freehand Lines (F6)
  • Smoothening
• Bezier Curves and Straight Lines (Shift+F6)
• Filters
• Extensions
  • Modify Path->Perspective
  • Render->L-System (for making fractals)
• Zoom in (+) /Zoom out (-)
• Export (as svg)
• Edit Nodes (F2)
  • Break Path at selected nodes
  • Join Nodes (Shift+J)
  • Delete segment between two non-endpoint nodes
• Break Apart Object (Path->Break Apart (Shift+Ctrl+k)
• Union (Path->Union)
• Flip Horizontal (H)
• Flip Vertical (V)
• Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C) (Path->Object to Path)
• Ruler
• Dynamic Offset (Ctrl+J)
• Scale Multiple Objects (Shift+Click)
• Guides
  • Edit->Create Guides around the page
  • Show/Hide Guides (Alt+|)
  • Object to Guides (Shift+G)
• Spirals (F9)
  • Turns
  • Divergence
  • Inner Radius
• Align and Distribute (Shift+Ctrl+A)
  • Align
    • Relative to [Page]
    • Center on horizontal axis
    • Center on vertical axis
• Grid
  • Show/Hide Grid (#)
• Scale Object
  • Select Object(s)
  • Object->Transform
  • Scale (Width and Height) and Apply

References

• Inkscape Official Website