Too bad your pen tool page doesn't cover Spiro or BSpline though. IMO the space used for the explanation of Bezier curve equations could have been better used introducing Spiro and Bspline or the shape option. Nice suggestions on Spiro and BSpline paths. I do not have many chances to use those path...

Fellow Inkscapers: Those 12-page inkscape tutorial slides were created in Inkscape when I was learning the software in 2017. They were printed on the back of my 2018 monthly calendar (why 12 pages). The slides were updated in March 2019, and were posted on my website. It is still used as a reference...

I had a very similar problem and wrote a simple extension to draw a chamfered corner when a radius is given. Screenshot_2018-06-25_19-30-14.png Here is how to use the extension: 1. You draw an auxiliary line from points 1 to 5 to 4. 2. With the auxiliary line selected, click menu Extensions > Render...

June 2018, added code to handle two circles with equal radii. The original version reports an error. Screenshot_2018-06-25_19-47-25.png Here is how to use the extension. 1. Draw an auxiliary line from 1 to 2 to 3, or a line from 4 to 5 to 6 to 7. 2. With the line selected, select menu item Extension...

Found this post thru google search. I have 407 eps files (created in old version of Adobe Illustrator) to convert to svg files. I found the ghostscript comes with Ubuntu (described above) does not work. So, I tried to use Inkscape command line method. The Inkscape 0.9.23 in Ubuntu 18.04 can import e...

I found this post thru a google search, but I did not find an answer to the question. So I spent some time and wrote an extension for drawing tangent lines from a point to a circle, or tangent lines between two circles. You need to draw the red dash lines as path, select the path, and choose menu Ex...