Hello,

I would like to use Inkscape to have a SVG with a circle element. I also would like to have a line element.

How can I use inkscape to generate this XML elements? When creating circle and paths, only paths elements are created.

Thanks in advance.

Hi KLMmm,

Welcome to InkscapeForum!

Are you talking about using XML/SVG code? Or are you talking about drawing on the canvas? For XML code, I don't know, but if that's what you want, I'll move your topic to that forum.

For drawing on the canvase -- use the circle tool for a circle, and use the Pen or Pencil tool for a line. (I assume you could then open the XML Editor to see the automatically generated code. This might be a way to learn on your own, although I'm only guessing.)

KLMmm wrote:I would like to use Inkscape to have a SVG with a circle element. I also would like to have a line element.

While Inkscape can render all basic SVG shapes as defined in the SVG 1.1 specification, it does not edit them (without converting to path) nor create <circle>, <ellipse>, <line>, <polyline> or <polygon> objects itself.

See Bug #377982 in Inkscape: “Most of the basic shape elements (SVG 1.1) cannot be edited” and the linked reports in the last comment there.