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Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:30 am

Double clicking a tool icon, opens the preferences for that tool.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:32 am

Diagonal guide lines can be pulled off from the ruler's corners.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:35 am

With CTRL pressed down you can select an individual object in a group.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:41 am

With Alt pressed you can select under an object.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:46 am

You can delete all your guides at once by going to 'Extensions - Render - Guides Creator', tick 'Delete existing guides' and hit apply.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:48 am

Guides can be hidden by clicking on the rulers.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:59 am

You can delete all guides by Edit/Delete all guides.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby tylerdurden » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:59 am

To edit an instance of a symbol, un-link the symbol (similar to clones) then ungroup.

(This is not explicit in the status-bar tooltip).
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I'm using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06), 64 bit win8.1

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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:00 am

To delete a guide line hold Delete and hover over the cursor the guide line.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Moini » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:02 am

If something doesn't work, look at the status bar at the bottom to get relevant information.
Something doesn't work? - Keeping an eye on the status bar can save you a lot of time!

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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:05 am

To rotate a guide line hold Shift and pull it.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby brynn » Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:53 am

Look at the
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:55 am

To use the dropper tool (D) choosing a stroke colour, hold Shift.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:29 am

In 'Preferences -> Behaviour -> Steps', you can customise the move value for your arrow keys and rotation steps.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:51 am

You can copy/paste an object's fill&stroke&filtering attributes by selecting object to be copied, pressing Ctrl+C,
selecting target object and pasting style by pressing Ctrl+Shift+V.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:41 pm

double clicking with the gradient tool on a gradient "line", inserts a new stop
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:45 am

You can use H and V keys to flip a selected objects/selected nodes.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby cleversomeday » Tue Apr 12, 2016 5:03 am

Shift-clicking a color swatch changes an object's stroke to that color.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Tue Apr 12, 2016 5:26 am

To select a bunch of objects, use the Select Tool while holding down Shift and Alt. This draws a red line and everything the lines touches, gets selected.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby dimumurray » Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:35 am

snapping tools...use them...they're awesome!
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:06 am

Ctrl+Alt+V pastes objects exactly where they were copied to the clipboard.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Espermaschine » Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:18 am

The 'Pattern Along Path' Extension and LPE distort the pattern. Scatter doesnt.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Lazur » Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:23 am

You can enter a cloned group's parent object and paste in/draw other objects.
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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Moini » Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:00 am

Many number input fields provide a list of preset values for you to choose from when you right-click on them.
Something doesn't work? - Keeping an eye on the status bar can save you a lot of time!

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Re: Post a quick tip

Postby Moini » Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:02 am

Double-click on the words "Fill:" and "Stroke:" in the bottom left corner to quickly open the fill or stroke tab of the Fill&Stroke dialog.
Something doesn't work? - Keeping an eye on the status bar can save you a lot of time!

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