To create segments in your path that contain curves, click and drag with the mouse when placing a point: The previous two examples demonstrated paths with straight lines. If you want to create and enclosed path, create your points by left-clicking the canvas, and then left click on the start-of-path control handle to close the path: To stop adding points, right click anywhere on your canvas, and your path will appear: To create a simple multi-line path segment in inkscape, choose the pen tool, and then left click on the canvas to create the points of your path. The default path type (and the one we are going to cover in this article) is the bezier path.

The pen tool is the quickest way to create a path with Inkscape.

However, if you need to create a less than standard shape in inkscape, you will need to use Paths. These objects in Inkscape allow us to create specific shapes in many different styles, based on tweaking a few variables of each object type. It also has its own set of extensions.In our initial Inkscape tutorial, we covered the basic creation and manipulation of shapes such as stars, polygons, rectangles, spirals and circles. Inkscape may be using a fairly recent version of the standard, more recent that the one handled by your other software. I have spent several hours hunting round for an answer to this and have got nowhere, so any help will be appreciated.īTW, I have tried saving as an inkscape svg and a plane svg but it makes no difference, but if I save as a PNG then the changes show up.

The image will be used by my local camera club on their website and the guy that runs the site uses windows, I use Linux Mint, so it fairly important for that the svg file can be opened, with all changes intact, by any programme capable of displaying svg files. So my question is does anyone know what's going on. So I tried using ImageMagick to view the svg and none of the changes to the image where there but if viewed using FireFox all of the changes show up. Anyway, I saved the file as an svg again but when I went to view it using Image Viewer none of the changes I had made showed up, so I checked it again in Inkscape and all the changes where there. When I went back to finish the tutorial everything went okay, after a fashion, it took me ages to work out how Inkscape worked. I was following an Inkscape tutorial for making a camera lens, got about half way through and stopped and saved the file as an svg.

Svg inkscape tutorial