UserManualOutline

Future manual outline

Introduction to Inkscape

• About SVG
• State of available SVG software
• Inkscape Goals

Basics (already outlined, needs some refinement)

• Interface (no real depth here - just a basic overview of how these things work, where they are, what they look like...)
  • Menus
  • Command Bar
  • Toolbars
  • Tool Options
  • Working with the Canvas
  • Rulers, Guides and Grids
  • Palette
  • Information Bar
  • Dialogs (at least the difference between floating/docked)

Documents

• Document properties
• Creating templates
• Metadata

Toolbox

• Selector
• Navigation tools
• Drawing tools
• Transformation tools
• Color tools
• Text
• Connector

Objects

• copying and pasting (+ styles)
• transformations
• grouping
• cloning
• whatever else

Layers

• layers
• working with layers in Inkscape

Paths

Colors

• fill'n'stroke
• swatches
• color management
• link to gradient tool
• probably "clean up defs"

Patterns

Effects

• modification effects
• raster effects
• Live Path Effects
• SVG filters
• creating new effects (i.e. Python scripts tutorial)

Setting up Inkscape (Preferences)

Additional help resources

• everything from Help menu
• copy of the page that links to international sites
• mailing lists