CThe Command Line
Unlike most vector editors—but like the majority of open source software—Inkscape has a powerful command line interface. With it, you can perform tasks such as exporting, document modifications, queries, and so on from scripts or from a command line prompt without using Inkscape's graphical user interface (GUI). In most cases, after Inkscape completes a task as specified in the command line parameters, it simply quits without showing the GUI at all. This makes it run faster and consume fewer resources, as no time or memory is wasted on creating and destroying the GUI.
In this appendix, I explain and provide examples of Inkscape’s most common command line parameters. I also introduce the language of actions, available via the ...
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