4Objects

Objects are the bread and butter of Inkscape graphics. Much of the rest of this book is devoted to various types of objects, their properties, and techniques for working with them. However, regardless of type, all Inkscape objects have a lot of things in common.

This and the next two chapters cover the fundamentals of objects and generic object operations in painstaking detail.

4.1 Object Properties

An object is just a thing somewhere on the canvas—a part of your drawing. Of course, it's not always that simple; what looks like a separate object may be either a part of some other object or a combination of several objects. Identifying individual objects takes experience and effort.

Inkscape has a number of dialogs for manipulating properties ...

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