Appendix B. Keyboard Shortcuts

Following are the basic keyboard shortcuts for Inkscape .48 release of the software. For a full list of keyboard shortcuts from the Inkscape developers directly, see http://inkscape.org/doc/keys048.html

Note

If you are using a Macintosh computer, all instances of (Ctrl) should be replaced with the Command (Cmd) key.

You can also download and use a graphical version of the Inkscape Keyboard Layout from http://Ctrl.openclipart.org/detail/81331

The list of keyboard shortcuts is given as follows:

Keyboard shortcut

Feature function

File menu shortcuts

 

Ctrl + N

Create new document

Ctrl + O

Open an SVG document

Shift + Ctrl + E

Export to PNG

Ctrl + I

Import bitmap or SVG

Ctrl + P

Print document

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