The Book of Inkscape

3.6 The Document Window

The main components of Inkscape’s window (Figure 2-4) are, from top to bottom: the menu, the commands bar, the controls bar (whose contents change when you switch tools), the main toolbox on the left and the dialog dock on the right with the document canvas between them, and, at the bottom, the palette and the status bar. By default, the canvas area has rulers (top and left sides) and scrollbars (bottom and right sides).

Note

Press to access the first editable control in the controls bar.

All parts of an Inkscape window, with the exception of the menu and the canvas itself, can be hidden by the commands in the Show/Hide submenu ...