Use groupsĬTRL+ g and CTRL+ SHIFT+ g are your friends. This is particularly useful when tiling text-boxes and labels-just group→duplicate→align→edit text.ĭuplicate - Align - Edit strategy of mocking up forms 4. Use the duplicate command ( CTRL+ d) and the alignment dialog ( CTRL+ SHIFT+ a) to copy and move components after you’ve drawn them the first time. Using a dual monitor setup with Inkscape 3. Place your editing window on the main monitor and arrange all the toolboxes you use frequently on the other one.
Just drag the title bar of the toolbox so it becomes a dialog box. If you have a dual monitor setup, you can free up space in your drawing area by moving the toolboxes you need to the other monitor. The Autosave section in the Preferences dialog 2. You can also enable auto-save in the menu: Edit► Preferences► Input/Output► Autosave. Inkscape might even inform you of where it saved the file before dying. If you haven’t saved your work yet, you might still find an emergency-saved copy in your home directory or temp directory. In case of catastrophic failure, Inkscape will attempt to emergency-save a date-time-stamped copy of your file at the original file’s location. Inkscape is quite stable, but sometimes extensions misbehave.
Save frequently emergency-save and auto-save If you are a UI dev or a BA doing UI design, you might find this series useful. This is the second in a series of posts about how to use Inkscape to design UIs.
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