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Inkscape Keyboard Shortcuts

• How to read this
• Movements
  • Panning the canvas
  • Zooming
  • Documents
• Creating Shapes
• Transforming
  • Moving, scaling, rotating
  • Transforming by keys
• Selections
  • Multiple Selections
  • Grouping
  • Z-order
  • Selecting under and dragging selected
  • Selecting similar objects
• Editing
  • Fill and Stroke
  • Duplication and alignment

How to read this

• Control + z means press Control and z at the same time.
• F7 and Shift + click means F7 , contextual action then Shift + click.

Movements

Panning the canvas

Control + arrows or mouse wheel

scroll

Shift + mouse wheel

scroll horizontally

Control + b

toggle scrollbars

Zooming

- or =

zoom

Control + mouse wheel

zoom

`

previous zoom

Shift + `

next zoom

Documents

Control + n

new document

Control + M + n

new from template

Control + o

open document

Control + s

save document

Control + Shift + s

save as

Control + Tab

other window

Creating Shapes

F4

rectangle

F5

ellipses and arcs

F6

freehand lines

F7

dropper (color picker)

F8

text objets

F9

spirals

Control + z

undo

Control + Shift + z

redo

Transforming

Moving, scaling, rotating

Basic

F1 or SPC

select tool

Single Click

Control (dragging the object)

restrict movement to horizontal and vertical

Control (dragging a handle)

preserve ratio

Double Click

Control (dragging a corner handle)

rotate by 15 degrees. The cross is the center.

Control (dragging a non-corner hander)

skew by 15 degrees.

Transforming by keys

Basic

arrows

move by 2px

< and >

scale by 2px

[ and ]

rotate 15°

Shift

increase movement and scale by 10 times

Control

Control

makes rotation 90°

Control + >

scale up 200%

Control + <

scale down 50%

Meta

Alt + < or Alt + >

scale by one screen pixel

Alt + [ or Alt + ]

rotates by one screen pixel

Alt + arrows

move by one screen pixel

Selections

Multiple Selections

Shift + click or drag around

select multiple objects

Control + a

selects all objects in the current layer

Grouping

A group behaves as a single object when you drag or transform it. Ctrl + u only ungroups the top level, you’ll need to use it repeatedly for recursive ungroup.

Control + g (with the objects selected)

create a group

Control + u or Control + Shift + g (with the objects selected)

ungroup one or more groups

Control + click

edit object from a group

Control + Shift + click

edit multiple objects from a group

Z-order

Tells which objects are on top and which are on the bottom.

PgUp

raise object by one level

PgDn

bury object by one level

Home

raise object to the very top

End

bury object to the very bottom

Tab

cycles bottom-up

Shift + tab

cycles top-down

Selecting under and dragging selected

Alt + click

cycles top to bottom

Alt + drag

after previous. Drag the currently selected object, not the visible one.

Selecting similar objects

If you want to select all the blue squares, first select one of the blue squares and go run Fill Color. All the objects with a fill color the same shade of blue are now selected.

M-e m

select same menu

Editing

Fill and Stroke

Control + Shift + k

color swatch dialog

Control + Shift + f

fill and stroke

Control + F1

gradient tool

F7 and click

dropper (color picker), assign color to object fill

F7 and Shift + click

dropper (color picker), assign color to object stroke

Fill

lets you edit the interior of the selected object(s).

Stroke paint

can remove the stroke (outline) of the object, assign a color or transparency to it.

Stroke styles

lets you set the width and other parameters of the stroke.

Duplication and alignment

Control + d

duplicate object

Control + Shift + a

align and distribute dialog