Main Tools: This is the bar where your basic tools are located. This is where the majority of your options are.
If you’re a Mac lover, this will be your Menu Bar.
Menu Bar: If you’re a Windows or Linux user, this’ll be quite familiar. To get an understanding of Inkscape, we need to get to know Inkscape’s interface. (SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.) Given the fact that as a once-budding graphic designer, I was raised on Adobe products, it took me quite a while to figure out and to get used to Inkscape. Inkscape can be used on all major computer operating systems (Linux, Mac, and Windows), and can import and export to many major file formats. Compared to other open-source vector drawing programs that I’ve played with, there is no comparison.
Because it is both free and open-source, it is supported by donations from its users. Inkscape is one of the most robust and useful Adobe Illustrator alternatives that the open-source community has ever created. Inkscape is a free, open-source 2-D vector art program.
Given the size and scope that this guide, I had to have a table of contents of sorts. Much like the previous version of A Crash Course In Inkscape (version 0.48), this 0.91 version is geared to get you up and creating vector art with this free, open-source program. That means you’ll learn the basics and some other useful techniques in Inkscape.
That means new and updated features, plus an updated crash course. On January 30, 2015, Inkscape Version 0.91 was released to the world.