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About program interface
When you open the Inkscape program, you will see the program window
(Fig.1).
Fig.1
The environment (Fig.1) consists of the following parts:
- Page - the drawing area. It can be extended outside
the viewable area. It can be panned (scrolled left/right and
up/down) and zoomed.
- Tool Box - contains “Tools” for selecting, drawing, or
modifying objects. Clicking on an icon selects a tool.
Double-clicking brings up that tool's preference dialog.
- Menu Bar - contains the main pull-down menus.
- Command Bar - contains shortcuts to many of the items
located in the menus.
- Tool Controls - contains entry boxes and clickable
icons that are specific to the selected tool (for example, when the
Ellipse Tool is selected).
- Color Palette - contains a color palette. Colors can
be dragged from the palette onto objects to change their Fill. Using
the Shift key while dragging will change the Stroke color instead.
The color used by some tools can be set by clicking on a color
swatch.
- Layer Information – contains a layers list, icons that
show if a layer is visible or not, and if a layer is locked or
unlocked.
- Pointer Position – contains x and y coordinates of
pointer positions.
- Zoom – contains a zoom entry field, where precise zoom
value in % displayed.
Can be hidden using the View -> Show/Hide submenu.
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