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Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
 

User Documentation

Inkscape Books

Tavmjong Bah is writing a book on Inkscape, available here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php or as a printed book or e-book from Lulu: A Guide to Inkscape.

An international group of contributors is writing a new book licensed under GPL3+ and published at FLOSS Manuals. Printed version will soon be available from Lulu. If you want to help writing it or make a localized version, please subscribe to inkscape-docs@ mailing list and tell us!

There is also a book in French, written by Elisa de Castro Guerra: french Inkscape : Apprenez, pratiquez, créez.

Additionally, there is a great book on SVG, which is a W3C standard which Inkscape relies on for storing its documents, called "Learn SVG: The Web Graphics Standard" and available in English and French.

Manuals

Official Tutorials

Several interactive tutorials in SVG are available via Help > Tutorials in Inkscape. Below the same tutorials are linked in HTML (e.g. for printing), though in this form they lose the interactive aspect.

english
English
deutsch
German
français
French
brazilian
Brazilian
italian
Italian
spanish
Spanish
Nynorsk
Norwegian
japanese
日本語/Japanese
russian
На русском/Russian
slovenian
Slovenščina/Slovenian
slovenčina/Slovak Vietnamese
简体中文
Simplified Chinese
Chinese (Taïwan) Basque Polish
Hungarian Esperanto Catalan Dansk
Dutch

Contributed Tutorials

We collect user-contributed tutorials at Tutorials and Help (it's a Wiki page, so please add any missing tutorials yourself!).

Translations

The Inkscape application itself is translated into a lot of different locales.

If you want to help translating (it's not hard!), please see our Translation Information page.

Articles and Presentations

We are collecting articles and presentations made with Inkscape on our Wiki, at Articles and Presentations.

Also, please see the Developer Documentation