A comprehensive user s guide to Inkscape, a vector illustration application.Dmitry Kirsanov, a former core Inkscape developer, shares hisknowledge of Inkscape's inner workings as he shows how to useInkscape to draw with various tools, work with objects, apply realisticand artistic effects, and more. Step-by-step task-based tutorials showyou how to create business cards, animations, technical and artisticdrawings, and graphic assets for games.This second edition covers the new tools, improved text features,advanced new path effects and filters, as well as many new UIconveniences in Inkscape 1.0. A new chapter describes Inkscape'sextensions for both users and developers.Learn how to:   Navigate the canvas and customize your workspace and views   Create new objects and transform, style, clone, and combine them   Use gradients, patterns, filters, and path effects to liven up your work   Work with layers, groups, object order, and locks to control your artwork   View and manipulat