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Basics
Create, select, navigate, and save.
This first pass establishes the document and canvas habits used by every later tool.
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Learn the editor as a sequence of visible decisions.
Every editor capability has its own chapter, ordered from the first document to the delivered file.
A guide designed around the canvas.
Each chapter connects an editor action to the part of the interface where it happens. Visual frames mark where screenshots and short demonstrations will be added.
The written instructions remain complete while the visual library grows, so the guide is useful now and ready for richer examples later.
Read it in order, or jump to one capability.
The chapter list below follows a working order: set up the document, learn the canvas, draw, compose, refine curves, combine regions, finish geometry, organize layers, apply paint, place text, and exchange files.
Each chapter is also self-contained. If you already know the editor and need one command, open that chapter directly and use its table of contents to reach the exact section.
- Document and canvas: settings, units, margins, grid, snapping, measuring
- Geometry: shapes, pen, selection, transforms, nodes, Boolean, cutting, finishing
- Presentation and exchange: layers, paint, gradients, text, import, export, history
What the chapters promise.
Instructions describe commands that exist in the editor today, including the cases a command refuses. Where an operation can lose information, the chapter says so instead of implying a clean round trip.
Names in the guide match the names in the interface, so a heading you read here is the label you look for on screen.
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Document
Decide the document before the first curve.
Name, unit, size, margins, base font size, and main ink colour define the space every later tool works in.
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Canvas
Move the view without moving the drawing.
Panning, zooming, the grid, snapping, and measurement change what you see and how you aim. None of them change stored geometry.
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Drawing
Start from a primitive, or draw the path yourself.
Parametric shapes cover predictable geometry. The pen tool covers everything else with an explicit command sequence.
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Composition
Place geometry with transforms you can still inspect.
Selection bounds, a movable pivot, mirroring, cloning, and transform baking keep placement reversible until you decide otherwise.
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Path editing
Move from shapes to deliberate curve geometry.
Work with anchors, handles, and segment types directly. Larger region and finishing commands have their own chapters.
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Path editing
Combine regions from curve intersections.
The five Boolean commands work on the curve model, so what comes out is still an editable path.
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Path editing
Work closer to faces and segments.
When a Boolean command is broader than the change you want, cut, split, trim, or pick faces directly.
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Path editing
Finish geometry with named, reversible commands.
Offsetting, simplification, corner treatment, and stroke conversion are the operations that turn a correct shape into a deliverable one.
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Path editing
Repeat geometry along a curve you already drew.
Pick source segments, pick a target path, then decide interval, alignment, and orientation.
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Structure
The layer tree is the document.
Groups, drawings, subpaths, images, and text appear in one tree that mirrors what will be exported.
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Styling
Paint is a separate decision from geometry.
Fill, stroke, opacity, and gradients are edited independently, so one shape can be evaluated in more than one presentation.
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Text
Text stays text until the delivery boundary.
The document keeps a semantic text tree with its fonts. Path projection happens when you export or copy.
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File exchange
Know what crosses the editor boundary.
Import warnings, font requirements, embedded images, and project files are explicit parts of the workflow.
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File exchange
Pick the format, then answer only its questions.
Six targets, each with the options that format genuinely has, and no option it does not.
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Workflow
Keep every change reversible and every habit fast.
History, drafts, and shortcuts are the parts of the editor you stop noticing once they behave predictably.
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