I’ll assume this is pretty self-explanatory unless someone tells me otherwise. Obviously, this is downloading the program. To help people in my lab start using it, I’m writing up this primer describing a series of basic processes I perform when using it. It can be a little buggy, but I’ve learned to absolutely love it over the last 10 years or so. Inkscape is a free & open source software that works on Mac or Windows. I’ve never actually used it, mostly b/c I started using playing around with vector graphics editor software when I was a grad student, and the idea of paying for an Adobe product with my own money was unpalatable. A proprietary program some people may be used to is Adobe Illustrator. Read affiliate disclosure here.Vector graphics editor software are SUPER useful when trying to make figures. Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. If you have any questions that weren’t addressed in this post just leave a comment below and I’ll write back if I can help. If you’d like the document to actually have that background color (even on exports) then you can bring that column up from 0 to 100.Īnd that should do it for working with backgrounds in Inkscape. It’s important to note that your SVG background will continue to be transparent despite the color fill as long as the A column (which represents the transparency of the color) remains at 0.
A color selector will pop up on your screen.
Simply click on the white stripe positioned next to where it says Background Color. Filling The Background with Colorįinally, if you’d like the background of your SVG to have a color fill, this can also be accomplished via the Document Properties menu. This just changes the display, which can be really helpful if you’re working with a lot of white objects. Your SVG background will be no more (or less) transparent than it previously was when it was filled with white.
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