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Inkscape User Manual

Un-official manual by Kevin Wixson

Table Of Contents

Part XI
Chapter 8: Pencil Tool

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Overview

With the Pencil Tool, the Inkscape artist creates freehand paths by drawing directly on the canvas in the desired curves. Inkscape evaluates the line or shape drawn by the user and produces nodes to form the path. After the path is drawn, the nodes of the path can be edited with the Node tool, like other paths.

Tool Control bar

The tool control bar for the Node tool has the following commands and options:

Tool Preferences

The tool behavior can be modified in the Inkscape Preferences window:

Usage

Modifiers

Additional Information

Related Topics

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Disclaimer

This manual is my scratch pad and development site for the Inkscape documentation project. Documentation that appears here may eventually work its way into the official Inkscape documentation, and changes to the Inkscape documentation may work it's way into this draft. It is a work in progress, so please don't mind the mess. Anything that appears here is GPL'ed under the usual licenses for GPL documentation, yada, yada, yada, or has been dedicated to the public domain. For a list of those elements that have been placed in the public domain, please click here.

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