![]() Even though you may not have saved the doodles on your first canvas, Inkscape still remembers, and draws the next object to look just like the last one you drew with that tool. Or maybe the tool seems like it's not drawing anything. Or maybe you played with the Ellipse tool, and now it only will draw an arc, while you desperately need a circle. Or maybe you rounded the corners of a rectangle, but now you need a traditional rectangle. Now you need a stroke, but it's just not there. Maybe you removed a stroke, or made it transparent, or made its width zero. And the reason almost always, is related to how you styled the last object you drew with that tool. ![]() This may well be the most common problem for new Inkscape users. ![]() There are so many options which are so easy to use, that within just a few minutes, you might have a canvas full of doodles and trials and experiments, and maybe even a finished drawing! The problem comes the next time you open Inkscape, and realize the tools aren't working the same way they were the first time you opened Inkscape. Many first time users of Inkscape are thrilled with how easy it is to select objects, move them around, and change color and other style attributes. In Inkscape, "style" includes things like fill and stroke color, opacity, stroke width, and several others. ![]() Backgroundįor reasons which may not be entirely obvious, the default behavior for all Inkscape tools is to give whatever object you're drawing, the same style as the last object you drew with that tool. It may well solve a few problems you have already encountered. If you have time and want to learn a few basics, maybe you want to read through the whole thing. If you're in a hurry, you can just skip down to the numbered steps. ![]()
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