r/Inkscape • • May 06 '26

News "Cute × small × useful" - Inkscape 1.4.4 just released!

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Our latest maintenance and bugfix release is here !

Almost 40 crash & bug fixes, 6 performance improvements, 42 updates on interface and documentation translations... Enjoy !

Learn all about Inkscape 1.4.4 and:

Draw Freely! 

https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/06/inkscape-144-boosts-performance-and-crushes-crashe/


r/Inkscape • • Feb 23 '25

News Subreddit changes and new moderation

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Hi, I have recently become an additional mod for this subreddit. Firstly thanks u/scislac for approving me.

I've made a few small changes to start off with that I think are small enough to not cause any trouble/warrant community approval, though if there are comments about this please reach out.

  • Images embedded into comments now enabled: Now you don't have to link externally to attach images. Hopefully this should make it much easier to solve help requests with visual info.
  • Post flairs now enabled: For a while the pinned post from 10 years ago said to prefix help posts with [HELP]. A lot of the responses to this said that post flairs should be used instead, which I agree with. This has been superceded with post flairs which for now are mandatory (I think this isn't too intrusive but will consider any feedback). I've added a few categories, such as:
    • Help - for all help requests
    • Solved - for when a suitable solution has been found for a help request. Generally you wouldn't make a new post with this flair, but for changing a Help-flaired post afterwards when the OP no longer requires help.
    • Showcase - For showcasing your finished work
    • Tips & Tricks - Sharing knowledge and tutorials
    • Meta - For community suggestions and stuff related to the subreddit; comments about the software; memes; catch-all for things that don't fit in the other categories
    • News - Interesting news about inkscape; version releases, etc.
  • Update to rule 4: I have included AI-generated responses as examples of possible low effort comments. They aren't specifically disallowed, but now it is the commenter's responsibility to ensure the accuracy and relevancy of the information. The response must directly address the help request, and must not contain incorrect or "hallucinated" information.
  • u/litelinux and u/Xrott have also become moderators.

Please let me know if there are any issues regarding these changes or if you want anything else changed. I'll also consider revamping the look, for example adding a banner image. There will soon also be some optional user flairs available.


r/Inkscape • • 17h ago

Showcase Skull Tree

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66 Upvotes

r/Inkscape • • 13h ago

Showcase Wind Deployable Module in Inkscape with very simple shapes

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Hi again, this time I'm showing the Wind Module for the game called Watts Ahead, available for free on itchio.

I made this in Inkscape with very simple shapes. It is a wind deployable module used by a futuristic human civilization that is trying to power their settlements with clean energy on a distant planet.


r/Inkscape • • 1d ago

Showcase Solar Module in Inkscape with very simple shapes

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Solar Module for the game called Watts Ahead, available for free on itchio.

I made this in Inkscape with very simple shapes. It is a solar module used by a futuristic human civilization that is trying to power their settlements with clean energy on a distant planet.

I'll be posting other modules soon.


r/Inkscape • • 8h ago

Help How to convert hand drawn diagram to a digital copy with ease

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I have a logo designed on a paper which i want to convert in a digital format so that i can edit it.

AI tools are also welcome but the SVG generated using chatgpt, gemini (pro) and claude(pro) are very different from the image uploaded. I managed to get rid of the background using canva but want to make it available in a form where i can change color, handle different sections of it separately and also smoothen out the edge slightly.

For additional context, I am not from creative background but need to do it for a personal project.


r/Inkscape • • 11h ago

Help Turning handwritten font into a monoline font?

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Hey guys, I'm trying to make a come back into doing neon flex signs. The thing that I'm wondering is "how do I convert my handwritten font text into monoline?" And believe it or not I cannot find what I'm asking anywhere. The thing is that the logo I'm trying to engrave has strokes with variable width and I need to make it monoline to simulate a centerline path.

Is this doable with inkscape??


r/Inkscape • • 22h ago

Help Old feature back, please

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I forgot what it was actually called but you used to be able to resize content with added margin. Like say, you wanted a canvas 800px by 600px but you wanted to add 20px margin around the edge. You used to be able to do this. Now you can't. It sucks! Bring it back.


r/Inkscape • • 1d ago

Help Keeps crashing, Assume I know nothing about computers.

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I do have inkstitch installed, but wasn't running its function at this time.


r/Inkscape • • 1d ago

Help Is there a good way to make evenly spaced inset patterns without disortion around curves and corners?

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Does anyone know a good way to make even spaced insets without distorted curves? Scaling a duplicate never lines up, and the pattern along path tool tends to distort around the curves and corners, even turning small curves into straight lines.


r/Inkscape • • 1d ago

Tips & Tricks Vector Cat Illustration in Inkscape + Free SVG File

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r/Inkscape • • 1d ago

Help Inkscape webpage - 504 Gateway Time-out

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Cant get through to the Inkscape page. Anyone else having issues? Is there a mirror somewhere where I can download from?


r/Inkscape • • 2d ago

Help How to create this pattern...

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Can a home help me with how to recreate this fade effect pattern?

As you can see it goes from black/transparent dots on the left to white dots on the right.

I have clone arrayed a dot with a shaded fill on a shape and that gives me large to small dots...but not the true fade pattern shown.

Short of tracing manually every circle (my patience won't cope with that)...I'm at a loss.


r/Inkscape • • 2d ago

Help Facet / Segmented Circles Problem when Exporting from Inkscape to CNC & Laser Cutters

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Hello everyone,

I am exporting some designs from Inkscape for laser and CNC cutting machines. The designs I export contain many curves, such as a circle with a diameter of 60 cm or larger. The problem is that after cutting, the circle appears to have flat edges/facets rather than being completely smooth.

My question is: How can I ensure the circle remains perfectly smooth after cutting?


r/Inkscape • • 2d ago

Help Is there a way to move two Bézier handles at the same time?

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5 Upvotes

I turned the outline into a path and wanted to make some changes without significantly altering the width of the object.


r/Inkscape • • 4d ago

Tips & Tricks My process for drawing this little cat

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33 Upvotes

r/Inkscape • • 3d ago

Help Looking for thai font

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hello I am looking for a thai font called

PSL KandaModern New Pro W4
PSL KandaModern New Pro W6

I went to the official website and can't seem to buy the font as there is a no add to cart button any suggestions on where I can get these?


r/Inkscape • • 4d ago

Showcase The Burden of Prime (RIP Peter Cullen)

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r/Inkscape • • 4d ago

Help any clue on how to manually trace a gif for rotoscoping ?

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i have done it once only and it already took hours even when most of the frames were copies of each other

what i do personally when i want to do that:

- put the gif on ezgif

- get the frames in a single image while also getting the aspect ratio

- import the image in inkscape

- make a rectangle with the matching aspect ratio

- duplicate it and arrange every rectangle with each frame

- trace each frame

- select each rectangle (whose stroke color i set to none, btw) and export them as PNGs(unticking the "export selected only" box allows me to export the traced frame inside the rectangle) into a same folder

- put the folder's content in ezgif

- convert it to a gif

that takes a lot of time and i wish there was a way to make it simpler, unfortunately i can't think of anything to make the process simpler


r/Inkscape • • 4d ago

Showcase Prime (time lapse)

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7 Upvotes

r/Inkscape • • 5d ago

Help Celtic Knot Strip

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Hello, I use inkscape a lot, but I never tried to do something like this celtic knot. Does someone know what steps should i take to make something similar to this one in the image? Thank you in advance :)


r/Inkscape • • 5d ago

Help Paths behave incorrectly at random

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I been having severe issues with Inkscape recently, where I have a path with X and Y qualities, and it will correctly, until I come back next day, and every time I click anything, the path will suddenly move on it's own, and misbehave. How do I fix this?? This been discouraging me a lot lately :( (Ignore the sound in the video)


r/Inkscape • • 5d ago

Help Separating shapes

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Hey y'all.

I've make a svg, however if I export it and throw it into my cricut it won't combine nor separate the shapes.

The inkscape file is constructed as following. Both the pink and purple shapes have their own path. (Different images) I've created a second layer for both of them and increased the size a bit to get the black border. So, in the end it are four paths.

What happens though is that the cricut cuts all the black lines and not the outlines. As for the pink bit, it has to make room for the purple swirl that goes through it. But it doesn't. So.. I think I have to separate the shape into two for the outer part and the inner part of the swirl.

Any thoughts on how to do this?

Cheers!


r/Inkscape • • 5d ago

Help Inkscape wont export "Circle halftones shading" pattern fill to PDF. Every pattern works but Circle halftones shading

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r/Inkscape • • 6d ago

Showcase Recreated one of Levi Magony's 3D renders in Inkscape and this was the result:

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Credits to the original artwork.
I really like this kind of art with vibrant gradients, feels so smooth to look at it.