Yes, PNGs are the only bitmap Inkscape exports to because they have that awesome alpha channel that allows for transparency and opacity. You must click Export! (I'm sure this seems like a pretty silly mistake, but you'll thank me later.) Before you know it, you'll have a solid. I can't tell you how many times I've just clicked Save and thought my work was exported (it wasn't).

button to find your exact path, but what always messed me up was the fact that, when you find your desired path using Browse and type down your file name, the button you click afterwards is Save. The name is a little deceiving, because what you want in that text box is not simply the desired name of your drawing, but also the entire path in which you'd like to save. The standard dpi is 90.00, so let's keep that there as well. Easy enough, right?īitmap size refers to the final dimensions of your export area, which can of course be changed, but let's keep this one simple.

Below that, you can see the individual coordinates for the export area corners (x0, x1, y0, y1) which just happens to be the canvas dimensions (because we have Page selected). Let's set the Export area to Page, which is the exact size of the canvas. Step 2īelow, you'll see our drawing that we're going to export. For now, let's simply publish our artwork with pretty standard settings.

It's pretty straightforward, but there are a ton of cool tricks in this thing. We'll be getting to know Export Bitmap very well ( File > Export Bitmap). We'll also go over a couple of neat tricks you might not have known. So you've spent hours on end drawing a magnificent design in Inkscape and now you want to publish it once and for all! Thankfully, Inkscape has a ton of options to export your artwork to more friendly and compatible file types.

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