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So again, make sure you have it just how you want it before you convert it, and tuck a pre-conversion copy away in case you decide later that you want a different size or style of stroke.Įven though Trace Bitmap specifies a bitmap, you can use any raster image – BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF. When you apply Stroke to Path, you turn that stroke into a fully editable set of points and lines. You can use the Fill and Stroke window (Object > Fill and Stroke) to change the color or width of a stroke around any shape you can even change it from a solid stroke to a dotted or dashed line.īut while it’s editable as a stroke, it isn’t a true vector object. When you put a stroke around an object, it has the same kind of editable flexibility that typed text does. You can resize, change fonts, fix spelling, all that good stuff.īut once you want to manipulate those letters, you’ll want them in true vector format so you can really mess with the points and lines.Īnd remember, it’s always a good idea to make a copy of your text before you start to mess with it. I most frequently use it on text – when you type it out, it can be manipulated as a font. This takes an object and transforms it into a vector shape made up of points and lines.

So let’s take a look at the Inkscape equivalents, so you don’t have to go through the years of workarounds that I did.įirst in the list is Object to Path. Everything in there is super handy, and I use these things all the time. These days, however, I keep that Pathfinder window in one of the cherished spots in my most-used-items toolbar. I didn’t understand them, I never knew which one to pick, and I found other ways to achieve the results I wanted.

And I’ll readily admit here, I didn’t use Illustrator’s Pathfinder options for years. So today we’re going to go through the menu to take a look at what everything does.Ĭoming to Inkscape as someone who’s been using Illustrator for over a decade, a lot of the features are quite similar. The Path menu contains a ton of really, really handy features and functions when it comes to manipulating your fonts and other shapes and objects.

Since I’m digging deeper into learning Inkscape so that I can share some how-to posts with you all, I figured I’d take a walk through the menu I’m sending you to the most – especially because it’s often full of the most confusing things.