Choose your arrowhead from the multitude of options.
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When you open Inkscape, you see a piece of paper sitting in a much bigger canvas. You can
place objects outside the paper (as in Figure 10.11), but they won??™t print. Inkscape provides
these default shapes: rectangles, circles/ellipses, stars and spirals and freehand polygons. You
can also use Inkscape for calligraphy and ordinary text in your image as well. All these are
endlessly adjustable, but don??™t always behave the way you??™d like them to.
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FIGURE 10.11 You can color outside the lines with Inkscape.
You can group shapes together and create connectors between shapes (a la Visio) that link
them together. This last feature may be the reason Inskcape sees itself as a Flowchart
application.
Inkscape creates web standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files by default. This means
the information used to create the drawing is contained in a simple text file tagged in the
eXtensible Markup Language (XML). You can even open an internal SVG editor (Figure
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