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Drawing with Inkscape

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Inkscape is a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor. Most images you see on a computer are raster images made up of a bunch of dots. In other words, the lines you see on the page are really a series of small dots. If you zoom a lot, you’ll see a rough line consisting of a bunch of big dots.

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Oualline, S., Oualline, G. (2018). Drawing with Inkscape. In: Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_9

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