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Inkscape includes commands to copy, paste, and delete objects. Commands of this type can be found in three places: Under the Edit menu (see below), in the Command Bar (Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate), and in the pop-up menu when you Right Mouse Click over the canvas (Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate, and Delete).
Clipboard: Inkscape uses the system-wide clipboard (a place where a description of one or more objects is stored temporarily in memory). You can copy and paste between different instances of Inkscape and other applications that support SVG. Adding an object or group of objects (a selection) to the clipboard removes any previous selection stored in the clipboard.
The commands available under the Edit menu are:
→
Cut
(
Ctrl+X
):
Selection is removed from drawing, but stored in clipboard.
→
Copy
(
Ctrl+C
):
Copy of selection is stored in clipboard.
→
Paste
(
Ctrl+V
):
A copy of objects stored in clipboard is placed in the drawing at
the location of the cursor.
→
Paste In Place
(
Ctrl+Alt+V
):
Objects are copied from clipboard to original location of objects.
This is very useful in copying a selection from one drawing to
the corresponding spot in another drawing.
→
Paste Style
(
Shift+Ctrl+V
):
The style (fill and stroke attributes or for text the font, size, and style) of
the object in the clipboard are given to the selected object(s).
→
Duplicate
(
Ctrl+D
):
An object is copied and placed on top of the original object. The copied object
is left selected.
Modified for v0.48:
→
Make a Bitmap Copy
(
Alt+B
):
The selection is exported as a bitmap then pasted back into the
drawing at the same place. The original objects remain unchanged.
In v0.47
the exported bitmap is not stored in the
SVG file.
In v0.48 the bitmap is embedded in the SVG file.
The bitmap will have a resolution specified by the Resolution for Crate Bitmap Copy entry in the Bitmaps section of the Inkscape Preferences dialog. If the resolution is specified to be 90 dpi (the default) the pixels will be snapped to the pixel grid.
→
Delete
(
Delete
or
Backspace
):
Selection is removed from drawing and not stored in clipboard.
Hitting the Space Bar while dragging or transforming an object with the mouse will “drop” a copy of the object at the current point.
Another method for copying objects, cloning, is discussed in the next section.
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