
The mouse tool lets you choose one item by simply tapping the element or multiple objects by dragging and dropping a selection area around the parts. The select tool is represented by the cursor icon in the toolbar, and probably the option you will be using the most often. The gradient option lets you fill objects on the virtual canvas with a color transition that fades two or more colors into each other. The ‘Fill and Stroke’ tool lets you type in HEX codes to pick specific color hues for your designs. Colors are important to the design process, which Inkscape respects by keeping a color palette always available to use at the bottom of the screen. The UI is interactive since the main menu bar changes according to the tool that you pick from the vertical toolbar on the left. In case you want to step by step instructions rather than experiment, you can find tutorials on YouTube to watch, along with written content like FAQs and forums.

Inkscape is ideal for beginners because the user interface is clean and intuitive to use.

The Inkscape download is available to install on Apple macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows PC operating systems, yet Inkscape warns that the user experience on Mac is not the best. In case you want to become a contributor to Inkscape, you can contribute to the source code with new development or donate money to the team. But otherwise, if you can share some details about what you're doing before a crash, we might be able to help you avoid them.Inkscape is free and open source. So if this is happening only in large files, that could be the reason for your crashes. Often crashes can happen when the file you're working on is too large for the system's available RAM to handle. So can you list some of the specific things you've been doing when a crash happens?ĭo you see the issues in every file, or just certain files? Do they occur even in a brand new empty file, as soon as you start to draw? For example, there are certain extensions which I can depend on to crash Inkscape, almost every time I try to use. What makes you think they are related to performance, and not something else? Yes, often crashing can be related to lack of system resources, or i.e. Since you titled this "crashes and instability", I guess you are considering those to be performance issues. But that's not to say there's not a new bug that needs to be investigated.

But the current stable version is now 0.92.1, and that bug has been fixed. With version 0.91, there is a severe performance bug in the 64-bit version, which as I recall is not seen in the 32-bit version. When you say "latest Inkscape" which specific version do you have? Sometimes people think they have the latest version but they don't.
