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Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape
I’m going to share a little secret with you: designers are impatient people. We hate monotonous redundant work that could be better done automatically. Automation leaves us free to do the meat and potatoes of our work, which is creating stuff. So, let’s feed those peas we’ve hidden in our napkin to the dog and make Inkscape align and space stuff out evenly for us automatically.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- The Align and Distribute dialog
- Grid arranging shapes
- Circular arranging shapes
- Automatic spacing and alignment with Smart Snapping options
Technical requirements
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