I've taken a look at the manual outline page on the wiki, and I worked a
little on it last night.
I was wondering if there's a desire to completely restructure the document?
Anyway, I sat in front of Inkscape and came up with an as-yet-unfinished
draft just by looking at the program and trying to determine how I would
go about teaching someone Inkscape, from the most basic to the most
advanced things. I personally like this approach because it allows
someone to use the manual to learn more intuitively than by jumping
around to different sections to get the basics.
The drawbacks would be that it can be slightly disorganized in some ways
(but I think that problem can be minimalized with a little care) and
that it's a little more difficult to make sure that every feature is
included (since it's not a straight run-through of the menus, however
this is also something that can be easily dealt with if we're careful).
So here's a very rough draft. I'm not all that attached to most of the
order, it's just what came to me.
If nothing else, it's at least a step towards a full list of features.
If you gentlemen/woman (is there only one woman?) are interested, I'll
do some finishing work and post it to the wiki page. If you have any
suggestions, I'm open to them - especially if you see that anything
really important is missing.
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Introduction to Inkscape
About SVG
State of available SVG software
Inkscape Goals
Introduction to the Interface (no real depth here)
Using the mouse & Keyboard
Working with the canvas
Working with simple objects
Basics of object properties
Opening / Saving files
Elements of Interface
Menus
Toolbars / Bottom bar
Dialogs
How they work (or Different types: Floating / Sidebar)
How to use them
Toolbox (In depth, but limited to what you can do simply by clicking on
the tool and using its toolbar controls)
Selector
Node Tool
Sculpt Tool
Magnification Tool
Object Tools
Box Tool
Elipse Tool
Shape Tool
Spiral Tool
3D Tool
Drawing Tools
Pen (Pencil) Tool
Bezier Tool
Calligraphy Tool
Engraving Tool
Paint Bucket
Text Tool
Diagram Tool
Color Tools
Gradient Tool
Dropper
Color Selector (Not really in the Toolbox, but makes sense here
- however, I think plans are to do something different with it)
Advanced Topics (Stuff in menus and dialogs)
Fill / Stroke
Effects
Filter (Different from path effects?)
Path
Raster
Layers
Object Operations
Path Operations
Grouping
Copying / Cloning
Transforming
Aligning
Text (Detailed)
Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Pen Tablet, Telekinesis :)
Import / Export / Saving As (detailed)
Super Advanced Topics ("Power User" stuff, hidden options, etc)
Color Profiling
Whiteboard
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