Inkscape notes

1. Position the first text box at the top of the cirlce (i.e. at the twelve o'clock).
2. Duplicate the text box and select the duplicate and the circle, then select Object then Transform then Rotate to rotate it \(360/n\) degrees.
3. Repeat until you have all \(n\) text boxes distributed around the circle.

1. Select the shape you want to cut with, and then the shape you want to cut.
2. Click Path then Difference

Check out the following sources, but remember to check the licensing if you are going to use them in publications:

• BioArt source from the NIH
• BioIcons
• SVG Repo

You can download a GIMP colour palette .gpl files and load them into Inkscape. Here are some nice palettes:

• https://colorbrewer2.org/export/gpl/Dark2_8.gpl

You should store your palettes in ~/.config/inkscape/palettes/. You should be able to load them into Inkscape via either the swatches (View then Swatches) or palettes menus (by clicking the hambuger menu next to the current palette).

Click on the Pages Tool and in the menu that is focused there will be buttons to add and delete pages. You can Batch export pages and then combine them later with pdftk.

To convert from a SVG to a PDF or a PNG using the convert function on the command line is fussy, instead you can open inkscape and export it in either of these formats. Just be careful to set up your page properties properly so that it starts on a familiar scale.

Select the Star/Polygon Tool and change the number of corners to 3.

Suppose there is a figure in a paper that you want to extract. There is a very easy and nice way to do this using inkscape.

1. Open the PDF using inkscape. Make sure to import this via Poppler so it preserves the vector data.
2. Use Object > Ungroup to split the elements of the page and delete those that you don't want.
3. Re-group the remaining material and save it in the desired size and format.

You may also find my notes on WebPlotDigitizer useful.

Install the textext package and write a preamble file that works for you. Here is my current preamble, (this requires the merriweather font to be installed on your system.)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{color}

%% Use the following for Merriweather sans-serif font as the default
%% font
\usepackage{merriweather}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}