User:Donald Trung/Virtual editing advice from the Great Brightstar using Inkscape

I keep this page bookmarked to help me edit Inkscape better for creating images of flags to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons to help people out at the Graphic Lab.

How do I fix flags?

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@Great Brightstar: , I recently made a few flags with Inkscape but I can't seem to get the dimensions right, how do I get the dimensions I need? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 14:11, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

There are various methods to get proper dimensions. First, he Select and Transform tool have a lock button on the toolbar, if you clicked, if you modified the height or width of an element, it would be always scaled in original ratio. Second, if you click an elements and drag its corner to resize, while you hold on Ctrl key, it would be always scaled in original ratio. Third, click Object -> Transform to open the Transform panel, there is a Scale tab to let you resize. That's all I know. You can also see https://inkscape.org/learn/ to know more about this. --Great Brightstar (talk) 16:18, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@Great Brightstar: , Thanks for the information, after I've learned to do this I hope that I won't have to bother you to ask to "fix my mess again", I ran into this issue before when I attempted to merge the flags of (South) Rhodesia and South Africa at the Graphic Lab for a request. I will try to do this and see if I can fix that user's other request. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 16:25, 9 July 2021 (UTC)