It is easier to make Inkscape drawing size close to the dimensions you want before saving. PowerPoint can save natively into SVG as well but that SVG is very detailed. You can resize and position on Inkscape's default page or you can create a drawing size and adjust. If you have black and white diagrams in PowerPoint these can be copied and pasted into Inkscape. Inkscape example with drawn arrows LibreOffice Draw An example SVG flowchart diagram produced in this way is linked to below.

The simplest way to do that is to make an arrowhead with two lines grouped together, draw your lines, then copy your arrowhead at the end(s) of them.Īnother nice feature of Inkscape is that its 'Resize page to content' lets you resize your svg drawing to trim the white space around its edges before you save it as 'Plain SVG'.

That means, if you want arrowheads at the end of lines, you have to draw them in yourself. Note, however, that SVG 1.2 RFC only allows objects that are part of black-and-white line drawings.Īgain, Inkscape uses markers for line-end symbols (even if you create your own markers using Object → Objects to Marker). Fortunately there's a lot of tutorial material on the web, for example: Inkscape tutorial It's a big package, though, with many features, so there's a big learning curve to go through. Of the Open Source packages, in my opinion Inkscape is the best of them.

Inkscape drawing arrows