SVG Editor Manual

The complete encyclopedia, one chapter per area — the same material as the Features page, split for reading.

Overview

Workspace & palettes

Documents

Drawing tools

Path editing

Objects & pathfinder

Color & styling

Typography

Images & tracing

Import & export

Print & CMYK

AI Console

Automation & MCP

View & performance

AI & MCP setup

Keyboard shortcuts

Made with SVG Editor

Every image below is a plain SVG file, drawn with the tools this manual describes — open one in the app and take it apart.

Japanese city at dusk — a complete vector illustration — City at dusk — gradients, layered depth and hundreds of paths in one illustration.

Composition built from rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars — Shape tools — rectangles, rounded corners, ellipses, polygons and stars.

Still life filled with dot, stripe and check patterns — Pattern fills — painted entirely with the Pattern palette.

Type specimen with text flowing along a curved path — Text on a path — typography that follows any curve.

Overlapping shapes with transparency and soft shadows — Transparency & effects — opacity, blending and real SVG filters.

Field of flowers built from repeated symbols — Symbols — one flower, defined once, repeated everywhere.

Print-style poster in process colors with halftone texture — CMYK poster — process colors and halftone, ready for press.