Keyboard and mouse
On a Mac, read ⌘ for Ctrl. Every drag in the viewer has a key and a single click or tap that does the same, and every drag in the palette has a button (tick and Merge, or a chip's ×).
Anywhere
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+O | Open an image |
| Ctrl+V | Open the image on the clipboard (a screenshot, or a picture copied with Copy image), outside a text field |
| Ctrl+E | Open the export sheet (once there is a drawing) |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| F1 | This guide, at the page about what is on screen |
| Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9, Ctrl+0 | Choose a preset: Logo, Icon, Fine detail, Fewer paths, Photo or scan, One-colour logo, Black no background, Two-tone scan, Line art, Editable |
| Esc | Close, in this order: a dialog or the export sheet; Settings, About, Showcase or the guide; the Custom wizard (keeping what you chose); the choice card (keeping Auto). With none of those open, cancel the trace in progress. |
The preset shortcuts do nothing while you are typing in a field.
In a dialog
The export sheet, Settings, About, Showcase, the guide and every dialog over the window behave the same way:
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| (opening it) | The keyboard moves into it |
| Tab, Shift+Tab | Move between its controls; past the last one it goes back to the first, never to the window behind |
| Esc | Close it; the keyboard goes back to the button that opened it |
The window behind is out of reach while one is open, for the keyboard and for a screen reader.
In the Vectorize viewer
| Keys or gesture | Does |
|---|---|
| Hold Space | Show the source instead of the SVG (A/B), until released |
| 0, or double-click a pane | Fit the drawing to the window |
| + or = | Zoom in |
| - | Zoom out |
| Scroll wheel, or pinch | Zoom about the pointer |
| Drag | Pan |
| The arrow buttons beside the zoom stops | Pan a quarter of the view (shown once you have zoomed or panned) |
| Tab to the viewer, then the arrow keys | Pan a tenth of the view; with Shift, half |
| Drag the wipe divider, or tap where it should go | Move it (in Wipe) |
| Tab to the wipe divider, then ← → | Move it 2% of the width; with Shift, or Page Up and Page Down, 10%; Home and End go to the ends |
Space also flicks between Before and After in the Minify SVG tab, whose wipe divider works the same way.
In the rail
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| Tab | Move between controls |
| Arrow keys, on a slider | Move it one step; each step traces |
| Enter, in a number field | Apply the value |
| Space, on a palette tick box | Tick or untick the ink |
| Focus a control's name | Show what it does |
| Focus an ink or a colour group | Single it out in the drawing |
| Enter, in the save-preset or colour field | Save or use it |
| Tab to the engine log's lines | Scroll them with the arrow keys |