Keyboard Shortcuts

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Here is a list of some of the keyboard sortcuts you currently have at your disposal. These are the defaults. There is a way to customize these, but it is currently not intuitive. Basically you need to edit the accelrc file in your synfig settings directory (don't forget to remove the ";" at the start of a line if you want it to be taken into account).

Keystroke	Description
<Control>-A	Select all ducks
<Shift><Control>-A	Select all layers
<Control>-C	Copy currently selected layer(s) and put them in the clipboard
<Control>-D	Deselect all ducks
<Shift><Control>-D	Deselect all layers
<Control>-G	Toggle grid show
<Control>-I	Import image
<Control>-L	Toggle grid snap
<Control>-N	New composition (since r1386)
<Control>-O	Open composition (since r1386)
<Alt>-O	Toggle onion skin (since r1525 - it was Control-O until r1386)
<Control>-P	Play the current animation in the WorkArea
<Control>-Q	Quit Synfig Studio
<Control>-R	Redo
<Control>-S	Save
<Control>-V	Paste the layer(s) from the clipboard above the currently selected layer
<Control>-W	Closes the current animation document.
<Control>-X	Cut currently selected layer(s) and put them in the clipboard
<Control>-Z	Undo
<Control>-`	Toggle low/high-resolution (defaults to low resolution)
<Control>-0...9	Change the current rendering quality (lower is better, but 0==10)
<Alt>-1	Toggle display of "Position" ducks
<Alt>-2	Toggle display of "Vertex" ducks
<Alt>-3	Toggle display of "Tangent" ducks
<Alt>-4	Toggle display of "Radius" ducks
<Alt>-5	Toggle display of "Width" ducks (DEFAULTS TO OFF)
<Alt>-6	Toggle display of "Angle" ducks
<Control>-'-'	Zoom out of canvas (spacial zoom)
<Control>-'='	Zoom in on canvas (spacial zoom)
<Control>-<Shift>-Z	Zoom canvas to 100% (spacial zoom)
<Control>-'_'	Zoom out of timeline (temporal zoom)
<Control>-'+'	Zoom in on timeline (temporal zoom)
<Control>-','	Move backward one frame
<Control>-'.'	Move forward one frame (be careful - can step past the end of an animation; fixed in svn r452)
<Control>-'<'	Move backward one second
<Control>-'>'	Move forward one second
<Control>-'['	Move backward to previous keyframe
<Control>-']'	Move forward to next keyframe
Home	Jump to beginning of timeline (broken; fixed in svn r451)
End	Jump to end of timeline (broken; fixed in svn r451)
<Control>-'('	Decrease workarea pixel size
<Control>-')'	Increase workarea pixel size
<Control>-<Alt>-'('	Decrease 'amount' of selected layer
<Control>-<Alt>-')'	Increase 'amount' of selected layer
<Shift>-PgUp	Raise currently selected layers
<Shift>-PgDn	Lower currently selected layers
<Alt>-A	Select 'normal' tool
<Alt>-V	Select 'smooth move' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-S	Select 'scale' tool (shortcut changed in svn r1985)
<Alt>-T	Select 'rotate' tool (shortcut changed in svn r1985)
<Alt>-M	Select 'mirror' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-C	Select 'circle' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-R	Select 'rectangle' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-Q	Select 'star' tool (tool and shortcut added in svn r1983)
<Alt>-G	Select 'gradient' tool
<Alt>-P	Select 'polygon' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-B	Select 'bline' tool
<Alt>-X	Select 'text' tool (tool and shortcut added in svn r1959)
<Alt>-F	Select 'fill' tool
<Alt>-E	Select 'eyedrop' tool
<Alt>-Z	Select 'zoom' tool
<Alt>-D	Select 'draw' tool (shortcut changed in svn r2009)
<Alt>-K	Select 'sketch' tool (shortcut added in svn r548)
<Alt>-W	Select 'width' tool (shortcut changed in svn r2009)
F8	Canvas Properties
F9	Render
F11	Preview
F12	Canvas Options (Grid size, etc.)
<Escape>	Stop current process. For example: when pressed it leaves the current state (Circle, Rectangle, Star, Gradient, Text, Fill, Eyedrop, Zoom, Draw and Sketch Tools) and returns to the Normal Tool State. Seems to be missing for the rest of Tools.
<Delete>	Deletes the currently selected canvas. (CAREFUL! There is currently a bug which makes this work in just about any context! ie: if you are editing a parameter and press the delete key, it will delete the layer! this can be easily undone, but just keep it in mind) Since SVN r2303 this has been changed to <Control>-<Delete> to avoid that bug.
<Cursor Key>	Nudge the currently selected duck(s) one pixel in the given direction
<Shift>-<Cursor Key>	Nudge the currently selected duck(s) ten pixels in the given direction
<Backspace>	Select the immediate paste canvas parent (if any) of the current selected layer.

Hotkeys Visual Guide

A good way to learn all this shorcuts is putting them in front of your eyes all the time. Because of that, we bring to you a beatiful "Hotkeys Visual Guide" that you can use as a poster.

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