Keyboard Shortcuts
From Synfig Studio :: Documentation
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.
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 (stop what? not sure...) |
<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) |
<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 |
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.
- Hotkeys-visual-guide-SVN2008.png
PNG Version
We offer you two print sizes (both in PDF):
- [A4 Version]
- [A3 Version]
And these are the source files in SVG format:
- [A4 Version]
- [A3 Version]
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