Drag and drop the file “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE-template.svg” into your INKSCAPE document.Scenario: you are working on a document and decide you want to get all the USGS patterns.

via “ fill and stroke>fill>patterns” menu Open up “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE-template.svg” and then you will have access to all the patterns in that document.This document has all the patterns defined in the document but it is otherwise empty. You may even want to print this for reference.Īpproach 2: use “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE-template.svg” as a template Use “USGS_Swatches_reference.pdf” or “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE.svg” as a reference for which number corresponds to which pattern.As you work on your document you can access the various patterns you have added via “ fill and stroke>fill>patterns” menu.Copy and paste in other patterns as you need them.You can go ahead and delete the object you pasted in if you want. As soon as you paste this pattern in it becomes available in the “ fill and stroke>patterns” menu. Copy and paste this pattern box to the document you are working on.Access the fill and stroke menu via “ object>fill and stroke” Select the pattern you want to use (by clicking on the middle of the box – not the outside which is a separate black stroke), it should then show up with the correct pattern number e.g.The three relevant pages have been placed above the drawing area. The document “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE.svg” has all the main rock type patterns from the USGS FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard. Approach 1: copy and paste patterns as required from “USGS-patterns-INKSCAPE.svg” NOTE: Because of the way the patterns are read by Inkscape some of them may be flipped (horizontally or vertically). Approach 1 is more conservative and less likely to cause inkscape to crash. There are a few ways this pack can be used. O FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization (PostScript Implementation)

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