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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

By : Christopher Rogers
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Book Image

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

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By: Christopher Rogers

Overview of this book

With the power and versatility of the Inkscape software, making charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UI mockups with infinite resolution becomes enjoyable. If you’re looking to get up to speed with vector illustration in no time, this comprehensive guide has got your back! Design Made Easy with Inkscape is easy to follow and teaches you everything you need to know to create graphics that you can use and reuse forever, for free! You’ll benefit from the author’s industry experience as you go over the basics of vector illustration, discovering tips and tricks for getting professional graphics done fast by leveraging Inkscape's powerful toolset. This book teaches by example, using a great variety of use cases from icons and logos to illustration, web design, and product design. You’ll learn about hotkeys and take a best-practices approach developed over ten years of using Inkscape as a design tool in production. What’s more, this book also includes links to free graphics resources that you can use in all your projects. Whether you’re a new user or a professional, by the end of this book, you’ll have full understanding of how to use Inkscape and its myriad of excellent features to make stunning graphics for your projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
7
Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
13
Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

Limitations of Path Effects

Path effects are under constant development to both improve existing effects and add requested features. New path effects are added typically with every release, so the following limitations will likely change in the future:

  • Path effects can currently only be applied to one object at a time.
  • Path effects that modify geometry (such as bend, perspective, and so on) will not affect pixel/bitmap images imported into Inkscape.
  • Path effects that modify path geometry will not work on text objects. This can be worked around by converting the text object to a path first by selecting Path > Object to Path.
  • Path effects will not show up in SVGs loaded into web browsers.

You can, however, apply path effects to your geometry by choosing Path > Object to Path, which will apply all your path effects and give you geometry that you can then edit normally. Moreover, this gets around the problems of viewing an SVG in a web browser, since there...