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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

The Document Properties dialog

Up until now, we haven’t been too concerned with the scale of things – how big is our canvas? How big are our shapes? What units are we using to measure? We’ve kind of taken for granted that Inkscape comes with a default A4 page-sized canvas and units in mm. For most purposes, this works fine.

But what if your measurements are in inches or even screen pixels? Well, we can change these things and much more in the Document Properties dialog. To bring it up, we simply choose File > Document Properties…. We are then greeted by something that looks like Figure 15.1.

Figure 15.1 – Calling up the Document Properties dialog

Figure 15.1 – Calling up the Document Properties dialog

As you can see, there are a wealth of different options, organized into tabs. We’ll be looking through the Display tab options first. Notice that there are two columns here, one for Front page and another for Display. Both columns have a dropdown for the units (the...