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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 Pages tool

This long-requested feature brings Inkscape to a whole new level of usefulness. Previously, it was only possible to make single-page documents as separate PDFs, which then had to be put together in a program outside Inkscape. With the Pages tool, we can now add and remove pages, which will get saved as separate pages when we save our document as a PDF.

When we click on the Pages tool, we get options in the Tool Control bar, which allows us to add and modify the currently selected page. The tool itself can be used to simply click and select pages on the canvas as well as move them around. Figure 15.6 shows the Pages tool and the options in the Tool Control bar.

Figure 15.6 – Adding a new page of the same size with the Pages tool

Figure 15.6 – Adding a new page of the same size with the Pages tool

You’ll notice the dropdown contains many different standard page sizes and selecting a different one will resize the currently selected page. If you want to draw a new page free hand, simply click...