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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

Save and export considerations

To round out this book, we’ll now cover some of my own recommended settings for outputs of various types. This is more of a summary than a tour, so I’ll make it relatively brief in the form of a bulleted list, which we will expand on in the following subsections:

  • Saving for printed magazine adverts
  • Saving and exporting for email-friendly PDFs
  • Exporting for the web
  • Saving for CNC cutters and engravers
  • Exporting for print-on-demand websites

Saving for printed magazine adverts

Most magazines want 300 DPI or better for pixel graphics. I usually send exactly 300 DPI at whatever physical dimensions the page of the magazine is. Generally, they will want a PDF document, which you can choose from the Export dialog, or File > Save As, if you want a multipage document.

If the publisher requires CMYK conversion prior to sending, you’ll need to export your file as a 300 DPI PNG and do your PDF export in...