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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 Display Transform Control

This area, shown in Figure 1.25, is located at the bottom-right corner of the Inkscape window and contains a manual control for the Desk view. It includes a readout of the X and Y cursor position when it’s over the Desk (measured from the top-left corner of the page), a zoom control, and a view rotation control:

Figure 1.25 – Display Transform Control

Figure 1.25 – Display Transform Control

Right-clicking the zoom or rotation controls gives some nice preset options, as shown in Figure 1.26, some of which are also in the View menu:

Figure 1.26 – Right-clicking the R Spin Box gives a nice set of preset rotations

Figure 1.26 – Right-clicking the R Spin Box gives a nice set of preset rotations

For the most part, I recommend using hotkeys and mouse buttons for the navigation described in the The Desk and Page area section earlier in this chapter, but if you’re lost in some blank area of the Desk, or the display is rotated at a strange angle and you don’t know how you got there, this bar allows you to get back where you were quickly.