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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

Grid arranging shapes

In the previous section, we learned how to manually align objects to each other, but let’s say we want to make a whole grid of them. Take this as an example: we’d like to display a grid of products – in this case, coffee and snacks for one of those trendy coffee shop menus.

We want to spend more time selling coffee and less time arranging things, so we’ll use Inkscape’s Grid arrange tab (formerly the Arrange dialog), which as of Inkscape 1.1 is now located in the very same Align and Distribute dialog we’ve been using (see Figure. 4.16):

Figure 4.16 – The Grid Arrange tab

Figure 4.16 – The Grid Arrange tab

With all your item graphics selected, the Grid tab allows you to set the number of Rows and Columns you want, the kind of spacing between items (Equal height and Equal width), which point on the objects to align to (we’ll see why this is useful in a moment), and whether to Set spacing of the gaps between graphics...