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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

Breaking and joining lines

Sometimes, we may want to break our closed path to create an opening in the shape. Take, for example, our glass. Maybe we decide that we don’t want the top of our glass to have a stroke, for example.

We can select the top line of the glass and use the Delete Segment Between Two Non-endpoint Nodes button, which henceforth we will simply call the Remove Line button. As you can see in Figure 5.11, this removes both the line and, consequently, the stroke from the top:

Figure 5.11 – Removing the top edge of our glass

Figure 5.11 – Removing the top edge of our glass

Likewise, we can add it back with the Join Selected End Nodes with a New Segment button (also known as the Add Line button), immediately to the left of the Remove Line button.

You may notice that breaking the shape open in this way may or may not affect the fill of the object. This depends on which parts of the line are disconnected. When the closed shape is broken, Inkscape has to guess which parts...