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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 Text and Font dialog

To open the Text and Font dialog, simply choose Text and Font..., which is the first entry in the Text menu at the top of the screen. Once it's open, you will see lots of familiar items that we saw previously in the Tool control bar while using the Text tool.

However, notice that we have a preview at the bottom, and not only are we able to see various samples of different fonts, but we also get nice visual examples of each of the font weights. Figure 7.23 shows what this dialog looks like when we call it up and have a text object selected:

Figure 7.23 – The Text and Font dialog with a text object selected

Figure 7.23 – The Text and Font dialog with a text object selected

Unlike the Tool control bar, however, changing the Font family, Font size, or Font style option does not automatically change our text object on the canvas. Instead, it only changes the preview. This can be handy in certain situations where you just want to see what’s available without affecting your text...