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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

Text on a curve

We have certainly explored a wealth of options for font styling on a straight line. Occasionally, though, we’d like to bend our text around the periphery of an object, such as a circle, or even just a curve. For example, we’d like to put some text in a wavey line so that it flows with the curve of the line rather than the standard, strictly straight baseline.

We can do that by making a wavy line path, selecting the text and the path that we’ve made, and choosing Path > Put on Path. As you can see from Figure 7.30, this process results in text with a curvy baseline:

Figure 7.30 – Using Put on Path to flow text along a curved line

Figure 7.30 – Using Put on Path to flow text along a curved line

Note that moving the text moves the text away from the curve. To prevent this from happening, I generally either move the line instead of the text (the text follows it) or group them and move the group instead of the text or line.

Chances are, you probably don’t want that...