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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

Flowing paragraphs into shapes

Sometimes, we’d like to be able to flow text through shapes other than just the standard rectangle shape. Fortunately, Inkscape can do this easily! Simply make a block of text and one or more shapes, select them all, and choose Text > Flow Into Frame.

As an example, we will start with a block of text and four hexagons. All we need to do is click to select the text object, then press Shift and click on each shape in the order we want our text to flow through them. Figure 7.34 shows this process, adding the hexagons sequentially to the selection, and then selecting Text > Flow Into Frame to flow the text through the shapes in the order we clicked:

Figure 7.34 – Flowing text through four hexagons

Figure 7.34 – Flowing text through four hexagons

Just like the text boxes we drew earlier, if we select our text and double-click (or switch to the Text tool) to edit, we get a handle to control the margins.

Sometimes, we may want that flowing text to flow...