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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

Check spelling and other handy tools

We’ve almost exhausted all the entries in the Text menu, but since editing SVG fonts and Unicode characters is beyond the scope of this book, we will cover something you’ll probably want to make use of every single time you use text in Inkscape: Text > Check Spelling!

Predictably, this opens up the Check Spelling dialog. To begin the spellcheck, press the Start button at the bottom right of the dialog. If Inkscape finds something, it will highlight the word with a red box, as shown in Figure 7.36:

Figure 7.36 – Summoning the Check Spelling dialog and starting the spellcheck

Figure 7.36 – Summoning the Check Spelling dialog and starting the spellcheck

At this point, you can either click on the word and edit it with the Text tool or choose one of the words in the Suggestions: box, and then click the Accept button to change the word and move on.

You could also decide that the name Phill is the correct spelling of the ladybug’s name, and stubbornly hit the Ignore...