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Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers

By : Bethany Hiitola
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Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers

By: Bethany Hiitola

Overview of this book

<p>Do you think that your website could do with more visual appeal? Are you looking to spice it up with attractive designs and effects? Enter <i>Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers</i>&mdash;the only book specifically tailored to using Inkscape for web design. This book will teach you how to effectively use the fascinating new Inkscape vector graphics editor, which, despite being in version 0.48 <i>and</i> having no dearth of competitors, has already separated itself from the competition. Learn everything you need to know about enhancing your website&mdash;from site layouts to templates and animations&mdash;whether you are looking for a new website design or just some eye-candy.<br /><br />The Inkscape graphics editor is powerful, but getting started is often difficult. <i>Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers</i> walks you through the challenge of using Inkscape from a web design perspective in the easiest way possible. <br /><br />The first book to unlock the potential of Inkscape for web design, it begins with an introduction to the basics of Inkscape and then journeys you through implementing them in your website one by one.<br /><br />Learn to build your first website design using Inkscape. Create web page and desktop wallpapers with repeating pattern backgrounds and swirling designs. Incorporate icons and interactive maps on your website. Style and graphically manipulate text&mdash;from simple headings to shadowing, following paths, reflections, 3D effects, and more. Enhance your web pages using flowcharts, diagrams, and site maps and learn how to export them. Spruce it all up using animations. <br /><br />This book will teach you all that and more, in a simple effective manner; and what's more&mdash;you'll have fun doing it.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Keyboard Shortcuts
Glossary of Terms
Index

More about text and paths


Using paths with text is a great combination to make unique web elements such as banners, logos, and headings or footers. They work together and allow you complete control over how the text will look. Let's review how we can make them work together.

Using a path for text

In Inkscape, you can put text onto a path and have it follow its shape—and when you do this the text and the path remain editable. This means you can still change the text, the shape of the path, kerning, and spacing elements in the text. Let's look at an example.

  1. To start, draw a path with the Bezier path tool.

  2. Then use the text tool and type text that you would like to place on the path.

  3. Select both the text and path.

  4. From the main menu select Text and then Put on Path. You'll see that the text is then literally placed on the path of the line you had drawn.

  5. You can now move the original path and the text moves along with it. Or you can move the text away from the path, edit the text, or transform the...