The book of Inkscape : the definitive guide to the free graphics editor / by Dmitry Kirsanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirsanov, Dmitry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Inkscape (Electronic resource).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : No Starch Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Inkscape is a powerful, free, cross-platform, vector-based drawing tool similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. The Book of Inkscape , written by Inkscape developer and graphic designer Dmitry Kirsanov, is an in-depth guide to Inkscape, offering comprehensive coverage and creative advice on Inkscape's many capabilities. Kirsanov draws on his experience using Inkscape for design and illustration as well as his extensive knowledge of Inkscape's features, several of which he developed. Following an overview of vector-based graphics in general and SVG in particular, Kirsanov takes the reader f

Contents:

Table of Contents; Contents in Detail; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Inkscape and the World; 1.1: What Vector Graphics Is and Why It Matters; 1.2: What Can You Do with Inkscape?; 1.3: Sources of Inkscape Art; 1.4: A Brief History of SVG; 1.5: Inkscape and Its Competition; 1.6: The Life of an Open Source Application; 2: An Inkscape Primer; 2.1: Installing Inkscape; 2.2: Inkscape's ""Hello, World!""; 2.3: Interface Overview; 2.4: Panning and Zooming; 2.5: Creating Objects; 2.6: Selecting; 2.7: Transforming; 2.8: Styling; 2.9: Saving and Exporting; 2.10: A Final Example

3: Setting Up and Moving Around3.1: Preferences; 3.2: Document Templates; 3.3: Keyboard Setup; 3.4: Page Setup; 3.5: Instances, Documents, Views; 3.6: The Document Window; 3.7: Dialogs; 3.8: Basic Zooming; 3.9: The Zoom Tool; 3.10: Panning; 3.11: Rendering Modes; 4: Objects; 4.1: Object Properties; 4.2: The Bounding Box; 4.3: Z-Order; 4.4: Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Duplicating; 4.5: Groups; 4.6: Layers; 4.7: The XML Editor; 5: Selecting; 5.1: The Selection Cue; 5.2: Selection and the Status Bar; 5.3: Subselection; 5.4: Selecting by Clicking: The Selector

5.5: Selecting by Clicking: Other Tools5.6: Adding to a Selection; 5.7: Selecting with the Rubber Band; 5.8: Touch Selection; 5.9: Selecting Objects from Underneath; 5.10: Selecting in Groups; 5.11: Selecting with Keyboard Shortcuts; 5.12: Finding Objects; 5.13: Following Links; 5.14: Deselecting; 5.15: Selection Miscellany; 6: Transforming; 6.1: The Selector: Moving; 6.2: The Selector: Scaling; 6.3: The Selector: Rotating and Skewing; 6.4: Center of Rotation; 6.5: Transforming with Keyboard Shortcuts; 6.6: Tranforming with Numbers: X, Y, W, and H; 6.7: The Transform Dialog

6.8: Pasting Sizes6.9: Transforming with the Tweak Tool; 6.10: What Transformations Affect; 7: Snapping and Arranging; 7.1: Guidelines; 7.2: Grids; 7.3: Snapping; 7.4: Aligning; 7.5: Distributing; 8: Styling; 8.1: Style Fundamentals; 8.2: Color Models; 8.3: The Palette; 8.4: The Selected Style Indicator: Paint Commands; 8.5: The Selected Style Indicator: Color Gestures; 8.6: The Dropper Tool; 8.7: Color Tweaking; 8.8: Color Extensions and Filters; 9: Stroke and Markers; 9.1: Stroke Width; 9.2: Join; 9.3: Caps; 9.4: Dash Patterns; 9.5: Markers; 10: Gradients and Patterns

10.1: The Gradient Tool10.2: Gradient Definition; 10.3: Gradient Repeat; 10.4: Handles; 10.5: Multistage Gradients; 10.6: Transforming Objects with Gradients; 10.7: Gradient Tips and Examples; 10.8: Patterns; 11: Shapes; 11.1: Shape Tools; 11.2: Rectangles; 11.3: 3D Boxes; 11.4: Ellipses; 11.5: Stars and Polygons; 11.6: Spirals; 12: Editing Paths; 12.1: The Anatomy of a Path; 12.2: Boolean Operations; 12.3: Simplifying; 12.4: Offsetting; 12.5: The Node Tool; 12.6: Path Tweaking; 13: Path Effects and Extensions; 13.1: Path Effects; 13.2: Dynamic and Linked Offsets; 13.3: Path Extensions

14: Drawing

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781593272630

1593272634

OCLC:

830164482