CONTENTS IN DETAIL. What s in This Book?... xx Who Is This Book For?... xx

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1 CONTENTS IN DETAIL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii INTRODUCTION xix What s in This Book?... xx Who Is This Book For?... xx 1 INKSCAPE AND THE WORLD 1.1 What Vector Graphics Is and Why It Matters What Can You Do with Inkscape? Sources of Inkscape Art A Brief History of SVG Inkscape and Its Competition Adobe Illustrator CorelDRAW Xara and Inkscape The Life of an Open Source Application AN INKSCAPE PRIMER Installing Inkscape Inkscape s Hello, World! Interface Overview Panning and Zooming Creating Objects Selecting Transforming Styling Saving and Exporting A Final Example SETTING UP AND MOVING AROUND Preferences Inkscape Preferences Document Properties Document Templates Keyboard Setup Page Setup Document Units Background Page Size Instances, Documents, Views... 41

2 3.6 The Document Window Window Geometry Dialogs Basic Zooming The Zoom Tool Panning Rendering Modes OBJECTS Object Properties The Bounding Box Z-Order Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Duplicating Groups Uses of Grouping Groups and Z-Order Layers Layer Hierarchy The Layer Menu The Current Layer Indicator The Layers Dialog The XML Editor SELECTING The Selection Cue Selection and the Status Bar Subselection Selecting by Clicking: The Selector Selecting by Clicking: Other Tools Adding to a Selection Selecting with the Rubber Band Touch Selection Selecting Objects from Underneath Selecting in Groups Selecting with Keyboard Shortcuts Finding Objects Following Links Deselecting Selection Miscellany TRANSFORMING The Selector: Moving The Selector: Scaling The Selector: Rotating and Skewing Center of Rotation viii

3 6.5 Transforming with Keyboard Shortcuts Moving Scaling Rotating and Flipping Transforming with Numbers: X, Y, W, and H The Transform Dialog The Move Tab The Scale Tab The Rotate Tab The Skew Tab The Matrix Tab Pasting Sizes Transforming with the Tweak Tool What Transformations Affect SNAPPING AND ARRANGING Guidelines The Guideline Dialog Guideline Properties Guides from Objects Grids Grid Options Snapping The Snap Controls Bar Bounding Box Snapping Node and Handle Snapping Snapping Preferences Aligning Distributing Randomizing, Unclumping, and Removing Overlaps Arranging Objects in a Table STYLING Style Fundamentals Paint Opacity Color Models RGB CMYK HSL The Palette The Selected Style Indicator: Paint Commands The Selected Style Indicator: Color Gestures The Dropper Tool Sampling Assigning Opacity ix

4 8.7 Color Tweaking Color Paint Color Jitter Channels Usage Notes Color Extensions and Filters STROKE AND MARKERS Stroke Width Join Caps Dash Patterns Markers Mid Markers and Nodes Coloring Markers Creating New Markers Markers Miscellany GRADIENTS AND PATTERNS The Gradient Tool Linear Gradients Elliptic Gradients Gradient Definition Sharing Gradient Definitions Gradient Repeat Handles Selecting Painting Moving, Merging, and Snapping Multistage Gradients Creating Middle Stops Moving Middle Stops Transforming Objects with Gradients Gradient Tips and Examples Patterns Creating Patterns Editing Patterns Stock Patterns SHAPES Shape Tools Shape Parameters The Style of New Shapes Rectangles Sizing Rounding x

5 11.3 3D Boxes Why Use 3D Boxes? Drawing Perspective and Vanishing Points Handles Styling Ellipses Drawing Handles Stars and Polygons Drawing Handles Rounding Randomizing Spirals EDITING PATHS The Anatomy of a Path Subpaths Filling Paths Stroking Paths Bézier Curves Boolean Operations Simplifying Offsetting The Node Tool Path Display Selecting Nodes Deleting and Creating Nodes Joining and Breaking Node Types Moving Handles Moving Nodes Path Tweaking Width and Force Fidelity Push Mode Shrink/Grow Mode Attract/Repel Mode Roughen Mode PATH EFFECTS AND EXTENSIONS Path Effects How Path Effects Work The Path Effect Editor Dialog Pattern Along Path and Bend Stitch Sub-Paths Knot xi

6 Sketch Spiro Spline Envelope Deformation VonKoch Dynamic and Linked Offsets Path Extensions DRAWING The Pen Tool Node Types Going Back Continuing a Path Modes Stroke Shapes Style The Pencil Tool The Calligraphic Pen Tool Width Angle Caps Tremor, Wiggle, and Mass Calligraphic Presets Adding and Subtracting Tracking a Guide Path The Paint Bucket Tool Filling Techniques Filling by Channel Threshold Growing and Shrinking Closing Gaps Style TEXT Basic Editing Selecting Text Object Types Regular Text Flowed Text Text on a Path Text Layout Direction Alignment Kerning Letter Spacing and Line Spacing Styling Text Non-Text Style Properties Fonts and Variants Font Size xii

7 15.5 Text Extensions Spellcheck Special Characters Converting Text to Path CLONES Creating a Clone Transforming Clones Styling Clones Chaining Clones Unlinking and Relinking Clones Tiling Clones Size and Bounding Box Symmetry Shift, Scale, and Rotation Blur and Opacity Color Tracing FILTERS Blur Blur and Transformations Tweaking for Blur Blend Modes Preset Filters The Filter Editor Dialog The Filters List The Stack of Primitives The Parameters of a Primitive The Filter Area Filter Rendering Options Exporting Filters to PS and PDF BITMAPS Import Linking vs. Embedding Bitmap as Pattern Clipping and Masking Retouching and Patching Bitmap Filters Bitmap Effects Tracing Manual Tracing The Trace Bitmap Dialog Bitmap Export The Export Bitmap Dialog xiii

8 Exporting via the Command Line Icon Preview Make a Bitmap Copy Color Management ICC Color Profiles Screen Proofing Separating and Embedding TUTORIAL: DESIGNING A BUSINESS CARD Design 1: Template and Text Design 1: Layout Design 2: Graphic Design 2: Layout Design 2: Texture and Color Export and Printing PostScript PDF Bitmap Output Using Device Colors Tiled Output TUTORIAL: CREATING AN ANIMATION Creating the Template First Frames Tweening Compositing and Creating Frames Export and Production Hatching Text Background TUTORIAL: DRAWING A 3D-CORRECT CARTOON The Room The Furniture People Sketching and Coloring TUTORIAL: ARTISTIC DRAWING The First Sketch Inking Tweaking Coloring and Smoothing Drawing Hair Finalizing xiv

9 23 TUTORIAL: TECHNICAL DRAWING Setting Up the Grid Making the Box Rounding Corners Making the Top Cylinder Making the Cutout TUTORIAL: THE ROSE Treatment 1: Engraving Treatment 2: Tessellation Treatment 3: A Field of Cubes Treatment 4: A Photorealistic Rendition Treatment 5: A Map A AN SVG PRIMER 369 A.1 A Quick Introduction to XML A.2 Vocabularies and Namespaces A.3 Root A.4 Defs, View, and Metadata A.5 Layers and Groups A.6 Coordinates and Units A.7 Transformations A.8 Style A.9 Linking A.10 Object Types A.11 Inkscape SVG Extensions B IMPORT AND EXPORT 383 B.1 Save vs. Export B.2 SVG Variants B.3 PDF (Import, Export) B.3.1 PDF Text B.3.2 PDF Export B.4 PostScript and EPS (Import, Export) B.5 Printing B.6 AI (Import) B.7 CorelDRAW (Import) B.8 EMF (Import/Export), WMF and CGM (Import) B.9 XAML (Import/Export) B.10 WPG (Import) B.11 DXF and HPGL (Export) B.12 JavaFX (Export) B.13 ODG (Export) B.14 POV (Export) B.15 LaTeX (Export) xv

10 B.16 Bitmap Formats (Import/Export) B.17 What s Missing? C THE COMMAND LINE 391 C.1 Loading Documents C.2 Export C.2.1 Area C.2.2 Size and Resolution C.2.3 Background C.2.4 Export Hints C.2.5 Vector Export Options C.3 Querying C.4 Shell Mode C.5 Verbs C.6 Getting Help D KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 399 D.1 Tools D.2 Dialogs D.3 The Controls Bar D.4 The Canvas D.5 The Palette D.6 Files D.7 The Document Window D.8 Layers D.9 Objects D.10 Paths D.11 The Selector Tool D.12 The Node Tool D.13 The Tweak Tool D.14 The Rectangle Tool D.15 The 3D Box Tool D.16 The Ellipse Tool D.17 The Star Tool D.18 The Spiral Tool D.19 The Zoom Tool D.20 The Pencil Tool D.21 The Pen (Bézier) Tool D.22 The Calligraphic Pen Tool D.23 The Paint Bucket Tool D.24 The Gradient Tool D.25 The Dropper Tool D.26 The Text Tool INDEX COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS 427 following page 212 xvi