Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (Paperback)

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• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Number of Pages: 464
• ISBN: 0137051735
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113964155
• Release Date: November 6, 2009
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"Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Third Edition, " is the guide to the Inkscape program, serving as both an introduction and a reference. With Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox and Opera. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market.
Inkscape is available free for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. The first third of the book is composed of eleven tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to very complex. The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail.
Updated for Inkscape v0.47, this new edition includes complete coverage of new features, including updated Pen and Pencil tools with new spiro, polyline, and sketch modes; the new Eraser tool; and the new Snapping toolbar with improved snapping. Advanced topics covered include the use of Inkscape's powerful tiling tool, built-in bitmap tracing, and SVG use on the Web. The book includes many useful tips and warnings about the use of Inkscape and SVG.
Inkscape features
Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard Three path-drawing tools (Pencil, Pen, Calligraphy)Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars, Spirals, 3D Boxes) Linear and Radial Gradients Pattern fills Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths and colors Eraser Tool with both Vector and Bitmap modes Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing and aligning objects Extendable through scripting; over a hundred scripts includedLive Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editabilityPre-built SVG filters for adding textures, manipulating color, and so forth A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetriesClipping and Masking objectsBuilt-in bitmap-to-vector tracingThe ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats, including PDF and PostScriptThe ability to import from more than two-dozen graphics formats, including PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Coral Draw, AutoCad, and XFig
"Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Third Edition, " features
Eleven tutorials ranging from simple to complex.Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape programCoverage of Inkscape versions 0.46 and 0.47 Hundreds of helpful illustrationsPractical solutions for common problemsMany useful tips and warnings
Complete coverage of new Inkscape 0.47 features
Vastly improved Snapping of nodes and objects New Tweak Tool modes for transforming objectsNew Eraser Tool with both Vector and Bitmap modesImproved "Live Path Effects" for modifying paths or groups of pathsNew "Spiro" mode for drawing silky smooth pathsImproved export to PDF, PostScript, and EPSImproved import from PDFMore than two hundred built-in SVG image filtersAn integrated spell checker

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