The Book of Inkscape

Book description

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.

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Detailed Table of Contents (1/3)
  3. Detailed Table of Contents (2/3)
  4. Detailed Table of Contents (3/3)
  5. Introduction
  6. 1: Inkscape and the World
    1. What Vector Graphics Is and Why It Matters
    2. What Can You Do with Inkscape?
    3. Sources of Inkscape Art
    4. A Brief History of SVG
    5. Inkscape and Its Competition
    6. The Life of an Open Source Application
  7. 2: An Inkscape Primer
    1. Installing Inkscape
    2. Inkscape’s “Hello, World!”
    3. Interface Overview
    4. Panning and Zooming
    5. Creating Objects
    6. Selecting
    7. Transforming
    8. Styling
    9. Saving and Exporting
    10. A Final Example
  8. 3: Setting Up and Moving Around
    1. Preferences
    2. Document Templates
    3. Keyboard Setup
    4. Page Setup
    5. Instances, Documents, Views
    6. The Document Window
    7. Dialogs
    8. Basic Zooming
    9. The Zoom Tool
    10. Panning
    11. Rendering Modes
  9. 4: Objects
    1. Object Properties
    2. The Bounding Box
    3. Z-Order
    4. Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Duplicating
    5. Groups
    6. Layers
    7. The XML Editor
  10. 5: Selecting
    1. The Selection Cue
    2. Selection and the Status Bar
    3. Subselection
    4. Selecting by Clicking: The Selector
    5. Selecting by Clicking: Other Tools
    6. Adding to a Selection
    7. Selecting with the Rubber Band
    8. Touch Selection
    9. Selecting Objects from Underneath
    10. Selecting in Groups
    11. Selecting with Keyboard Shortcuts
    12. Finding Objects
    13. Following Links
    14. Deselecting
    15. Selection Miscellany
  11. 6: Transforming
    1. The Selector: Moving
    2. The Selector: Scaling
    3. The Selector: Rotating and Skewing
    4. Center of Rotation
    5. Transforming with Keyboard Shortcuts
    6. Transforming with Numbers: X, Y, W, and H
    7. The Transform Dialog
    8. Pasting Sizes
    9. Transforming with the Tweak Tool
    10. What Transformations Affect
  12. 7: Snapping and Arranging
    1. Guidelines
    2. Grids
    3. Snapping
    4. Aligning
    5. Distributing (1/2)
    6. Distributing (2/2)
  13. 8: Styling
    1. Style Fundamentals
    2. Color Models
    3. The Palette
    4. The Selected Style Indicator: Paint Commands
    5. The Selected Style Indicator: Color Gestures
    6. The Dropper Tool
    7. Color Tweaking
    8. Color Extensions and Filters
  14. 9: Stroke and Markers
    1. Stroke Width
    2. Join
    3. Caps
    4. Dash Patterns
    5. Markers (1/2)
    6. Markers (2/2)
  15. 10: Gradients and Patterns
    1. The Gradient Tool
    2. Gradient Definition
    3. Gradient Repeat
    4. Handles
    5. Multistage Gradients
    6. Transforming Objects with Gradients
    7. Gradient Tips and Examples
    8. Patterns
  16. 11: Shapes
    1. Shape Tools
    2. Rectangles
    3. 3D Boxes (1/2)
    4. 3D Boxes (2/2)
    5. Ellipses
    6. Stars and Polygons
    7. Spirals
  17. 12: Editing Paths
    1. The Anatomy of a Path
    2. Boolean Operations
    3. Simplifying
    4. Offsetting
    5. The Node Tool (1/3)
    6. The Node Tool (2/3)
    7. The Node Tool (3/3)
    8. Path Tweaking
  18. 13: Path Effects and Extensions
    1. Path Effects
    2. Dynamic and Linked Offsets
    3. Path Extensions (1/2)
    4. Path Extensions (2/2)
  19. 14: Drawing
    1. The Pen Tool
    2. The Pencil Tool
    3. The Calligraphic Pen Tool (1/2)
    4. The Calligraphic Pen Tool (2/2)
    5. The Paint Bucket Tool
  20. 15: Text
    1. Basic Editing
    2. Text Object Types
    3. Text Layout
    4. Styling Text
    5. Text Extensions
    6. Spellcheck
    7. Converting Text to Path
  21. 16: Clones
    1. Creating a Clone
    2. Transforming Clones
    3. Styling Clones
    4. Chaining Clones
    5. Unlinking and Relinking Clones
    6. Tiling Clones (1/2)
    7. Tiling Clones (2/2)
  22. 17: Filters
    1. Blur
    2. Blend Modes
    3. Preset Filters
    4. The Filter Editor Dialog (1/2)
    5. The Filter Editor Dialog (2/2)
    6. Filter Rendering Options
    7. Exporting Filters to PS and PDF
  23. 18: Bitmaps
    1. Import
    2. Linking vs. Embedding
    3. Bitmap as Pattern
    4. Clipping and Masking
    5. Retouching and Patching
    6. Bitmap Filters
    7. Bitmap Effects
    8. Tracing
    9. Bitmap Export
    10. Color Management
  24. 19: Tutorial: Designing a Business Card
    1. Design 1: Template and Text
    2. Design 1: Layout
    3. Design 2: Graphic
    4. Design 2: Layout
    5. Design 2: Texture and Color
    6. Export and Printing
  25. 20: Tutorial: Creating an Animation
    1. Creating the Template
    2. First Frames
    3. Tweening
    4. Compositing and Creating Frames
    5. Export and Production
    6. Hatching
    7. Text
    8. Background
  26. 21: Tutorial: Drawing a 3D-Correct Cartoon
    1. The Room
    2. The Furniture
    3. People
    4. Sketching and Coloring
  27. 22: Tutorial: Artistic Drawing
    1. The First Sketch
    2. Inking
    3. Tweaking
    4. Coloring and Smoothing
    5. Drawing Hair
    6. Finalizing
  28. 23: Tutorial: Technical Drawing
    1. Setting Up the Grid
    2. Making the Box
    3. Rounding Corners
    4. Making the Top Cylinder
    5. Making the Cutout
  29. 24: Tutorial: The Rose
    1. Treatment 1: Engraving
    2. Treatment 2: Tessellation
    3. Treatment 3: A Field of Cubes
    4. Treatment 4: A Photorealistic Rendition
    5. Treatment 5: A Map
  30. Appendix A: An SVG Primer
    1. A Quick Introduction to XML
    2. Vocabularies and Namespaces
    3. Root
    4. Defs, View, and Metadata
    5. Layers and Groups
    6. Coordinates and Units
    7. Transformations
    8. Style
    9. Linking
    10. Object Types
    11. Inkscape SVG Extensions
  31. Appendix B: Import and Export
    1. Save vs. Export
    2. SVG Variants
    3. PDF (Import, Export)
    4. PostScript and EPS (Import, Export)
    5. Printing
    6. AI (Import)
    7. CorelDRAW (Import)
    8. EMF (Import/Export), WMF and CGM (Import)
    9. XAML (Import/Export)
    10. WPG (Import)
    11. DXF and HPGL (Export)
    12. JavaFX (Export)
    13. ODG (Export)
    14. POV (Export)
    15. LATEX (Export)
    16. Bitmap Formats (Import/Export)
    17. What’s Missing?
  32. Appendix C: The Command Line
    1. Loading Documents
    2. Export
    3. Querying
    4. Shell Mode
    5. Verbs
    6. Getting Help
  33. Appendix D: Keyboard Shortcuts
    1. Tools
    2. Dialogs
    3. The Controls Bar
    4. The Canvas (2.2)
    5. The Palette (8.3)
    6. Files
    7. The Document Window (3.6)
    8. Layers (4.6)
    9. Objects (Chapter 4)
    10. Paths (Chapter 12)
    11. The Selector Tool (5.4)
    12. The Node Tool (12.5)
    13. The Tweak Tool (6.9, 8.7, 12.6)
    14. The Rectangle Tool (11.2)
    15. The 3D Box Tool (11.3)
    16. The Ellipse Tool (11.4)
    17. The Star Tool (11.5)
    18. The Spiral Tool (11.6)
    19. The Zoom Tool (3.9)
    20. The Pencil Tool (14.2)
    21. The Pen (Bézier) Tool (14.1)
    22. The Calligraphic Pen Tool (14.3)
    23. The Paint Bucket Tool (14.4)
    24. The Gradient Tool (10.1)
    25. The Dropper Tool (8.6)
    26. The Text Tool (Chapter 15)
  34. Index (1/6)
  35. Index (2/6)
  36. Index (3/6)
  37. Index (4/6)
  38. Index (5/6)
  39. Index (6/6)

Product information

  • Title: The Book of Inkscape
  • Author(s): Dmitry Kirsanov
  • Release date: September 2009
  • Publisher(s): No Starch Press
  • ISBN: 9781593271817