Installation

aptitude install inkscape create-resources
[optional] openclipart-svg 也可以直接上 http://openclipart.org 去搜索看小图

Resource

• Inkscape website — http://www.inkscape.org
• Inkscape discussion wiki — http://wiki.inkscape.org
• Official tutorials — http://inkscape.org/doc
• Tavmjong Bah’s Inkscape guide book Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
• http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ 上面有100多个视频教程. 我就是看官方教程和这里的视频入门的.
• Gimp/Inkscape/OpenOffice howtos

素材库

• http://www.openclipart.org
• Online royalty free public domain clip art

HowTo

make a shadow 做阴影

similar application:

• make reflected text (005)
• quick shiny button (003, 007)
• psyudo shadow in thin edges (101, 009, 008)
• polaroid effect, pin-up (011)
• make a file folder (006)

• post-it (010)

  choose blur in “fill & stroke”, usually choose 2-5 px

  or make a duplicated object and set blue on it

using gredient for glassy effect (017)

and using dynamic offset

make intersection (019)

• use bezier tool to draw the selection
• shift select the image
• **Object/Clip/set **

make a ring (020)

• draw a circle
• duplicate the circle
• Path/dynamic offset to draw the outside circle
• send it to lower layer (this is important)
• shift select the oringinal shape
• Path/Difference to cut out

Path

• edge union (006)
• edge detection 边缘提取 Path/Trace Bitmap...

Node

• pseudo-3d effect (009)

duplicated with scripts

from menu, from there you can have many options to play with (004)

Edit/Clone/Create Tiled Clones

Applications:

• checkboard
• scrap book

Text

kerning

double click a text area
alt+arrow keys to adjust space between chars

put text on path (012)

beziel a path
shift a text and a path
menu Path/put on path
# to remove kerning
menu Path/remove manual kerns

put a text on an object (014)

draw a circle
write some text
shift circle and text together
Path/put on path
use rotate and alt-arrow tricks to adjust angles

给文字上加外框 (013)

write some text
F1 to select the text, C-d to duplicate it
object to path
Path/dynamic offset

Perspective Effect (015)

choose an object
change it to a path
define a path (let us call it perspective path)
select object first
shift select perspective path
menu Effects/Modify Path/Perspective
tips: the perspective path must start with the LEFT-BOTTOM part, then clock-wise

Alignment and distributes

Align to objects and to the page (025)

templates

Business card: File/New/Business card

Iteration

Interpolate

select two objects
Effects/Generate from Paths/Interpolate

Set snap options

• select File/Document properties…
• select Snap tab, check “Snap to objects” and “Snap to paths”

Shortcuts

quick duplicate (021)

• select an object
• hold left mouse button down
• hit SPACE key to duplicate the object (it is called stamping)

rotate (021)

• hold shift-ctrol key together, and use mouse to rotate