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    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE
    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE
    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE
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    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE

    By Bethany Hiitola

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    This book is written in a clear conversational style, which emphasizes a practical learn-by-doing approach. Packed with illustrations and examples, this book will make the task of using Inkscape simple and straightforward. This book is written for web designers who want to add attractive visual elements to their website. It assumes no previous knowledge of Inkscape. General familiarity with vector graphics programming is recommended but not required. It will also be a useful guide for experienced Inkscape users who want to learn how to apply their skills to website design.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781849516198
    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE
    Author

    Bethany Hiitola

    Bethany Hiitola is a working writer. She's worked as a technical writer and multimedia developer for over 12 years and spends the rest of her time as a wife, mother, caretaker to pets, and Master of the household. She's written more user manuals than she can count, essays, short stories, academic papers, press releases, and feature articles. More details are at her website: http://www.bethanyhiitola.com.

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    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers - Bethany Hiitola

    Table of Contents

    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewers

    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Inkscape 101: The Basics

    Vector graphics

    What is Inkscape and how can it be used?

    Installing Inkscape

    The basics of the software

    Main screen basics

    Main menu

    Toolbars

    Command bar

    Snap bar

    Tool controls

    Toolbox bar

    Palette bar

    Status bar

    Canvas

    Dockable Dialogs

    Panning and zooming

    Creating and managing files

    Creating web sized documents

    Saving Inkscape files

    Managing multiple file projects

    Paths

    Creating shapes

    Complex shapes

    Combing shapes

    Freehand objects (Paths)

    Summary

    2. Designing Site Layouts

    Architecting a website

    Web layout—principles and basics

    The basic design

    Starting a new design project

    Using grids and guidelines

    Viewing the grid

    Making guides

    Creating a new layer

    Creating basic design areas in Inkscape

    Converting shapes to guides

    Creating a layout example

    Designing the background

    Making the header background

    Building the main body background

    Creating the footer background

    Designing the header

    Navigational elements

    Creating a footer

    Making a sidebar

    Creating content areas

    Exporting design mock-ups

    Creating a slice layer

    Exporting slices

    Working with programmers

    Summary

    3. Making Diagrams, Site Maps, and More

    Diagrams and maps

    Diagrams

    Organizational charts

    Flow charts

    Site maps

    Exporting for use within a web page

    Summary

    Index

    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE

    Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers: LITE

    Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

    Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, Packt Publishing, nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

    Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

    First published: April 2011

    Production Reference: 1130411

    Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

    ISBN 978-1-849516-18-1

    www.packtpub.com

    Cover Image by John M. Quick ( <john.m.quick@gmail.com> )

    Credits

    Author

    Bethany Hiitola

    Reviewers

    Jack Armstrong

    Richard Carter

    Noreen McMahan

    Vic Perez

    Acquisition Editor

    Dilip Venkatesh

    Technical Editor

    Hithesh Uchil

    Indexer

    Hemangini Bari

    Production Coordinator

    Melwyn D'sa

    Cover Work

    Melwyn D'sa

    About the Author

    Bethany Hiitola is a working writer. She's worked as a technical writer and multimedia developer for over 12 years and spends the rest of her time as a wife, mother, caretaker to pets, and Master of the household. She's written more user manuals than she can count, essays, short stories, academic papers, press releases, and feature articles. All between the day job, nap times, and diaper changes. More details are at her website: www.bethanyhiitola.com.

    Without you Matt, this book wouldn't have been possible. Thanks for watching the kids for endless hours, late nights, and into the wee mornings.

    About the Reviewers

    Jack Armstrong spent over 40 years in the Silicon Valley computer industry as a researcher, programmer, analyst, designer, and network architect. At Stanford Research Institute he worked in a large scale scientific computing, artificial intelligence and robotics, and the development of ArpaNet, predecessor to the Internet. At Hewlett-Packard's Central Research Labs and Computer Division, he participated in the design of the HP3000 and the development of HTML, serving on HTML standards committees. After years of successfully operating a software and consulting partnership and 10 years with DHL as Manager of Infrastructure Research and Development and later as Principal Architect, he is now semi-retired, developing unique web sites for local and global clients and participating in development, testing, and standard groups to extend the use of XML and in particular, SVG on the Web. When away from computers, he can be found skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California as often as possible.

    Richard Carter is the Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England, working with clients including Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.

    Richard is the author of MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Themes Design, and Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, and previously reviewed MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide.

    He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets nonsense at http://twitter.com/RichardCarter.

    I would like to thank the author of the book for dedicating time to Inkscape, which is fast becoming a better alternative to traditional graphic design software. As always, thanks to Alexandra and EJ.

    Noreen McMahan lives in Austin, Texas, where she works for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. as a member of their Single-Source Documentation System (SSDS) team. She is the SSDS training lead, providing both classroom and written instruction in the use of DITA XML, the Freescale component content management system (CCMS), and the tools required for SSDS content development, including Inkscape. She also participates in SSDS software regression testing and user acceptance testing, which are both activities that feed the training.

    For several years, Noreen worked as an information developer and editor at Freescale Semiconductor. At one point, she supervised the work of an 8-person editing team. Noreen has over 20 years of experience drawing engineering diagrams for a variety of document types. She is among the early adopters charged with researching scalable vector graphics (SVG) and promulgating the use

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