Phoenix LUG presents "Beginning and Intermediate Inkscape"

Meeting Details: Meeting 19:00 Mountain Time 1/13/2022    (Online Jitsi at https://meet.jit.si/phoenixlug)

Beginning and Intermediate Inkscape

Presenter: Steve Litt

Wednesday 1/13/2022 at 7:00 PM Mountain (Phoenix AZ) time, 9 PM Eastern (New York) time.

Presentation begins promptly at 7PM Mountain time and ends promptly at 9PM Mountain time, so please arrive early to test your sound and camera.

Location is https://meet.jit.si/phoenixlug

Firefox might yield a no-sound condition. Best bet from Linux is to use the Chromium browser, or with the Jitsi Desktop app available at https://desktop.jitsi.org/Main/Download.html#stableline, smart phone Jitsi apps and probably MS Edge.

Presentation Details

For most people in most situations, by far the best tools for creating graphics are vector graphics editors. In the world of Linux, the most widely used full-featured vector graphics editor is Inkscape. Inkscape has the additional benefit of creating files in the standardized and widely used SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphics) format, so your graphics can be used directly in websites and/or eBooks, or converted to other formats.

In this presentation Steve will explain Inkscape fundamentals and then walk through the creation of the following book cover graphic, which you can click to see full sized:

Image of book cover created with Inkscape

Steve will also briefly demonstrate creation of block diagrams.

Among the topics to be emphasized and quickly demonstrated will be: