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Revision as of 09:54, 8 September 2015

Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Create and format text using Inkscape.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn about:
  • Inserting text
  • Formatting and aligning text
  • Spacing and bullet.
00:15 We will also learn how to create a simple flyer at the end.
00:19 To record this tutorial, I am using:
  • Ubuntu Linux 12.04 OS
  • Inkscape version 0.48.4
00:29 I will be recording this tutorial in maximum resolution mode. This is to accommodate all the tools that will be demonstrated.
00:38 Let us open Inkscape.
00:40 Text can be inserted using the Text tool from the Tool box.
00:45 We can add text in two ways-
  • Regular Text
  • Flowed Text.
00:50 First we will learn about Regular Text. Click on the Text tool and then click on the canvas.
00:57 Type the word Spoken. Observe the text box grows to accommodate the text.
01:03 Line breaks have to be added manually. So, press Enter to go to the next line and type “Tutorial”.
01:11 To move the word to the previous line, keep the cursor before the alphabet T. Now press backspace and add a space between the 2 words.
01:22 In a similar way, type: http://spoken-tutorial.org/ on a new line, below Spoken Tutorial.
01:33 Next, we will learn to insert text through Flowed text.
01:38 This time I will copy text from a LibreOffice Writer file that I had saved earlier.
01:45 Press Ctrl + A to select the entire text and press Ctrl + C to copy them.
01:52 Now, come back to Inkscape. Make sure the Text tool is selected.
01:58 Click on the canvas and drag to form a rectangular or square text area.
02:03 Notice a blue rectangle box is formed on the canvas on releasing the mouse button.
02:10 Now, inside the text box, notice the text prompt which is blinking on the extreme top left corner.
02:17 Press Ctrl + V to paste the copied text.
02:22 Observe the color of the text box changed to red.
02:25 This is because the inserted text exceeds the boundaries of the text box.
02:31 We can correct this using the small diamond handle at the right corner of the text box.
02:38 Click and drag it till the text box color changes to blue.
02:44 The last sentence of the text, is clubbed with the previous sentence.
02:48 Press Enter twice at the beginning of the last sentence to separate it.
02:53 Next, let us learn the various formatting options available for texts. Click on the word “Spoken Tutorial”
03:01 Go to Main menu. Click on Text and then on Text and Font option.
03:09 A dialog box appears with two options – Font and Text. Under the Font tab there are several options.
03:17 Font family lists all the available fonts. You can select any of the available font of your choice.
03:25 We can preview the selected font in the preview box here. My choice is Bitstream Charter font.
03:33 There are four Style options- Normal, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Choose the style as per your requirement. I will choose Bold.
03:46 To change the Font size, simply click on the drop down arrow and select the size. Since this is the title, I will select a bigger font, say 64.
03:57 Next is the Layout.
03:59 We will learn about this in a while as the preview is not visible for this option.
04:04 Now, click on the Text tab next to the Font tab. Here a preview window is seen with the text inside it.
04:12 Any modifications to the text can be done here.
04:16 Click on Apply and close the dialog box. Observe the text is now formatted.
04:23 We can change the text color using color palette at the bottom. Let me click on maroon color.
04:30 Next, select the text for the URL i.e. [1]
04:40 Text formatting options are available in the Tool controls bar too.
04:44 I will change the font to Bitstream charter, Font size to 28 and color to Blue.
04:57 Now, let us choose the paragraph text.
04:56 If the Text tool is already selected, you can simply click on the text to go inside the text box.
05:04 I will change the Font size of the text to 25.
05:08 Click and drag the diamond handle to move the text inside the canvas.
05:15 Next let us align the texts.
05:19 The four icons next to Italic icon on the Tool controls bar help to align the text to the
  • Left
  • Center OR
  • Right of the text box.
05:30 The fourth option will justify the text within the boundaries of the text box. I will click on left align before proceeding further.
05:39 We can align text using the Align and distribute option too.
05:43 Go to the Main menu and then click on Object menu. Then click on Align and Distribute option.
05:51 Now we will move the word Spoken Tutorial to the centre. So click on it.
05:57 First check if the Relative to parameter is set to Page.
06:01 So, click on Centre on vertical axis. Observe the text is now aligned to the centre.
06:10 Let us add some more text in the empty space at the bottom.
06:13 Type FOSS Categories Now align it to the centre of the page by clicking on Centre on vertical axis.
06:25 Type some FOSS names such as Linux, LaTeX, Scilab, Python separately and randomly on the canvas.
06:39 Now let us align all these texts in a single row with equal space.
06:44 Select the 4 texts using the Shift key. Click on
  • Align baseline of text and
  • Distribute baseline of text horizontally.
06:58 Notice the gaps between the words are not equal.
07:02 The first letter of the first word and the first letter of the second word are equally spaced.But the words themselves, are not equally spaced.
07:10 This works in a similar way for vertical texts too.
07:15 These options may be useful in certain situations.
07:20 We will make the spaces between the words equal.
07:23 To do so, click on the fourth icon in the first row under Distribute. Now the spacing is equal between the words.
07:32 Next, we will learn to adjust the space between the lines of the paragraph text.
07:38 Double click on the paragraph text to go inside the text box.
07:44 The Spacing between lines icon on the Tool controls bar helps reduce or increase space between lines.
07:50 Observe what happens when I increase the spacing.
07:55 Let me keep the line spacing as 1.50
07:59 The next icon helps to adjust space between letters. Again, click on the up and down arrows and observe the changes.
08:07 Let me keep the space parameter as 0.
08:12 Observe there is an empty space in both the vertical corners of the canvas.We can fill them with some text.
08:19 Type a sentence Learn Open Source Software for free somewhere outside the canvas.
08:24 Change the Font to Ubuntu. Font size to 22 and make it Bold.
08:34 Now click on the last icon i.e. Vertical text on the Tool controls bar.
08:39 Notice that the text is now aligned in vertical direction.
08:43 Click on the text using the Selector tool and move it to the left corner of the canvas.
08:49 Press Ctrl + D to duplicate it and move the copy to the other corner of the page, using the Ctrl key.
08:59 Now we will add bullet points to the text within the paragraph.
09:03 Inkscape does not provide bullet or number lists for text. So one has to create bullet points manually.
09:11 Click on the ellipse tool. Draw a small circle of red color.
09:17 Now move this bullet to the first line of the paragraph. Duplicate it and move its copy to the next sentence.
09:27 Repeat this for all sentences.
09:32 Now we have all our text as per our requirement.
09:36 Lastly, let us do some beautification to make it look like a flyer.
09:41 Here is the completed flyer.
09:45 I have added borders to the top and bottom. And covered the texts with a rounded rectangle and ellipse shapes.
09:51 You can use your creativity to create different layouts and designs for your flyer.
09:57 Let us summarize.
09:59 In this tutorial we learnt to
  • Insert text
  • Format and align text
  • Spacing and bullet lists
10:06 We also learnt to create a simple flyer.
10:09 Here is an assignment for you
10:11 Create a flyer like this.
  • Use the text tool to type texts
  • Create bullets and boxes using the rectangle tool
10:19 Create star using star tool with 10 corners
  • Use color palette and Fill and stroke to change colors
  • Align the text using Align and distribute.
10:31 The video at the link shown, summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
10:39 The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials and gives certificates on passing online tests.
10:47 For more details, please write to us.Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
10:57 More information on this Mission is available at the link shown.
11:01 We have come to the end of this tutorial.
11:03 This is Arthi and Priya from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining.

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PoojaMoolya, Pratik kamble, Sandhya.np14

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