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| Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on '''“Create and edit shapes” '''using '''Inkscape.'''

|In this tutorial we will familiarize ourselves with '''Inkscape.'''

| We will learn about Inkscape interface and how to Create basic shapes

| Fill color and Modify shapes using '''handles'''

|For this tutorial, I am using  '''Ubuntu Linux''' 12.04 OS

| '''Inkscape''' version 0.48.4

| Go to '''Dash home '''and type '''Inkscape'''.

|On the top of the interface, you will find the '''Menu bar '''and''' Tool controls bar.'''

| This is followed by '''rulers '''at the top and at the side.

|In the centre, is the '''canvas'''. This is where you will draw your graphics.

|Now, let us learn to create and edit some basic shapes in '''Inkscape'''.

|To open an existing '''Inkscape''' document, click on '''File''' and then choose '''Open.'''

|Let's open the '''drawing_1.svg '''file that we created earlier.

|I had saved in '''Documents''' folder. Click on '''Open''' button at the bottom right.  

| Let us now move the rectangle.

 

|To do so, you should click anywhere on the rectangle.

|Now, without releasing the mouse button, drag it wherever you want on the '''canvas.'''

|Then release the mouse button.

|Let us zoom in for a better view. To do so, press '''ctrl key '''and use the''' scroll button '''on the mouse

|Notice arrows around the rectangle. These are called '''handles, '''which we can use for scaling and rotating.  

|When the '''cursor''' is kept on any of the '''handles, '''the color of the '''handle '''changes.

|To scale or resize the rectangle, click and drag on any one of the corner '''handles'''.

|If you want to keep the aspect ratio same, hold the '''ctrl key''' while resizing.

|Click and drag the '''handle, '''either to the left or to the right.

|Now let's change the height of the rectangle.

|We can also change the width and height of the rectangle manually, by changing the '''width''' and '''height''' parameters on the''' Tool controls bar.'''  

|I will change the '''width''' to 400 and '''height''' to 200.

|Notice that now, the shape of the corner '''handles '''has changed, to indicate that it is ready for rotation.

|You can also skew the rectangle by clicking and dragging any of the side '''handles'''.  

|I am clicking the left middle '''handle''' and dragging it up and down to skew the rectangle.

|To do so, click anywhere in the '''canvas''' area or outside the '''canvas''' boundary.

|Let me move the mouse back to the '''Tool box''' and over the same rectangle tool.

|To draw a square, simply hold the '''ctrl key''' and drag on the '''canvas.'''

 

|Select the '''Create''' '''circles and ellipses '''tool from the '''Tool box'''.

| Use the '''ctrl key''', draw a circle on the canvas.

|You can change the start and the end parameters to alter the shape of the circle to an '''arc''' or a '''segment'''.  

|There are 3 options here on the '''Tool controls bar,''' which helps to switch between the shapes.  

|Let me change the '''Start''' parameter to 100 and '''End''' parameter to -50.  

|Now I will click on '''arc icon''' and we see the change in the shape.

|We can change back to circle shape again, by clicking on the '''circle''' '''icon.'''

|Notice 2 '''square handles '''and 2 circular '''handles '''called '''arc handles, '''on the shape.

|The 2 '''square handles '''can be used to alter the shape of the circle to an ellipse shape.

|Observe the change in the shape.

|By default, a 5-sided polygon i.e. a pentagon,''' '''is drawn.

|Convert this shape into a star shape, by clicking on the '''star icon '''next to '''polygon icon, '''in the '''Tool controls bar'''.  

|We can resize and skew the shape of the star using the other '''handle'''.  

|In this tutorial we learnt about '''Inkscape''' interface.

|We also learnt to  Create basic shapes like rectangle, square, circle, ellipse, polygon and star.

| Fill color into the shapes and  Modify the shapes using '''handles'''

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|This is Arthi and Saurabh from IIT Bombay, signing off.  

 

 

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