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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'''.

|* '''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.'''

|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.

|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.

|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.

|Let us un-select this shape now.  

|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 help 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.'''

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

|Convert this shape int'''o 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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