Inkscape/C2/Create-and-Format-Text/English-timed

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 and 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 that.
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 fonts 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 the color palette at the bottom. Let me click on maroon color.
04:30	Next, select the text for the URL i.e. http://spoken-tutorial.org
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 the 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 the 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 learned 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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