Inkscape/C3/Create-an-A4-Poster/English
Title of script: Create an A4 Poster
Author: Arthi. A
Keywords: Document properties of Inkscape, Design the poster, Saving the poster in png and pdf
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| Opening Slide | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Create an A4 Poster” using Inkscape. |
| Learning Objectives (Slide) | In this tutorial we will learn to
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| System requirement (Slide) | To record this tutorial, I am using
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| Open Inkscape | Let us open Inkscape. |
| Go to File >> New | Go to File. Click on New. |
| Scroll or point to the various options. | These are the default canvas sizes that are available.
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| Point to the canvas | My canvas is, by default, in A4 size. So we will leave it as it is. If it is not so on your machine, then select A4 size. |
| Go to Document properties | Let us now change some settings. Go to File. Click on Document properties. |
| Point to Document properties | A dialog box opens up where we can find various tabs and options.
Let us learn about them one by one. |
| Click on the units one by one | In the first tab, Page, click on the Default units drop down list.
As I click one-by-one, observe that the unit of the ruler changes. Let me keep the unit as mm. |
| Click on Background | Background option helps to change the transparency and color of the background. When we click on it, a new dialog box appears. |
| Select green color >> Alpha to 255 | Move the RGB sliders to the left and right. |
| Point to the background color in the Document Properties box. | Observe that the color on the background option on the Document properties changes, as I move. |
| Change Alpha to 0 >>
Point to canvas |
To make the background colour visible on the canvas, move the alpha slider towards the right.
Now the transparency changes to the selected RGB values. Bring the alpha slider back to the extreme left and close the dialog box. |
| Point to Page size options | Under Page size, we find many options.
We can change the size of the canvas using these options, too. As I click, observe the change in the canvas size. Let us keep the page size as A4. |
| Click on Landscape >> Click on Portrait | Orientation can be changed to either Portrait or Landscape.
Click on both the options and observe the change on the canvas. |
| Point to Width and Height parameters | We can change the width and height of the canvas using the Width and Height parameters. |
| Click on the Units drop down list | Click on the Units drop down list. Here we can change the units according to our requirement.
Let us now change units to pixels. |
| Click on Resize page to content | Click on Resize page to content option. The various available options opens up.
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| Point to the margins. | We can set margins for all the sides here.
After setting the margins, one needs to click on the button Resize page to drawing or selection. |
| Point to Border option | Next is the Border option. We can see 3 check-box options here. |
| Draw a circle in such a way that it is half in and half out of the canvas. | To demonstrate these options, let me first draw an ellipse in this manner. |
| Point to first option | The first option makes the page border, that is the border of the canvas, visible. |
| Uncheck and then check it once again | Uncheck this option and observe that the borders disappear.
Then again check the option and observe that the borders re-appear. |
| Click on the second option. Uncheck and check 2-3 times. | The second option sets the border on top of the drawing, so that it is clearly visible.
Once again check and uncheck this option and observe what happens on the canvas. |
| Point to third option. Point to the right and top borders. | The third option shows a shadow of the canvas on the right and bottom.
Notice here, the border to the right and bottom are thicker than the other two. |
| Uncheck and then check the third option. | Uncheck the third option and observe that this shadow disappears.
Now check it again and observe that the shadow appears. |
| Point to Border options | We can use all these options according to our requirement. |
| Point to Border color | The Border color option allows us to decide the color of the border.
Let us leave the default border color as it is. <<PAUSE>> |
| Click on Guides tab | Next click on Guides tab.
Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides here. |
| Point to Show guides | The first option Show Guides displays the guidelines on the canvas.
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| Point to Guide color | Guide color is the color of the guideline. |
| Point to Highlight color | Highlight color is the color of the guideline when it is being dragged into a certain position. |
| Point to | The default colours of the guide and the highlight are shown here.
You can change it as per your preference. I will leave the default colors as they are. |
| Point to second option | Snap guides while dragging option helps to snap the objects or bounding box to the nearest guidelines, while dragging. |
| Click on the Grids tab | Next click on the Grids tab.
Using this option, we can set the grid that appears behind the artwork on the canvas. Grids are useful to position objects on the canvas but they do not get printed. |
| Click on the drop down list | Click on the drop down list.
Rectangular grid and Axonometric grid are the two types of grids available. |
| Select Rectangular grid >> Click on New | Select Rectangular grid and click on the New button.
Immediately, a grid is formed on the canvas background. |
| Point to grid properties | We can set the grid properties as per our requirement, using the available options. |
| Click on Remove | We can remove the grid by clicking on the Remove button at the bottom. |
| Point to Axonometric grid | In a similar way, you can try for Axonometric grid, too. |
| Point to the last 3 tabs >> Close the dialog box | The options in the next 3 tabs will be covered in the advanced level tutorials.
So I will close this dialog box now. <<PAUSE>> |
| Click on the Rectangle tool >>
Draw a rectangle covering the whole canvas |
Now let us start creating the poster.
So, first let me delete the ellipse. |
| Click on the Rectangle tool >>
Draw a rectangle covering the whole canvas |
For our poster, we will first design a background.
So, click on the Rectangle tool. Draw a large rectangle that covers the whole canvas. Color it light blue gradient. |
| Draw a header illustration | Next draw a header area on the top and a footer area at the bottom of the canvas, using Bezier tool.
We will color it dark blue. |
| Let us import the Spoken Tutorial logo now. | |
| SLIDE | * This logo has been provided to you in the Code Files link.
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| Go to File >> Import >> Open | Now come back to our Inkscape document.
Go to File menu. Click on Import. Go to folder where the logo is saved. Select the Spoken Tutorial logo and click on Open. |
| Click on OK >> Point to the logo | A dialog box opens up. Click on OK.
Now the logo is imported on our canvas. |
| Resize logo to 100x100 pixels | Resize it to 100×100 pixels.
Place it on the top left corner of the header. |
| Type “Spoken Tutorial” >> change font to 40 | Now type the text “Spoken Tutorial”. Change the text font size to 40. Place it to the right of the logo. |
| Type the sentence “partner with us...help bridge the digital divide” | Type the text “partner with us...help bridge the digital divide” below that.
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| Copy and paste text from LibreOffice Writer | Next let us add some text. I have already saved the text in LibreOffice Writer. Copy and paste them in the empty space. |
| Select the text >> Align center | Change the font size to 25. Click on Align center on the Tools control bar to bring the text to the centre of the canvas. |
| Import images | We will add 2 some images below that. As before Import them one by one. I have saved them in the images folder. |
| Select all >> resize to 400×400 pixels | Select the images and resize them to 400×400 pixels. Move them to the bottom area of the canvas. |
| Copy and paste Contact details from LibreOffice Writer | Let us write the contact details at the footer illustration. Copy and paste the text from LibreOffice Writer. |
| Point to the poster | Now our poster is ready. Next let us learn how to save it as pdf. |
| Go to File >> Save As >> Spoken Tutorial Poster.pdf | Go to File. Click on Save As. A dialog box appears. Give the name in the name column as Spoken Tutorial Poster.pdf |
| Change the format to pdf >> Save | Change the format to pdf by clicking on the drop down list. Click on Save. |
| Now our poster is saved in Desktop. | |
| Go to File >> Click on Export Bitmap | Next let us save the same poster in png format. Go to File. Click on Export Bitmap. |
| Export area to page >> Click on Browse to select the location >> Save >> Export | Change the Export area to Page. Click on Browse to select the location. Click on Save. Now click on Export. |
| Go to desktop >> open pdf and png poster | Let us go desktop and check our poster. Now we have the poster saved in pdf and png formats. |
| Summary (Slide) | Let us summarize. In this tutorial we learnt to
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| Completed assignment | Here is an assignment for you
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| Completed assignment | Your completed assignment should look like this. |
| About Slide | The video available at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please watch it. |
| About Slide | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates for those who pass an online test.
For more details, please write to us. |
| About Slide | Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by the NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
More information on this Mission is available at this link. |
| Acknowledgment | We have come to the end of this tutorial.
This is Arthi from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
