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Title of script: Design a Visiting card

Author: Arthi. A

Keywords: Document settings for a visiting card in Inkscape, Design a visiting card, Settings to print multiple visiting cards


Visual cue
Narration
Opening Slide Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Design a Visiting card” using Inkscape.
Learning Objectives (Slide) In this tutorial


We will learn to

  • Document settings for a visiting card
  • Design a visiting card
  • Settings to print multiple visiting cards



System requirement (Slide) To record this tutorial, I am using


  • Ubuntu Linux 12.04 OS
  • Inkscape version 0.48.4


Open Inkscape Let us open Inkscape.



Go to File >> Document properties >>


Change the Default Orientation to Landscape and Default units to Inches.

Go to File. Click on Document properties.


Change the Default Orientation to Landscape and Default units to Inches.


<<PAUSE>>

Point to the canvas Let us now start designing the visiting card now.



Draw a rectangle So draw a rectangle using the Rectangle tool.


On the Tool controls bar, change the width to 3.5 and height to 2.



Change color to dark green Change the color to dark green.


Move it to the top left corner of the canvas.


Let us design a pattern now.


<<PAUSE>>

Bezier tool >> Draw straight line


Object menu >> Fill and Stroke


Select the Bezier tool. Draw a wavy line.


Go to Object menu. Open Fill and Stroke.



Change stroke color to yellow. Change the stroke color to yellow.
Draw a wavy line Now draw a straight line below the straight line.



Select both lines >>


Extensions menu >> Modify path >> Interpolate

Select both the lines. Go to Extensions menu.


Click on Modify path and then on Interpolate.



Move it to the top left Notice the interpolation effect is applied.


Move it to the left of the visiting card.

Filters menu >> Shadows and Glows >> Glow Let us give some glow effect to the Interpolate design.


Go to Filters menu. Click on Shadows and Glows and then on Glow.



Point to the design Observe the glow effect is applied to the design.


<<PAUSE>>

Show the Spoken Tutorial logo Let us import the Spoken Tutorial logo now.


I have saved it in my Documents folder.



Show the Spoken Tutorial logo The logo has been given to you in the Code files link.



File >> Import >>


Resize and keep on left corner

Go to File. Click on Import.


Resize the logo and keep it on the top left corner.

Type Spoken Tutorial >> Make it bold >>


Font size to 16

Type Spoken Tutorial to the right of the logo. Make it bold.


Change the font size to 16.



Type contact details >>


Font size to 12

Type the contact details in the middle area.


Change the font size to 12.

Point to the visiting card Now our visiting card for Spoken Tutorial is ready.


<<PAUSE>>

Point to the visiting card Next we have to create multiple copies of the visiting card.


We can do this by cloning method.



Press Ctrl + A and


Ctrl + G

For doing that we should group all the elements.


Press Ctrl + A to select all and press Ctrl + G to group them.



Edit menu >> Clone >> Create Tiled Clones Now, go to Edit menu.

Click on Clone and then on Create Tiled Clones.



Under Symmetry tab >>


change the number of rows to 4 and columns to 3

Under the Symmetry tab, change the number of rows to 4 and columns to 3.


Click on OK.



Point to the visiting cards Notice multiple copies of the visiting card is created.


In this way we can print multiple visiting cards.

Delete the topmost visiting card On the top there are 2 visiting cards.


Click on it and delete.



Point to the visiting cards Now if any change is required in all the cards, it is enough if we make the correction only on the original card.



Move the contact details to the left For example, let me move the contact details to the left side on the original card.


Observe the changes are made in all the visiting cards.


<<PAUSE>>

Press Ctrl + S Now let us save the SVG file.


Press Ctrl + S to save the SVG file. Let me save the file in Desktop.



Type ST_visiting card >> Click on Save Type the Filename as ST_visiting card and click on Save.



Go to File >> Save As Next let us save the file as PDF.


Go to File. Click on Save As.

Change the extension to PDF >> Save Change the extension to PDF and click on Save.


<<PAUSE>>

Summarize Let us summarize


In this tutorial, we learnt to


  • Settings for a visiting card
  • Design a visiting card
  • Settings to print multiple visiting cards


Assignment Create a Visiting card on your name.
About Slide The video available at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please watch it.
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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 and Saurabh from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

Arthi, Nancyvarkey