Inkscape/C3/Design-a-visiting-card/English
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
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| Opening Slide | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Design a Visiting card” using Inkscape. |
| Learning Objectives (Slide) | In this tutorial
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| System requirement (Slide) | To record this tutorial, I am using
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| Open Inkscape | Let us open Inkscape.
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| Go to File >> Document properties >>
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Go to File. Click on Document properties.
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| Point to the canvas | Let us now start designing the visiting card now.
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| Draw a rectangle | So draw a rectangle using the Rectangle tool.
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| Change color to dark green | Change the color to dark green.
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| Bezier tool >> Draw straight line
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Select the Bezier tool. Draw a wavy line.
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| Change stroke color to yellow. | Change the stroke color to yellow. |
| Draw a wavy line | Now draw a straight line below the straight line.
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| Select both lines >>
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Select both the lines. Go to Extensions menu.
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| Move it to the top left | Notice the interpolation effect is applied.
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| Filters menu >> Shadows and Glows >> Glow | Let us give some glow effect to the Interpolate design.
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| Point to the design | Observe the glow effect is applied to the design.
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| Show the Spoken Tutorial logo | Let us import the Spoken Tutorial logo now.
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| Show the Spoken Tutorial logo | The logo has been given to you in the Code files link.
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| File >> Import >>
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Go to File. Click on Import.
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| Type Spoken Tutorial >> Make it bold >>
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Type Spoken Tutorial to the right of the logo. Make it bold.
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| Type contact details >>
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Type the contact details in the middle area.
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| Point to the visiting card | Now our visiting card for Spoken Tutorial is ready.
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| Point to the visiting card | Next we have to create multiple copies of the visiting card.
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| Press Ctrl + A and
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For doing that we should group all the elements.
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| Edit menu >> Clone >> Create Tiled Clones | Now, go to Edit menu.
Click on Clone and then on Create Tiled Clones.
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| Under Symmetry tab >>
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Under the Symmetry tab, change the number of rows to 4 and columns to 3.
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| Point to the visiting cards | Notice multiple copies of the visiting card is created.
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| Delete the topmost visiting card | On the top there are 2 visiting cards.
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| 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.
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| Move the contact details to the left | For example, let me move the contact details to the left side on the original card.
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| Press Ctrl + S | Now let us save the SVG file.
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| Type ST_visiting card >> Click on Save | Type the Filename as ST_visiting card and click on Save.
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| Go to File >> Save As | Next let us save the file as PDF.
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| Change the extension to PDF >> Save | Change the extension to PDF and click on Save.
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| Summarize | Let us summarize
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| 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. |
| 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 and Saurabh from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
