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

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: Settings for a visiting card Designing a visiting card Settings to print multiple copies of the visiting card
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 units to Inches and Default Orientation to Landscape.	Go to File. Click on Document properties. Change the Default units to Inches and the Default Orientation to Landscape. <<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 and 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 >> Generate from path >> Interpolate	Select both the lines. Go to Extensions menu. Click on Generate from path and then on Interpolate.
click on Apply >> Close	Keep the default settings and click on Apply button. Now click on Close button.
Move it to the top left	Notice the interpolation effect is now 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 and 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 will learn 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 first group all the elements. Press Ctrl + A to select all the elements and Ctrl + G to group them.
Edit menu >> Clone >> Create Tiled Clones	Now, go to the Edit menu. Click on Clone and then on Create Tiled Clones.
	The Create Tiled Clone dialog box opens.
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 Create button >> close the dialog box.	Now, click on Create button. And then close the dialog box.
Point to the visiting cards	Notice that multiple copies of the visiting card appears in the draw area.
	In this way, we can print multiple copies of the visiting card.
Click on the topmost visiting card >> move it from its position	Turn your attention to the visiting card at the top left. Click on it and move it from its position.
Delete it	Now delete this card as it is an extra copy.
Point to the visiting cards	What if there are some changes to be incorporated? Will we have to change each and every copy of the visiting card?
	Not at all. We will have to make the correction only in the original visiting card. The same will be reflected in the copies.
Move the contact details to the left	Let's try this. Let's move the contact details to the left side on the original card. Observe the changes are reflected in all the visiting card copies. <<PAUSE>>
Press Ctrl + S	Now let us save the file. Press Ctrl + S to save the SVG file. I will choose Desktop as the location to save my file.
Type ST-visiting-card >> Click on Save	And I will type ST-visiting-card as the Filename and click on Save.
Go to File >> Save As	After this, we will save the file in PDF format. Once again, go to File and click on Save As.
Change the extension to PDF >> Save	Change the extension to PDF and click on Save.
Close Inkscape >> come to the Desktop >> point to the pdf file >> double-click to open it.	Let us close Inkscape now and come to the Desktop. Here is the file that we saved - ST-visiting-card.pdf Let's open it. Here are the visiting cards that we created. <<PAUSE>>
Summarize	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt about Settings for a visiting card Designing a visiting card Settings to print multiple copies of the visiting card
Assignment	Here is an assignment for you. Create a visiting card with your name your institute/organisation name your institute/organisation logo your institute/organisation website address
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.

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Arthi, Nancyvarkey