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:
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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 >> 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. |
Draw a rectangle >>
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So, draw a rectangle using the Rectangle tool.
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Change color to dark green | Move it to the top left corner of the canvas.
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Bezier tool >> Draw straight line >> Object menu >> Fill and Stroke | Select the Bezier tool and 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 wavy line. |
Select both lines >>
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Select both the lines. Go to Extensions menu.
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Change the Interpolation steps value to 30 >> Apply >> Close | Check if the Exponent value is 0.
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Point to the design | Notice the Interpolation effect is now applied. |
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. |
File >> Import >>
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Go to File and click on Import.
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Copy the visiting card details | Let me copy the visiting card details from a LibreOffice Writer file that I had saved already. |
Copy the visiting card details | This file has been given to you in the Codes file link. |
Change the Font size to 12 and the text color to white. | |
Type Spoken Tutorial >> Make it bold >>
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Select the Spoken Tutorial word.
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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
will learn 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 first group all the elements.
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Edit menu >> Clone >> Create Tiled Clones | Now, go to the Edit menu.
Click on Clone and then on Create Tiled Clones. |
The Create Tiled Clones dialog box opens. | |
Under Symmetry tab >>
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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.
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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?
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Not at all.
We will have to make the correction only in the original visiting card.
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Double click and change the color of the word Spoken Tutorial to brown on the original card | Let's try this. Double click and change the color of the word Spoken Tutorial to brown on the original card
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Press Ctrl + S | Now let us save the file.
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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.
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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. | Change the resolution to 300 and click on OK.
Here are the visiting cards that we created. <<PAUSE>> |
Summarize | Let us summarize.
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Assignment | Here is an assignment for you.
Create a visiting card with
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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. |