Inkscape — all blog posts
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Inkscape article in .net magazine issue 231
I’ve been fortunate enough to have an article (and, more importantly, my photo) published in the current .net magazine, issue 231. Entitled Escaping Photoshop, it’s a call to action for web designers to look beyond Photoshop and broaden the range of tools available to them. Or something like that. Out now in all good newsagents…. Read more »
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Review of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook
After a slight delay, I’ve had time to settle in to reading Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook (my very brief overview post on the book) by Mihaela Jurković and Rigel Di Scala. I’ll get the basics out of the way first, so here’s the full chapter list for the book: Chapter 1: Creating and Editing Objects Chapter… Read more »
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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook
I’ve just received my copy of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook from Packt Publishing. I’ll be taking the time to review it over the weekend, so I should hopefully have something coherent to post early next week. My first impressions are good – I had a quick flick through and there seems to be a huge range… Read more »
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Technical reviewing:Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers
I acted as a technical reviewer for a book on the Inkscape vector graphic editing software earlier this year, and the book has finally been announced on the publisher’s website. The book, Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers by Bethany Hiitola, begins with an introduction of Inkscape and vector graphics, and takes the reader through… Read more »
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URL ABC
An age-old post topic (see David Airey’s, Andy Clarke, etc), so thought it was about time I got round to doing a URL ABC myself. The premise is simple: for each letter of the alphabet, you’re meant to pick the first entry in your browser’s history. Being the awkward so-and-so I am, I’ve disabled history… Read more »