Summary

We covered a lot of useful tricks in this chapter. We’ve gained the ability to add, subtract, combine, and break apart shapes with the boolean operations, and set offsets with the offset path operations. We even learned a bit about how Inkscape makes holes in things with reversed paths.

All this will serve us well in our vector illustration work for making fast custom shapes without all the manual labor of drawing them from scratch. But what about letters and numbers? Even with great tools such as the Booleans and offsets, it would take ages to make a title or caption, and eons to make a whole paragraph of text!

So, let’s leave custom shapes behind for the moment and move on to using the Text and Font tools in the next chapter.