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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

You're reading from   Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook 109 recipes to create scalable vector graphics with Inkscape

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512664
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Creating and Editing Objects FREE CHAPTER 2. Editing Colors 3. Speeding Up Your Workflow 4. Creating and Editing Clones 5. Live Path Effects 6. Extensions 7. SVG Filters 8. Putting it All Together 9. Raster and Almost Raster 10. Web Graphics Preparation 11. SVG in Websites 12. Draw Freely

Importing raster images of different dpi


In this recipe we will familiarize ourselves with importing raster images into Inkscape and learn how to handle images of different dpi that we plan to export in the end. We will use two of the images we exported in the last recipe as examples.

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate how to import raster images:

  1. 1. Open the File | Import dialog (Ctrl + I), and navigate to the folder with the images extracted in the last recipe. Select the rectangle90dpi.png file and press Open.

  2. 2. Another small dialog will open with the choice to embed or link the image; choose embed and press OK.

  3. 3. Open the Import dialog again(Ctrl + I), navigate to the folder with the images extracted in the last recipe, select the rectangle180dpi.png, and press Open.

  4. 4. This time choose to link the image and press OK.

  5. 5. Open the XML Editor (Shift + Ctrl + X) and the last image should be selected in the left pane. Select the xlink:href attribute from the right pane and...

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