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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

You're reading from   Design Made Easy with Inkscape A practical guide to your journey from beginner to pro-level vector illustration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078771
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
2. Chapter 1: The Inkscape Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Moving and Styling Shapes 4. Chapter 3: Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools 5. Chapter 4: Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape 6. Chapter 5: Node Editing – Modifying Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves 7. Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
8. Chapter 6: Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool 9. Chapter 7: Using Text in Inkscape 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Shading and Coloring 11. Chapter 9: Clips and Masks 12. Chapter 10: Automation with Clones and Linked Files 13. Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools
14. Chapter 11: Organization Using Layers 15. Chapter 12: Live Path Effects 16. Chapter 13: Filters and Extensions 17. Chapter 14: Vectorizing with Trace Bitmap 18. Chapter 15: Document Properties, Pages, Exporting, and Printing 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Circular arranging shapes

Grids are all well and good, but what about a circle? That may seem like an odd pattern to arrange most of the time, but say you want to make a clock graphic or watch face. You need to arrange not only the numbers in a circle, but also all the hour, minute, and maybe even second markers. That’s a lot of arranging!

So, let’s pop over to the Circular tab in our Align and Distribute dialog. Starting with a circle and 12 dashes for hour markers, as shown in Figure 4.18, we can set Anchor Point to Objects’ bounding boxes and select the top center green dot (the default is the center). This will fix the top of each line to the circle:

Figure 4.18 – An illustration of a circular arrangement

Figure 4.18 – An illustration of a circular arrangement

The Arrange on: options don’t matter here since we only have one circle, but say we want to arrange a bunch of small circles on our large circle. These options help Inkscape decide which of the circles to arrange...

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