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Inkscape Books

English

Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook

Author: Mihaela Jurković and Rigel Di Scala
Format: Paperback, 300 pp
Publisher/Date: Packt Publishing / April 2011
ISBN-10: 1849512663
ISBN-13: 978-1-84951-266-4
Website: http://www.packtpub.com

Description: Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook provides you with the latest recipes to quickly create scalable vector graphics. Recipes in this book teach you about some of the most useful time-saving features in Inkscape accompanied by a list of keyboard shortcuts that you can easily memorize. In addition to covering use of Inkscape tools and their advanced features, examples from the recipes uncover solutions to common graphics problems.

Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers

Author: Bethany Hiitola
Format: Paperback, 316pp
Publisher/Date: Packt Publishing / November 2010
ISBN-10: 1-84-951268-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-84951-268-8
Website: http://www.packtpub.com

Description: Learn to build your first website design using Inkscape. Create web page and desktop wallpapers with repeating pattern backgrounds and swirling designs. Incorporate icons and interactive maps on your website. Style and graphically manipulate text — from simple headings to shadowing, following paths, reflections, 3D effects, and more. Enhance your web pages using flowcharts, diagrams, and site maps and learn how to export them. Spruce it all up using animations.

A Guide To Inkscape

Author: Tavmjong Bah
Format: Paperback, 480pp
Publisher/Date: SourceForge Community Press / November 2009
ISBN-10: 0-13-705173-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705173-1
Website: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

Description: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Third Edition, is the guide to the Inkscape program, with coverage of versions 0.46 and 0.47. This authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations. With Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts.

The Book of Inkscape

Author: Dmitry Kirsanov
Format: Paperback, 476pp
Publisher/Date: No Starch Press/September 2009
ISBN-10: 1-59327-181-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-181-7
Website: http://nostarch.com

Description: In The Book of Inkscape, core Inkscape developer Dmitry Kirsanov shares his design experience and knowledge of Inkscape's inner workings as he walks you through the basics of using the program: drawing, working with objects, transformations and styling, adding text and shapes, and more. Kirsanov couples his detailed explanations with step-by-step tutorials that show you how to create business cards, animations, and technical and artistic drawings.

German

Inkscape. Professionelle Vektorgrafiken gestalten

Author: Uwe Schöler
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Publisher/Date: Addison-Wesley / February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-3-8273-2911-0
Website: http://www.addison-wesley.de

Description: The book is written with beginners and advanced users in mind and covers features of Inkscape 0.47. A CD attached to the book also contains several video tutorials specifically created for the book and sample files for the workshops in the book..

French

Inkscape efficace : Réussir ses dessins vectoriels

Author: Cédric Gémy
Format: Paperback, 280pp
Publisher/Date: Eyerolles / February 2009
ISBN-10: 2-21-212425-2
ISBN-13: 978-2-2121-2425-5
Website: http://www.eyrolles.com

Description: It is Cédric's second book after the commercially successful "GIMP Efficace". The book is quite good for beginners, because first 120 pages describe basic tools, color and transformations. The other part of the book is aimed rather at professional users and thoroughly describes how to be more efficient with Inkscape, how to do print jobs and how to do web oriented SVG even if coding is needed. When possible, Cédric tried to give advice to Adobe Illustrator users.

Inkscape : Apprenez, pratiquez, créez.

Author: Elisa de Castro Guerra
Format: Paperback, 256pp
Publisher/Date: Pearson France / October 2008
ISBN-10: 2-74-402276-4
ISBN-13: 978-2-7440-2276-0
Website: http://www.pearson.fr

Description: This book contains comprehensive explanations how to use Inkscape, while numerous examples and exercises will give you all the keys to master Inkscape, even if you're beginner. In this new edition, you'll also discover what's new in version 0.46, most stable version (introduction of 3D Box tool, additional handling of proprietary file formats, improved export to bitmaps or PDF, etc..), and the upcoming new features from 0.47.