Inkscaping for Fun and Profit

Over the past few years I've presented different versions of this talk.

•  Linux Users of Victoria - http://www.luv.asn.au/
•  Ballarat Linux Users Group - http://www.blug.asn.au/
•  Melbourne Novell Users Group - http://www.mnug.org.au/
•  at linux.conf.au as a workshop
•  at VITTA, QSITE, CEGSA & ECAWA conferences for teachers
• at the Melbourne University "techtalk" forum.

It's gradually improved with each rendition.

Download the ODP [3.8 mb] or PDF [2.16 mb] of the slides.

Here are the references at the end of the slides for easy access:

Basic Info (+ download and examples) 

http://inkscape.org/ - Official website

Wikipedia on Inkscape
Art and Examples from wikimedia commons
Inkscape Favourites from Deviant Art

Download Inkscape
- For Windows, MacOS Leopard, & Tiger, and the latest dev ubuntu .deb and there are packages for various fedora and suse versions, and you should be able to just apt-get, yum or yast as required.

Techniques, Tips, Tricks & Tutorials

Text Tricks
Range of Tutorials at Wordpress
Path Operations
Illustration Tutorial from Red Hat High
Screencasts from Heathen X
10 Good Inkscape Vector Tutorials

Tiled Clones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015nsSE9Y-s

Bezier curves

Raikar Designs blog on Bezier Curves
Wikipedia Entry on Bezier Curve

Network Diagrams

http://openclipart.org/people/skadge/skadge_SVG_widgets_for_diagrams.svg

Pretty network diagrams and flow charts with Open Source software
10 tips for creating good looking diagrams using inkscape