Tutorials and help
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Unofficial tutorials
- Making Icons (en)
- http://programmer-art.org/inkscape currently down video-tutorials planned. (en)
- Furboa-Tutorial (en)
- Icon Creation, devianart.com-mini-Tutorial, without text
- Cartoon Effekt] Inkscape and Gimp (en)
- Glossy Triangle (sodipodi)
- article about how to create Icons (en)
- Tutorial for product illustration using Inkscape. (en)
- Silhouette-tutorial inkscape-forum.de, (de)
- Glassbutton-tutorial inkscape-forum.de, (de)
- Video about ikscape, avi
- How-to do an illustration with Inkscape from A to Z. (en)
- Comment faire une illustration de A à Z avec inkscape. (fr), same as above
- Beginner tutorial (en)
- Pour grands débutants (fr)
Help & helpful articles
- Inkscape TutorialIdeas
- Inkscape Vector Graphics pdf, by Peter Kreussel (en)
- Inkscape Vector Graphics, by Peter Kreußel (de), same as above
- art-weblog with inkscape-category (en)
- Andy's weblog with inkscape-category (de)
- Popolongraphical Blog (fr, en)
- Flashvideo about drawing with the pen-tool and Bezier curves (en)
- Flashvideo about creating gradients (en)
- some annotations about "Flowing Text, Portable SVG Files & Producing A4-pdf-files (en)
- Portugese Inscape Manual zipped svg (0.40)] (pt)
- Inkscape: Vector Graphics For Linux Rob, Reilly (en)
- Bezier Curves And The Different Kinds Of Anchor Points (en)
- article about inkscape, Bruce Byfield, brandnew! (en)
- Creating vector graphics with Inkscape by Rosanna Yuen, redhat.com (en)
Creating New Tutorials
Easy way:
- Load up one of the existing tutorials
- Replace its text and images with your own
- Upload it to the Patch Tracker. Make SURE to click the "Upload and Attach a File" checkbox!
Official way:
- Create a DocBook XML file like the Basic Tutorial DocBook
- Follow directions in the tutorial directory README for formatting and handling of embedded non-SVG images
- Create a subdirectory in the doc-docbook module and place the new tutorial docbook file there
- Test tutorial generation using the `make-html`, `make-svg`, and `make-all` scripts
- Announce the availability of the new tutorial