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Inkscape Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  Inkscape Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517201
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Bethany Hiitola Bethany Hiitola
Profile icon Bethany Hiitola

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Vector Graphics 2. Installing and Opening Inkscape 3. How to Manage Files 4. Creating your First Graphics 5. How to Work with Layers 6. Building Objects 7. Using Paths 8. How to Style Text 9. Using Filters 10. Extensions in Inkscape 11. Working with Images 12. Using the XML Editor A. Where to Find More Information B. Keyboard Shortcuts
C. Glossary of Terms
D. Pop quiz Answers Index

Time for action — using the XML Editor to change object characteristics

Here's how you would use the XML Editor to change heading text to a specific web color:

  1. Open up the XML Editor (or an SVG authoring tool) and open your website file.
  2. Find the headings you want to change. To do this, find text objects that match what you are looking for. Programmers may have named all of these HeadingXX, where XX is a number to identify each of them.
    Time for action — using the XML Editor to change object characteristics
  3. Expand the object and find the style attribute.
    Time for action — using the XML Editor to change object characteristics
  4. Then look for the fill information and change that web color to the new gray one: 4d4d4d.
    Time for action — using the XML Editor to change object characteristics
  5. Click on Set.

What just happened?

You changed the heading text characteristics so that it is now gray in color, as seen in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

You can even write scripts that are able to automatically search and find all heading IDs (as described in step number 2) and change them! Work with your programming team if you want to learn how to do this. Lots of tools can help you learn the XML/SVG code side of this...

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