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Brianna Laugher
July 17, 2008
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Inkscape SVG workshop
Co-presented with Adam Hyde at Wikimania 2008.
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July 17, 2008
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Inkscape SVG workshop Adam Hyde & Brianna Laugher Alexandria, Wikimania
2008 1
Introduction: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/ 2
3 Introduction: FLOSS Manuals http://en.flossmanuals.net/ Inkscape booksprint http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape
Introduction: Scalable Vector Graphics 4
Introduction: Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ (sudo apt-get install inkscape) 5
[[Image:Capillary Attraction Repulsion (PSF).jpg]]
[[Commons:Pearson Scott Foresman]] Educational publisher donated 16 boxes of illustrations
to the Wikimedia Foundation (=>PD) Scanning + image optimising = huge manual work! 7
Open Inkscape File > Import... File > Document Properties Path
> Trace Bitmap... with Brightness cutoff 0.95 (see also Help > Tutorials > Tracing) Delete PNG element 8
Create text elements Create closed Bezier curve Object > Fill
and stroke Colour white Copy, Paste in place Apply pattern fill – polka dots, large 9
Save as plain SVG View in Firefox 10
Upload to Wikimedia Commons Provide metadata! (Can use DerivativeFX tool)
[[Category:Fluid dynamics]] 11
SVG Translate http://toolserver.org/~nikola/ svgtranslate.php 12
MediaWiki SVG rendering issues 13
Uploading a new version of a file 14
15 Purging image cache Commons [[Special:Preferences]]:
16 What next? Graphics Lab (Commons, Wikipedias) Image requests Documentation