Updated: This tutorial has been updated and enhanced, so be sure to check it out again!
Here is another great tutorial for everyone’s favourite open source vector graphics editor. (that would be inkscape…)
Today’s tutorial outlines a basic workflow for creating, tweaking and exporting icons with inkscape. If you need some more icon tutorials check out the icon category
January 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm |
I thought you´d teach how to build an icon from scratch instead of showing how its done to export a ready one… but its also nice to have this feature native in the new Inkscape version! ^^
January 15, 2008 at 10:22 pm |
i think the author’s purpose for that tutorial was to show the basic workflow in inkscape for icon creation.
There are a few tutorials already listed on this blog that show different ways of actually drawing the icons:
http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/category/icons/
February 8, 2008 at 8:01 am |
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February 8, 2008 at 8:02 am |
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April 6, 2008 at 4:06 pm |
now i downloading the soft
i will try it and come back for update you
April 30, 2008 at 7:24 am |
I could not find any e-Mail address of the author, so I post it here, The way to do it without awk is like this:
$ svg=/home/nugget/xxx.whatever.svg
$ file=”$(basename “$svg”)”
$ echo “$file”
$ name=”${file%.*}”
$ echo “$name”
Hannes
August 30, 2008 at 10:12 pm |
thank you hannes for help.
February 17, 2009 at 11:36 pm |
I got a problem using the bitmap export of inkscape.
I draw my icons with a document size of 32×32px.
The I export them to png of size 16×16px. The DPI-Size is set to 45 automatically.
When I open import such a png into MS Word, Word enlarges the icon to the size of approximatively 32×32px.
When I manually edit the dpi of such a png to be 90dpi (by using irfanview for example), MSWord correctly imports the icon.
Why is there a fixed correlation between the icon size and the dpi? Why can’t I export a 16×16 png with a 90dpi from a 32×32px document?
February 20, 2009 at 10:01 pm |
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February 22, 2009 at 12:26 am |
What I’d liked to of seen is actually making icon files with the multiple sizes embedded, the process I use with The Gimp is hideous.
April 16, 2009 at 2:56 am |
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April 18, 2009 at 6:38 pm |
i am happy that i came here
June 21, 2009 at 5:45 am |
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