Bring it up with Option > Align & Distribute, or Ctrl-Shift-A. This toolbox was very useful for centring the titles of my boxes. To snap to grid when you're resizing boxes, select the "snap bounding boxes" button, which is the second button on the far right toolbar. You want your boxes to line up, so select the "snap to grid" button from the top of the toolbar on the far right of the screen. I wanted 100 squares across on an A0 page, which is 841 mm, so I set the grid to 8.41 mm squares. It's a good idea to change Spacing X and Spacing Y to integer divisions of the page size - e.g. Then, tailor the grid to the size you want by going to File > Document Properties > Grids, or Ctrl-Shift-D > Grids. There are also some useful shortcuts for different zoom levels - 5 zooms out to show you the whole page and 1 gives you a 1:1 zoom.įirst, show the grid by going to View > Grid, or #. The shortcut to show/hide the scrollbars is Ctrl-B (you can see why I might have this issue.) I seem to constantly hide the scrollbars by accident. Go to File > Document Properties > Page, or Ctrl-Shift-D > Page. Mine was A0, which is an option in the list, but you can also enter custom values. One word of warning - I used the Linux version of Inkscape, and I'm not sure if everything's in the same menus for all versions.įirst things first: set the page size to your poster size. I'd used it previously for making some vector graphics, but I still learned a lot of new tricks in making this. I usually make my posters in LibreOffice Impress, but this time I had some trouble with Impress crashing and so finally decided to make the switch to Inkscape, a free vector graphics program which works on Linux, Mac and Windows. A photo posted by Beth McMillan on at 5:43am PDT
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