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Adding strokes to your objects

Adding strokes to your objects - Inkscape Tutorial

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Adding strokes to your objects

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- [Instructor] One of the most basic kinds of formatting in vector drawing is applying strokes to objects. And in this movie, we'll look at how to do that and how to modify strokes in Inkscape. Here in my document I have a simple computer graphic and I'd like to apply a border around it, also called a stroke. So to do that, I'll use the fill and stroke dialogue and the second tab in the dialogue is stroke paint. Here I can choose the kind of stroke I want. I'll select my graphic and I can see that it currently has no stroke paint, or I could pick a flat color, a linear gradient, a radial gradient, a mesh gradient, a pattern, or a swatch and I can use the question mark here to unset the stroke which means that the object would have no stroke attribute of its own, although it could inherit a stroke attribute of a parent element in the XML code. And we'll see an example of how this can be useful in the movie about working with…

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