Inkscape resources to take you from newbie to power user

Inkscape

The vector editor Inkscape is what some might call a best-kept-secret among open source projects — in part, because few people outside the graphic design community have any experience working with vector artwork; also, in part, because it’s so powerful that it can seem intimidating at first blush. Here are a collection of Inkscape resources you may find helpful in learning Inkscape and in expanding your skill set.

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Free President Clip Art For President’s Day

Abe Lincoln Clip Art

Celebrate President’s Day by using and making clip art of President’s like Good Ole Abe! Worldlabel friends Open Clip Art Library are trying to collect and give away as much clip art of Presidents from around the world this month as part of their latest 2.9 release.

You can use these images completely for free on your labels, websites, and other image needs. Its free for any use!

Check out the Fabricatorz blog post for full details on the new-and-improved OCAL!

This Open Clip Art Library Release Announcement is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional label manufacturer.

Chinese New Year Labels – the Year of the Rabbit

Chinese new year labels

Chinese New Year Labels for free to download in PDF templates. This year celebrates the Year of the Rabbit. Designed by The Shy Socialites are here and ready for you to print on your laser and inkjet printers. Two designs sets are available and are free for your personal use only:

1) Elegent Year of the Rabbit Labels, use these size labels:

Round label stickers WL-6000 1.2″ circle

Water Bottle Labels WL-5925

Address Labels WL-875 (Avery® 5160 sized)

CD Labels (Neato sized) WL-5000

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE SET OF ELEGANT LABELS

2) Cute Year of the Rabbit Labels, use these size labels:

Address Labels WL-875 (Avery® 5160 sized)

Water Bottle Labels WL-5925

Round label stickers WL-6000 1.2″ circle

Oval Labels WL-6050, 3.91″ x 1.33″

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE SET OF CUTE LABELS

Valentine’s day labels & Stickers: Critter Love by InkTreePress

Critter Love

These amazingly cute printable Valentine’s Day Labels and stickers were designed and illustrated by Erin from InkTreePress and are free for your own personal use. Download them for free in a PDF Template and print them on your laser and inkjet printers.

Use label sizes WL-775 and round labels size 2″ circle for printing.

DOWNLOAD BOTH TEMPLATES HERE

Round Labels in a vintage style design

Cathe Holden from justsomethingimade.com has designed an exceptionally beautiful vintage label set printable on our blank Round Labels in 2.5″ size. Free for download – Free for your personal use only.

Vintage Round Labels

Free printable round labels for your laser and inkjet printers. Available in red, black, light brown, blue, green and a dark red design.

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Valentine Labels to Print, Love Birds Label Set

Your free fillable Valentine’s labels Love Birds Label Set designed by The Shy Socialites are here and ready for you to print on your laser and inkjet printers.

Love Birds Label Set

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Be Your Own Tech Support: 8 Free PC Troubleshooting Apps That Work

Are you the resident computer expert among your family or friends? If so, there may come a time this holiday season where at some point between dinner and dessert someone asks you to troubleshoot their ailing computer. Take a few minutes to get familiar with these free, open source repair tools and load them on a USB flash drive. You can diagnose and fix many pesky computer problems in the time it takes to clear the dinner table, and look like a hero by the time coffee is served.

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Label & Card printing resources with TeX and LaTeX

Fans of OpenOffice, Abiword, and KOffice, and Scribus dominate the open source document printing discussion, because traditional office suites and desktop publishing apps account for the lion’s share of the pages in our paper trays. But for a lot of old-school typesetters and writers, nothing in the WYSIWYG realm can hold a candle to the performance and flexibility of TeX, and its popular LaTeX and BibTeX derivatives. Although TeX is most often used to create structured documents like research papers, it can be used to generate any document type — including specialty items. For the unfamiliar, here are some resources for using TeX to print envelopes, labels, badges, and cards.

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Holiday Labels – Holiday Label Templates Free Printable

Holiday Labels

Here are some outstanding Holiday Labels in printable templates illustrated / designed by the Shy.Socialites. There are several sets:

  • Large Shipping Labels
  • Cute small round labels with holiday ornaments for seals or stickers
  • Holiday address labels are adorable.
  • Holiday gift tags
  • Candy stick tags
  • CD / DVD label
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