Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (4th Edition)

Tavmjong Bah, "Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (4th Edition)"
Pr ntice H ll | 2011 | ISBN: 0132764148 | 504 pages | File type: PDF | 29,1 mb

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition, is the guide to the Inkscape program. With coverage of versions 0.47 and 0.48, this authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations.Using Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer 9. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is available free for Windows,Macintosh, and Linux operating systems.

Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape program begins with twelve tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to highly complex. A new tutorial introduces the use of interactive SVG in HTML5.The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail, with an emphasis on practical solutions for common problems. The book is filled with valuable tips and warnings about the use of Inkscape and SVG. Find dozens of Inkscape illustrations from the book in the online color supplement available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/.

Updated for Inkscape version 0.48, this edition includes complete coverage of new features, including the new Spray Tool, updated Node and Text tools, improved bitmap image import, LaTeX export for PDF/EPS/PS, added extensions including the JessyInk extension for web-based presentations, the adaptive UI, and the new Glyphs dialog.

Complete Coverage of New and Improved Inkscape 0.48 Features

Live Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editability

More than two hundred pre-built SVG filters for adding textures, manipulating color, and so forth

A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetries

Clipping and Masking objects

An integrated spell checker

Built-in bitmap-to-vector tracing

The ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats, including PDF and PostScript

The ability to import from more than two dozen graphics formats, including PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, AutoCad, and XFig Graphics

Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard

Three path-drawing tools (Pencil, Pen, Calligraphy)

Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars, Spirals, 3D Boxes)

Linear and Radial Gradients

Pattern fills

Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths and colors

Spray Tool

Eraser Tool with both Vector and Bitmap modes

Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing and aligning objects

Extendable through scripting; more than one hundred scripts included

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Algebra for College Students, 9th Edition

Kaufmann and Schwitters have built this text’s reputation on clear and concise exposition, numerous examples, and plentiful problem sets. This traditional text consistently reinforces the following common thread: learn a skill; practice the skill to help solve equations; and then apply what you have learned to solve application problems. This simple, straightforward approach has helped many students grasp and apply fundamental problem solving skills necessary for future mathematics courses. Algebraic ideas are developed in a logical sequence, and in an easy-to-read manner, without excessive vocabulary and formalism. The open and uncluttered design helps keep students focused on the concepts while minimizing distractions. Problems and examples reference a broad range of topics, as well as career areas such as electronics, mechanics, and health, showing students that mathematics is part of everyday life. The text’s resource package–anchored by Enhanced WebAssign, an online homework management tool–saves instructors time while also providing additional help and skill-building practice for students outside of class.

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Roger Langridge's Snarked #0 (2011)

CBZ (Minutemen-DTs) | BOOM! | Aug 3 2011 | 24 Pages | 21.67 MB

Nonext great Roger Langridge comic begins as he brings Lewis Carroll's imaginative world to new heights in a side-splitting adventure that can only be explained as Snarked! Presenting a fresh and incredibly modern Langridgean spin on an already-warped classic, the Snarked epic adventure starts here with an all new, all original 8 page story featuring The Walrus and The Carpenter from Through the Looking Glass, the same Walrus that inspired the Beatles song 'I Am the Walrus.' This special includes a full issue's worth of back matter that dives deep into the world of Snarked with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the new series.

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Advertising Promotion and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, 8th Edition

The eighth edition of Shimp’s market-leading ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, AND OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS fully integrates all aspects of marketing communication. While continuing to focus on the time honored IMC methods, the text reflects new academic literature and practitioner developments in the field. Some reorganization along with comprehensive treatment on the fundamentals of advertising and promotion are the focus of the revision. Changes include earlier coverage of new brands (ch. 3), the latest in various forms of Internet advertising (ch. 13), a new chapter (18) on PR and word-of-mouth management, and expanded coverage environmental issues regarding global warming and sustainability in a newly-organized ethics chapter (21).

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John Wilsons Dream Fishing | Ebook

John Wilsons Dream Fishing
English | MPEG | 720x576 | 6000kbps | 25fps | PCM | 192kbps | 2.98 GB
Genre: Elearning

Thisbrand new series see angling legend John Wilson strike out to beautifullocations all over the world in search of an impressive variety ofdemanding fish species. From huge Barbel, Carp, and Pike to frighteningBlue Sharks and Mekong Catfish, Dream Fishing promises over six hours ofspectacular fights using a diverse range of fishing disciplines andtechniques.

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Spiderman & Black Cat The Evil That Man Do (complete) | Comic

Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do is a six-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics starring the superhero Spider-Manand his ally, the cat burglar known as the Black Cat. The title of the book is an allusion to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. In the play, Mark Antony says, with regards to Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."

Writer/director Kevin Smith began writing the Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do limited series in 2002. Smith was originally going to take over writing Amazing Spider-Man after the completion of the mini-series, which would serve as a lead-in. After the third issue, the series went on an unplanned hiatus until 2005, when Smith revealed he had finally finished writing the scripts.[1] Smith has stated "While I have zero defense for my lateness (particularly when folks like Bendis turn out great stories in multiple books on a monthly basis), I will say this: It's a much better story now than it would've been had I completed it back in '02."

Smith was heavily criticised for his lateness, being considered both lazy and unethical for having been paid for something he had failed to deliver.[citation needed] However, in January 2006 Smith revealed that due to his own failure to submit the relevant paperwork, Marvel's then-newly computerized system for paying writers for their scripts had not created the relevant cheque. Smith did not discover this until after completing the series, and so did not in fact receive any payment at all for his work until it had been finished; in his own words, "Justice, in some weird manner, has been served, I guess."

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Spiderman Soul of The Hunter | Comic

Due to the success of this story, a sequel of sorts was published in August 1992 as a 48-page prestige format graphic novel titled Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter (ISBN 0-87135-942-1), written again by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Mike Zeck, with inks by Bob McLeod. In this story, Spider-Man is confronted by Kraven's ghost. Unsure what to make of this apparition, Spider-Man goes to Kraven's grave, where he sees an apparition that appears to be Death. Death tells Spider-Man that he and Kraven share a spiritual bond, and that Kraven's soul cannot find the peace it craves because of Kraven's suicide. Spider-Man is then forced to confront Kraven's body from the grave. Spider-Man appears to be ready to submit to allowing himself to be dragged down with the body, but then fights back and makes his way back to the surface. Having done so, he has freed Kraven's soul and allowed it to find its final rest.

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Top 5 free Java ebooks

1. The Java Language Specification, Third Edition

Download : http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/
Author : James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha
Description : The Java Language Specification, Third Edition - Written by the inventors of the technology, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the language's constructs, this is the source for you.

The book provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java programming language. It provides full coverage of all new features added in since the previous edition including generics, annotations, asserts, autoboxing, enums, for each loops, variable arity methods and static import clauses.

2. Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition

Download : http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/downloads.html
Author : Bruce Eckel
Description : Perfect for migrating to Java from a fellow object-oriented language (such as C++), the second edition of Thinking in Java continues the earlier version's thoughtful approach to learning Java inside and out, while also bringing it up to speed with some of the latest in Java 2 features. This massive tutorial covers many of the nooks and crannies of the language, which is of great value in the programming world.

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Thinking in Java, 3rd edition is still free, but you need to pay for the latest 4th edition.

3. The Java Tutorial 4th Edition

Download : http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
Author : Sharon Zakhour, Scott Hommel, Jacob Royal, Isaac Rabinovitch, Tom Risser, Mark Hoeber
Description : Accurate and up-to-date Java tutorials, and you can download the entire Java tutorials in bundle.

4. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Second Edition

Download : http://pdf.coreservlets.com/
Author : Marty Hall and Larry Brown
Description : Complete and detailed coverage of using Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP).

5. Introduction to Programming Using Java, Sixth Edition

Download : http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/
Author : David J. Eck
Description : Good book for beginning programmers, and might also be useful for experienced programmers.

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Excel 2010 for Business Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Business Problems | Ebooks

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach business statistics effectively.  It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical business problems.  If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you. 

Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in business courses.  Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past.  However, Excel 2010 for Business Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Business Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.

Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand business problems.  Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix.  Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction | Ebooks

This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.

• Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars
• Arranged in 3 volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field
• Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngūgī Wa Thiong’o) and their key works
• Covers the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile)

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