

The SVG viewBox is a whole lot of magic rolled up in one little attribute. What you want is to set an aspect ratio for the image, and have the drawing scale to fit. You don’t actually want to set the exact height and width anyway, you want the SVG to scale to match the width and/or height you set in the CSS. Which, as mentioned above, will be either 150px or 100vh, depending on the browser. Of course, you’re not giving up on last year’s resolution to always use responsive design, so you set svg.banner will cancel out the dimensions and aspect ratio you set in the code, and give you the default height for inline SVG. You create a fabulous header logo in Inkscape and you copy and paste the SVG code it spits out into your WordPress header file. This year, you are going to start using SVG in your web designs. It’s not nearly as straightforward as scaling raster graphics, but that can be good, because it opens up interesting possibilities. Amelia and I both will be speaking on SVG at the upcoming RWD Summit as well! Here, she shares an epic guide to scaling SVG, covering all the ways you might want to do that. Amelia has lots of experience with SVG, as the co-author of SVG Essentials and author of the upcoming Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5.

Click below to see.The following is a guest post by Amelia Bellamy-Royds. Save as HTML Map and add links etc, to suit your needs. Save the file, and load it into inkscapemap, you should see something like this: It is very usefull to add meaningfull names to the polygons via properties to make it easier to add the links once the HTML Map has been created. Proceed to draw your polygons and make sure that they are closed.

Select the bezier tool, and check for straight lines so that you don’t accidentally create curves. (If you don’t your coordinates might not be perfectly aligned).Īdd another layer for the lines, and make the layer with the image a bit transparent so that it’s easy to see the lines you’ve drawn. Modify the page properties to match the size of the image, and the image properties to ensure it’s starts at position 0x0. Import the image into Inkscape using the Import command, linking the image rather than embedding it. How to create an image map using Inkscape and the ImageMap tool Getting startedįist prepare the image you would like to add an image map to.
