2006/4/26, Jairo Gonzalez <gonzalez.jairo@...400...>:

I know that the way to do shadows is using blur filter (in my graphics I do shadows exporting a png of the figure and I use gimp to make the blur effect) I only try to do a shadow using the tools available in inkscape today, for this reason I thing in the degrade attribute, it's a bad idea, sorry about that. the next time that I will write something here will be a good idea. I thing in use the border too, because y don't know how to do inside shadow. its all thanks

This is not a bad idea. I don't know exactly what you do with Gimp, but in my experience the details made this system difficult to implement. Maybe I'm just wrong with my focus, you find a way of doing things simpler and better.

So, there is a way of making this simple, using high level stuff only, but I'm not sure this will work fine in the edges. It could be that I'm so used to see threes I can't see the forest.

I encourage you, please, to prove that I'm wrong. :-) Inkscape code is too complex, but creating(programming) a basic svg, readable with inkscape is not. I'm currently reading "Learn SVG, The web Graphics Standar" FROST/GOESSNER/HIRTZLER and seems creating basic SVG are very simple.(a basic Inkscape SVG includes a lot of things)

Jose Hevia