Setting dimensions.
by John R. Culleton
The default dimension setting for the marginal scales in Inkscape is
in pixels which makes sense for most developmental work. But I
prefer to work in inches, since my finished products (book covers)
must be laid out very precisely in inches to get the spine to come
out right. Of course one can create the components in inkscape and
then stitch them together in e.g., Gimp, Scribus or even TeX. But I
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In
Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales
in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting
somewhere?
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16 years
Perspecitve.
by Paweł Gęga
Hi there,
Is there any way to apply perspective modification to some object? ..Like
skew?
Inkscape is the best but I can not find out how to apply such
modifications...
P.
16 years
Of Tutorials and Manners
by Aaron Elmquist
I need some input on the open source community on this one.
I ran across a simple but neat tutorial on gimptalk.com on how to do woven
tribal artwork with GIMP. I've since adjusted the method for inkscape and
put a short 5 step tutorial together on how to do the appropriate path
manipulations. I would like to post this somewhere. I have tried to contact
the original author "Clay Ogre" but have not received a reply. Would I be
stepping on anyone's toes if I posted this? If not where could I post it?
If so, I'll just keep it as a reference for myself.
~A
16 years
Gradient fill Quality (Linux user)
by Paweł Gęga
Hi there,
I would like to ask about inkscape gradient fill option.
When I use gradients I can easily recognise tone steps in the gradient
..especially when I am using few gredient filled objects with different
transparency levels.
What might be the reason ? I using Debian , Xorg 24 bit Color Depth.
When I draw the same picture under windows with AI or Photoshop the
gradients are more smooth.
Thanks, Paul
16 years
unable to copy objects between documents
by David L
Hi,
If I generate text from cairo and create an svg output, I'm able to
see the text from inkscape, but attempts to copy that text to a
new document fail. As an example, in the source code that
I provided in my previous post entitled "object size function of
page format?", an svg file is created with an "X" in the center of
of a square. If I copy the grouped object containing the square
and the "X" into a new document, only the square appears...
the X doesn't show up. Where did it go?
Thanks,
David
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16 years
Problem with Z order in basic tutorial
by John R. Culleton
Everything works as advertised until I get to the Section on Z-Order.
The altl+click and alt+drag either finds the green rectangle or the
whole page, which is not what is intended.
I use a fairly vanilla verson of Slackware Linux 11 and KDE 3.5. My
Inkscape alleges that it is Inkscape 0.45.
Cheers,
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16 years
Is there an Inkscape mascot or plans for one?
by Valerie VK
I apologize if there is and I simply didn't find it, but a google search
mostly turned up results for people using Inkscape to create mascots for
Other programs. XD
I'm wondering if there's an Inkscape mascot or discussions about one,
because I hope to make an Inkscape anime tutorial for my friends
eventually, and I thought it might be a good idea to somehow base the
design off of something from Inkscape. If Inkscape does not have a mascot
yet though, I'll just come up with a random design.
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16 years
Offtopic? Reading .qxd in Linux
by Kat Tanaka Okopnik
This isn't strictly Inkscape oriented.
I'm running an all-linux system, and I really need to read some of my
old work, which was saved in .qxd (Quark Xpress) format. Anyone out
there managed this with a *nix box?
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