If you know of any program that can (semi-)automatically create those kinds of hatchings, I'd love to know. As for importing from the gimp, if it's just a bitmap it will still be just a bitmap when imported. You might have some luck with tracing such bitmaps though (so if you manage to get a nice bitmap with a hatching, you be able to import it and get a decent trace of it so that you alter it in Inkscape).
On 11-09-11 11:01, Tom Sparks wrote:
thanks, :( what about using other programs like gimp and importing them into inkscape?
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From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...206...> To: Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks@...1402...>; Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2011 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] shaded hatching
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 23:59 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
I have read Drawing a smiley face, part 3 [1] How do I do shaded hatching like in the image at wikipedia.org[2] ?
[1] http://wiki.evilmadscience.com/Drawing_a_smiley_face,_part_3 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching
Hatchings like those done by Durer are not easy. The best way I have found is to use the Calligraphy tool with the hatching option:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Calli...
You can use the Tweek tool to thin out the lines or to make them irregular (do a little bit each time as the tool tends to be unstable... you can use the node tool to fix small problems).
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tweak-Paths.html
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