Hello all, At the suggestion of a friend, I have downloaded and installed Inkscape on my home PC running Ubuntu. What I would like to use this program to do is to create maps. The maps in question would be maps of a fantasy world (like what you would find on the inside cover of a copy of The Hobbit). Inkscape looks like it would be able to pull this off fairly well, but I wanted to run the idea by the list to see if anyone had done this before. If so, do you have any suggestions on how to make the experience easier? I figure I can't be the first person to do this, so...
I have spent the last 18 months drawing maps with Inkscape and I find it very good. Not quite your type, one style like this http://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/74/article9.html and another more detailed that isn't publicly online, but I would send individual copies to anyone interested.
The main maps are now well over 2Mb for the .svg and have a 40Mb bitmap derived from national maps as background. It takes over 5 minutes to dump the final bitmap at 90dpi, but Inkscape has been very reliable despite this abuse.
Mike
reliable despite this abuse ;-)
Mike