Greetings.
In article <473D1514.9070807@...155...>, Ryan Lerch wrote:
What would be the best way of simulating the impression made by an old inked rubber stamp?
Nicu has a tutorial for this exact effect: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/rubber_stamp_inkscape/
The end part of this tutorial also shows how to use "grunge brushes" in inkscape... http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/shattered-smashed-text-tutorial/
Thanks for those. I found the second one gave much better results than the first, though the resulting file size is huge if one applies a complex brush too many times. Does Inkscape (or SVG) not allow one to define a named object once and then reuse it multiple times? It looks as if every time I pasted the object, Inkscape wrote a new copy of it to the file.
I also came across http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/181/en/ which, while it isn't specific to Inkscape, is general enough to adapt to it. It's similar to the method shown in the second tutorial you mention.
Regards, Tristan