Re: [Inkscape-user] Word balloon tail fill question

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:24 -0400, Richard Querin wrote:

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:

    You could also try:

    - draw an ellipse
    - covert to a path (4 nodes)
    - edit nodes
    - select bottom and left or bottom and right node
    - click add node button twice
    - de-select all nodes
    - drag one of the new nodes out to make the tail

    Might be faster?

I don't know about faster, but that's a neat way of doing it. I had never thought of doing that. I just tried it and I can get some pretty neat tails off of it. The only difference is that I add 3 new nodes, make them all corner nodes, and then drag the middle one of the three downward to where i want it. You can then play with the node handles to get the shape you want.

Thanks for the tip.

It is faster to draw the ellipse, draw the tail making sure it overlaps the ellipse, select both and then menu Path->Union