Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating

Logos by Nick would not be the first tutorials I would suggest for a new user. Here's a page full of links to tutorials, organized by skill level: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php If you do use Nicks tutorials, please remember that the tool at the top of the tool box it NOT "the arrow tool". It is the "Selection tool"! All best, bryrnn -----Original Message----- From: K B Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:28 PM To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating Victor: Thank you! I did not know about the Logos by Nick videos. Ken On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:59 AM Victor Westmann <victor.westmann@...155...> wrote: Hi ken, Inkscape it is really amazing and can do a ton of things... you just have to take some time to learn it. I would say that watching the Channel "Logos by Nick" on youtube is a really good start. He teaches things from begin to end and teaches a lot of cool stuff. Wish you all the best, --Victor Westmann On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, K B <kmb999@...155...> wrote: C R: I guess I was looking to do some real simple basic stuff and came into a very robust program with many bells and whistles that made it more complicated and harder to learn. Wished they had a "Lite version" so I could get up and running right away. I am not a professional illustrator, just want to create fairly simple Line Designs. Ken On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:42 AM C R <cajhne@...155...> wrote: We are working hard to make it better and easier and more intuitive to use. You can certainly help our efforts by donation to the project - every little bit helps. In the meantime it's probably easier to learn Inkscape's quirks and just work around them for now. I've been using Inkscape as a professional designer for over 7 years now, and once you get the hang of it, it's not so bad. A lot of bugs have been fixed since I first started using it, and lots of new features added. Mostly I'm grateful for devs who have helped and continue to help solve problems, and help where I can, and for community members who help users and make videos on how to use Inkscape. Your feedback also helps, so thanks for bringing it to our attention! -C On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 10:27 K B, <kmb999@...155...> wrote: Brynn/CR: I agree with you 100%. I can still remember when I first used it; it was so frustrating! It did not preform like you think it would. I also was just trying to use the eraser, but it did not erase part of the image like I thought it would. If I had a lot of extra money, I would probably just start using Adobe's Illustrator. Ken On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:48 AM C R <cajhne@...155...> wrote: The problem is there is no agreed upon solution. But I think Inkscape should never draw an invisible object anyway. Particularly, 1. If both fill and stroke are set to none, Inkscape should resort to the Inkscape default setting of the bezier tool, which is black and white without dashed lines. Drawing an invisible shape is an error. 2. If the user modifies the line width, and the line is set to "none", Inkscape should set the colour of the line to the Inkscape default : black. I think this is a better solution than setting the default behaviour of Inkscape to a bad workflow - users should not be getting used to having to change the colour of the line and stroke each and every time they draw something. It is not intuitive because when you draw in real life you pick up a pen which is the colour you want and draw with it until you are done, then choose another colour when you want a different one. -C On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 07:59 K B, <kmb999@...155...> wrote: Hi, Brynn: Thank you for the Link about the Bug fix. Since Inkscape is free, maybe the creators are not very motivated to fix everything about it ? If it were a high price program like Adobe Illustrator, there would have enough money to pay programmers to fix it and make it better. Ken On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:47 PM brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote: Some developers may remember a message I posted to the mailing lists some time ago, maybe a year or 2 ago, asking to have at least some of the tools set for Own Style (by default) rather than Last Used, to prevent this kind of utter confusion among new users. At first, on the mailing list, some developers sort of hijacked it into their own different project. But ultimately (in a bug report) one developer suggested a reasonable solution. See this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1704777 If anyone else (developers) could chime in on that solution, perhaps we could get it coded into one of the next new versions, and prevent this type of headache for new users? Thank you very much, brynn -----Original Message----- From: K B Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 10:30 PM To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating All I want to do to begin with is draw a simple Line Circle. (white background with white inside the circle). But instead it draws a dashed-rectangle with (4) little squares. Two squares are on the rectangle and the other two are outside. So, I go into: Edit, Preferences and the Circle it not even listed under Shapes! Crazy. Does anybody know what I should do? Thank you. Ken