On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 10:18 -0500, Mike McNally wrote:
(using 0.47 nightly from a couple days ago, Ubuntu Linux)
How does one affect parameters for one of the pre-defined filters in the "Filter" pull-down menu? The Inkscape "Help" chapter about Filters bears little resemblance to the actual application; at least, it's certainly hard for me to tell what it's talking about when I look at what the application actually shows me. When I try to use any of the filters, I get a brief, blank pop-up dialog that shortly disappears, and then the filter takes effect with some canned parameters. I have to assume that the filters are actually configurable, but for the life of me I can't see how one does the configuration.
Open you have applied a pre-defined filter you can tweak it by opening up the Filter Editor dialog (at the bottom of the filters menu); see http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters.html for details on how to use. This is written for 0.46 but the dialog is pretty much the same in 0.47. Note that most of the pre-defined filters are rather complex and it may be difficult to understand exactly what is happening. Trial and error may be the best recourse.
Tav