Aaron,
Thanks for the reply. I did see some of that discussion in the archives and it probably would help on the editing end.
At the moment, though, I'm mostly interested in figuring out how to optimally configure/use Inkscape to do line art as naturally as possible. Right now I'm tweaking the calligraphy tool (because it seems the most promising avenue) and I'm getting fairly limited pressure response on windows xp with my wacom graphire3. I've looked at the online docs and believe I've understood and followed the Inkscape settings directions, but I still get suboptimal response. For instance, the width of my lines seems fairly constrained by the calligraphy tool width setting even though I have tablet pressure set to on. So I'm having a heck of a time finding a setting that gives me both a nice tapered finish to the line, yet still gives me some decent width in the middle of the stroke, if you see what I mean. And my lines seem too shaky regardless of the tolerance setting (or whatever it's called - can't remember as I type this). The end result is that, at this stage, I'm spending too much time node editing the lines I've drawn.
In contrast, I also have Expression 3 and it handles line art really well, and in a fairly natural way. I realize that this is an unfair comparison, of course, but I'd like to figure out how to tweak the Inkscape settings (if possible) to get as close to the Expression response as I can. (Mostly because I'd love to do away with my MS apps.)
I'm hoping that I'm just missing some basics and that somebody can point them out to me. And I realize it's also possible that Inkscape isn't designed (yet) to do what I'm wanting to do.
Thanks again,
Matt
Aaron Digulla wrote:
There was the idea floating around that stroking close to an existing path would adjust it instead of creating a new one. This way, you could quickly fix misstrokes. Maybe that would help?