On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:57, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
If you know of any program that can (semi-)automatically create those kinds of hatchings, I'd love to know. As for importing from the gimp, if it's just a bitmap it will still be just a bitmap when imported. You might have some luck with tracing such bitmaps though (so if you manage to get a nice bitmap with a hatching, you be able to import it and get a decent trace of it so that you alter it in Inkscape).
There is such a program (of course), and it can even export SVG. It's called R, and apart from the fact it's a statistical programming environment which has a steep learning curve, on the bright side it's open source and therefore available. The graphics engine was developed at the Bell Laboratories and it is widely viewed as having the most flexible (end beautiful) graphics around. Just google for R, the first link will take you there.
Hope this helps, Adrian