On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Daniel Klein wrote:
Yesterday I tried, to amuse myself, making a mockup panelling for a comic that I'm working on with a visual artist (you guessed it - I mostly do the words :P).. it's incredible how painful proper layout with CSS can be. As these things go, 'to amuse myself' turned into a holy crusade and I would not rest until I could churn out professional layout mockups by the dozen. So I got Inkscape.
For cartoon work, you may eventually want to do text bubbles. They're easy to make:
1. Draw an ellipse, box, star, or box-with-curved-corners 2. Draw a curvy triangle type shape 3. Set the fill for both of the above to white and border to a black stroke 4. Make the two shapes overlap 5. Select both the shapes and do Path->Union
Getting the text to fit within the bubble is a bit more challenging... I find it's easier to write the text first, and then make the bubbles match the size subsequently.
Bryce