Aaaaaaand an active mailing list with developers posting. God wants me to get addicted to this thing.
Have you been able to make good use of the grids and guidelines? Check out Shift-3 (aka #) to turn the grid (and snapping) on and off quickly. Very handy.
I was about to try that out later for some more demanding designs.. I definitely thought I would need the grid for things like rectangular panel design, but I found it was so incredibly easy to do just by holding ctrl with the bezier/line tool, I never needed the grid so far. Soon as I come to more demanding pages, I'll definitely turn on grid and snapping.
Btw, would there be an easy way of doing something like "Okay, I have a page, I want there to be black horizontal line at 20%, 20%, 40% and 20% of the page height and the first row should have vertical lines at 33.333% and 33.333%."? The way I did it now was just to look at coordinates, gave the page 600 pixels width and placed the vertical lines at 200 and 400 respectively.. is there a more convenient way of doing this? Especially if the percentages and widths should become more demanding for my poor brain..
Okay, I've downloaded your svg and played with exporting it. I'm not completely certain of the problem but can offer some observations/ideas.
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Daniel Díaz and Trent Buck wonderfully answered me already. It was just the white background of the page that was missing. Unless you think that's TOO simple, maybe we could put that into a FAQ on your Wiki? I have the unique perspective of 'clueless first time user', and boy do I feel valuable :P I'm just not too sure if that isn't TOO basic for a FAQ, which is why I haven't done anything to the Wiki yet.
Btw, for inspiration definitely check out Mental's Lunar 8 Comics: http://lunar8.rydia.net/ -- done with Inkscape and Batik.
Bryce
Oh yes I have. One of the first things I did. I asked a friend about SVG drawing programs (he has a birth defect: he knows everything. Seriously. Pulled the names sodipodi and inkscape out of his ass), so I browsed a bit and saw that comic. There went another few 'wow' moments. I was asking myself 'what great things could you do with this if you invested the time' while I was going through the two tutorials (btw, you might want to mention that 'select all' on one of the tutorials MIGHT take a while.. there was a passage that mentioned doing a select all, I tried it out with the tutorial still as my active document and Inkscape went unresponsive for ~30 seconds on my Athlon TB 1200 / 512MB RAM.. maybe it'd be good to mention that in the tutorial, of course there's a damn lot of 'all' to select), and when I saw that comic I did get a good idea of just what you can do. Except for one facial expression that just looked.. odd.. everything was damn perfect. The blurry figures moving through the forest.. wow.
You got a good piece of software going here, keep it up :)
Daniel