hello,
i've been using inkscape to colour in cartoons. i've been doing this by drawing a block of colour behind the outline, select both and use the path division tool to seperate the excess colour from the bit i want to keep. the problem is that the division tool cuts the outline down to fit the colour. i've had to duplicate the outline first and use that to do the division, then clean up the remnants of the duplicated outline. this is obviously a slow and painful way of working.
what i need is a path tool that does the division thing on the lower vector (the colour) without affecting the upper vector (the outline). is there such a path tool? if not, would it be hard to implement? maybe it could be done with a script or something?
thanks. john michaelson.
j michaelson wrote:
hello,
i've been using inkscape to colour in cartoons. i've been doing this by drawing a block of colour behind the outline, select both and use the path division tool to seperate the excess colour from the bit i want to keep. the problem is that the division tool cuts the outline down to fit the colour. i've had to duplicate the outline first and use that to do the division, then clean up the remnants of the duplicated outline. this is obviously a slow and painful way of working.
what i need is a path tool that does the division thing on the lower vector (the colour) without affecting the upper vector (the outline). is there such a path tool? if not, would it be hard to implement? maybe it could be done with a script or something?
I have often wondered about something similar too, but I doubt it would be worth it. I don't know how often you do this, but duplicating an object can be done with one key press (Ctrl+D).
hello jasper,
thanks for the ctrl-d tip, but i'm still left with the problem of cleaning up all the little scraps of the duplicated outline after path division has done it's work.
i think a new path tool would be worthwhile. until inkscape gets a bucket fill tool i'm left with the choice of painstakingly drawing in the colour fill by hand or using division on a duplicated outline and then spending ages tidying up afterwards. both of these methods are time consuming and unpleasant.
i don't know anything about programming or scripting, but i imagine this wouldn't be too hard to do. the path tool i suggested would simply be a version of the division tool with some bits cut out, so there wouldn't be any new functionality required, just a bit of pruning.
john michaelson.
On 5/4/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
j michaelson wrote:
hello,
i've been using inkscape to colour in cartoons. i've been doing this by drawing a block of colour behind the outline, select both and use the path division tool to seperate the excess colour from the bit i want to keep. the problem is that the division tool cuts the outline down to fit the colour. i've had to duplicate the outline first and use that to do the division, then clean up the remnants of the duplicated outline. this is obviously a slow and painful way of working.
what i need is a path tool that does the division thing on the lower vector (the colour) without affecting the upper vector (the outline). is there such a path tool? if not, would it be hard to implement? maybe it could be done with a script or something?
I have often wondered about something similar too, but I doubt it would be worth it. I don't know how often you do this, but duplicating an object can be done with one key press (Ctrl+D).
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vector (the colour) without affecting the upper vector (the outline). is there such a path tool? if not, would it be hard to implement? maybe it could be done with a script or something?
I have often wondered about something similar too, but I doubt it would be worth it. I don't know how often you do this, but duplicating an object can be done with one key press (Ctrl+D).
Another alternative, perhaps of more general use, would be a tool or script that takes the current object, duplicates it without bringing the duplicate to the front in stacking order, and turns off the stroke on the rear object and the fill on the back object. In other words, it splits a given object into a fill object and a stroke object. You could then go on to cut up either one of those, or to place objects between the fill and the stroke (something I find myself doing a lot), or to adjust the path of the stroke object so it doesn't quite fit the fill (for a sort of hand-coloured effect), or anything else you might be able to think of.
OTOH, it does strike me as a minor action that just speeds up workflow without adding any new capabilities, so it would probably be best to implement it as a script and let the user assign a key-combo to it if he wishes, rather than bloating out the core program.
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