Terry,

It's Xara Xtreme, and yes it's a very nice feature. Then again is being able to do 3D bevels with a single click.

~Aaron

On 5/7/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:

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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:50:15AM -0700, Tony Vigil wrote:

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Hi!

This comes a day late and possibly a dollar short, but maybe it could be useful all the same.

I created this blood spat as a personal Inkscape learning exercise.

http://soundnvision.homestead.com/files/blood_splat.svg

Let me know if you think a tutorial worth doing.

I think a tutorial would be good. I also wonder if this effect could be done automatically with a plugin. The other vector editor whose name escapes me, begins with X, it can make these sort of 3D relief things very easily. Of course it's not constrained to SVG constructs.

But how about this as a way for Inkscape to make the dark and light blured paths that give the edge relief automatically.

• break the path up into small pieces, either the way 'Add nodes'

does, or by an algorithm that uses more points in curving areas than straight areas. i.e. add nodes and then break this new path up into pieces, one for each internode

• assign blurred white, nothing, or blurred black to these new

pieces, based on the angle of piece and the desired illumination angle. You'd need to keep track of outside and inside, not too hard.

I think this basic approach would generate the kind of 3d Tony's acheived here by hand?

An optional inset or outset on the blurred lines would change the apparent profile of the 3d edge, too.

Cheers -Terry

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On May 10, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Joop B. Buker wrote:

Recently we installed Inkscape, since my son likes to draw and design.

Now he experiences the following. Around every selected object a big white square is present and the handles are not on the object anymore but at some distance. See image

<Inkscape handles.png>

He cannot find how to restore the original settings. He de- installed Inkscape and made a new installation but the problem stays. What must he do?

It appears to me that the problem is just that the stroke of the rectangle has been changed to a thick white one. It would be hard to tell the difference between the white of the stroke and the white of the background. To verify this is the problem, you could draw a second, larger rectangle over the same spot and then send it to the back using the select tool.

To correct that, just select the rectangle and then bring up the "Fill and Stroke" dialog. The "Stroke Paint" tab can be used to select a color other than white, and the "Stroke Style" tab can be used to change the thickness.

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:43:27AM -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:

It appears to me that the problem is just that the stroke of the rectangle has been changed to a thick white one. It would be hard to tell the difference between the white of the stroke and the white of the background. To verify this is the problem, you could draw a second, larger rectangle over the same spot and then send it to the back using the select tool.

I usually set the document properties to have the background be magenta (a color I don't use much), so I can tell when things like that happen