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Is it possible to use illustrator brushes in Inkscape? And if so how would you do it.
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Provided you have access to Illustrator (and not just the brush files), yes.
In Illustrator, start a new document and drag-n-drop your desired brush into it. Save as an SVG and import into Inkscape.
Before you can use the brush object on a path you may need to fiddle with it a bit because 'Pattern along path' expects a path not an object. For my test I had to ungroup the brush and combine it (for some reason 'union' made the brush complete disappear). This got me an inverted path (the pattern was cut out from a solid background) so I had to draw another shape and use 'difference' to get it back to how the brush should have been.
There might be an easier way.
D. Jones wrote:
Is it possible to use illustrator brushes in Inkscape? And if so how would you do it.
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Em 2007/05/29, às 12:39, microUgly escreveu:
Provided you have access to Illustrator (and not just the brush files), yes.
In Illustrator, start a new document and drag-n-drop your desired brush into it. Save as an SVG and import into Inkscape.
Before you can use the brush object on a path you may need to fiddle with it a bit because 'Pattern along path' expects a path not an object. For my test I had to ungroup the brush and combine it (for some reason 'union' made the brush complete disappear). This got me an inverted path (the pattern was cut out from a solid background) so I had to draw another shape and use 'difference' to get it back to how the brush should have been.
There might be an easier way.
Hm... I wish there was a brush tool in Inkscape :) It would certainly be easir to use than "Pattern along path". Is such a tool in the current development roadmap?
Victor Domingos (inkscaping from Braga, Portugal) http://lojamac.com/blog
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Victor Domingos wrote:
Hm... I wish there was a brush tool in Inkscape :) It would certainly be easir to use than "Pattern along path". Is such a tool in the current development roadmap?
Yeah, it's a part of Googles Summer of Code 2007 - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code#Live_Path_Eff...
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