Complex Shapes, Flowing Text and Justification
Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie to Inkscape, but so far am really impressed. It's one hell of a product, even though it's not v1.0 yet.
As with all such projects, it's sometimes hard for us newbies to get to grips with things because of a lack of examples and documentation. Since I've been struggling for a couple of days, I thought I'd write up how to create complex shapes, flow text into shapes and get text to be justified. Clearly, for most users this isn't rocket science, but it might save another new user a bit of time.
All the fun is at http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape (including, importantly, an SVG example).
If the Inkscape community wants to use my example for anything, then by all means do so. Obviously, correct any mistakes or make improvements along the way!
Cheers,
...Ralph Bolton
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I wonder if any in the group has used a wacom table with Inkscape in a lunix environment. Any feedback?
thank you Ciro
I´m going to try it when I buy mine in a month or something....then I´ll send some info about it
--- Ciro Soto <cirosoto@...155...> escribió:
I wonder if any in the group has used a wacom table with Inkscape in a lunix environment. Any feedback?
thank you Ciro
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On 8/4/05, Ciro Soto <cirosoto@...155...> wrote:
I wonder if any in the group has used a wacom table with Inkscape in a lunix environment. Any feedback?
Wacom Graphire3 works perfectly with Inkscape. Only as a generic pointing device. Pressure sensitivity and other stuff is not supported yet. AFAIR it needs creating a new instrument with some known underlying math algorithms. This will be implemented one day.
Alexandre
On Thursday 4 August 2005 02:22, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/4/05, Ciro Soto <cirosoto@...155...> wrote:
I wonder if any in the group has used a wacom table with Inkscape in a lunix environment. Any feedback?
Wacom Graphire3 works perfectly with Inkscape. Only as a generic pointing device. Pressure sensitivity and other stuff is not supported yet. AFAIR it needs creating a new instrument with some known underlying math algorithms. This will be implemented one day.
Thanks for the information regarding the Graphire3. I thought it was me screwing things up :-)
Jef
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 07:24 +0200, Jean-Francois Lemaire wrote:
Thanks for the information regarding the Graphire3. I thought it was me screwing things up :-)
We also have a Grpahire 3 and it was literally plug and play on FC3. But again, as a generic device.
Some have said you install it "as a Generic device" .... meaning what? Can't I use thicker lines, colors, etc? or is it that I ONLY lose the 'pressure sensitive" feature?
ciro
On 8/4/05, David Bolack <dbolack@...940...> wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 07:24 +0200, Jean-Francois Lemaire wrote:
Thanks for the information regarding the Graphire3. I thought it was me screwing things up :-)
We also have a Grpahire 3 and it was literally plug and play on FC3. But again, as a generic device. -- David Bolack <dbolack@...940...>
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On 8/5/05, Ciro Soto <cirosoto@...155...> wrote:
Some have said you install it "as a Generic device" .... meaning what? Can't I use thicker lines, colors, etc? or is it that I ONLY lose the 'pressure sensitive" feature
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
Alexandre
On Thursday 4 August 2005 23:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/5/05, Ciro Soto <cirosoto@...155...> wrote:
Some have said you install it "as a Generic device" .... meaning what?
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
The Graphire3 works only as a "generic device" with those two also. I suppose that's what the other posters in this thread are saying.
Jef
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
The Graphire3 works only as a "generic device" with those two also.
Wrong
I suppose that's what the other posters in this thread are saying.
No
Alexandre
On Friday 5 August 2005 13:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
The Graphire3 works only as a "generic device" with those two also.
Wrong
Then I've got a problem that I'll have to investigate.
Jef
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
On Friday 5 August 2005 13:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
The Graphire3 works only as a "generic device" with those two also.
Wrong
Then I've got a problem that I'll have to investigate.
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/main
Alexandre
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
On Friday 5 August 2005 13:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/5/05, Jean-Francois Lemaire <jflemaire@...299...> wrote:
It means that in Inkscape wacom is equivalent to a simple mouse feature-wise. The only two opensource graphics tools that support pressure sensitivity and other typical wacom features are The GIMP and Krita.
The Graphire3 works only as a "generic device" with those two also.
Wrong
Then I've got a problem that I'll have to investigate.
btw, just to make sure - you can use callygraphic pen in Inkscapem which gives you thicker/thiner line depending on how fast you move the cursor
Alexandre
On Thursday 4 August 2005 02:09, Ciro Soto wrote:
I wonder if any in the group has used a wacom table with Inkscape in a lunix environment. Any feedback?
Using one everyday at work (Serial Intuos) and at home (USB Graphire3). A bit of a pain to set up but works great anyway.
Jef
By the way, I just got to documenting the Boolean Operations for users, so if you have any input, now's a good time to mention it -- while I'm thinking about it.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/kevincharles/inkscape/p7c4.html
Speaking of documentation, the developers might be interested to know that the .42 release marked a major spike in traffic to the documentation-in-progress I'm making, and has resulted in sustained increase of traffic of three times what it was before the new version.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/kevincharles/inkscape/stats.html
Cheers, -Kevin
Ralph Bolton wrote:
Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie to Inkscape, but so far am really impressed. It's one hell of a product, even though it's not v1.0 yet.
As with all such projects, it's sometimes hard for us newbies to get to grips with things because of a lack of examples and documentation. Since I've been struggling for a couple of days, I thought I'd write up how to create complex shapes, flow text into shapes and get text to be justified. Clearly, for most users this isn't rocket science, but it might save another new user a bit of time.
All the fun is at http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape (including, importantly, an SVG example).
If the Inkscape community wants to use my example for anything, then by all means do so. Obviously, correct any mistakes or make improvements along the way!
Cheers,
...Ralph Bolton
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On 8/4/05, Kevin Wixson <kevin@...518...> wrote:
Speaking of documentation, the developers might be interested to know that the .42 release marked a major spike in traffic to the documentation-in-progress I'm making, and has resulted in sustained increase of traffic of three times what it was before the new version.
Yup. I could never understand why so little attention was paid to your work.
Alexandre
Ralph, You are welcome to please add your tutorial link to the inkscape wiki pages.
Regards, ralf
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