On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:48:45 -0400 "Axiom X11" <axiomx11@...155...> wrote:

Is it possible to make a line compose of small round dots.

Inkscape is very good at making dashed lines, but I want one with dots.

Like this:

http://www.nuvox.com/images/home_hdr.gif

Yes, with a bit of hacking.

* Create the path and apply a stroke to it.

* Go to the stroke style settings for the object and change the "Cap" style from "Butt" to "Round". Select a dash pattern from the "Dash" combo. Most of default patterns have to long dashes to make it look like a dotted line. This can, whoever, be tweeked in the XML-editor...

* Now, with the object still selected, open the XML-editor (Ctrl+Shift+x) and select the style attribute on the right side. Locate the stroke-dasharray part of the value. Replace the current pair of values after that with a new pair where the first value is small like 1 or 0.5, and a second value larger than the stroke-width of the line. E.g. "stroke-dasharray:0.5, 15;".

I've attached an example...

-- Gustav Broberg