Calligraphic tool Thinning/thickenning not working at all
Hi,
I'm an Inkscape newbie (but not to vector graphics GUIs). I've found a great (and short) tutorial on simulating engravings with Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-engraving1.png). I'm sure most of you have read/seen it, so I hope someone can help me out on this. I've been following all the steps without any trouble up to "Thinning/thickenning". When I press ALT and drag the cursor (either with Wacom pen or mouse) I get a new path, no thickenning or thinning anywhere... I've tried it right after drawing the paths, after unselecting and selecting them, after unselecting and selecting just one, with the mouse, the pen, the eraser,... getting always de same result. On the status bar I get the hint inviting me to press ALT+drag, but won't work for me...
Any clues on what's going on and why can't I use this promising tool?!
I'm using freshly installed Inkscape 0.46 on Kubuntu Hardy (8.04), with a Wacom Intuos A3, and brand new PC.
Thank you in advance. Cheers,
P.S.: this is my first post ever, anywhere. Any hints on how to post better (if I didn't do it right) will be appreciated.
I'm an Inkscape newbie (but not to vector graphics GUIs). I've found a great (and short) tutorial on simulating engravings with Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-engraving1.png). I'm sure most of you have read/seen it, so I hope someone can help me out on this. I've been following all the steps without any trouble up to "Thinning/thickenning". When I press ALT and drag the cursor (either with Wacom pen or mouse) I get a new path, no thickenning or thinning anywhere... I've tried it right after drawing the paths, after unselecting and selecting them, after unselecting and selecting just one, with the mouse, the pen, the eraser,... getting always de same result. On the status bar I get the hint inviting me to press ALT+drag, but won't work for me...
the same happens to me here. Not sure what could be wrong with the ALT combination (devs, help us :)
Any clues on what's going on and why can't I use this promising tool?!
...you can get the promising functionality using the various modes of the Tweak tool right below the node editing tool (Shift+F2)!
:r
That did it! Just what I was looking for... I guess I should've gone through a basic tutorial first showing me the tools :P I appologize for that.
Thank you very much.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:19 AM, ricardo lafuente <bollecs@...2545...> wrote:
I'm an Inkscape newbie (but not to vector graphics GUIs). I've found a great (and short) tutorial on simulating engravings with Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-engraving1.png
).
I'm sure most of you have read/seen it, so I hope someone can help me out on this. I've been following all the steps without any trouble up to "Thinning/thickenning". When I press ALT and drag the cursor (either with Wacom pen or mouse) I get a new path, no thickenning or thinning anywhere... I've tried it right after drawing the paths, after unselecting and selecting them, after unselecting and selecting just one, with the mouse, the pen, the eraser,... getting always de same result. On the status bar I get the hint inviting me to press ALT+drag, but won't work for me...
the same happens to me here. Not sure what could be wrong with the ALT combination (devs, help us :)
Any clues on what's going on and why can't I use this promising tool?!
...you can get the promising functionality using the various modes of the Tweak tool right below the node editing tool (Shift+F2)!
:r
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:13 PM, roger pibernat <pibernat@...155...> wrote:
(http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-engraving1.png).
This screenshot is simply out of date. This capability was first added on Alt for Calligraphic tool, but later moved to its own Tweak tool, so it no longer works in Callgraphic.
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