Inkscape Users,
I had a few more beginners questions.
#1 - If I have drawn to overlapping shapes, is there a way to combine them into one shape?
#2 - When I drew a circle or ellipse it had a dark black border. Can you change the color of this border?
#3 - When I try to apply a gradient fill to a shape, the color changes to shades of black, grey, and white. Is there something I need to change to apply gradient fills in color?
#4 - Is there a way to change the rotation angle of text?
Thanks for any suggestions. I appreciate any help.
Ths Sunburned Surveyor
--- Landon Blake <lblake@...24...> wrote:
Inkscape Users,
I had a few more beginners questions.
#1 - If I have drawn to overlapping shapes, is there a way to combine them into one shape?
you need to do a union, select both then do Ctrl + + (or Path -> union)
#2 - When I drew a circle or ellipse it had a dark black border. Can you change the color of this border?
Thats the stroke, in the fill + stroke dialog (Shift+Ctrl+F) go to the stroke paint tab, you can turn it off or change its color, on the stroke style tab you can change its width.
#3 - When I try to apply a gradient fill to a shape, the color changes to shades of black, grey, and white. Is there something I need to change to apply gradient fills in color?
In the Fill+Stroke dialog on the gradient tab theres an edit button, this allows you to pick the start and end colors and their level of alpha.
#4 - Is there a way to change the rotation angle of text?
select it, then click it again. the scale arrows should change to rotate angles. if you hold ctrl down while rotating it will lock to 15 degree increments.
Thanks for any suggestions. I appreciate any help.
The Sunburned Surveyor
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Landon Blake wrote:
Inkscape Users,
I had a few more beginners questions.
#1 - If I have drawn to overlapping shapes, is there a way to combine them into one shape?
Yes you can combine the two shapes into one via the "Union" operation. Check out some of the other boolean operations (Subtract, Exclude, etc.) too.
#2 - When I drew a circle or ellipse it had a dark black border. Can you change the color of this border?
Yes, the border is called the object's "stroke". Go to Fill & Stroke settings and play with the stroke settings. You can change the color, width, even make it a partially transparent gradient. :-)
#3 - When I try to apply a gradient fill to a shape, the color changes to shades of black, grey, and white. Is there something I need to change to apply gradient fills in color?
Yes, use the gradient editor. Go to the fill & stroke settings and look for the 'edit' button under to the gradient dropdown. Note that if you need several different gradients you'll want to use the Add button to add new ones.
#4 - Is there a way to change the rotation angle of text?
Yes, to do this click on the text two times. The first time you'll see the translational/scaling arrows, the second time you'll see the rotation/skew arrows.
Thanks for any suggestions. I appreciate any help.
Sure, also be sure to check out the tutorial we wrote; it gives some advice for the above plus a lot more. Have fun!
Bryce
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