I just got around to trying Inkscape today. I had downloaded it a few weeks ago, and one thing and another kept getting in my way of trying it out. But I am working on a Mac application and needed some "decent" icons, so today was the day.
MAN! I'M BLOWN AWAY! I've used Illustrator at work in the past, and Inkscape, to my eye, does it ALL.
Very, very nice app. It now sits in my doc right next to GimpShop.
Keep up the excellent work. There are those of use who can't afford Adobe's offerings that appreciate what you're doing.
Nitewing '98 -- Unix, in all of its flavors, is the only true competition for Windows. Well, almost. Windows can't really compete...
There have been a couple of discussions recently on the mail list about mirroring and tiled pattern creation etc where the features being requested were already possible using the tile clones feature. Thought Id try to expand on how to do them a bit as it seems to be something people consider to be voodoo. (true to me too to an extent, so much power in there)
Anyways, first up is doing a mirror modifier
http://simarilius.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/
Hope its helpful to someone.
Sim
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John Cliff wrote:
There have been a couple of discussions recently on the mail list about mirroring and tiled pattern creation etc where the features being requested were already possible using the tile clones feature. Thought I’d try to expand on how to do them a bit as it seems to be something people consider to be voodoo. (true to me too to an extent, so much power in there)
Anyways, first up is doing a mirror modifier
http://simarilius.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/
Hope its helpful to someone.
Sim
John
That's great and I was going to have a go, after having tried it before and giving up as I got lost, but - how do you get the "tile clones" dialog?? Under Edit, I have "Create Clone" and "Unlink Clone", can't see how to tile - I used to have it now it's gone ... ???
I have an item "Verb Clonetiler Not Unknown" and others similar in the Edit drop-down menu.
I am using 0.44 on Windows XP. I am sure this is a dumb question, but I don't mind! I have also tried a downloaded development version,. a couple of days old, can't find a "tile" dialog!!
Adam
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 17:43 +1000, Adamsown wrote:
That's great and I was going to have a go, after having tried it before and giving up as I got lost, but - how do you get the "tile clones" dialog?? Under Edit, I have "Create Clone" and "Unlink Clone", can't see how to tile - I used to have it now it's gone ... ???
I have an item "Verb Clonetiler Not Unknown" and others similar in the Edit drop-down menu.
I am using 0.44 on Windows XP. I am sure this is a dumb question, but I don't mind! I have also tried a downloaded development version,. a couple of days old, can't find a "tile" dialog!!
This sounds a little like you might have a menus.xml file in your Inkscape preferences directory. There were some development versions of Inkscape (a couple releases back) that would write it without you knowing. The problem is that Inkscape won't upgrade it. Typically that would be the only reason for Inkscape not to know a verb in the menu. It would also explain why newer features might not be in your menus.
--Ted
Ted Gould wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 17:43 +1000, Adamsown wrote:
That's great and I was going to have a go, after having tried it before and giving up as I got lost, but - how do you get the "tile clones" dialog?? Under Edit, I have "Create Clone" and "Unlink Clone", can't see how to tile - I used to have it now it's gone ... ???
I have an item "Verb Clonetiler Not Unknown" and others similar in the Edit drop-down menu.
I am using 0.44 on Windows XP. I am sure this is a dumb question, but I don't mind! I have also tried a downloaded development version,. a couple of days old, can't find a "tile" dialog!!
This sounds a little like you might have a menus.xml file in your Inkscape preferences directory. There were some development versions of Inkscape (a couple releases back) that would write it without you knowing. The problem is that Inkscape won't upgrade it. Typically that would be the only reason for Inkscape not to know a verb in the menu. It would also explain why newer features might not be in your menus.
--Ted
Ted
Yes!! That was it! I found the preferences file, there was a menus.xml file, I deleted it and the "greyed-out" "Verb Clonetiler" and other items are not there now and I can tile.
Thank you so much!!
Adam
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