Hello: Your idea of clipping the path (not masking) seems a very good idea, check here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Clip.html You can clip over a group of paths too. As usual, there are more ways to do that: Cutting the path in subptahs, using gradients, etc. Thanks for your help. ...

Dear all, recently I am trying to reproduce and modify a certain figure, shown below, in Inkscape. Problem is, if I draw the Electrocardiogram (ECG, or EKG) at the bottom right using :tool_pen: , chances are I can only fill the entire Path with one single flat colour , rather than doing different co...

Hello One way is: In this case that one of the best solutions is using The Bend Path Effect. It seems to me that it's very easy to use, see here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects-BendTool.html However, the advice is that always put your arrow in an horizontal direc...

v1nce wrote:http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects-PatternAlongPath.html

Thanks for that. Thought I was getting a bit lazy in finding it myself...

A bit more help is needed here again. http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/9551/61su.png Can any one tell me how to draw the arrow like the graph above shows? I tried drawing an path as a arrow. It works quite well if the arrow as a whole is straight; but I don't know how to bend SMOOTHLY like the gra...

v1nce wrote:for dynamic svg inspiration you could have a look at

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

80% of samples are done using svg

That's awesome! Thanks for that!

v1nce --------------------- Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. That really helps! In fact, before I read this post, I tried it myself with the examples I downloaded under this topic and it worked! Of course, the build-in XML Editor seems more efficient to me, though I use quite a lot of...

Thank you all for your replies above!!! I will try to reply back in order. Welcome aboard! At this topic there are some plotting programs mentioned: matplotlib veusz I belive they can plot curves based on some data, that you can export as svg and open in inkscape. I have no idea how would you get su...

Dear all, I have recently jumped into Inkscape as a starter, as I have found quite a lot of high-quality image is made in .svg format (in particular, on WikiMedia Commons) These days I have been writing my academic report and really want to generate high-quality image. That leads me to something: Qu...