Never Mind!! I got it to work. . . .

I changed my preferences to floating dialogs,
did a restart, and then i was able to
somehow click life into the box



back to microsode 9, drop shadows

Filter Effects pane. . . How do i make box bigger? i mean the box that has Effect/Connections heading (top, right) http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/filtereffectswin.jpg How do i make the effect/connections box bigger? i have 6 effects and have to scroll down thru them But the real b...

well, i am anewbie too, and i am in .46 in fact i have the same "problem" as you. so there's this thing: CTL-SHFT-P for preferences. . . find "text" there's some settings under: "create new objects with:" looks like you have two choices. . . this worked. . . i was in te...

thanks, microUgly, i'll have to try the (i have never used it before)

z-order visualization

this is what i meant by returning to point A http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/ABA.jpg by the way, thanks for that link to the screenshot of the devel version. looks cool. . . the one thing that i find sometimes disconcerting is the z-order. you know. . .like it is tough for me to fi...

i dont think i like that technique of doing the Vs and the Ws and all that. and having them with fill, even if they are not closed. . . . because i could not control the 'stroke'. . . . But i do like this technique way better. . . . and its simple and strait forward too... a layer for the ink. . . ....

thank you

if i want to make the strokes sharp-ended by turning the stroke to a path, (so i can delete a node at the tip) i lose the fill this is what i mean http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/stroketopathlosesfill.jpg i made a classic V with fill i duped it twice to show my problem look at 2nd ...

wow, i had no idea. thank you.

thanks for that. that's how i best understood it too, and proceeded with that in mind. i made my Vs, and W,s and w's and v's. . . . each one is standalone, but i made them all touch. i also went around the top to complete a 'loop'. At this point, i do not believe i have the ability do do 'fill'. eac...

well, this looks good. . . . http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/wellthislooksgood.jpg i traced the outline, filled it with purplish color, then sent it to the back... but i cant really edit freely any more. . . my lines. . . i wanted to make them pointy at the ends (you know, the endp...

as you can see, i am tracing a section of hair. . . http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/amesseduphair.jpg i just used the bezier tool to draw lines, like open ended segments. i made them touch, and then i Kombined them all and i get these messed up like triangular areas that are non-fi...

from c-chan's tutorial: http://ostan-collections.net/annex/InkscapeTutorial.pdf page 12: how did he do the hair? http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/animehair.jpg this is the explanation that goes with it. . . <<<<<<<<<< hair is a perfect candidate for point-and-click vector sketching ...

never mind!

i had to start making the circle (came out like triangle)
stop
the little 3/4 moon on top would get hilited. so i clicked on the full circle

now i am back to normal

why is my ellipse making a triangle? http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/vinewhy.jpg i was happily starting to make the grapes, and now i am stuck with a triangle. i dont know what i clicked. any ideas? -i thought i could edit-undo back to the point i was still making circles, but this...

tavmjong book Northern Pacific Playing Cards inkscape quickstart: A Box for Cards - An Isometric Projection http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp37/CRUZtoMAS/2008112501.jpg asyou can see, i'm a little off. How do you know IN ADVANCE that you're going to have to shrink the width (or height) to 86.xxx...

thank you prkos.
i tried sq on bottom and it worked as u described. with the circle holes.

now i have to figure out what it all means and why i couldnt figure this out before

thank you brynn. you make it sound so easy.
will practice.

i tried all the boolean ops and it's not working for me. The circles at the bottom are darker, the square on top, is a little transp, thats why you can see the circles. but i want the circles to just POKE THRU the square. i want to place the square on top of the circles. . . . but i dont want to cov...

thank you, that helped alot.

i like alt and then pressing shift-click to also select the other or others (now i have two circles under the square)

the tab thru the z order doesnt do much for me. it does select one object and then the other and the other. but not at the same time.

ez question??? how to select object + object under? i have a black circle then on top i have a yellow square which covers the black circle -so i cannot see the black circle (i have other objects on the canvas, so i dont want to 'select all') now i want to select them both(the circle and the square),...