With an undocked fill and stroke dialog, clicking on the main window title bar will shift focus back to that window without losing the selected object. At least it works for me in Linux. HTH

Yes, you're right. I got so used to working with a certain set of preferences it carried over into my assumptions of document properties. Sorry for the misinformation.

Then perhaps you missed that I mentioned...

But don’t forget to "Save As" a different name when you do your first "save as" as work progresses because if you don't, you'll lose the defaults you created.

Tool settings are not stored in the SVG file used as template, they are saved in the preferences file . Only settings from the 'Document properties' are stored with each SVG file (as well as any drawing content, guides and snap settings). I never said I was saving anything as a template, I was talk...

You'll probably be directed to save a default templates folder so each time you open Inkscape you'll get the same preferences. I, on the other hand prefer to use multiple “default templates” since I use Inkscape for many different projects. It’s simply a matter of setting up an instance of Inkscape ...

Since you're exporting as a page and all your drawing elements are within the page, it's not necessary to group the drawing. Try this, don't group the paths/objects and see if it helps make a difference. You could also export with the "Drawing tab" highlighted, which will include everythin...

You can't change the height of a path (line) as it's controlled by the stroke width. Stroke width is what you want to change if you want a thicker or thinner path.

Not sure what you mean by, ... "the ability to select exactly what I want to select." Sorry, never used Photoshop so I'm missing your drift. Inkscape being a vector based app, you work with objects and paths and each are individually selectable. Your second problem is easy, select everythi...

Any idea what I must do to return to "normal" mode in Inkscape and be able to draw shapes? That's why whenever I install Inkscape, first thing I do is draw a rectangle, ellipse, and star on the canvas. Then with the rectangle selected, go to Inkscape preferences, shapes, rectangle and set...

Ailurus wrote:... is there a shortcut or button to automatically center a selected object in my view?

Thanks!

Keyboard 3 key will fill the view with selected object.

I use multiple “default templates” since I use Inkscape for many different projects. It’s simply a matter of setting up an instance of Inkscape for each purpose. For instance, before I work on a wallpapers project, I set up the preferences and window size that I need and Save As... wallpaper.svg. Wh...

With the text cursor in your text, open the Text and Font dialog. Set your font size and line spacing, then click > Set as Default < first, then click > Apply.

Works for me, I’m on Linux too. The settings stay and carry over each time I start a new sessions of Inkscape.

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And now, close that doc and open another one. Still the changes remained? And just for the sake of detail, this has happened to me with a few different settings in Inks Prefs. Yes they do. I deleted the preferences.xml file again and here’s the run down of my preferred changes I make in the Inksca...

I got a new (older model) Wacom Volito2 that worked out of the box for all my graphics apps on both my desktop and laptop. This is on Linux and it was plug ’n play, since the drivers are pre-loaded in the kernel. I'm pretty much a Linux noob and haven’t used Windows in a couple of years so I’m gues...

Hi Brynn, That doesn’t seem to be the case on my system, using Linux. To check, I deleted the preferences.xml file to start from scratch, opened a new instance of Inkscape, made changes to my preferences and then opened a new document without rebooting and the preferences carried over and stuck. Sor...

I can think of 2 easy ways to get the “points” of the crescent on a 45 degree angle. 1) After selecting and aligning both ellipses vertically and horizontally, select the top ellipse and while holding the Ctrl key, slide the top ellipse horizontally to give the shape you desire. Do your difference. ...

You could simply duplicate the letter, remove the fill, add a stroke, and use Dynamic Offset or Outset on the stroke.

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Happy Holidays to all, especially the fine members that share their knowledge and time through whom I've learned so much.

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Basically, with the pen tool path selected, you would select the node tool :tool_node: , and once you do, all the nodes in the path with become visible. You can then left click and hold on a node and move it. Likewise you can left click and hold on the path segment between two nodes and shape the pa...

Hi Ryan,

Is the image changing in any other way except the 1 degree increment? Rotating the .png after the export with a third party software, ImageMagick comes to mind, is the way I'd try it.

The open source application that's equivalent to Photoshop is the Gimp. You'd be hard pressed to do that image in Inkscape anywhere near the time it would take a good Gimp guy to do it in the Gimp. Not saying you couldn't do it in Inkscape but I'd think it would be a long process.

You're welcome Brynn, Don't let the command line put you off. The syntax of commands are the worst part but if you research and are willing to go the extra mile it really becomes rather easy. I'm the same as most folks who want a graphical display to guide me and I think IM does have a seperate GUI ...

Hey Brynn, I use ImageMagick to do animations. Here's a quick guide from the LGU forums and the relevant topic link: http://linuxgraphicsusers.com/index.php?topic=375.0 ... ____________________________________________ Well I was going to try and do a tutorial with screenshots but it wasn't working o...

I doubt Inkscape considers this a bug or a needed feature since it's neither a word processor nor a desktop publishing application. I won't presume to speak for the developers, but any kerning that's appropriate for the things Inkscape is used for is already included, namely manual kerning. Automati...

Hi Boris, I may be wrong, but are you talking about justify text? Inkscape does have this option. With the text tool selected, in the Tools Control Bar, right of the Font and Size selector, you have... Align Left, Center, Align Right, Justify. Justify will automatically kern your text to the text bo...