I'm using an apple magic mouse on OS X 10.8.5. I find that I can pan around the document just fine, but when I use ctrl+drag to zoom in or out it goes much too quickly. I frequently end up zoomed so far out I can't see my image at all. The feature is almost unusable for me. I have tried playing with...

Thanks for the feedback, brynn. You're mostly right. The transparent balls can't be played, although they may be unintentionally pocketed. They can be dragged to the "uncalled" pocket in the bottom right. Also, just to be clear, the top two mockups are just to show what the interface eleme...

I'm a programmer and not a designer, but I do what I can! This is something I've been working on to give my app a bit of a facelift. It's a billiards scorekeeper. Any thoughts? I'll include what I have currently at the bottom also. Button in center is normal, and on the right is when pressed. I've n...

Druban, I'm not sure why that would help here, since I was moving everything at once in my screenshots. But maybe I am misunderstanding you? Were you referring to something else in my post?

Still, I did not know that was possible, and it seems it will be helpful in general. So, thank you!

Brynn, first, thanks for your quick reply. I didn't realize that the offsets actually created totally independent objects. That explains my problem with selection. But, I still don't understand why sometimes it appeared that there was one object selected, and I would grab it, and everything would mo...

I'm trying to make some buttons. I started using several objects, and then realized I could use linked offsets. Unfortunately, I'm having some trouble understanding how they work. I'm sure it's because I'm missing something conceptually about them. http://i.imgur.com/Z186v.png My first problem was t...

Druban, that's EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you!

By the way, if you don't mind, what font is that? Very neat looking.

Sorry, my phrasing appears to have distracted from the intent of my question. I just used the rectangle as an example, because I didn't know how else to phrase it. I want to use the circle to cut the corner off of any object, not just make rounded rectangles. (I'm aware of the rounded rect tool.) Pu...

Is there a way to use the path boolean operators to cut off the corners of a path? In this picture, I want to use the circle to cut off the corner, leaving the rest intact. I know that I could duplicate the larger object, add two nodes near the edges of the circle, delete the corner node, do "u...

Maestral wrote:Might be useful if you check Inkscape properties / Interface and there you`ll find Zoom correction factor.

That works fine, thanks! Though I do find it disconcerting to hit "1" and zoom to 125%, I will get over it.

(I'm not quite sure of the proper terminology here, so please be patient!) Basically, I would like one inch in Inkscape to be one physical inch on the screen when at 100%. To do so, I would like to change Inkscape to use 110 DPI, like my monitor. However, Inkscape appears to work at 90 DPI. Is it po...

Just in case anyone reads this, I was able to take care of the slight outline by increasing the width and height by about .150 pixels each, re-centering over the original object, and then doing difference using the slightly enlarged object.

What is the best way to get this cut out? Manual clipping is the best way to get this effect, IMO. The shadow object is below a large rectangle with the shape of the original rounded corner rectangle cut out of it (with difference). The new shape is used to clip the blurred shadow rectangle. Thank ...

That's okay, thanks for trying! Guess it's gimp to the rescue for this one.

Unfortunately just changing the alpha doesn't work. It removes the drop shadow as well, presumably because there is nothing to "block the light" when the alpha is 0.

Beautiful, thank you!

I have a playing card memorization app in the iTunes app store (Memchamp, if you are interested in mnemonic techniques check it out). I will switch to using these in the next version!

Thanks Brynn,

I do not want to remove the drop shadow. I just want to cut out the red area. I was able to do it in Gimp using the select by color tool and then deleting, but I would like to know if it is possible in Inkscape as well.

I'm trying to cut out the center of a button so that I can fill it in in my app. The button has a drop shadow on it (applied via filters...drop shadow), and I can't get the drop shadow to stay, while cutting out the center. I want the red portion to be transparent in my final image: http://imgh.us/S...