when creating the GS_PROG variable I found that in order to make sure it works for the gimp you will need for it to be C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.00\bin\gswin32.exe this did not work for me C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.00\bin\ additionally in the PATH variable to make it work in inkscape I have: C:\Program ...

Sometimes you can obtain a better result by using another application like VectorMagic

Your the man heathenx: this may be dinky but it works. How did you make the png maintain transparency?

Nvrmind I figured it out. Thanks once again for the suggestion

I first tried as text it did not work (as expected since it was not a path).

Then I converted it to a path and got the following error:
Selection contains non-symetric scaling
Selection contains non-symetric scaling


So then I broke apart and did a union and got the same error.

The author of that plugin says it does not work on text. So I figured there must be another way

I have tried aligning text (14-20px size) to half pixel and whole pixel grid coordinates and still when I export the text or text path it comes out blurry. I turned off bitmap oversampling and still it persist.

Has anyone come up with at way to overcome this limitation?

this is great work. Does he have more tutorials

I would have never thought to do it the way that you have done it. The masking part is a great idea.

@RobA>

I also added a radial gradient (transparent in the middle) rectangle on top that was masked by a slightly random multipoint star

You wouldn't by chance still have the svg to show what you are referring to would you?

Using a radially tiled clone with a little blur for the red parts was my first choice but then I could not really see how I would achieve the dark parts that are intermingled with the red sunburst. Duplicating and then blurring a black sunburst just does not seem to achieve the same effect.

Is it possible to create a background such as this in inkscape?

I've recently developed an Inkscape extension to make it much more convenient to align objects to pixels. It eliminates a lot of tedious work for web development or any pixel-perfect digital graphics.

Will have to give your extension a try.

For EPS import Inkscape depends on helper applications:
Inkscape 0.46: pstoedit
Inkscape 0.47pre: ps2pdf (part of Ghostscript)

just install ghostscript and pstoedit and add to the System path the ghostscipt location and you can open .EPS files with no problem. Assuming you are using Windows.

Not sure of this is what your are referring too, but when I create gradients that I want to use over and over in Inkscape I do this two part process described in this thread. Then when I want use the gradient I just drag and drop the file into whatever I am working with and the gradient shows up jus...

I wish I had of known about this I just took a screenshot of the 960 page and then cut the individual columns and saved as 90 res. and used it as a placeholder below the document and then dragged guides to each column. Thanks for sharing.

http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2008/OBWBTS08/

that looks like the way forward instead of gradient meshes, far simpler setup. Automated output is amazin too...

How do you get it to work each time I ran it it crashed.

Do you mean you deleted preferences.xml and it started working again?

Depending on how many of the characters you need you could open the character map in windows xp and select the characters you need and then copy them into inskcape.

I know this defeats the purpose of using a pen, but try disabling using pressure sensitive tablet in inkscape preferences and your pen will work again.

In the gimp I use the aurora-midnight theme and I would like use that in inkscape. I copied the theme aurora-midnight to inkscape themes and I copied the aurora.dll to inkscape engines, but what i get is this How do I fix this for windows xp? Edit Had to go and replace the gtkrc that is in the etc d...

I know this is a inkscpae forum, but I was wondering if someone who knows someone with Photoshop if they could have them to save this brush from this video in this particular shape for hair masking. The brushes are from Russel Brown Adobe Creative his first podcast "Super Advanced Masking Techn...

This is not something I came up with, but something I came across. Have you ever wished that when you are going through your countless number of clipart files that you could just view the thumbnails. Well for those not in the know there is a method. Follow these directions and you too can see clipar...

Is this listed on the inkscape wiki yet?

what version of inky are you using. For word I will assume 2008 since you are on a mac.

are you referring to something such as this

this is something definitely more suitable for a raster editor.