Thanks a lot guys! Can't open the dropbox with the xcf, I'm in China and my vpn stopped working, never mind. I'll get a new one soon! But I've got enough!

A vacom?? I am not aware of being in possession of such an animal, not knowing what that is!

The last linked image is 2.4 MB, which is good. I'll draw paths over that, till I get what I want!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks, but that image is also not very good, the lines are short vertical lines at high zoom or large print size. If I could get a path, it would scale nicely.

I have the attached crest. I want to change the Latin to something more jocular. However, the image I have is poor quality, only 42KB. I started drawing over it using my wacom tablet and pen, drawing Bezier curves over everything. That seems to be a long process. I'm not good at that. To be clear: T...

Just want to say thanks to all, especially to Espermachine, that youtube link is great, just took me a while to follow what he was doing! I can't figure out what language he is muttering in! Now I can do it!

That should be a macro, now, if only I knew how to do that!

Thanks for the tips. I'm having trouble extruding in Inkscape.

What kind of 3D program can I use with Ubuntu to do this? Can you suggest one please?

For a birthday card, I want to do some 3D extruded lettters. Can inkscape do that?
Thanks for any tips or links to tutorials or plugins!

As I mentioned in another thread, I have an Epson L351 Multi-function printer. It cannot print to the top, or the left edge of the page. What I is a blue block at the top of the A4 page, 210mm wide. The bottom of this block is a nice curve. I tried to set the page 6mm from the correct position in my...

Thanks! So since my object is just a block of solid colour, no stroke, I could get the same effect by leaving the opacity at 100% and playing with the Alpha? Just curious.

Trying to match a colour exactly, I am left wondering what exactly is the difference between Opacity and Alpha. On ordinary paper, my colour is colour a5bbff, alpha 255, opacity 70%. For the finished article, I am printing on thickish, heavy white paper, I told the printer it is glossy photo paper, ...

I found if I go to Print>Page Setup > Scale and set that to 98%, the lines are accurate. This must be a bug between translating the file to print format.

Thanks again for the tips! Maybe the next version of Inkscape will iron out this bug!

Thanks for the replies. This is an Epson L351 All-in-One A4 printer, which is the same as an Epson 202 I believe, just it has refillable ink tanks as standard. I set the line width to 0.1mm. I've uploaded the file testpositioning.svg if you want to check. I have Inkscape 0.48r9939 for Ubuntu 14.04. ...

Someone on linuxquestions.org suggested trying another program. I printed a grid in Libre Office Draw. It is very very exact, so the problem must lie with Inkscape.

No, the lines snap to the grid correctly, it says 'snap to grid intersection' when I draw the line. Somehow between the computer and the printer things go wrong. As far as I know, this kind of printer makes about 5000 steps across a page, using an LED to read a band of vertical stripes and gaps on p...

To test the accuracy of positioning an object on a page, I started a new document. Document Properties: Page size A4, units mm, grid lines every 10mm, grid origin x= 0 y= 297 (ie top left corner of page) Set snap to grid Then I drew lines on the grid, horizontal and vertical, the first line at 10mm ...

Thanks for the tips. I used gimp to copy the text, I created paths for each letter, then changed them to selections, filled the selection. I am getting pretty close to what I want now.

Hey that what the font is really cool! Looks like I need Adobe Myriad Pro Bold! Thanks very much!

I can't get the size and distribution I want in OO or Gimp or Inkscape as pure text. When I put the character spacing at 8.5 Pts, one word matches up exactly, but the others are pushed too far. I will copy the scanned text from the .png scan as a path, then I will have the exact same text as a vecto...

I'm trying to copy a document to save flying home and a long wait to get an official copy. I thought it would be easy! I scanned the document in at the highest resolution I could, 1200 X 1200 dpi to a .png. The (large) light blue letters of the scan (approximately: colour a5bbffff, size 56) show up ...

Something like that, but on screen the colour looks ok, the problem is only when I print.

Hi, I need to print some capital letters in a particular shade of blue, html hexadecimal 0000bbff (I think the last ff is the opacity). Anyway, it should be a nice navy blue colour, but when I print in Inkscape, it comes out a kind of brownish grey. I chose the colour in Gimp, by printing little squ...

Tried that, with a path and without. No joy. I select a rectangle and a circle, go to Extensions->Generate from path->Interpolate

Then I get a box, but I never get a blend from rectangle to circle, with a path, or without.

Any more tips??

You all probably know the simple blend from Corel Draw: say take a square at the top of the page, and a star at the bottom. Select both, and the script blends the one into the other, using the number of steps specified, and the path specified.

How can I do this in Inkscape??

Thanx a lot! Great advice! I'll try both methods!

I have various text objects, single words, or phrases. I want to arrange them regularly around a circle, such that the first letter of each word is touching the circle. The word or phrase should be perpendicular to the tangent at that point. I can do Edit>Clone>Create tiled clones. But only with one...