How to change stroke width of image made by drawing in iPad?

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Ooker
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How to change stroke width of image made by drawing in iPad?

Postby Ooker » Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:35 am

I have a drawing using Adobe Ideas app in iPad, then export it to PDF to open it with Inkscape. It is a vector image since I can enlarge it as much as I want. However the width of the stroke too big when I enlarge so I want to reduce it. When I double click on it, the result appears as the picture below and I don't know how to resize it. Do you know how to achieve my purpose? Thank you.

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This is the file https://www.dropbox.com/s/fc5o2xela0fyx ... e.pdf?dl=0

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Re: How to change stroke width of image made by drawing in i

Postby tylerdurden » Thu Oct 30, 2014 6:36 am

Howdy,

If you ungroup the image a number of times, you may see its parts. It is also often helpful to view the image in Inkscape in Outline mode.
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As you can see from the screenshot, the features are closed paths. (The status bar will report fill, no stroke on selected objects)

So, the paths may need to be traced to create stroked paths.
Have a nice day.

I'm using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06), 64 bit win8.1

The Inkscape manual has lots of helpful info! http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/

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Re: How to change stroke width of image made by drawing in i

Postby brynn » Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:20 am

After Ungrouping until there are no more groups to ungroup, do Path menu > Inset. If you havne't changed the defaults, that will move the path inwards by 2 px. Not a very big change, for that image. So you could either repeat that a few times, or use Dynamic Offset. Dynamic Offset allows you to drag a handle, to make a custom Inset distance. http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... hs-Offsets

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Re: How to change stroke width of image made by drawing in i

Postby Ooker » Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:24 pm

Thanks brynn, it works :D


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