The Calligraphy tool invariably produces paths with "holes"/"defects"/"artefacts" whenever the pointer moves slowly.



The black stroke on the left is with a mouse, no pressure sensitivity, the red strokes on the right are with a Wacom tablet with pressure sensitivity enabled. All have these faulty paths where the cursor moved more slowly. It just goes crazy, getting all spiky and producing these weird holes.

I have checked that this isn't a problem of the fill rule; these are genuine defects in the paths. The above image is with fill-rule: nonzero - setting fillrule: evenodd creates more white areas where there is self-intersection (which is perfectly normal) but the defects above are not affected, they are actually part of the paths.

I have changed all settings for the Calligraphy tool but this issue persists.

The tablet works very well in general; in particular I don't have this problem with the vector calligraphy tool in Krita.

This makes the tool pretty much unworkable. I'm writing here in case there's something very obvious I'm missing here, and I really hope there is; if not I'll file this as a bug.

I am using Inkscape 0.92.1 r15371 on Ubuntu 17.04.

Your screenshot would be more informative if you had a Calligraphy tool active in that moment. As is, you have the fill rule set to fill the holes but I couldn`t replicate your issue - neither with the tablet nor with the mouse.

The most certain way to check if it is a bug or not might be to draw another stroke and if holes appear, try to change the fill rule. If nothing happens - call ghostbusters ,)

I've tried a few combinations and fill rule does not have any effect on these holes (which makes sense as they are in fact genuine errors in the path as I can check with the node tool, so rendering should not really matter), nor do any of the settings of the calligraphy tool.

Perhaps a file would be helpful in this case?

Can confirm the issue, can recall with fixation and caps set to 0 it's even worse (try to draw a single dot).
Not the random jiggles but the hole-behave sticks out that way.

I confirm Lazur's comment that a low value for caps exacerbates the issue (but no combination of parameters makes it disappear).

Doesn't appear to be different with 0.91, 0.92.1 or trunk.

It's this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/184550 (dated 2007)

I`ve tried with proposed settings and there is some "noise"

...but when this kind of swift movements is applied - I would not look for a clean look, even on paper.
I still can`t get that many holes, as in the initial post. The orange ones are slow and insecure draws which produced the most resemblance but other than that... ?!

It seems to depend on the thickness of the line, if I understood the thread correctly (I only skimmed it, though).

Made a test video here.

"Jiggles" appear mostly when the pulling angle of the pen is close to the angle of the nib and inkscape cannot decide if the next sample should follow the rest in the right or the left side of the "core path".

Using only mouse, I do not have that experience. Even without the Mass setting, I get very little noise. But Mass fixes it for me. I'm using 0.92.1. Windows 7 Pro

Even with pulling in the direction of the nib angle, I can't reproduce it.

brynn wrote:Even with pulling in the direction of the nib angle, I can't reproduce it.

You already did:



Zoom in so that the width will be larger than the samples used and try pulling the mouse at almost a horizontal direction;
then lower the fixation a tad bit and check again.

With a similar pen setting to the one in the screenshot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QJUKB9YVM&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, I saw that. But it's still not as severe as the other reports. I just thought I'd share what I experience, in case it would be helpful.

Back in version 0.46 or 0.45, that was a common experience for me. But I haven't seen it lately.

When I zoom in like you suggest, it slows down my system enough that I can see the artifacts for just a fraction of a 2nd before I release the mouse, and the fill rule setting fills in the gaps.

I can never remember which one is which, but it's this one that's enabled, apparently by default (might be related to my tool style - not sure)

I'm not sure why it's so severe for the op, since my experience is so different. I mean, I'm trying hard to create the artifacts, and I can only make one now and then. But the op seems to having it almost constantly - at least that's how I understand the message.

I wonder if there's a preference we're either forgetting about, or don't realize is affecting it. On Calligraphy tool style, there are a couple of unique options at the bottom. Maybe one of those could be involved?

Oh yeah! It seems much worse for me with the absolute units option disabled (unchecked).