This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at I've been looking for some time for a tool that gets a path and outputs it as a filled shape, as if drawn by a specific pen or brush.
So on the left of the above image, the path is the C-shaped line and the "pen nib" is the red ellipse rotated 45°. The desired result is the nice green C on the right.
- Just taking the C path and thicken the line won't give this shape, which has changing width along the path.
- The scatter extension is the closest thing, but you can't make the duplicates infinitely dense (as seen in the middle of the attached figure). I got the green C by using the scatter extension and smoothing out the wedges manually.
- The pattern-along-path extension also doesn't have this behavior nor does the calligraphy tool.
After a lot of googling, I understand that this feature does not exist. Am I wrong? Is there an easy way to get what I want?
If indeed there is no such tool, it shouldn't be extremely difficult to create one, at least for simple pen shapes like rectangles and ellipses. I looked at how the other Python extensions work and I think I can do it, the only thing that I didn't figure out yet is how (and whether it's even possible) to use the Inkscape helper scripts to simplify a Bézier curves within the extension. Any help here?
