hello everyone!

this is my 1st post here, i'm glad i found such a forum

I'm having great fun with inkscape, well, till yesterday
for some reason at some point during the day, my calligraphy tool started behaving in a way I do not understand. Width seems not to affect my calligraphy tool too much, and when I draw I get random "stains", have a look at the picture to see what I mean



Any help would be most appreciated as I am stuck and can't seem to fix it.

i've solved the problem by removing the preferences file from ~/.inkscape
however id like to know what caused it, if anyone knows

ta!

numtre wrote:i've solved the problem by removing the preferences file from ~/.inkscape
however id like to know what caused it, if anyone knows

ta!

You turned on background tracing button (accidentally perhaps). The "stains" are where the stroke runs into some non-white background object and responds by increasing width. This feature is most useful for tracing/hatching halftone images.