[HLUG] inkscape

[Julian Robbins]

j michaelson wrote:

>hello everyone,
>
>i have been getting seriously into inkscape, what a fantastic program.
>to me scalable vector graphics are one of the greatest ideas ever.
>paths and nodes are such a beautiful way of working, they are a bit
>strange at first but definitely worth it. i love the fact that svgs
>are infinitely scalable to, no more worrying about an images
>resolution, just make the picture and then decide what image size to
>export it to afterwards.
>
>i'm still a big fan of the gimp, but now i'm just using to prepare
>images for inkscape to turn into svgs. i'm particularly keen on
>turning artwork from comics into svg, they work very well. one of my
>favorite graphic novels is "sin city" and the images in that are
>almost designed to be svg. no shading or midtones, just pure black and
>white.
>
>i'm very interested to see what kind of art people can produced with
>svgs. i've done a bit of googling, but haven't come up with anything
>particularly interesting yet. i'll have a look at the inkscape website
>and see if they have any links.
>
>john michaelson.
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Inkscape is good. I've been using it in place of Coreldraw at work. The 
bitmap to vector tool works quite well. I'm still getting used to 
Inkscape and its tools, but its quite easy to use, with lots of tool-tips.

Perhaps you could give us a quick lesson in it at a meeting sometime?

Julian

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