[HLUG] inkscape

[j michaelson]

hi julian,

i'd like to do a bit of a talk that's ok. i need the practice, i've
been talking to some of the people on the adelaide linux list about it
and the guy who runs the group asked me if i'd do a little talk on it.
it will be a good way for me to meet everyone so i agreed to do it,
but it's a fairly scary prospect and it would be nice if i could do it
in front of an audience i know first.

this coming meeting will be my last before i head off to oz. would it
be ok if i did a talk this thursday?

john michaelson.





On 3/12/06, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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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