nice to hear you all found the tutorial useful
i think combining Inkscape with Gimp gives you a whole new range of possibilities to work with
some things are just so much easier in Inkscape (working with text for example)
wbool63 wrote:
Esper, very impressive, I have tried your meander tut on your blog. Unfortunately, my Inkscape skills have deteriorated after two years of not using it.
thanks, wbool
two years with no practice are a long time
great you finally made it !
Caz wrote:
Had a problem which I've yet to resolve, if it can be. When I stroke the circle path at the end of the tute the stroke cuts into the design and reduces the width at the bottom and top. I guess I need the stroke to move inwards, toward the centre of the circle, on the inner path and outward, away from the centre, on the outer path, at the moment both strokes move in toward the centre of the design. I use Inkscape once in a blue moon so it takes time to find out some stuff.
thanks Caz !
yes, the path cuts onto the pattern when you increase the stroke-size
thats why you have to scale the object afterwards, to adjust it
when you hold down Shift and CTRL while dragging the handles, the circle will grow/shrink from the center and stay perfectly round
Caz wrote:
I did notice on the tute that the 'space between copies' amount is not specified on the pattern along path section. Not a real problem as it forced me to experiment to see what was going on, 10 for the spacing seemed to work good.
you dont need a space between copies if you made your "invisible placeholder" how i showed in the tutorial, but your solution works just as well
(or perhaps its an even easier and better solution, now that i think about it)