Pattern Making Questions

[Travis]

Howdy.  I got an email from someone who had a pattern making question.  Tonight I'm going to put together a quick video tutorial for them.  I figured if anybody else had a question on using Inkscape, I can quickly cover that too.  It's more of a "How do I __________" type of question.  So if you have a burning Inkscape question, post it below and I'll see if I can cover it in the video.

 

 

[robbert100]

How do you save Inkscape images as jpeg?

[Travis]

I can do that.  Any other questions?  I'll probably shoot the video this weekend.

[Phantom Scroller]

What about a list of your most used shortcuts keys Roly

[jrpeteo]

How about text in and on a circle. Inside and outside of circle, top and bottom of circle. Text on a curved path,I understand.

Pete

[Phantom Scroller]

If you import a jpeg image and you want to fill a part with a colour and not the whole picture how is this done in Inkscape? Roly

[grampa]

When using Inkscape how do you stop your coffee going cold .........

[Phantom Scroller]

When using Inkscape how do you stop your coffee going cold .........

Stick it in the microwave job done haa haa  you not taking this serious  r u 

[don watson]

Travis,

Can you explain how to take letters from a word as individual items.?

 

take care

Don W

[Travis]

Travis,

Can you explain how to take letters from a word as individual items.?

 

take care

Don W

 

 

Sure thing.  Check out the second video in this article.  The process is called Breaking Apart.

 

Breaking Apart

After typing your text, you can break apart the letters and move them around individually. This gives you the most control over the placement of the lettering. You can break apart individual letters into their separate shapes. This is useful when dealing with the dot of an i or j.

Type your text in choice of font.

• Go to Path>Object To Path. This will change your text into a collection of objects. It still looks like one large object instead of a collection of objects because they are grouped and treated as an object.
• To ungroup, go to Object>Ungroup. Now each of the letters are its own object.
• Deselect all the objects. Then select one of the letters and position or alter them as needed.
• Once all the letters are in place, select all the objects and go to Path>Union to weld the letters together.

[don watson]

Thanks Travis,

I was looking for a way to take the letters from a picture.

I have a logo I want to manipulate and I was wondering if I could copy the letters and cut them from the background.

I am having a problem trying to put a picture here so I will leave it for a while.

Thanks again

 

take care

Don W

[don in brooklin on]

HI Travis

 

I just downloaded version 48.4 as I had to do a complete refresh on my computer.

 

Now the toolbar is on the right side.  Can this be put on top like before or can you modify the icons.  I like the align and distribute easily available.

 

Can I bring up align and distribute with hot keys.

 

Thanks

 

Don

[heppnerguy]

A great group of ideas. thanks Travis for taking your time to help all of us

 

 

Dick

heppnerguy

[amazingkevin]

Do i hear a pin drop?

[heppnerguy]

the one thing I can't figure out in Inkscape is how to erase part of an existing line so as to eliminate an island

 

Dick

heppnerguy

[Tdub4ever]

Hey Dick. If you erase an existing line wouldn't that create an island?

[Travis]

You can cover it up with a white shape.  That might be your best bet.  Otherwise, erasing a line creates an incomplete object.  Post the SVG and we can take a look at it.

[heppnerguy]

I wanted to erase a small part of an existing line. I have been covering it with a white line already. thought there might be a better way.  Thanks 

 

Dick

heppnerguy