Tricks and tips

2006-07-05T21:12:11Z

CircleFusion: /* How to make an edge */

== Generic tricks and tips ==

The tips and tricks are collected to share/tutorials/tipsandtricks.svg and made apart of the release. If you want to contribute further, please add your tips and tricks to the SVN copy of the aforementioned. Also, you can add them below and they will be collected from time to time as a part of that tutorial.

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== New Tips and Tricks Scratchpad ==

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== Position guides ==
Position a guide roughly, then double click it to bring up a dialog box in which you can enter the desired position. --[[User:Pbhj|Pbhj]] 13:00, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
* ''AFAIK you can't do this any other way ... I've been using Inkscape since not long after the split from sodipodi and I just today (1st July 06) found this out! Super! This was in the AI users tips.''

==Adding fill to Shapes drawn with the Calligraphic Pen tool ==

Quick tut on how to add fill to shapes you've drawn with the calligraphic pen.
Please reupload tut on this topic --[[User:GigaClon|GigaClon]] 20:42, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

== Printing or Producing PDFs in ISO A4 rather than US Specific Letter Paper ==

I've been messing with this for ages, and as it turns out it's got a very simple solution (much easier than emailing your SVG to a friend with Illustrator ;-).

With Inkscape 0.42, if you create an A4 canvas and print it, it will quite happily print properly on an A4 printer. It'll even produce suitable PostScript too. However, if you produce a PDF (either by Save As... or by using the command line ps2pdf or by using Adobe Acrobat) you'll always get a US Letter PDF. I think this is because the PostScript doesn't mandate A4 or suggests Letter, after all, most .ps files will convert perfectly like this. However, you can force ps2pdf to use A4, although sadly not in Inkscape. Do it on the command line after printing PostScript to a file:

ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps

(it'll produce myfile.pdf, which should be an A4 PDF rather than the default Letter).

Hopefully one day, Inkscape will have a dialogue asking you what paper size you'd like when it produced PDFs (much like saving .eps asks you a couple of things). After all, Inkscape just uses ps2pdf to produce PDFs anyway, so it ought to be able to pass in the paper size specification when it does so.

[http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape ...Coofer Cat]

== Mirror modelling ==

Please note, that inkscape is a drawing application, not CAD, so maybe the modelling word is not appropriate.

http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModellingDone.png

If you want to play with the image, the inkscape source available [http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/mirrorModelling.tar.gz here].

== How to make an edge ==

http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.png

Source is [http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/joinTwoNodes.tar.gz here].

Comment : This doesn't explain anything to me. HOW do you break apart a node? HOW do you join two nodes? I see steps I through III, but those little graphics don't explain how to do it.

== How to rotate and duplicate ==

Need more appropriate name, like: how to make a swatch.

Not finished yet.

[[Khiraly]] - Feel free to comment on tips, if its not clear. Any comment are useful.

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