I'm not sure how much difference there is between using a mouse and using the Wacom pen. But with a mouse, if you click on the line and release the mouse button, you've selected the segment and both nodes. If you click and drag, the line should be dragged into a curve, and the handles will automati...

Select your node tool (instead of your select objects tool) and then try bending it. ;) Thanks for your response heathenx. To give you a simple example of my problem. I draw a single line with the pen tool, which has a node at each end. I select the line with the node tool. The nodes are grey squar...

Hello I am just learning Inkscape, and am having great difficulty in trying to edit lines made with the pen/bezier tool. Specifically, I cant seem to move a straight line segment between two nodes so that it curves. when i click on the line using the node edit tool, the line just moves and keeps as ...

Hello I have just started to learn Inkscape, and I am hoping to use it to produce designs which will be cut out on a laser cutter. I need to make a cutting line around the design which can be used by the laser cutter. I dont know how to do this. Can anyone offer any advice? I have a book called the ...

Hello I have just started learning Inkscape. It seems to be a really excellent program. Could anyone tell me how to produce a line around the outside of a design so that it can be cut on a laser cutter? I have a book "The Book of Inkscape" but there is nothing in there to help with laser c...