Question: I have a black (or another colored) rectangle. I'd like one side to be left alone. The other three sides should fade to white at the edges.

How would I achieve this? I can do basic linear/radial gradients, but am not sure how to do this effect.

Question asked and question answered (sort-of). I stumbled across this great(?) Inkscape extension by dnewman here . The extension was written for some sort of pen plotter application, but essentially, given a closed shape, the extension can insert hatched or crosshatched patterns (at a given angle ...

It seems known that Inkscape has had trouble outputting patterns to pdf. There is a thread here from 2007 that does not seem to have been resolved. I'm currently using Inkscape 0.46 (on my Mac) and 0.47 (Ubuntu) [and I cannot upgrade to the 0.48 release for unrelated reasons]. I have many pictures I...