I found the answer to the keyboard issue on the Mac in another post: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=800&p=9622&hilit=mac#p9622 I realize that Inkscape is primarily used by PC users but it would be really nice if stuff like this was included in the .dmg distribution for ...

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Try holding your control key down. It will snap to whatever degrees that you have set in your preferences. Release 0.46+devel has a nifty vert and horiz snap feature in the bezier tool. Quite handy. No joy - none of the keys has any effect on the line the bexier tool draws: ctrl, cmd, opt, shift, n...

I'm pleased to say that I got it working, mostly. I'm able to create the text, extrude it, and then add the perspective, then save it as a bitmap to import into Photoshop. The exported bitmap has strange artifacts in the extrusion which would kill the whole thing if this weren't being used for monst...

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When I was messing with a Xara free trial, I noticed that it has a lot of easy-to-use 3D effects tools. It won't solve your problem, but you might want to check that out.

Point me to a Mac version and I'll be glad to try it!

This is turning into much more than I wanted to get into, really. I updated my Python, then was able to add Numpy, and then was able to go through some of your Envelope tutorial but as soon as you drag your node and see the text distort upwards my node moves but the text stays the same. The frame mo...

No joke...when I was on openSUSE I used to have a b**** of a time getting the proper numpy and related packages installed for the perspective effect. Since moving over to Ubuntu I have not had one problem and I don't think I ever had a problem in Windows. Sometimes it's like solving a riddle. :( We...

A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (and 4 angles, I guess)...that's the "quad" part of the word quadrilateral. Similarly, a triangle has 3 sides, pentagon has 5, hexagon has 6 and so on. To achieve a perspective effect in Inkscape 0.46, you must apply the proper order first. You...

I am going to assume that since you are having this problem you are at least getting the text to form the perspective shape; however, after performing the perspective effect you would like to tweak the shape somewhat? Which leaves you with either a box with nodes you can manipulate or text that you...

Heathenx's tutorial in breif. Draw a box and convert it to a path. Do a combined with that path you want to do the perspective effect on. (Combined is under the path menu.) Select the new path with the :tool_node: and do a cntl A to select all nodes in the new path. Then in Windows hit alt drag one...

Heathenx, thanks; when I figured out it was the 264 codec I added Perian to my codec supplies and can load your tutorials now but they are just too darn big for my system to play them comfortably; I lose frames, which is horrible when you're trying to follow the mouse actions. So I've downsized the ...

Capnhud, thanks for those links. That looks like good information, although some of the non-native English is really hard going ("Without a doubt this disadvantage conditions the utility of the design but to “normal” distances it must happen unnoticed." Do you know what that means?). I hav...

Thanks; that sounds like an awful lot of work! I just found the Interpolate command and have been playing with it; while it seems sort of buggy (it sometimes reverses the order of the colors between top and bottom objects) I found that if I set the number of copies up to 20 or more I can get a gradi...

Hello to all! I’m new to vector illustration programs although I’ve been using Photoshop for years. I know that what I’m trying to do can be done in Illustrator but (of course) I don’t have that program and wouldn’t know how to use it anyway. :-) But I stumbled across Inkscape today and I’m thinking...