@~suv Nope, didn't know about the list swatches dialog, that might be a good intermediate step. I'd then write something that continually polls the colors in the traced drawings so far and updates the list of 'colours' in the palette (in /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/) as my slaves are beavering away...

@druban, I guess I should have been more clear, the users in our workflow have to apply a fill to about 40 traced objects in each image they work on. The list of fill titles (brain substructures) is currently just over 1000, meaning using the swatches really isn't workable. Each of the 1000 structur...

Hi all, background: I work in medical imaging, one of the things we use inkscape for is colouring/tracing histology via wacom tablets. I create the inkscape files using perl scripts (images + SVG overlays) that are then traced by people who know about histology. In our current (rather ambitious) pro...

For those who are following this I have hacked up a screenshot to demonstrate what I am after here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/264174 Join the bug report and you never know what might happen in time. Thanks again to to inkscape developers as it is inkscape already saves me a lot of tim...

@prkos Thanks for the reply, you are right, I can change node co-ordinates after they are in (and this is currently how I do things combined with guides at known co-ordinates and angles). What I am really after however is something whereby you first pick the Bezier/Line tool and then instead of clic...

Hi all, Perhaps I am daft but I have searched (well, ok I asked Google to search for me but you get the point) high and low for a way in which I can input a co-ordinate for a point ala most CAD programs (qCAD for example). The ability for polar co-ordinates would be ace too but I still canna see thi...