Great wall of text, maybe? :D As far as I can see: - It is based in China - No entry fees. - Email your entries. - I don't get the theme is it 'freedom' or maybe 'the environment'. - closing date 31st July - If you download the entry form, first half is in Chinese 2nd half English - They can use ent...

Thanks for your comments, whoever you are ;) . I am getting a picture from peoples comments and I realise, in fact I think I already knew, there is no magic bullet. Computers are just big, complex, dumb tools and you have to learn how to use them intelligently. I do think Linux and the open source w...

Nice work, It would be great if this or something like it was linked into the help menu instead or as well as Tavmjongs guide which i find a little too in depth for quick reference and I find the short cut keys web page referenced in the help menu makes me go cross eyed with the tag cloud and all th...

Hi Sheken, You're in the right place. Inkscape has a trace bitmap function (Shift+alt+B) on under the Path menu. This is probably what you need. It has lots of options to choose between tracing the outline of brightness levels or colours and can also make a good job of tracing line work. If you set ...

I suspect that the changes need to be with us adults as usual :-) I know I left my daughter alone with a, to me, rather intimidating sound track looping software and she figured out how to do some stuff on it pretty quick. Mainly because she wanted to create an effect. She had a strong motivation an...

...with Ubuntu Wubi you can actually install it in Windows making it hassle free.... Well thanks for the heads up. I have taken the plunge and installed from Ubuntu Wubi. It has all gone good so far (fingers crossed :? ). It managed to install on a slave hard drive and connected up to the net via m...

Not a vital thing but I think I use it to scan through the topics in each forum I'll just check... yes, here at Arles Forum on the top right under the fish; 'View previous topic | View next topic' Sorry If i'm getting posts, threads and topics mixed up here. The example is also on phpBBS. :tool_call...

Apologies Zelus. I just made my own assumption that you were some person making assumptions about people in developing countries. Shame on me. :) I am still wary about this assumption that kids need some interface that is cutesy for them to get into it. (I'm not saying this is your view). From my ob...

Hi, I'm really enjoying the forum as you can see as I am madly posting every where. I'm pretty used to forums and the only things I miss is ' new post since you last came' [found it] and 'next post in thread' navigation. The latter I really miss when I get to the end of a topic and realise I jus...

Ha, thought you had major reservations about Inkscape from the title of the post. You got me. Nice buts tho'

Hi,

Really like the map but I can't figure out the story? Is it for a book? Where can i read it? Is it online. I looked around a few of your links but just got to dead ends..

all the best Dave

Ok, is this daughter wars...?

here is mine...

Except it is rather nicely laid out. Jeepers I don't like the centred text on the 'official page. Makes my eyes go funny.

Hi I think this is a great idea. I fully support it (only partly because I have a creative 9 year old :D ) Just a little heads up; there is a setup in the UK called Kidscape who do child protection work and they may have issues with the name. I'm not sure if they have legal claim but it maybe good t...

Hi Charles (?) Stylish, Gordon Brown hahaha :lol: But thanks, I did go visit Tavmjongs Bucket-Fidelity page and it cleared things up a lot for me. Specifically that the zoom factor you are using affects the way the :tool_paintbucket: works, which was a surprise. It just don't fill outside your visib...

Thanks for your comments Brynn, I agree with all of them! They are literally 'works in progress' but as with all computer 'sketches' they tend to have a veneer of the 'finished article' when they are not. I'm not really trying to defend myself here. :D I do want to get some opinions on what was a fe...

Just trying out a 'style' of caricature type drawing using a news photo for reference. I imported the images and drew on a new layer with the photo layer opacity down to 60%. I then 'hand' coloured the outlines I had drawn and added a few gradient fills. I would work on them some more if I thought i...

This started as a test image to try out the tracing features of Inkscape but I like the result so I put it up here. Not sure if I will take it anywhere but I love the 'layered' effect of the different traces and I did re-colour the eyes but all the other colours are from the original scan. I think I...

Nice cartoon Jonata! The name of the guy would probably be a 'mechanic' but I would like to have a 'mechanician' work on my car, he sounds like he may be a bit of a magician as well as a mechanic and my car could use some magic to keep it going. :D May be you could give him a magic wand instead of t...

How is Linux like a heron? I thought it was more like a penguin. Oh no the drugs are wearing off.... :lol: Seriously I think you are right and using so many functions within Firefox, not only blogging apps like Scribefire but FTP and then online googley things like documents and spreadsheets I am ho...

I find that on my windows machine the short cut keys (1,2,3,4,5,6) seem to work faster than icons on the tool bar, the marqee zoom, Ctrl + + or - or the Ctrl + mouse wheel. All the zooming functions are bogged down when you have a complex drawing though and I couldn't be sure if my observations are ...

Sounds pretty geeky to me, the two of you sitting at either end of the table with your laptops!

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. I have tried dual boot Ubuntu installs in the past and everything worked ok but I could never get over the 'hump' of porting every bit of data I might need to Linux. My laziness mostly and ironically fear of 'losing' tiny utilities that I had come to dep...

I'm seriously thinking of trying Linux as a new install primarily to run Inkscape and Gimp for production work. At the moment I run a few machines with WinXP but they are pretty full up with cruft and fall over all the time. Can anyone give me (real world) reports on if Linux is more stable that WIn...

I made a cartoon strip in Inkscape 0.46devel on a winxp computer. When I printed it out, the text I had justified right in a couple of places, printed out as continuous line (ignoring line breaks). I haven't tried to test this as I thought I would ask here if it was a known issue first? Peace, love ...