Hi, I'm trying to build up a nice final image by layering several copies of the same shape with different patterns/filters/etc applied to each. My idea for how to do this was to draw the basic shape, and then clone it, applying the different effects to each clone, so that I could easily change the f...

Spooky thread necromancy - that was a year ago ! . I haven't looked for a while, but IIRC I never found a better way of doing it. Sorry.

Thanks for all the replies. Brynn - thanks for the link to the performance guidelines. For anyone coming to this thread later, here's a summary of what I've found here and through my own research: ⋅  XInclude is not supported. In fact, it seems like almost no-one supports it (even Batik Sq...

So I've played around a little bit and it seems like the primary thing that matters to Inkscape performance is the total number of nodes that are visible anywhere in the current document. (I.e. (c) from above). On my machine (1.7 Ghz Core i5 4GB Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB - admittedly not the fas...

Hi Lazur, Yeah, I think you get the idea. As you say, I'm not sure that symbols are quite right, but perhaps I could bend them into doing what I was looking for. You say that it won't improve rendering time - this was one of my main questions about all this really: what is the relative importance to...

Hi Brynn, You're right - you can of course edit the swatches by changing the colour of an object that has a swatch assigned to its fill or stroke. However, one of the nice things about swatches is that you can set your palette bar at the bottom of the screen to "auto" and it will display y...

Hi Brynn, That's right. I have a whole set of stuff that I drew without paying enough attention to grid alignment. There's a big square background fill against which everything else is drawn, and I want that to line up neatly with the grid so that I can place a bunch of other stuff neatly around it/...

Hi Brynn, Ok, so yeah, I'm thinking of something a bit fancier involving several files being pulled together. You should probably know that I used to write XML software for a living, so I'm trying to hack things based on my knowledge of XML standards.... SVG is of course built on top of XML. XML inc...

Hi, I'm currently mapping a fantasy world, and I have lots of different maps at different scales. The larger scale maps obviously exist within the area of the smaller scale ones. Some of the scales are sufficiently close together that there would be some merit in using some sort of inclusion to link...

Hi, I know that variations of this have been dealt with on a number of occasions, but searching around I couldn't find a good solution. I'm *slowly* drilling it into myself that layers are groups, and that I can't group things form multiple layers together without losing all my layers.... but it doe...

Hi Brynn, Thanks for your reply. I do understand how to use the new gradient editor, and for normal gradient editing, I actually like it better than the old editor. The problem comes with swatches. Swatches are a feature for having per-document colour palettes - check out the Fill/Stroke dialog and ...

Hi, I might be missing something here, but I can't for the life of me see how to edit swatches with the new gradient editor. With the old dialog, you could right click a swatch, hit edit, and the dialog popped up allowing you to edit it. The new editor is an "in place" editor, but swatches...

That gradient was made with inkscape manually -each step was snapped to guidelines at even distances. Wow. That must have taken a while! Now that I see what you wanted to achieve, a "gradient map" effect can do similar with rasters. Available in gimp as a plugin only (?) http://do...

Lazur URH wrote:I was thinking of something similar to this.

By the way, I forgot to ask, what did you use to create that colour wheel gradient? I looked through the extensions but couldn't find anything that obviously would do that - or did you generate the SVG outside of inkscape?

Thanks,

Lucian

Hey, thanks for replying again - I fear that I'm not really explaining myself very well. The final output was supposed to be something like your bottom gradient - full saturation all the way across - but I wanted to *generate* this by transforming an underlying grayscale or alpha gradient that descr...

I'm not 100% sure I get what you are suggesting. My "grayscale gradient" was in fact already created by overlaying multiple gradients that faded from alpha 1 -> alpha 0. But the final step represents the addition of two overlapping sources of radiation, and I want this to be a "pure a...

Hi, I'm currently trying to create a complex colour gradient out of a number of primitive grayscale gradients whose values are mathematically significant. I probably ought to be learning a plotting program like GNUPlot or R for this, but I was really hoping that I could get away with doing it in SVG...

Hi Guys, Thanks very much for both your responses - I've learnt a lot about inkscape just from working through what you've posted. It took me a while to work out the way that tylerdurden had cloned the clipping path so that the coastline was still displayed - but that makes a whole lot more sense no...

Hi, I'm a new Inkscape user using it to draw maps. I have managed to get a coastline that I'm basically happy with, and I'm now thinking about dividing it into administrative subdivisions with different colours in them inside my coastal outline. Now I'm aware that Inkscape doesn't have "T-node&...