Hello everyone

First of all thank you very much to everyone involved in creating and maintaining this wonderful tool. I'm a graduate economics student (UK).

I need some help regarding drawing some concave functions. Here are some example of what type of things I'd like to draw:


Initially, I was thinking of drawing the graphs in LaTeX, but then I found out about Incscape, allowing me to concentrate on my main work.

If some kind souls can help me by providing me some instructions and one or two example I'd really appreciate.

Regards

Mohammad

You can use Function Plotter extension, it's under Extensions > Render menu. http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... ionPlotter

Thanks for your information, prkos. I tried but I'm not really sure how to do it.

I was wondering if I can do it without the math involved. In other words, image the drawing canvas and then all the curves and other things that you can put in MS Word. If it's possible in Inscape (or anything else in the world of ) I'd grateful if someone can show me a simple example (with concave and/or convex lines) and how it was done. Thanks for your patience.

M

The extensions windows have a tab that tell you how to use them, you have to create a rectangle first, remove its fill and set stroke to black, select it and then apply the formula.

If you don't want to use formulas at all and only want approximate curves you can use the Pencil or Pen tools, then Node tool to edit the paths.

Thanks a lot for tips, prkos. That's what I was looking for. Now I need to find a nice mouse and a mousepad for smooth drawing.

Cheers

M

If you use the Pen (Bezier) tool, you don't need to be smooth. And if you use the Pencil tool, there's a setting on the tool control bar for smoothing.

brynn wrote:If you use the Pen (Bezier) tool, you don't need to be smooth. And if you use the Pencil tool, there's a setting on the tool control bar for smoothing.

Thanks brynn for help as well.

Sorry for the delay, I don't have 24hr internet connection atm.

I need your help (again!) regarding putting texts, including Greek and other mathematical symbols in the pictures. But I don't know how do those in Incscape. FYI, the font size I'm using are between 10 & 12.

Regards

M

Ok....well first, you'll probably be using the Text tool. So you can refer to Basics - Help menu > Tutorials
Manual - Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
Inkscape Community - Inkscape FAQ - Gallery
Inkscape for Cutting Design

brynn wrote:And I don't see any info in the tavmjong Guide.

It's in the draft version for the Inkscape 0.48 manual [1]:

• Inkscape » Text » Creating Text: Glyphs Dialog

[1] the draft version (Draft of Fourth Edition Available) including the link is mentioned on the start page of the current manual (Third Edition)

Thanks Brynn and ~suv for your tips. It solves the problem in part.

I was wondering if it is also possible to use fractions, subscript, superscript etc as well.

Regards

M

mohammad wrote:I was wondering if it is also possible to use fractions, subscript, superscript etc as well.

The available text formatting tools in Inkscape 0.48 are described in the manual (draft version):

• Inkscape » Text » Formatting Text

Note that Inkscape isn't a word-processing application and only has limited text formatting capabilities so far (the latest version 0.48 has seen some major improvements compared to earlier versions, including the support for sub-/superscript).