flourish problem in .47 version

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flourish problem in .47 version

Postby craftaddict » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:56 am

I started using inkscape a few days ago and am a beginner. I had seen a tutorial on making flourishes which made it look so easy to do that I thought I would have a go. I had version .46 installed on my computer so tried on that one.

I clicked on the pencil :tool_pencil: , then on create spiropath and had smoothing at 100 pct as explained in the tutorial. I made flourishes with several different settings, elipse, triangle in, triangle out and non and even played around with them by moving the nodes and rotating them. My only problem was that the program regularly crashed and shut down (and of course I was not always remembering to save as I went along :)

OK, I thought maybe I should install the new version .47, it might be more stable. So I installed it and when I tried to do my flourishes it wouldn't work any more............ I could only get straight lines, no more flourishes. Somone suggested I reduce the smoothing and that worked a bit better but on the previous version it worked much better, even at 100 pct.

I was so disapointed that I tried to go back to the previous day to the older version with windows xp (restore) and when I tried to run inkscape I got a runtime error. Now I deleted the program and reinstalled it (.46) and it seems ok. And I can do my flourishes again :D

But I would like to know why it doesn't work with the new .47 version which is supposed to be more stable ?

thanks to anyone who can help, I really look forward to learning to use inkscape with its endless possibilites. So far I have only dabbled a bit with an old program called micrografx draw and PSP.

Cheers,
Jo

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Re: flourish problem in .47 version

Postby RobA » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:25 am

Try in the range of 30-40 for smoothing. That works for me in .47

-Rob A>


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