!!!! Inkscape Users you must check this out !!!!

[Lucille]

lucille i watched the video and it was really good. it is unstable but i dont mind as it is free and i am only having a play.

lucille i follwed your instructions and saved it to my laptop, have you looked at inkscape yet when i click on pencil i didnt get the cresendo etc in the drop down that showed in the video.

i got none, triangle in and triangle out?

will have to try and play around later, wanted to see how it worked before i try and copy the stuff onto a memory stick to put it on hannah;s pc shes no0t on the net

It won't be unstable for ever you have to remember it is an ongoing project and changes almost every day, so bugs and crashes are par for the course. That is why I haven't installed it more permanently than the desk top.

[Lucille]

I have just had my first play and it is brilliant no crashes, well not yet anyway

Here are my first attempts at following the video, still aways to go but so much fun learning.

[sandymcc]

Can't you just tell us now?

I apologize for not just posting the link... it was late last night when I posted (I'm in Arizona) and I wanted to check out a few of the other links they had there to see if one might be closer to what we saw in the video than the most current version. I also noticed that the drop down menu said "triangle in" and "triangle out" versus "crescendo" and... uh... the other one!

Anyhow, thanks for writing the tutorial and getting those interested started on it. I'll still make the video because there are a lot of interested people at the Yahoo groups now wanting to also see how this works. Plus some of them couldn't get that wonderful demo video you found to load on their computers. So, now I need to also do a few examples myself to show them what this feature can do!

One more thing.... what do you need to do in order to weld the pieces together? I tried just doing a marquis-select of my various swirls after overlapping them and I got a mess when I used Path>Union to weld. I can export/import into KNK/DM just fine and weld there, but for those who just use RM and can only weld in Inkscape, how do you get the images to weld?

Thanks! Again, great discovery, Lucille!

[stressed]

lucille yes ive got that far now too, i just played about with the fill tools.

as you i only have it on my laptop desktop waiting for a stable version.

sandy, i did path object path, then path union heres may screen shot my view is in outline

[sandymcc]

Perfect! Thanks! I've not used Inkscape in two years, so a lot of these functions are just not in my brain any longer!

[Paperpiskies]

Thanks Lucille, can't wait to have a play!!!

[lucylogic]

Thanks for the instructions Lucille, am going to download it later and have a play.

Many, many, many thanks for finding this for us

[joggy148]

I watched this with my friend today and all we could say was wow, just one question lol,

How do you get it to just ru from your desktop?

Jo

[Lucille]

I unzipped it to my desktop and there isn't an setup.exe command, so I thought that suits me I don't want you in programs yet.

In fact I made it a new folder called Inkscape Project for any further unstable versions.

[joggy148]

thanks lucille, got it downloaded, only thing I have found is the shape tools aren't right or is it just me lol.

[Lucille]

Which shape tools?

[joggy148]

square, circle, star, i was gonna try that part of video but they won't work

[Lucille]

You must be doing something wrong it works OK for me.

The new spiro tools have different names than in the video but they do the same thing as you can see from my first efforts further up in this thread.

Remember this is version is changing all the time and it is unstable.

[stressed]

yes circles and star etc are down the left where they normally are hannah has been playing with them tonight.

[sandymcc]

If anyone is having trouble downloading or doing the "non-install", I created several short videos to cover each step. There are links in yesterday's post on my blog (see link in signature below).