Any #inkscape users on here? I am (desperately) trying to make a cd cover cutout template. I've made the shape to be cut out from several squares, but I would now like to get rid of the inner parts of those squares ( I only need the outline of the whole shape because it's for a cutout). How the hoot do I do that?
I'm slowly making my way through a 8 thousand line python addition to #inkscape's #python library for parsing text and font elements in #svg properly. It's important and useful, but it's also a lot.
I'm not sure how to say "please run pylint over your code because my eyes hurt trying to read this". without sounding like an ungrateful jerk. 😅
A while back I went through the tutorials for Inkscape and was fairly impressed.
Now that I sat down to draw some box-and-arrow data structure diagrams, I found that (a) the knowledge had fallen out of my head and (b) it was nearly impossible to figure out how to do things by playing with the program. I probably spent the better part of an hour trying to center text vertically within a box. A DuckDuckGo search was useless, because I kept getting videos explaining how to do much fancier things like getting text to lie along a curve. The only source that explained the procedure was, surprisingly, ChatGPT.
Clearly this is far too powerful a tool for my task -- like slicing butter with a chainsaw.
I looked for open source alternatives and alternativeto.net reminded me of draw.io. I had used this before, but been annoyed that it insisted on saving things within Google drive and manually drilling through my directory structure each time. Fortunately, there is now a standalone desktop app that lets me save things locally. It feels much friendlier -- poking around for a few seconds tends to find what I need.
I'm feeling really good about my new LED art project. This is a collab with my partner Allie who did the illustration/vectors for the cloud. It'll have LEDs going under both layers, and then white opaque vinyl on top to give it a crisp edge and hide the coroplast ribs.
Per usual, this was designed in #inkscape and the inner layers were computed from that using #OpenSCAD. #ledart
Amis #graphistes, allez donner du courage et de l'attention à Martin, le développeur de #inkscape, qui galère un peu à trouver comment exporter en CMJN les dessins vectoriels conçus en sRGB dans l'application. Il semble bien déterminé à trouver une solution mais a besoin de visibilité pour joindre ses utilisateurs.
Voici sa dernière vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNs4-ef7RPg
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