Inkscape is a free, cross-platform software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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Convert a line drawing from raster to vector
I have a raster image, basically a scanned drawing of the outlines (and some detail) of various objects, and I wish to convert these lines to vectors, using either illustrator or inkscape.
My present ...
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Professionals: Would you choose GIMP over Photoshop and/or Inkscape over Illustrator? [closed]
I know Adobe's solutions are more advanced, but, as professionals, do you think you would survive (against competition) using GIMP and/or Inkscape instead of Photoshop and/or Illustrator for your ...
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How to keep only the visible parts of the every object/path of a SVG image? Like “flatten” all the SVG
I've an SVG image with many objects, ones over anothers. What I need is a final SVG, with the same visual result, but in a way that I could change the opacity of any object without revealing the ...
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How do I select an object that's below another object in Inkscape?
A common problem in Inkscape is that you want to select an object but another object always gets in the way because it completely obstructs the background object or because the two are too close ...
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How to Batch-export layers of Inkscape-generated SVG-file to Bitmap for sprites?
Batch -export means that I may need to add certain transformations such as anti-alias, contrast-fixes and resizing. SVG here means I am using Inkscape. One layer here is a sprite. I currently export ...
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TTF and other “modern” font systems, and font size differences
I have no formal (and precious little informal) graphic design training.
Fairly famous Computer Science person Dr. Donald Knuth long ago developed a font description system called Metafont. In and of ...
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Fisheye Effect in Inkscape?
Is anyone aware of a way to create a fisheye effect with elements in InkScape? Freehand used to have an xtra tool that did just that.
The specific effect I'm trying to achieve is applying horizontal ...
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Vectormagic.com-style-design by Inkscape with Bitmap-trace aka potrace?
I have used the Vectormagic.com -hxck i.e. copy-pasting to get quantified and nice-looking pictures fast but doing this is too slow with overwhelming amount of pictures. My friend is mocking that this ...
