The Inkscape Help Thread

[CrimsonAngel]

[deuxhero]

The firing effects might help, but the hand position doesn't really work.

[licoot]

I don't realy think that there is a solution, because oots is in individual pannels. Why don't you just have him shooting in more then one panel, or have more then one bullet in the air ahead of it

[Beholder1995]

I've been wondering- when making panels and subsequently placing lines and objects within those panels, is there any way of making it so that said lines & objects don't poke out of the sides short of meticulously positioning them by hand directly on the panel border?

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Was that one sentence?

[John Cribati]

I've been wondering- when making panels and subsequently placing lines and objects within those panels, is there any way of making it so that said lines & objects don't poke out of the sides short of meticulously positioning them by hand directly on the panel border?

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Was that one sentence?

Not sure. There's a way to do that with text, so see if converting the objects and lines to text, and then pressing Alt +W should work in theory. It likely won't in practice.

And that is one sentence, just a run-on. Though, the "I've been wondering" is what makes it so. Take that out and it's grammatically correct.


EDIT: While I'm here, I wanna drop off this little gem. Plz dun quotexor teh imaeg kplzthx:

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[CrimsonAngel]

To answer how to cut certain things out of panels, either layer them so that people are under the next panel, or manualy edit them. As for cleaning the edges of a comic, make a copy of panel one, remove the fill, and edit the nodes so they match up with the edges of the comic. Make sure the border is over everything you want out of the comic and to put speech bubbles inside. (Unless you edit it so that there's a spike in the border that envelopes the bubble, but you need to make sure nothing pokes out on that side.)

[Rae Artemi]

Does anyone know where inkscape puts the auto saves it makes? I have auto save on and I can't find the saves it did on my last comic, which crashed just before I exported.

[Fostire]

Does anyone know where inkscape puts the auto saves it makes? I have auto save on and I can't find the saves it did on my last comic, which crashed just before I exported.

Open inkscape, go to file->inkscape preferences->save
There should be an option under auto-save that says "path", that's where it puts the auto-saves.

[Trazoi]

I've been wondering- when making panels and subsequently placing lines and objects within those panels, is there any way of making it so that said lines & objects don't poke out of the sides short of meticulously positioning them by hand directly on the panel border?

Another way you can do this is to create clip and mask objects for your panel. It's an option under the Option menu (Option -> Clip or Option -> Mask). Just create a shape over your entire panel as your clip area, select everything in the panel (or group them together) with your clip shape at the front, choose Option -> Clip and your panel objects should be clipped at the edges of your clip shape.

An advantage of doing it this way is that your panel contents still exist outside the panel borders; they're just hidden. If you select them, you can move them around within the panel.

[Rae Artemi]

Open inkscape, go to file->inkscape preferences->save
There should be an option under auto-save that says "path", that's where it puts the auto-saves.

Huh, mine was blank, but I found it. it ended up in Temp internet files for some reason. Thanks though.

[deuxhero]

How would I draw a "hand" as a closed fist?

[licoot]

You could either just put a small circle (but that often looks a bit strange), or you could put it so the fingers meen at the end

[deuxhero]

Fingers together+rotate 90 degrees seems to work.

[licoot]

I find the best ways are like that or to just do this:

[Fostire]

The giant uses a small circle with two small lines for a closed fist. Take a look at this comic to see what I'm talking about (when Elan punches Kubota)

[memnarch]

I always picture Elan's punching hand as a closed fist here

[deuxhero]

^ you got beat by 4 mins


I think the the punch from Elan looks a bit odd myself.

[GenPol]

<---How do I get rid of the white background? I saved it from Inkscape as a PNG, and then uploaded it to Image Shack. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Here is my origional drawing. It's my first attempt, don't make fun of me

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[memnarch]

Is there a white background behind the drawing you did? If that's the square you used to frame the export, then try turning it almost completely translucent by sliding the "opacity, %" down from 100% to 1%.

Another option is to have nothing behind the guy and select all the components by left-click drag select all of him and then exporting it.

[GenPol]

YES! Thank you, that solved the problem.

[memnarch]

One thing that would make the avatar better as well would be to export it at 70 by 120 so the image is smoother as your avatar.

[John Cribati]

One thing that would make the avatar better as well would be to export it at 70 by 120 so the image is smoother as your avatar.

What I do is make a 120x120 square, position the character inside it, select the square and take the color away from it (the red x in the bottom left when you have the color swatches). Then select the whole thing and export it.

[Cealocanth]

I haven't looked through the thread due to lack of time but, does Inkscape run on Window's 7? Also, Nameless, what program do you use?

[Edit: I have Home Premium, it probably runs on Ultimate.]

[Crimmy]

As far as I know, it runs on everything.

[Keris]

I haven't looked through the thread due to lack of time but, does Inkscape run on Window's 7? Also, Nameless, what program do you use?

[Edit: I have Home Premium, it probably runs on Ultimate.]

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium, and Inkscape runs fine. Nameless uses Macromedia Fireworks.

[Dogmantra]

Cealocanth, I had the same query around a month ago. It works fine. In fact, it works better, I've found.

[DarknessLord]

Hey guys, I just got around to installing inkscape again, and on the current version is there a way to switch back to having my layer window and such be in a side bar instead like I had in the old version?

If so how, and if not what version do I need to downgrade to that still has that?

[petersohn]

What do you want exactly? I have 0.47, and the layer window is in the sidebar by default. Is that not what you want?

[Cealocanth]

I went ahead and installed inkscape. I made my very first avatar by the guide given on the first page of this thread. But the next day I tried to open Inkscape and I got this error message: "The application was unable to stary correctly.(0xc0000005) Press OK to close the program."

The only thing I could think of what I did was I installed pngcrush, But there's no uninstall option on that and I can't figure out how to use it. Can anyone help me?

My first avatar:

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[Edit: I tried permanently removing pngcrush from my system. I also tried uninstalling and re-installing inkscape.]
[Edit: I troubleshooted, It said that the application was incompatible. (Exact message: "Error: Incompatible Application") But you guys said it would run, and it did yesterday. Do those who said it works actually have Windows 7 and have Inkscape installed?]

[Dogmantra]

I assure you, Inkscape works fine on Windows 7. I've been using it for about a month or two and I've had one crash.