- Get element by id in Inkscape
- A Google search couldn’t find this before, so I’m going to nudge it along. The way to get an Inkscape node by Id in an Effect is with self.getElementById('Id').
- How to make a meme on the iPad or iPhone
- Ray, when someone asks you if you can make a meme, you say yes! You can do it with Inkpad.
- Updated Inkscape extension
- Inkscape extensions on Mac OS X are a little easier in the latest versions.
- Using the color picker in Inkscape extensions
- It was pretty easy, looking at the built-in extensions, to switch colors from one to another if I wanted to type their values by hand. But using the color parameter type took a bit of sleuthing.
- Write an Inkscape extension: create multiple duplicates
- Once you get past the complete lack of simple real-world examples, it’s pretty easy to make Inkscape extensions. So, here’s a simple real-world example.
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- River Secrets for Mapping
- I only understand about half of what Rob Conley writes here about making rivers in Inkscape maps, so it’s not surprising that his sample maps look a hell of a lot better than the maps I make for Gods & Monsters. I’ll add that the blur feature makes lakes and rivers look a lot nicer. Just a slight, barely-perceptible blur around the edges makes a big difference. I’m adding blur to just about everything nowadays.