Note to Richard: Yes, indeed! Many thanks for your valuable input in making these tutorials as well, and to the good folks who help in any unseen way (even if it’s someone who generously donates a casserole as you record). You folks are nearing tutorial 100. I thank you for your patient work.

Perhaps you misunderstood what I was trying to explain. Draw a jagged bezier curve first. Something that looks like a heartbeat graph. Make sure you are not using the spiro option. There is a zig-zag option but it isn’t necessary to use to illustrate my point. Anyway, once you lay down a heartbeat looking graph, select the path with your node tool and highlight one of the corner nodes…doesn’t matter which node. Just make sure you don’t select your starting or ending node. Then click your auto-smooth node option from the dynamic node button toolbar. You should get a nicely rounded path where you once had sharp corners.

I understand that this may not be exactly what you were looking for with the bezier tool, nervertheless, I wanted to point out the new smoothing node type that is not the same but similar to smoothing with the pencil tool.

The bezier tool does have a smoothing option. It ls called auto-smooth and it’s a node type. It doesn’t and shouldn’t work the same way as the pencil tool because beziers only lays down one node at a time whereas the pencil tool can lay down a bunch of nodes as you move your cursor. With that many nodes one would find a smoothing option rather handy. At least it makes sense to me.

First, the “From clipboard” option is not really that much like a brush, per se. It is, more accurately, a thickness scheme. For example, if you make a small square, rotate it 45 degrees, copy it to the clipboard, and use that for a pencil or bezier object, the result will start thin, be thickest halfway through, then go thin again. This is the same as the thickness of the rotated square, viewed from the left side moving towards the right side. Sometimes you can’t exactly see this if the Spiro smoothing does weird things, so set the smoothing to a fairly low value when trying this.

Second, why doesn’t the bezier tool have a smooting setting??

Indeed, I have some new ideas for 0.47 screencasts. However, what I could really use is more time to screencast. Dipping my toes in too many other Inkscape (and Blender) fronts. Hard to keep up sometimes.

Agreed. When it comes to Free OpenSource Software the best we Muggles can do is offer some pizza money or help test the latest version to help bug squashing.

“…there are some things that I dislike about the latest spiro… step backwards in my opinion.”

I hear you. And the more I tried to compare the tutorial to the near-final product, the more I thought “golly, heathenx will have to do something with that older tutorial. I’d better comment on it if no-one else has by now.”

“Maybe I should do a spiro part two episode when Inkscape 0.47 is released.”

Voilà. The goal of my post. I imagined that the release of Inkscape 0.47 would bring on a whole fresh set of tutorials with a fresh enthusiasm about the product. This would not be surprising considering your fine work to date.

A word of thanks for your patient tutorials. Each tutorials brings out some aspect of Inkscape with which I was unfamiliar. This better equips us to serve our customers’ graphic needs. I am grateful for your teaching skills.

Currently, there are some things that I dislike about the latest spiro and bezier curve features in 0.47pre0 but I’m hoping those things will be hammered out before the release. For instance, we cannot even draw a straight line or single segment anymore without it disappearing and applying a stroke color afterward. That’s a bit of a step backwards in my opinion.

Even though this tutorial is quite dated I think it’s still somewhat useful, especially the ending. In the very least it gives a viewer a peek-a-boo at what is coming. Nevertheless, perhaps you are right. Maybe I should do a spiro part two episode when Inkscape 0.47 is released.

Thanks for your input.

Naturally, it isn’t fair to ask that this tutorial be updated with each change in the beta releases. However, I have the impression version 0.47 will not resemble the tutorial. The crescendo option is gone and many of the “effects” applicable to lines are gone, leaving 13. Granted, the developers were probably eager to add many new and exciting effects. But they probably proved too unstable for Inkscape in the last 11 months, and found themselves removed.

I hope you will revisit this tutorial when 0.47 is finally released.

Please tell me what operating system you’re using so that I may help you. I have a deb package for 19338 and a win32 archive for 20932. Really though, I’m not sure why you would want a much older dev release like 19338 anyway. They have made so much progress since then.

vince.

You can’t (unless you use SVN version 19338). The developers changed some things so it isn’t the same anymore. They did this on purpose because they think my tutorials are dumb and because I give Inkscape a bad name…just kidding.

Not all is lost. I use SVN version 20932 and spiro works great in that release. Things won’t work exactly like they did in my tutorial but they are not that much different.

Thanks,
vince.

I’m not sure where to find “19921-0809241546.7z”. Have a look at http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D to find a recent version.

starlight86 >> what you did to solve the problem ?

heathenx >> can you please me give the link to download 19921-0809241546.7z version ?

anyway..i’m really enjoying the video..:)