Comments on: Episode 091

By: Sprechblasen in ein Bild einfügen | Tipps & Tricks zu FixFoto | Die beste Bildbearbeitung der Welt

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:13:53 +0000

[...] Eine sehr große Auswahl an freien Cliparts gibt es bei opencliparts.org. Die dortigen Bilder kannst du alle auch als PNG herunterladen. Allerdings sind die PNGs meist recht klein. Wenn du sie in höherer Auflösung brauchst, kannst du auch die entsprechende SVG-Datei herunterladen. Mit dem freien Programm Inkscape kannst du diese Dateien laden und als als PNG mit den von dir gewünschten Maßen exportieren. Mit Inkscape kannst du aber auch eigene Sprechblasen anfertigen. Wie das geht, zeigt u.a. dieser Film. [...]

By: Paul Mena

Paul Mena — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:28:38 +0000

Este es el mejor lugar para aprender inkscape de manera facil y sencilla.

Gracias heathenx y Richard por su magnifico trabajo.

By: JavierSam

JavierSam — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:22:29 +0000

[...] En este corto e interesante episodio, Richard Querin explica algunas maneras de hacer distintos tipos de globos de texto para comics. Al comienzo recomienda una página en dónde buscar tipografías apropiadas para este tipo de tareas: blambot.com. Desde allí eligió y descargó para este ejercicio la fuente LetterOMatic!. [...]

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:30:48 +0000

@heathenx
On the contrary, I think you guys do show the best way. All I’ve mentioned is a different way of doing things. At least by following this screencast people can see the difference and benefits of breaking text up i.e. not having to rely on installed fonts

I do a bit of teaching using inkscape and always point my students to your screencasts (seems like some children don’t like reading )

I’ll give that extension a go, surprised that I haven’t heard of it before!

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:26:36 +0000

@Antonio
Regardless, there are always about 10 different ways to achieve the final result in Inkscape. We might not always show the best way but we show a way that works for us. Two people always seem to draw differently anyway. That’s why I enjoy Richard’s screencasts. I can see how he goes about achieving something.

By the way, there is an extension floating around called Split Text I think. Instead of breaking apart text, one can use this extension to do the same thing except that the extension leaves it editable text. It also splits words and lines in paragraphs too. Google it and I’m sure you’ll find it.

By: rfquerin

rfquerin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:21:06 +0000

Wow.. I did NOT know you could do anything other than horizontal adjustment of characters that way without converting to a path! Thanks guys for straightening me out on that. When I think of kerning, it means only the horizontal spacing between characters. I guess calling it a kerning adjustment is a little limiting.

Thanks guys.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:45:47 +0000

@heathenx

I was just about to say that and you beat me to it

I’ve submitted a bug report about it (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/398408) as well as a request to change the centre of rotation for text. Currently it rotates from the bottom left of the text.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:42:45 +0000

@Antonio & @rfquerin
Actually, Antonio is correct that one can use kerning to adjust horizontal, vertical, scale, rotation, and position of the individual characters. BUT, there is one key element of why Richard did not use it. One cannot overlap characters randomly like Richard shows in the screencast. The first character will always has the upper hand in the z-order. In other words the right character will be underneath the left character. Although, if there is a way to move individual characters by z-order with kerning then please let us know. Perhaps that can be controlled in the xml editor.

By: rfquerin

rfquerin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:01:18 +0000

Thanks for the tip Antonio. Although kerning adjustment will only let you move the characters horizontally relative to each other. If you want to adjust the scale, vertical position or rotation of each character relative to one another then you need to break it apart. I do it this way just to have that additional flexibility in modifying the text.

Thanks for the link to Troy’s blog. I love his work.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:03:09 +0000

Just a note about the last part of the screencast where you create the “BANG” text. You don’t have to convert the text to a path to do that. You can use manual kerning with alt + Left/right/up/down and then resize each character individually. The benefit of this is that text can still be edited afterwards. See here for more information on it http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/04/inkscape-tutorial-2-text-and-simple.html

By: Asaleh25

Asaleh25 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:57:49 +0000

I almost forgot to mention, I couldn’t control the volume on Chrome.

By: Darth_Gimp

Darth_Gimp — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:05:43 +0000

Not sure why, but I am not able to control volume or video actions like pause. Thus I had to stop the video rather than pausing. Ever since, its not loading online and ended up downloading it. Ubuntu 9.04 and FireFox 3.5.5

By: Asaleh25

Asaleh25 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:46:43 +0000

It works fine on google chrome, except, and this could be just my computer it buffers a lot, but otherwise it works perfectly and it downloads perfect with no problem.
The tutorial was great, it was just what I was looking for, now if only I could find a tutorial on how to draw bottles. (Screencast number 93 maybe);)

By: Marble Icons Inc.

Marble Icons Inc. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:52:49 +0000

@rfquerin I was using FF3.5, but I was on a Mac before, and for some reason my Mac always plays streamed ogg files with a cackling noise added to them. When I first experienced this on Wikipedia a while ago, I thought they had to add it to songs or something because of copyright issues, but now I see it just has something to do with my Mac. Anyway, did it on Windows, worked fine on Firefox.

I know ogg is the open-source way to go and everything, and playing ogg won’t be a problem for most of your audience, but I think Flash made it more cross platform/browser than ogg. Still a great tutorial though, looking forward to more (even if I’ll have to download them for VLC)!

By: cliff

cliff — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:54:51 +0000

Thanks very much for this tutorial – coincidentally, I was translating a comic from French to English – and wasn’t quite happy with the result (i was using Gimp) – but thanks to your tips, the result now is way better

By: rfquerin

rfquerin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:49:59 +0000

@MarbleIconsInc – Was this with Firefox 3.5? While the Safari4 problem was noted above, I don’t think anyone’s had any problems with Firefox 3.5 (although I would be surprised if oggs worked perfectly with everyone using FF3.5). Let us know what version you were running when you tried it.

By: Marble Icons Inc.

Marble Icons Inc. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:07:34 +0000

Video didn’t work on Safari 4, just gave me a blue question mark. Worked on Firefox, but it had a bunch of feedback added onto it, like the ogg files on Wikipedia. When I downloaded it, it was just fine, again like Wikipedia files that have a bunch of feedback added onto them unless you download them, regardless of browser or OS.

Why do ogg files do this online?

By: heathenx

heathenx — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:38:54 +0000

I modified the html on ep091 and added a java fall-back (Cortado) for those who are not using FF3.5 or don’t have HTML5 Theora support.

Here are my limited findings so far:

FF3.5 – Ubuntu 9.04/WinXP – Perfect. No problems.

Opera 10b1 – Ubuntu 9.04: Video played but the Java applet loaded less than perfectly. Browser never crashed but sometimes the video was pushed to the side cropping most of the video. A page refresh seems to help fix the problem but it seems to want to load the java applet again.

Opera 10b1 – WinXP: Video played great. Java applet loaded perfectly.

IE8 – WinXP: Video played great. Java applet loaded perfectly.

Honestly, I am not a fan of the java applet and I’m pretty sure you won’t be either but it’s better than nothing at all. I’m pretty sure FF3.5 will handle things perfectly but we could use some feedback on some other browsers on other operating systems/distros. I would like to get some Safari and Chrome feedback.

Please remember. You can still download the OGGs for offline viewing if you experience online playing issues. The OGG files are smaller than our AVIs now.

By: K.Oz

K.Oz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:33:26 +0000

Worked fine with FF3.5 in Fedora 11 too. Even the intro played pretty good, only the first 0.2 sec or so were a little bit choppy.
And I liked the screencast, of course I would never get the idea to simply add nodes and drag the middle one away on my own ^^

By: Rob Ville

Rob Ville — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:10:53 +0000

I’m using FF3.5 in openSUSE 11.1 and the ogg file is working very good!

I’m waiting for the next episode!