Re: The one Inkscape frustration affecting me

hi steve,
here's a review on "the book of inkscape, the definitive guide to the free
graphics editor" by dmitry kirsanov. he is a core inkscape developer,
author and graphic designer, specializing in website and logo design.
https://wordpress.com/post/wdalford.wordpress.com/5

cheers,
dwain

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Inkscape is one of the best pieces of software I use. It's sometimes
> hard to use, but the concept of drawing is very complex, so there's
> only so simple Inkscape can be made.
>
> The one Inkscape thing that gets me is switching between having the
> stroke grow or shrink with the object, when the object is grown or
> shrunk, as opposed to having the stroke width stay constant.
>
> I've given up and just scale rectangles in rectangle mode, or if I need
> to grow something big (perhaps because it's in a group), I just have to
> manually change the stroke width EDT (Every Darn Time).
>
> I know there's a toggle for this somewhere, but I can't find it in the
> docs or in experimentation. Wherever this toggle is, it should be
> shouted from the rooftops in the Inkscape documentation, and also made
> very obvious and prominent in the menu system, which is the best route
> toward discovery.
>
> By the way, help->Inkscape_Manual fails to bring up a web page on my
> system. It would be great if you had a copy-and-pasteable (and perhaps
> clickable) URL of the manual on the Help->About window.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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