Re: The one Inkscape frustration affecting me

I own the "Book of Inkscape." It's great and it's thorough. 

This book is not, however, an antidote to poor discoverability. I
looked all over the menu system. I looked all over the Stroke Paint and
Stroke Style panels of the Fill and Stroke menu. I right clicked and
double clicked the rectangle tool, the ellipse tool, and the selection
tool. No reference to anything resembling proportional stroke showed
up. This really needs to be SCREAMED from the documentation, it needs
to be in the menu system, reference to it should be made on the stroke
with and strok style tabs of the fill and stroke dialog box.

So that I'll never forget it again, I've written it here:

http://troubleshooters.com/linux/quickhacks.htm#propstrokes

SteveT


On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:13:10 -0500
Dwain Alford <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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