I’ve successfully created a few icon fonts for my websites and the Inkscape FontForge approach as outlined in this how-to is pretty solid, and if you’re used to using software such as Inkscape, it’s also pretty easy too. Here’s the steps I take: Preparation (using Inkscape in this example) Open the Inkscape document that holds … Read more
The command I had to use to fix this problem was inkscape in.svg -E out.eps –export-ignore-filters –export-ps-level=3 where in.svg is your image and out.eps is the eps that comes out. Edit As suggested by Vladimir in comments, newer versions of inkscape doesn’t have -E option, so need to replace it with -o.
Here is one way to select all items of exactly the same colour (fill). It is also possible to look for other style categories, such as the stroke colour etc. 1) Imagine we wish to select all the orange items on the canvas. Select one of those and go to the Fill and Stroke dialog. … Read more
Short answer When typing the transformation matrix params in Inkscape, make sure you have “Edit current matrix” checked, since if you apply a new transformation matrix to an object, you’re actually multiplying this new matrix with the existing transformation matrix of the object, so make sure you edit it instead. Long Answer How to recalculate … Read more
Try this: Select the two nodes at each side of the base of the branch (as shown in your image). Use the “Break path at selected nodes”-button. It’s located in the upper toolbar visible when you press F2. Now you have two connected paths which you can separate using Path->”Break Apart”.
I have Inkscape installed in /Applications and running this from a terminal does the trick: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape –help Usage: inkscape-bin [OPTIONS…] [FILE…] Available options: -V, –version Print the Inkscape version number … etc. For ease of use symlink it to /usr/local/bin i.e.: ln -s /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape \ /usr/local/bin/inkscape In general, on MacOS Inkscape needs to be called … Read more
You can change the background color in Inkscape by changing the document properties (in the File menu). In particular, you can check ‘Checkerboard background’ to show the checkerboard if the background is set to transparent.
Instead of -background transparent, use -background none. convert -background none in.svg out.png NOTE: The order of the arguments is important.
In InkScape 0.48: File > Document Properties > Page > General > Background Move R, G, and B to 0. Adjust A (Alpha) to your preference (experiment to set to your liking). Note that this approach will set the color you choose as the background for the saved/exported image. In InkScape 0.92: File > Document … Read more
If you need stroke or no-stroke then you can also use stroke-dasharray to do this, by making the dashes and gaps match up with the sides of the rectangle. rect { fill: none; stroke: black; } .top { stroke-dasharray: 0,50,150 } .left { stroke-dasharray: 150,50 } .bottom { stroke-dasharray: 100,50 } .right { stroke-dasharray: 50,50,100 … Read more