#Inkscape stroke to path alternative manual
Paths are called "Blines" there, the relevant feature is explained shortly at the bottom of one of its manual pages. You might want to have a look at how synfig handles varying width for paths. I'm not sure if it is better to open a separate blueprint or not. Which is similar to what you're proposing, only this doesn't use interpolation between adjacent nodes, it just places an element on a specific node (or nodes if you have several selected). I'm thinking this tool could allow the user to copy a path or an object or group of objects to any node in a path. Expanding this would enable this effect, and opens up many other possibilities. There is already something like this, the "nodetypes" attribute, but it is too restrictive. This is very well doable, but would require a new "Nodepath" implementation that enables writing special values (preferably a struct) per node. To position a pink handle at exact coordinates, Shift+Click or ALT-Click on it, an entry box opens.To remove a pink handle, CTRL-ALT-Click on it.To add another pink handle, you can duplicate one of the existing ones with CTRL-Click, and then drag it away along the path.A pink handle can be dragged away from or closer to the center of the path to make the stroke at this position thicker or thinner.A pink handle can be moved along the length of the path to define where it should have its effect.When added, the Path Effect PowerStroke produces 3 additional pink handles that can be dragged around intuitively:.jegHegyĪs of inkscape-1.0.1 the implementation is different than what is described here. Perhaps Alt+drag a node to change the thickness?Ī combination of a metakey and the scroll wheel would be intuitive as well (with status bar message stating you can do that, of course). Graphical feedback could even possibly set different icons for nodes that are set and others that are interpolated. When a node is selected, you can see what its value is by the change in values in the number entry or by the state of the push button.Īdditionally, hovering over a node could show the value of a node. User selects a nodes or a set of nodes and affects values to those. Only the stroke-width property of the path is overridden, the rest of the stroke properties keep working as usual, when relevant. Then the user applies the LPE to his shape, it overrides the normal stroke rendering and allows custom line width at different nodes of the path. The user simply creates the line, it might for example be based on an outline. This LPE allows a modulated stroke from manually entered values.įurther development could allow direct width reading from a pressure-enabled device. The proposed power stroke LPE is as follow: SVG source files: should be linked here soon.
#Inkscape stroke to path alternative pdf
5 Johan Engelen's implementation (0.48+dev) as LPEĪ PDF of Johan's presentation at LGM 2012 in Vienna: File:LGM2012 - Powerstroke.pdf.You can ungroup them by navigating to Object>Ungroup, or alternatively press the combination Shift+Ctrl+G. Once done, the result will be a group of the two paths (the original fill, and the original stroke converted to a path). Go to Path>Stroke to Path, or simply use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C.Select a path that has a stroke (if it doesn’t, this whole procedure won’t work).The procedure is straightforward, just apply the next two steps in order to convert a stroke to a path: To convert a stroke to a path means that you take that area covered by the stroke and make it a path with a fill color the same as the original path’s stroke color, and the newly generated path will have no stroke (stroke color is set to None), the same happens to the original path (the stroke will also be set to None).Īfter such an operation you can treat the previous stroke as a path, for example, you can add a stoke to that path, apply any path effect, or apply Boolean operations upon this path and another one (addition, subtraction, intersection, … etc.). One parameter of the stroke is its width which is how much of the boundary (both inside and outside the path) does the stroke cover. What Does It Mean To Convert the Stroke to a Path? Now what is the benefit of having two characteristics to paths (the fill and the stoke)? Adding more parameters to any object make, the object more useful on one hand, and on the other it makes thing organized. Note: you can omit the fill color or the stroke by setting it to None, yet if you set both to None you can’t see the path despite its existence.