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[rbtdanforth]

@woodgc

I’ll look at Gimp and see what I can figure out.

I have more extensive notes here…

Inkscape gradients

Ok! I walked through several examples of things to know If I got a bit silly at the end. First you open the svg in gimp and get a lot of options: [shad-1] This one was big to start with but 1600 or 1800 x value up to 10,000 will give a lot of resolution. Import paths turn vector lines into Gimp paths, merge paths makes them all one and not as useful usually. You can build selection sets easily enough yourself of course, and put new paths along those selection sets as in: [shad-2] Once I …

Also here…

Doing the offset thing in Gimp

That offset in the new Glowforge GFUI works really well. So well it has made me hate trying to accomplish it in Inkscape. error-> So I have been using Gimp and resizing the image by enlarging the mask and scaling to the mask. You can use the mask to create a path and you can use the path to add or subtract from the mask and all sorts of special effects from a line along the path to text along that path. So I take the image and create a mask to the size of the image and then under Selection, …

(the way things worked in the GFUI has changed some since then)