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# timestamp: 2016-06-02 20:12:50 +0200
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=== modified file 'tutorials/tips/tutorial-tips.xml'
--- tutorials/tips/tutorial-tips.xml 2014-05-14 14:27:02 +0000
+++ tutorials/tips/tutorial-tips.xml 2016-06-02 18:12:22 +0000
@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@
-Radial placement with Tile Clones
+Radial placement with Tiled Clones
-It's easy to see how to use the Create Tile Clones dialog for rectangular grids and
+It's easy to see how to use the Create Tiled Clones dialog for rectangular grids and
patterns. But what if you need radial placement, where objects
share a common center of rotation? It's possible too!
-If your radial pattern need only have 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 elements, then you can try the
-P3, P31M, P3M1, P4, P4M, P6, or P6M symmetries. These would work nicely for snowflakes
+If your radial pattern only needs to have 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 elements, then you can try the
+P3, P31M, P3M1, P4, P4M, P6, or P6M symmetries. These will work nicely for snowflakes
and the like. A more general method, however, is as follows.
@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@
-In the above examples, the line was rotated around its center. But what if you want the
-center to be outside of your shape? Just create an invisible (no fill, no stroke)
-rectangle which would cover your shape and whose center is in the point you need, group
-the shape and the rectangle together, and then use Create Tile Clones on
-that group. This is how you can do nice “explosions” or “starbursts” by randomizing
-scale, rotation, and possibly opacity:
+In the above examples, the line was rotated around its center. But what if you want the
+center to be outside of your shape? Just click on the object twice with the Selector tool
+to enter rotation mode. Now move the object's rotation center (represented by a small cross-shaped handle)
+to the point you would like to be the center of the rotation for the Tiled Clones operation.
+Then use Create Tiled Clones on the object. This is how you can do nice “explosions”
+or “starbursts” by randomizing scale, rotation, and possibly opacity:
-Start with a simple two-stop gradient. Open the Gradient editor (e.g. by
-double-clicking on any gradient handle in the Gradient tool). Add a new gradient stop in
-the middle; drag it a bit. Then add more stops before and after the middle stop and drag
-them too, so that the gradient is smooth. The more stops you add, the smoother you can
-make the resulting gradient. Here's the initial black-white gradient with two stops:
+Start with a simple two-stop gradient (you can assign that in the Fill and Stroke dialog
+or use the gradient tool). Now, with the gradient tool, add a new gradient stop in
+the middle; either by double-clicking on the gradient line, or by selecting the square-shaped
+gradient stop and clicking on the button Insert new stop in the gradient
+tool's tool bar at the top. Drag the new stop a bit. Then add more stops before and after the
+middle stop and drag them too, so that the gradient looks smooth. The more stops you add, the
+smoother you can make the resulting gradient. Here's the initial black-white gradient with two
+stops:
@@ -214,7 +217,7 @@
Double click with the left mouse button
-Select the Pen tool from the toolbar
+Click with the right mouse button
Select another tool
@@ -260,7 +263,7 @@
Document Preferences) and set the grid to 0.5 px (48x48 gridlines).
Now, if you align filled objects to even gridlines, and stroked
objects to odd gridlines with the stroke width in px being an even
-number, and export it at the default 90dpi (so that 1 px becomes 1 bitmap pixel), you
+number, and export it at the default 96dpi (so that 1 px becomes 1 bitmap pixel), you
get a crisp bitmap image without unneeded antialiasing.
@@ -268,8 +271,8 @@
Object rotation
-When in the Select tool, click on an object to see the scaling arrows,
-then click again on the object to see the rotation and shift arrows. If
+When in the Selector tool, click on an object to see the scaling arrows,
+then click again on the object to see the rotation and skew arrows. If
the arrows at the corners are clicked and dragged, the object will rotate around the
center (shown as a cross mark). If you hold down the Shift key while
doing this, the rotation will occur around the opposite corner. You can also drag the
@@ -339,12 +342,15 @@
PostScript or EPS formats do not support transparency, so you
should never use it if you are going to export to PS/EPS. In the case of flat
transparency which overlays flat color, it's easy to fix it: Select one of the
-transparent objects; switch to the Dropper tool (F7); make sure it's in
-the “pick visible color without alpha” mode; click on that same object. That will pick
+transparent objects; switch to the Dropper tool (F7 or d);
+make sure that the Opacity: Pick button in the dropper tool's tool bar
+is deactivated; click on that same object. That will pick
the visible color and assign it back to the object, but this time without
transparency. Repeat for all transparent objects. If your transparent object overlays
several flat color areas, you will need to break it correspondingly into pieces and
-apply this procedure to each piece.
+apply this procedure to each piece. Note that the dropper tool does not change the opacity
+value of the object, but only the alpha value of its fill or stroke color, so make sure that
+every object's opacity value is set to 100% before you start out.
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