Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Re: [BLUG] OCT Meeting Topic

Hey Ben, I just wanted to saw that those are excellent drawings. If
you can, you should submit those to Inkscape's website as samples.

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:15:39AM GMT, ben lipkowitz [fenn@sdf.lonestar.org] said the following:
> I do a fair amount of stuff with inkscape.. I could probably give a
> presentation on it. Autotrace is built into inkscape and is pretty easy
> to use, provided that your starting material isnt too messy. Scribus,
> qcad, and gimp also have their uses.
>
> Here's something I just drew today in inkscape:
> http://fenn.dyndns.org/pub/sketches/emc-splash/mazak.png
>
> here's another one i really like:
> http://fenn.dyndns.org/pub/sketches/emc-splash/fanuc-illust.png
>
> I also need to mess around with vector formats for making printed circuit
> boards. HPGL, RS-274X, postscript, dxf.
>
> Postscript is fun to play with too, for highly algorithmic stuff. i.e:
> http://fenn.dyndns.org/pub/irc/encoder-panelized.ps
>
> I would probably need someone else to provide a computer for the
> presentation, as my laptop is too slow for this stuff.
>
> -fenn
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, adam wrote:
> >
> >I could stand to hear a few hours about vector images,
> >format(s) and editors if anyone here feels like
> >talking.
> >Specifically tracing raster images and manipulating
> >them. Also freehand drawing with vectors.
> >-adam nuwer
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