Your playlists are awesome. I've already uninstalled the cracked Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Gonna use free softwares from now on as I'm a student, to save money. ❤
I was able to use this tip to bring in a folding knife pattern, and ungroup the components, resize, and still check that the components would work together. Slow but steady progress over the last week thanks to you. To think a week ago, all that I could do was draw snowmen! Thanks for your thorough tutorials.
Thank you for all these tutorials. I have gained a working knowledge of inkscape. my goal is to import PDF patterns and tesselate the individual pieces to save fabric when cutting out a pattern.
Interesting! Maybe I'll use Inkscape for my book cover designs too. I have enjoyed your tutorials and learned a lot as I'm planning to create merch for my online Christian store. Thanks a bunch!
Hi, your tutorials are very useful. I haven't worked through every one, but your first few have enabled me to begin a leather-making business using Inkscape. I have no design experience except your tutorials. I'm trying to make a leather credit card holder and have dragged my pdf image of a pattern into Inkscape. Then I ungrouped. Now I'm trying to figure out how to make the holes all around the perimeter of each pattern piece so my laser will make the holes. Then of course I will need to sew the holes together, so they need to be the same place on each pattern. Does that make sense? If you can refer me to a previous lesson, that would be great. If you need to help me in another way I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
I like you inkscape tutorials! I had a query. I have a number set (0 to 9) vector collection. Is there a way of extracting all the 10 numbers separately into 10 svg files once I open it in inkscape? I want to avoid the manual task of selecting all the 10 numbers separately and then saving them.... it is too much of time waste when I have a vector set with more images
What's your pdf viewer? You have an interesting set of programs installed in your pc. I was confused at first, I thought you're using Linux, but then you're not. You don't typically see those programs being used in Windows. You're like, a dedicated Linux user, that have no choice but to use a Windows PC, and you brought Linux into it. Keep it up!
ha ha, I guess thats right, Kevin. I don't even remember what pdf viewer this was, maybe SumatraPDF. If I ever have to use Windows, I do still try to run as much open source software as I can.
Hi TJ Free, Thanks for all these tutorials, their awesome and you explain that stuff really well. My greatest challenge in editing PDF's is that Inkscape doesn't bring an AutoCAD generated PDF (coming as vectors) in its original layers, instead, it generates a single layer and I cannot turn off layers that otherwise can be turned on/off in AutoCAD. How would you advise removing undesired layers? For example - turning on/off layers or removing grid lines or annotation symbols. I often receive construction drawings in PDF format and using Inkscape to add my sketches and comments in a different layer, but without removing unnecessary layers from the original drawing, the end result looks messy. Thanks!
Thankyou for these tutorials hat for once I have been able to understand. Pleas can you advise, can I import a DXF file directly into inkscape in order to start editing it or do I need it to be in another file format to do this? Thank you
@@mcraeonline8127 Yes, just not sure when, :). I'd really like to do an Inkscape series focused on designing and formatting for cnc machines, laser cutters, etc... and would likely do some DXF import.
@@TJFREE I am a blacksmith n I am trying to do more designing on the computer especially vectorising cteating dxf's to send to the laser cutters I use. It would open up massive design opprotunities for me if I could do this editing, I have been blown away by the possibilities sonce looking into it. I personally would be v interested in your tutorial idea n encourage u to do it asap :-)
Hey just downloaded this, your videos are a great help. Quick q, importing old .ai files (pdf import) directly from file- files cropping objects to artbox, no matter the import settings. Why?
Yes, I did just double click, but sometimes text in PDF files is really just an image. In this case the only was to edit it is to run it through OCR software first, which detects letters in an image and converts it to editable text.
Once I finish editing page one of my PDF, how do I grab page two to edit it and page three etc...? Then does it all save together when completed? Since I could only edit one page at a time and when I "saved as" it did not combine it back the the other pages of the PDF. Thank you!
Good question. Inkscape does not let you recombine pages in a PDF. There is another free tool called Scribus that lets you do this. Export each PDF page from Inkscape as an individual image, like PNG, and then import them each into Scribus.
I am trying desperately to learn Inkscape but when I try to some of the operations, my computer either bogs down or freezes altogether. I am running an I3 processor and have 8 gig of memory. Can you give me some idea what type of computer you are using. Yours seems to operate very fast. I'm not sure what is the problem with mine. I'd appreciate knowing what are the minimum requirements to run Inkscape. Thanks for your series of tutorials. I find them so important.
Hi Ray. The computer I used for these tutorials has an i5-2400 and 8gb of ram. It doesn't sound like your hardware is the problem. I couldn't find exact hardware requirements, but in my experience they are very low. I am able to run inkscape fairly smooth on my $150 chromebook (using Debian, not ChromeOS), and have also ran it on intel celeron and atom processors, with 2gb ram. If its feasible, I would suggest doing a fresh Windows (?) install, or maybe install a linux OS along side your current Windows OS, and see if it performs any differently.
Thank you TJ, very helpful. I have a cuestion: Is possible to give a sharpening to the text in this software ? for example, in case that text is not so visible.
Yes, the text can possibly be made more clear using the Trace Bitmap tool, shown in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E7HwLTQu2FI.html
Hi Julie. I think you're right. Sometimes people design something as an image, and then export the image as a PDF. If this is the case, it can only be edited in a raster editor, and only the pixels...
I have a scroll saw pattern book that has images in it. I have scanned those into my computer. When I try to work with any of them, I can't seem to ungroup or break apart any of the parts of the image. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's just my computer not responding to what I am telling it to do. I have also tried saving as .jpg files and doing the Trace Bitmat thing but that didn't work out for me either. I'm just not sure what to do and there is nobody to ask.
Hi Ray, I've done similar things, and I know it can be tricky. I think playing around with settings in the 'Trace Bitmap' tool will be key. I usually crop to the portion of the image I want using Gimp, then bring it into Inkscape, trace bitmap, ungroup, and choose the one layer that will work best, then double click it to get into Node Edit Mode.
@@TJFREE thanks for that suggestion. I have Gimp but I don't know how to use it either. I'll keep plugging away at it. I wish there was a class or someone nearby to tutor me. I know that if I could get some one on one time I could learn Inkscape. Thanks again.
When I save the pdf, there are missing pieces (colours, shapes). Even if I just open it and save a copy without editing. Only if I save it as png it preserves all the elements, but I need to work with the pdf format... do you know how can I solve this?
Hello ... I want to know how. I have opened a PDF file in Inkscape. but it can't be edited ... I pressed press shif + ctrl + G but it can't be like the video tutorial. do you need an application / support script to be able to edit the PDF. thanks.
Hi. A lot depends on how the pdf was created. Sometimes what looks like text is actually an image. I haven't found a really good, free pdf editor yet, but there are some good web based solutions that offer free trials, like www.sejda.com/pdf-editor and www.pdfescape.com/
