[kmalsom]

There have been several people asking about how to use inkscape to design poker chips and labels. I decided to do my first tutorial on how to use inkscape to do a really simple inlay design. This is on my home server behind a DSL line so please save it to your computer if you find it useful. (It's a PDF file so should open fine in acrobat). If I can figure out how to do a video capture I'll try and do that for the next one.

Thanks,
Kari

Inkscape tutorial part 1

if you don't have inkscape, it's available here.

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by kmalsom

There have been several people asking about how to use inkscape to design poker chips and labels. I decided to do my first tutorial on how to use inkscape to do a really simple inlay design. This is on my home server behind a DSL line so please save it to your computer if you find it useful. (It's a PDF file so should open fine in acrobat). If I can figure out how to do a video capture I'll try and do that for the next one.

Thanks,
Kari

Inkscape tutorial part 1

if you don't have inkscape, it's available here.

Nice work. Keep it up!

[kmalsom]

Originally Posted by BlakeC27

Nice work. Keep it up!

Thanks, Blake.

More will be coming soon.

[BlakeC27]

Originally Posted by kmalsom

Thanks, Blake.

More will be coming soon.

I look forward to it.

[jspearm1983]

Thanks for the help. I look forward to the next chapter.

[FL70]

**EDIT** I found it finally! View → Display Mode → Outline
Musta done some keystroke combo to change that.

Originally Posted by FL70

Thanks a lot for the tutorial, but I'm having a problem. I cannot see any shapes I construct.



There's a circle in there somewhere.

Is this some setting I accidentally toggled? I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire program.

TIA

[kmalsom]

Originally Posted by FL70

Thanks a lot for the tutorial, but I'm having a problem. I cannot see any shapes I construct.



There's a circle in there somewhere.

Is this some setting I accidentally toggled? I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire program.

TIA

One of the annoyances with inkscape (also one of the benifits) is that it remembers the color selections that you made previously.

With your object selected like it is, click on one of the colors down along the bottom and that should fill it in. Inkscape also does layering so you might want to try page up to bring your object towards the front (shouldn't matter here, but sometimes they get hidden). Let me know if it works or not.

[shadesofgrey]

Nice! I now have a reason to tryout inkscape.

Thanks for the tutorial! Look forward to the whole book

[kmalsom]

Originally Posted by shadesofgrey

Nice! I now have a reason to tryout inkscape.

Thanks for the tutorial! Look forward to the whole book

No problem Inkscape is still a work in progress though, so it's not perfect yet. However if you make a suggestion to the developers, and they think it's a good suggestion, they will put it in.

[Felix]

Hi...thanks for the tutorial!
i didnt even know inkscape before...it is a really nice and easy to use software.
i was messing around with it a bit...this is what came out:

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/custom...tml#post512821