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The default for the offset is 2px, so if your text is small the offset will be bigger in proportion to the text. So a simple way to make the offset smaller is to make the text temporarily bigger. Hold down the crtl and shift (this will constrain propotions and scale around the centre) you can then drag a corner scaling handle with the selection tool to make the text bigger, apply as much offset as you want and then hold ctrl and shift and shrink it back down. This method can sometimes cause small areas of deformation. Another (and probably better) way you can do it is to adjust the thinkness of the stroke and then combine the fill and stoke together. In the Fill and Stroke dialog box (Object - Fill and Stroke) apply a stroke under the Stroke paint tab, you can then adjust the stroke width under the Stroke style tab. When you are happy with the text thinkness you can combine the stroke and fill together by selecting the text, go to Path - Stroke to path. Then click on ungroup (as the stoke and text paths will be grouped together) and finally go to Path - Union.

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Plain paper is definitely a good call. I haven't used Cartoon Animator but it does look like an impressive piece of software. Hope you get some great results

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My original thought process was to attempt to mimic the old news paper print, I initially used rounded 4 pointed stars to try to reproduce the effect. But for a tutorial video, I thought that was over complicating things so I changed it to diamonds. It works well with most shapes, so you can use whatever you like. I recently added a video demonstrating how to create halftones using patterns and filters which allows you to create some effects not easily achieved with tiled clones, such as striped halftones.

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If I understand you correctly, when you print your design across multiple pages some of the design is lost when you trim the blank margin off your pages to reassemble your design. This is likely to be because most printers can't print to the edge of the paper so the sections of the design that should be at the edge of the pages are lost. A simple way to deal with this would be to chop up your design. Select all of your design and go to Edit - Make bitmap copy. You can then draw rectangles over the image (best if you just have a stroke and no fill) the size that will print correctly on a page. You can use snapping to snap the rectangles together (snap to path not snap to bounding box as that will snap to the outside of the stroke). So you should now have a bitmap copy of your design with a grid of rectangles over the top. You can then use the shape builder tool to chop up the copy of your design (new to Inkscape 1.4). Select the bitmap copy of your design and all of the rectangles on top and go to the shape builder tool, then click on each of the sections of your design one at a time, then click on the tick to finish. The bitmap copy of your design should now be chopped up into sections that will each fit into the print area of your pages. You can then position them on the individual pages and after printing, cut away the blank margins to reassemble your design. Good luck!

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Since making this video, a lot has changed. When making a font in Inkscape 1.4 you don't need the template and creating the new layers is done automatically in the font editor by clicking Edit when you have added a new glyph. In Global settings you can set the Horizontal advance to 630px as in the video set the Horizontal origin Y = 200 this will adjust the font to line up better when we move to fontforge set Family name to the name for your font Em size should be a power of 2 so change to 1024 then click set up canvas, which will set everything up for you. The only thing you will probably want to add are vertical guides at 40 and 540px In Glyphs click the + button to create a new glyph you can set the Name and character (eg. for 'a' set both to 'a') then click Edit - this will make a new layer for you and hide the others so you are good to go. Design your glyph, then with both the gyph selected and the single path you've made, click Get path to add to the glyph. Kerning and adjustments are the same. To create the ligatures and special characters you can create them by naming them with no space or underscore between the characters. So for the fi example, name it fi and yy1 for the special character example - It is important to make sure you have created a glyph for each of the character used, so you should have an f and an i gyph for the first example (if you don't it seems to cause problems) they should then work as soon as you get into FontForge. I'll have to make an updated video, but I hope this helps in the mean time.

@@CreateForFree This helped greatly Thank You!

The offset feature only works on paths, so you will need to create a path around the outline of the image, depending on the type of image you are importing will determine which methods will be suitable to create the outline - manual tracing, using trace bitmap or possibly the fill tool. I've included links to a few videos which you may find useful. This video shows you how to manually trace the outline using the Bezier pen and the nodes tool - well worth watching even if you don't want to use this method. th-cam.com/video/47h04PW32t4/w-d-xo.html Learn how to use Trace bitmap - and extremely useful feature in Inkscape and depending on the image, this can make creating an outline very simple. th-cam.com/video/e9pPdvJu8mg/w-d-xo.html The Fill tool is another great way to create outlines - This video runs through how to use it to create an outline, remove the background and add offsets. th-cam.com/video/bh_9LmHMZoI/w-d-xo.html Just incase its an svg that you are importing you may find this one helpful - shows you how to create a solid background and offset it. th-cam.com/video/6L9tIxmJxWA/w-d-xo.html Hope you find these useful.

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No problem! Although I can't take credit for the process, whilst looking for a way to make stripped halftoned I found videos on a couple of channels describing this process. I hope you find it as useful as I did.

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It's definitely a handy technique to be aware of, thanks for commenting

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Sorry, not a mac user and I didn't find an answer with a quick search. On Windows if you go to Path - Inset/outset the shortcuts are shown in the menu, is this not the case on a mac?

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If you can't get it to work with the width/height option, try using the rows/columns option - you can guesstimate the number of rows/columns then adjust till it covers your image.

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There are 2 options that do similar things but not exactly the same. Path - Cut path : which allows you to use one path to cut up another - but you lose the top path. or Path - Fracture : which cuts the paths into the individual shapes - similar but not quite the same.

When I started using Inkscape, I was only familiar with raster graphic software packages like Photoshop and GIMP, where layers are important if you want to be able to adjust different elements of your image independently. Vector graphics are different in that each element is independent so you can adjust them, move them about and change the order they are in - like a pack of cards on a glass table. You can still use layers, but they are less important. Thanks for the comment and I hope you enjoy using Inkscape

From what I can see, Inkscape looks at an images as being a set physical size e.g. 10in x 10in, if you are working in pixels, I think the size of the image is calculated using Inkscape's default resolution of 96 DPI - so Inkscape would see a 3000x3000 pixel image as measuring 31.25 x 31.25 inches (3000/96). If you export the image with the default settings you will get an image 31.25x31.25in with a resolution of 96DPI If you adjust the the DPI to 300 in the export dialog box - in the image size section, it will keep the image the same size (31.25x31.25in) and increase the number of pixels to get the correct resolution - 9375x9375 pixels If you click on the cog in the bottom right hand corner to display the Export Format Options (1.4) and change the pHYs DPI, it will keep the image as 3000x3000 pixels but change the DPI by making the physical size of the image smaller - so the image size would then be 10x10inch. Please bear in mind that this is just from my observations of using Inkscape - hopefully I've got that right!

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Thanks, glad you found it useful , I have a whole video dedicated to the tweak tool on my channel if you want to find out about all it's features.

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@@CreateForFree it was indeed. Your video enabled me to finish the final illustration for my first book in time for the editor's deadline and getting to bed at a reasonable time.

That's great news, what's the book called?

@@CreateForFree it's a German language book on objectives and key results, called "OKR wirkungsvoll einführen und nutzen" - "Introducing and using OKR effectively". We have an estimated street date of late November. There are early talks about a translation, but nothing serious yet.

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Sorry for the late response, it's likely to depend on which version of Inkscape you are using. I did have an earlier video when the options looked different. Maybe worth updating if you're using an old version.

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I've also seen paintings in a similar style which is where I got the idea. Glad you found it helpful.

They finally put all the snapping options in the snapping menu. Glad you found it

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To clip you should have the clipping mark (in this case the lettering) on top of the image. Hold down Shift and select both the clipping mask and the image, then go to Object - Clip - Set clip. The top path that you used as the clipping mask should disappear and you should be left with the clipped section of the image. If it just won't work as it is meant to, try opening a new document and try clipping with some simple shapes - sometimes you can get a glitch with one document, but it works again in a new document, if that doesn't work you may need to reinstall Inkscape to get it to work. Good luck!

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As far as I know, you can only select 1 page at a time

@@CreateForFree bummer! Hopefully in the future the developers will update this 🙏🏾

That was an older version of Inkscape I think, if you read the comment I have just pinned to the top of the comments section, I've explained where to find tangential snapping now.