Thanks, Caroline. I'll check it out ...
Gloria
On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Caroline Ford wrote:
> You may actually find inkscape more useful. It's also free software.
>
> Caroline
>
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>
> On 5 Mar 2009, at 14:13, Gloria Taylor Weinberg
> <glo...@be...> wrote:
>
>> Alas, I am a retired writer/artist, so I have sufficient (2), but
>> absolutely no (1) or (3), so I consider neither of those to be
>> trivial. ;)
>> Also, most of the time, I'd want a uniformly thin line, not one
>> that's
>> thicker at the bottom.
>> If you figure it out, I'll love you forever. I'm trying to avoid
>> paying $400 for Studio Artist just to illustrate the book I wrote for
>> my grandchildren.
>> Thank you for any help you can provide.
>> Gloria
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Martin Fuhrer wrote:
>>
>>> For the next few weeks I also lack (2), but am thinking about
>>> options
>>> for (1), and (3) is trivial ;)
>>>
>>> A bare-bones perspective drawing tool could adjust the width of the
>>> brush a function of height on the canvas (like the grass tool), so
>>> lines drawn at the base are thick and get thinner as you draw higher
>>> up. Pressing 1-9 could affect the global width of the brush, but
>>> I'm
>>> not sure if the magic API can capture keystrokes...
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4-Mar-09, at 8:01 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:33:53PM -0500, Gloria Taylor Weinberg
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Wow. How?
>>>>
>>>> Someone with (1) coding skills, (2) free time, and (3) the ability
>>>> to
>>>> compile for the Mac, would need to grab the existing tools
>>>> (whichever ones you wanted thinner versions of), and tweak them to
>>>> make new versions for you.
>>>>
>>>> Sadly, I lack both (2) and (3). :^(
>>>> (1) is actually pretty trivial.
>>>>
>>>> -bill!
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