Working with Guides in Inkscape

A concise, readable reference to Inkscape guide operations. I also note you can set the guide coordinates exactly in the Guidelines dialog, accessed by double-clicking the guide (see item #5).

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Guides (or Ruler Guides) are lines that can be placed on the document, useful for lining up and snapping elements. Guides can be a little non-discoverable in inkscape, so this article gives you a few quick tips to get the most out of guides in inkscape.

1. Quickly creating a guide

A guide can be quickly created by clicking on either the vertical or horizontal ruler, and dragging onto the canvas. If you drag from close to where the corners meet, an angled guide will be created:

2. Converting a path to Guides

Any object or path can be converted to guides Using Objects > Objects to guides (or keyboard shortcut Shift + G)

3. Deleting a guide

To Delete a guide, hover the mouse cursor over the guide, and press the Delete key on the keyboard.

4. Rotating a guide

To rotate a guide, hover over it with…

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A Short Introduction to the Basic Principles of the Open Scene Graph @ LMB’s Homepage

I’m just starting to experiment with OpenSceneGraph and this is the best tutorial I’ve found so far: http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/en/computer-stuff/asittbpo-open-scene-graph/index .

GIMP paths tutorial

This GIMP path tutorial today taught me how to close a path — basic, but not the most obvious thing I’ve ever done on a computer.  Though the look of GIMP has changed somewhat since the tutorial came out, at least path-closing still works the same way!  (Ctrl-click the first point, in case you were wondering.)

Customising comment boxes in Word

Word comments are as frustrating as they are useful. I’ve used this post several times to wrestle them to the ground!

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A lot of people find this blog when they’re trying to sort out specific problems with their comment boxes (comment boxes suddenly going tiny, or comment box text running in the wrong direction, changing the language in your comment balloons). Here are general instructions on customising your comment boxes (or balloons, as they are officially called) in Word.

Why would I want to customise my comment balloons?

To be honest, the main reason for doing this is if something goes wrong. But the standard, default text size and layout may not be suitable for your purposes, and you might want to change it to make it more readable for someone with limited vision, etc.

You might also have preferences about which margin your comment balloons appear in, and how big they are.

The principles we are going to learn about here also apply when you want…

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Microsoft Word styles tutorial

Ran across this tutorial on Microsoft Word styles today. Lots of good information in one place.