Ben Schreiner wrote:

I'd like to be able to taper the size of the brush (up or down) as it strokes along a path with a stroke line or possibly even a paint tool.

I assume this would at least need a script to achieve.

Is there any way for this to be done easily, or should I be looking at commissioning a script and/or development on the path tool.

I much prefer working with vectors than with rasters in general, but Inkscape doesn't seem to support this either.

TIA

Ben Schreiner

The only idea I can come with is to use a animated brush (image pipe) having lots of brushes from 1 pixel to the maximum size you want. Then, stroking using the paintbrush tool would be close to what you want.

The parametric brushes could be a nice tool for that too, if I could find any documentation on how to generate them ;)

Best regards,

Olivier

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:37 am, Ben Schreiner wrote:

I'd like to be able to taper the size of the brush (up or down) as it strokes along a path with a stroke line or possibly even a paint tool.

I assume this would at least need a script to achieve.

Is there any way for this to be done easily, or should I be looking at commissioning a script and/or development on the path tool.

I much prefer working with vectors than with rasters in general, but Inkscape doesn't seem to support this either.

Hi ben,

I have a python script that follows paths and paint strokes perpendicular to them.
It does not vary the stroke length - just the color, but it would be a trivial change.

The final result is far from perfect, as it is a simple script I created for an effect I wanted once. So ther emay be lots of empty spaces unless you reduce spacing a lot.

I will send you the script privately - I hoipe you are on linux and have gimp-python installed.

JS ->

TIA

Ben Schreiner