When I open up a new document in Inkscape, the first thing I usually do is set up the grids and page layout in mm for printing. This gets pretty boring having to do this with every new document. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to configure the default template so you don’t have to do this. [...]

I have just this minute heard about a company, Xtify, which produces a communication framework for sending messages to mobile users based upon their location. This could be seriously amazing! You know when you hear something and it sends ideas pinging off in different directions like a particle collision? Reading about this gave me one [...]

When I was writing a WordPress widget plugin to display information from a sub set of my posts (that’s it on the side, with the paper toys…) I noticed that the WordPress Loop doesn’t quite behave itself when widgetized in the 2.8+ style. When using the following code, inside a widget, to return posts from [...]

Lets say you want to have some pattern displayed within the bounds of a shape, as the blobs are to this rectangle. There are a number of ways you can do this in Inkscape, with crops and masks etc, but I’m going to show you a far more effective way that allows you to resize [...]

I’ve been climbing a steep learning curve recently with Inkscape, and now I’m scalling the peak of CMYK Colour Profiles (I’ll be alternating the British/American spelling where appropriate). If, like me, you’ve never known which colour space you were working in, chances are it was RGB. CMYK is an alternative, commonly used in the printing [...]