Category: NOT my stuff

Inkscape: How to split / break one object in two

Since it’s the three-bazillionst time I’m looking this up I’ll write it down here so I can find it easily.

You split an object in two at certain nodes by selecting two nodes and then pressing:

– Shift-B (Break apart at selected nodes) as pointed out on Stackexchange.
– Ctrl-Shift-K (Break apart again but the path/object this time, I guess? This always confuses me to no end, why this is a two-step process? Only the almighty SVG goddess knows)

I’ll preserve the handy graphic that user Brecht (see link above) made in case Stackexchange goes full enshittify mode in the future:

Schreenshot of the menubar in Inkscape that has all the node buttons with red arrows pointing to their keyboard shortcuts: Join Selected Nodes : Shift + J Break Path at Selected Nodes: Shift + B Join Selected Endnodes with a New Segment: Alt + J Delete Segment Between Two Non-Endpoint Nodes: Alt + Del

Colobee24 is this weekend (Sept 14/15 2024)! 🎉

Photo of some of the stuff I will have on offer, three framed prints, greeting cards, stickers and postcards.
Nika Novich's surreal digital collage „Soul Transit“: people in suits standing in a dark wood with a giant owl-like creature that also might be a carriage, there's a full moon.
My illustration „Cycle Outing“ in greens and pinks of a person taking a brake from cycling the rather steep climbs in a Scottish landscape with mountains, a loch and woodlands.
My illustration „Cycle Outing“ in greens and pinks of a person taking a brake from cycling the rather steep climbs in a Scottish landscape with mountains, a loch and woodlands.

Colobee 🐝 aka Colony of Artists, the yearly #Abbeyhill open door / #artfair is happening this weekend, Sat 14 / Sun 15, 11am – 6pm in #Edinburgh! 🎉

Come round for over 90(!?) #artists showing their work in their homes and gardens:

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk

I’m venue 42 with our friend Nika Novich who is doing amazing digital #collages, check out #colobee for more stuff.

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #Scotland #prints

Ach Adobe,

du schnuckeliger, kleiner Design-Tool-Monopolist, UI/UX ist einfach deine große Stärke, gell:

AdobeReader-Wiederholen-VS-Weiter

Und die Eleganz dieses Satzes! Poesie! Da machste deinem Namen mal wieder alle Ehre.

EDIT: und Pluspunkte dafür, dass das „Wiederholen“, äh, „Weiter“ weder horizotnal noch verikal im Button zentriert ist. Und „Adobe Reader“ weder oben auf Linie noch vertikal mittig mit dem Logo ist. Viel mehr ist da nicht mehr falsch zu machen. Außer vielleicht, dass der Abstand des goldenen Buttons vom rechten Rand kleiner ist als der Abstand der Schrift vom linken?

Zitat des Tages

„So I think what’s going on here is the same impulse behind the LGBTQ community being really sick of coming-out novels; we don’t want to read stories about ourselves, we want to see ourselves in stories. We want to be heroes, not issues. We want to discover we have magic powers, fall into a portal to another world, accidentally awaken an ancient and powerful entity – all the things that straight people, white people, cis people, abled people, get to do as the default heroes.“

Fire and Wonder