Keep lines thickness in Inkscape
Posted: 2020-09-26 Filed under: drawing | Tags: border, inkscape, line, proportion, scale, stroke Leave a commentI am preparing some figures in Inkscape. Something that always gets on my nerves is fixing lines (border) width when scaling objects. The solution is quite simple and actually obvious.
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Remove new lines from a text file
Posted: 2019-10-08 Filed under: office | Tags: line, sed, space, tr Leave a commentI want to copy some text from a PDF file into a word processor. Copying works, but the line breaks from the PDF formatting are also copied. This messes up the text and results in disconnected text with many rows. I decided to use the command line to fix this automatically. I searched a bit and it seems that there are two steps that have to be taken.
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Break a line in Inkscape
Posted: 2018-03-31 Filed under: academic, drawing, misc | Tags: break, Figtree, inkscape, line, SeaView 1 CommentI have a solid line in Inkscape and I want to insert a line break, say, in the middle. The reason is that I had a relatively complex figure generated as SVG, where I need to colour some lines in half.
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