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by goldfish
Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: How can I animate a writing pen nib with changing tip angle?
Replies: 7
Views: 1038

The first case, unfortunately -- I am looking for a suitable tool for the creation of glyph shapes for a certain Indic script, to assemble into a font. Unfortunately, pen angle changes are needed to execute the glyphs, and there being literally thousands of them, plus factoring in that on paper, I c...
by goldfish
Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:26 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: How can I animate a writing pen nib with changing tip angle?
Replies: 7
Views: 1038

That would not work; while I understand that (with talent and preferrably a tablet) Inkscape can produce the results, there are a number of limitations afterwards, mainly the hand editing of said parameters along the line. I have tried it. The precise reason why I need a little more than that (i. e....
by goldfish
Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:54 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: How can I animate a writing pen nib with changing tip angle?
Replies: 7
Views: 1038

How can I animate a writing pen nib with changing tip angle?

The question is as above. I wish to use a more-or-less straight pen nib, with a limited thickness and filed corners (aspect ratio, say, 1:20, filing corners for less than the entire thickness.) For an illustrative example: take a plain letter G (just the curve, then an inwards stroke.) I want to sta...