[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 
> > * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple
> >   rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change
> >   that have failed.
> 
> Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then go to the Object
> menu and choose Fill and Stroke. In the Fill pane, wind the
> Alpha down to zero. In the Stroke Paint pane chose the second
> box Flat Color.
> 
> You should now have a black rectangle, without any fill colour
> on a white background.

It would be better to choose no fill (the X on the fill tab) rather than
just making it 0 alpha.