Honestly this forum is just starting up and not everyone jumped trains yet from the regulars completely from the old inkscapeforum site -which is, currently down from a silly error noone is capable to fix except for the admin who was loong gone.
So we are a bit short on people volunteering for helping out.
(I have an ongoing experience of my answers going over people's heads so I'm trying to be less jumpy than before whenever a new problem is up. I'm just not good at spreading my thoughts around anyway.)
Some how I have lost where I can see background/foreground color and my layers are not showing up either? Did I hit the wrong button? I am enclosing a screen shot of what my inkscape looks like. I really appreciate any help you can send my way, I will be more patient I did not know this was a new site. Again Thanks
In inkscape there is not a foreground/background colour as in a raster editor.
At the bottom left there is a style indicator which may appear similar. That part shows the selected object's fill and stroke colour.
Layers are displayed in the layers panel (Shift+Ctrl+L), which is not opened by default as in a raster editor.
To move objects in the z-order -between foreground and background) the PgUp/PgDn/Home/End buttons cover the options.
(Also noteworthy that z-ordering is in between objects and groups and layers are objects too by themselves. Thus if you have two groups atop eachother you cannot make one object in group A above objects in group B unless that applies to all of the objects within the group. But without any grouping going on or additional layers it's not a problem which you'll encounter at this time.)
There is an object browser in Object/Objects... which you may find helpful. It should be more user friendly than the xml editor. Personally I'm not using that though of a performance issue.
Using the xml editor is usually the last resort to use within a drawing, for tasks you cannot achieve with the graphical interface.
With that screen resolution you better not open all the panels at once.
If it was about that text editing in your other topic, the fill and stroke panel (Shift+Ctrl+F) could be enough alone. Maybe with the text panel too (Shift+Ctrl+T), both of which you already found.
Probably opening the other two panels made them shrink.
The marked buttons can close or shrink a docked dialog panel.
Shrinked panels have that "rotated header" on the sideways at the right border. If you click on those they should appear in their full size.
Beginners' Questions Does anyone answer the newbie's questions?
Inkscape.org
I was just wondering if anyone answers your questions? I posted yesterday and still have not heard anything?
Hi.
Sorry for the latency. Will try to reply as soon as possible.
Lazur,
Thank you, Like I said I am new, however I did get it figured out. So you don't have to any my question
Thank you and Happy Holidays
Honestly this forum is just starting up and not everyone jumped trains yet from the regulars completely from the old inkscapeforum site -which is, currently down from a silly error noone is capable to fix except for the admin who was loong gone.
So we are a bit short on people volunteering for helping out.
(I have an ongoing experience of my answers going over people's heads so I'm trying to be less jumpy than before whenever a new problem is up. I'm just not good at spreading my thoughts around anyway.)
And a happy New Year to you too!
Hi Lazur,
Some how I have lost where I can see background/foreground color and my layers are not showing up either? Did I hit the wrong button? I am enclosing a screen shot of what my inkscape looks like. I really appreciate any help you can send my way, I will be more patient I did not know this was a new site. Again Thanks
Hi,
Forgot the file, here it is
Hi.
In inkscape there is not a foreground/background colour as in a raster editor.
At the bottom left there is a style indicator which may appear similar. That part shows the selected object's fill and stroke colour.
Layers are displayed in the layers panel (Shift+Ctrl+L), which is not opened by default as in a raster editor.
To move objects in the z-order -between foreground and background) the PgUp/PgDn/Home/End buttons cover the options.
(Also noteworthy that z-ordering is in between objects and groups and layers are objects too by themselves. Thus if you have two groups atop eachother you cannot make one object in group A above objects in group B unless that applies to all of the objects within the group. But without any grouping going on or additional layers it's not a problem which you'll encounter at this time.)
There is an object browser in Object/Objects... which you may find helpful. It should be more user friendly than the xml editor. Personally I'm not using that though of a performance issue.
Using the xml editor is usually the last resort to use within a drawing, for tasks you cannot achieve with the graphical interface.
With that screen resolution you better not open all the panels at once.
If it was about that text editing in your other topic, the fill and stroke panel (Shift+Ctrl+F) could be enough alone. Maybe with the text panel too (Shift+Ctrl+T), both of which you already found.
Probably opening the other two panels made them shrink.
The marked buttons can close or shrink a docked dialog panel.
Shrinked panels have that "rotated header" on the sideways at the right border. If you click on those they should appear in their full size.