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Beyond the Basics feature request: brush size shortcut
  1. #1
    jussa jussa @jussa

    hello friends, i am both new around here and also new to using Inkscape. it's been a joy to play with so far and i'm very grateful for the community that supports it. i have a want that may or may not be addressed by Inkscape as it already is, or with a simple modification. if that it so, please do suggest how i may avail myself of the functionality. if not, consider this a feature request.

    want: keyboard shortcuts for brush size +/-

    any time i have the pencil/ eraser/ brush tool selected, how can i change the brush size without using the Tool Controls Bar pointer inputs?

    Any help in answering this question would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

  2. #2
    Jurgen Gaeremyn Jurgen Gaeremyn @JurgenG

    this could be a nice thing to (optionally) link to the scroll wheel of a mouse too.

  3. #3
    Polygon Polygon @Polygon🌶

    Scroll-wheel works on every entry fields afaik:

  4. #4
    Jurgen Gaeremyn Jurgen Gaeremyn @JurgenG

    Yes, but compare it a bit to a poor-man's pressure sensitive tablet... it can go bigger ans smaller as you draw...

  5. #5
    jussa jussa @jussa

    ideally i could use my wacom's sroll wheel to control it. i think +/- keyboard shortcuts would allow that. 

    another good input for adjusting brush size could be [hold key] + click and drag. similar to how shift+right click drag can drag the canvas

  6. #6
    Jurgen Gaeremyn Jurgen Gaeremyn @JurgenG

    I'm pretty sure the brush and eraser are pressure sensitive. If you have a tablet, this looks like the easiest way to me.

     

    If you don't have a tablet, a scroll wheel on a mouse could be a useful alternative.

    Pressure
  7. #7
    Maren Hachmann Maren Hachmann @Moini

    There are three different mechanisms at play here. Polygon's suggestion only applies to no. 2.

    1. Calligraphy tool: can make use of pressure input to produce lines of variable width. These lines are filled shapes, though, with lots of nodes all around.

    2. Pencil tool, standard mode: the resulting path has the same thickness all along the path. No pressure input possible, just a stroke on a path.

    3. Pencil tool with pressure sensitive mode: this uses the PowerStroke path effect to create a stroke with variable width. The width can be adjusted in three ways:

    * by increasing/decreasing pressure

    * by changing the overall width of the stroke in the LPE panel

    * by changing the width of sections of the path, using the node tool

     

  8. #8
    Maren Hachmann Maren Hachmann @Moini

    (and indeed, there is no keyboard shortcut / 'action' available to change stroke thickness for a regular stroke - and feature requests need to go to https://inkscape.org/report )

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