Category: Knitters Guide to Inkscape

The Basic Grid

Note: Inkscape 0.47 defaults to 90 DPI. You should change the DPI settings when you export your chart. Do not change the Document Properties to different unit of measure. Leave it set on DPI.

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On Publishing, New Year’s, and Family

New Year’s isn’t a day that I normally use to stop and take a breath. I typically spend the day planning out my strategy for the next six months, reviewing accounts, and such. In essence, it’s just one of many days that I spend working.

This year is different. The past month has been both busy and fruitful, but mostly busy. After several years of beating on the doors and getting enough rejection letters that they’d probably be hip deep if I printed them all out, three of my poems were accepted and published in the latest Fib Review. (I’m actually more excited about these than I am about anything else I’ve done in the past year. Sad, isn’t it?)

I also had a completely random moment, wrote a

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Links, Tutorials, and Non-Knitting Help

Here is a list of non-knitting tutorials, help files, and YouTube videos. This page will be edited regularly to add new links and keep the old ones up-to-date. If you don’t see your favorite Inkscape Reference on the list, leave a comment or contact me through the about page. Please make sure you include the url as text only (i.e. copy it and paste it into the comment or the form without telling the system it’s a link).

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On the Importance of Grammar

Regardless of your subject matter, grammar is important. Unless your name is William Faulkner, deviating from standard English grammar is not a good idea. Now, I realize many schools stop teaching grammar once students can identify verbs and nouns. This is an unfortunate decision that our society will regret. Contrary to popular belief, learning grammar does not stifle creativity. Think of writing as building. Words are the concrete and grammar is the rebar. Just as with construction, grammar reinforces the words by making them stronger and giving them structure. This helps you connect with your readers.

Over the past several years, many sites have cropped up for aspiring authors to share their work with the world. While some of the authors are excellent writers, others begin their stories with

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My Friend, the Rich Text Editor

Recently, my grandmother and I were talking while I installed some drivers on her computer following an operating system failure. She was worried that her Word had changed and she wouldn’t be able to use it anymore. Although her situation was different, her fears were an eerie reminder of the utter panic many of my friends and colleagues expressed during several other software transitions, including the dreaded WordPerfect to Word. Since I was always one of the ones behind the transitions, I tried to keep an open mind, listen to their troubles, and find solutions for them. As an expert user and macro programmer of Word, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice, I was constantly conducting one-on-one and group training sessions and sending out tips and cheat sheets. It was not unusual to

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