Anyone using Videoscribe?

[Manoj]

Thanks, Egg and Sledger, I shall try those. Never noticed the Blank Photo option before!

Just wanted to add one more point: While creating the drawing for videoscribe, don't bother using a brush stroke as vs doesn't read those properly. Stick to lines of a consistent width.

Here's something I made. Nothing too riveting, but I think the program has potential.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8THpBgjrkwA

[pauland]

Nice work!

[amoore]

Very nice work.

[handrawn]

don't bother using a brush stroke as vs doesn't read those properly. Stick to lines of a consistent width.

the stroke shapes are not exported into the SVG from xara in the first place AFAIK

keep up the good work ...

[Egg Bramhill]

don't bother using a brush stroke as vs doesn't read those properly

You can always convert line to shapes from brush strokes, these export without issue.

[Egg Bramhill]

That's a neat program, shame it's overpriced for the casual user. I can't get the svg's to import correctly other than using your method Manoj.

Here's an attempt by me

[handrawn]

[Boy]

Nice! Looking at their video tutorials Viedeoscribe looks like a well-thought-out-but-pricey program that is being regularly improved.

[Manoj]

Thanks people! Good one Egg, hadn't thought to use fill effects...that opens a whole new can of prawns..er, worms ;-)

[Egg Bramhill]

UPDATE: Manoj, after getting really pissed off with exporting pdf's from Xara, importing into an online converter and converting these pdf's to svg's I did some more experimenting. I found that Inkscape svg's imported without issue however if I tried importing a Xara generated svg then saving as an inkscape svg the same problem was encountered i.e. the oversized bounding box.

After some experimenting by opening the svg's in notepad I eventually found if you stripped out everything between the <defs> </defs> tags and saved the file it imports with the correct sized bounding box. (The reason why the Xara svg import/export from Inkscape displayed the same problem is that these <defs> tags were retained.)

Not a 100% solution but far simpler than going the pdf / online convert to svg route. Obviously the stripping of the <defs> tags might have a detrimental effect but I haven't found it yet. I actually tried eliminating each <marker> </marker> from inside <defs> </defs> to see which one caused the problem but it obviously isn't a single one but the whole lot.

Hope this helps you. By the way page size isn't an issue using this method.

I attach the 2 svg files.