While browsing the shelves of a local
discount book store, I stumbled upon an interesting pattern book
called Drip.Dot.Swirl. by Von Glitschka,
published by HOW Books in 2009. Being a bit of a pattern nut and
seeing a lot of patterns in the book that I liked, I was about to buy
the book when I noticed that the DVD that was supposed to be in the
back of the book was missing. The DVD contains editable vector files,
swatch libraries, and tutorials and is at least half the reason for
buying the book. Being undaunted, after a quick search online I found a copy of the book and had it in my hands within a week.
Drip Dot Swirl: 94 Incredible Patterns for Design and Illustration
I happily popped the DVD into the drive and grabbed the first vector file, only to discover that all the
files are in encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format and plain vanilla Inkscape is completely unable to load them. Fine. Back to the internet. After poking around for a while I finally found some useful
instructions at InkscapeForum.com. Here's a quick step-by-step on how
to set up Inkscape so that it can read EPS files. (Please note that these instructions are for Windows 7. For later versions of Windows, the way to get to your environment variables will probably be slightly different.)
