December 2005 - Inkscape Devel

100% Zoom for default new document
by Andy Fitzsimon 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hi All, I've been tutoring inkscape around the place recently and one comment that keeps comming back is how small the text tool is by default. I couldnt reproduce the issue until I realised that the default new document is scaled down to show the whole area of the canvas-area the window. This means that the default font-size of 12pt actually appears quite small for all first time users ( who are only just discovering how to zoom and use all tools ) Picture this : You're a first time user who has executed inkscape and discovers the toolbar on the left hand side of the window. All tools work great however the font-size of the text tool is quite small making all text operations feel uncomfortable in comparison with the other tools. I propose we alter the default document to be viewed at a 100% scale so that all tools visually balance the way they would on the output media. what do you reckon?

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by unknown＠example.com 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, I there an easy way to extract the icons in icon.svg into separate SVG files? I have used in my book a set that came with an old version of Inkscape. This set is out-of-date and incomplete. Thanks, Tav

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Subversion is coming soon
by Bob Jamison 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, all, Good news! I received an email from Sourceforge yesterday concerning Subversion service testing. This was in response to an email we sent them many months ago when they first broached the subject, where we requested that Inkscape be considered as a candidate as one of their test projects. This will start on the second week of next month. Quoting from the email: > Participating projects will be provided with Subversion service from > SourceForge.net as part of the Beta. Users of your project will be able > to access (read-only) the project Subversion repository. In exchange > for being provided early access to our Subversion service, we will ask > your project team to report to us problems, questions, concerns, and > suggestions for enhancement, as soon as issues arise. > > Pending successful beta testing, we'll be launching this service to all > hosted projects. Beta participation is optional, but we would > appreciate your participation in the Subversion Beta if it is a good fit > for your project. Your participation will help us to roll out this > service more quickly, with a high quality of service for projects. > Note that GCC followed this plan recently, where there was initially a read-only Subversion view of the repository. When people became accustomed to it, they made the complete switch. This is, IMHO, wonderful news. Subversion without the pain or rehosting. Bob (ishmal)

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Windows builds broken - help needed
by bulia byak 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

This bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1379454&group_… is reported unfixed again in both win32-snap/ and in Daniel Diaz' builds. However, Bob Jamison has fixed this long ago, and this fix is verified in the builds he has personally created. So, whoever is responsible for, or in any way related to producing of, these builds, PLEASE fix this bug once and forever (asking Bob for help if necessary). Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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WEBFORM problems Mac OS X
by Diego González 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Diego GonzÃ¡lez email: didacsoy@...1120... submitted the following: Hi there! I don\'t know if you are the right people to send you this, but I don\'t know who else to submit this to. I hope you pass it on to whoever it may correspond if it\'s not you the ones I should have sent this to. I just downloaded the Mac OSX build because a friend of mine recommended Inkscape, but when I open the application, X11 opens but nothing happens. I do get an Inkscape menu bar, but it only says Inkscape (no File, Edit, Window, Help menus...), and besides X11 doesn\'t list Inkscape as one of its applications. In fact when I quit X11, Inkscape remains open. Is there something I\'m doing wrong? Do I need anything else? I\'m running OS X 10.4.3, but as I\'m a total Unix newbie, I don\'t know how to compile anything, not to speak fixing something. Thank you very much for your attention and your time. Your work for the Open Source community is great, and I am grateful for there is people like you out there, interested in something else than money. I hope I can try Inkscape out, because I have heard wonderful things of it. Regards, Diego.

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by Rae Larsen 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

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New icon theme by Plácido Sousa
by Jean-François Lemaire 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

I've just committed a new icon theme created by Plácido Sousa. I think it looks really good and encourage everyone to have a look at it. I think some of these icons are clearer and convey their meaning a tad better than the current ones. I'd be interested in the others' opinions. You'll find the theme here: /share/inkscape/icons/crispy_icons.svg To use the new theme, copy that file in your personal Inkscape icons directory (~/.inkscape/icons) and rerun Inkscape. -- Jean-François Lemaire

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Illustrator samples
by Jonathan Leighton 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

It's taken a while (sorry!) but as promised, I've made some samples of Illustrator files (see http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AdobeIllustrator) They are at http://turnipspatch.com/demos/inkscape/illustrator-samples/ I may/will/hope to add more samples in the future, if they are needed (Bryce?) Jon -- Jonathan Leighton http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://jonathanleighton.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Chase Notice No:175 Suspension
by Chase Account 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

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SVG - Barcode
by Martin Owens 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello all, I was doing some production work for some DVDs and wanted Barcodes on my production. I used inkscape and so I wanted to get svg barcodes. The problem was the only things I could get to make svg barcodes on my mac was (perl) (GD::Barcode) which creates a gif barcode but with the use of GD::SVG you can make svg barcodes. I found this to be way too silly and couldn't even get GD libs installed so being a perl programmer I used online guides to create SVG::Barcode module which has only simple dependancies on SVG module. Cut to the chase, I figured you might be interested in this code as a plugin, it's in perl which is not ideal but it's not huge code and could be converted to C/C++ Encodings: Code39, Code128, EAN8 let me know if your interested. -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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