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rectangle tool
by Artemio 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello there! I am using Inkscape 0.39 (20040618). Say I have drawn a rectangle. Then I want to resize this rectangle but only horizontally (e.g. make it shorter), but I want this process to be precise, so that object height is fixed while I drag the right bottom resize dot. Currently, this is not possible. If I Ctrl+drag, the rectangle resizes proportionally. If I convert it to curves, I can use the center resize handles to resize it, but I want my corner radii to be left as in original, so I don't want to convert it. Proposal: when Shift+drag is used on the resize dot of the rectangle tool, make only horizontal (fixed y size) and only vertical (fixed x size) resizing possible, depending on where the user drags. Good luck! Artemio. -- The official web residence of Artemio -> http://artemio.net/ [local time 08:44:43 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 15 min]

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[Fwd: Image stuff in adobe illustrator]
by Ted Gould 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hey guys, I just got this from Tuukka who has integrated his image changes into Bryce's updated ill2svg script. Could others have a look at it? I don't have a lot of Illustrator files to test with. I definitely want to get this into the release, I think Illustrator import is a feature that is useful for a lot of users. --Ted PS - Please CC him on any replies, he is not on the mailing list. -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tuukka Pasanen <tuukka.pasanen@...327...> > To: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> > Subject: Image stuff in adobe illustrator > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:34:30 +0300 > > hi, > I made major approments to CVS version of ill2svg.pl. Now ending stuff is > in corporated to image stuff and some minor text formating (ae and oe.. > i'm from finland we use those a lot) changes appears as well. > > This should goto list but i just can't sign on:((. CVS adder was bryce and > i like to send this diff to him too but ain't got address:(. > > Could you post this script and diff to inkscape list so someone could test > it.. and then it would be possible to add it to CVS. > > Tuukka > > ps. i added whole script so you can verify it's okay...

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Re: Autopackage install attempt with Inkscape on SuSE
by Peter Linnell 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Carl and I just tried out installation of Inkscape onto his SuSE 9.x box > using autopackage, but ran into a dependency issue for "GTK 2 C++ > bindings". I'm assuming that is the gtkmm2 package. It said that this > would need to be installed manually, however we couldn't find what > package this corresponds to for SuSE (looking at YaST and rpmfind.net.) > > Do you have a suggestion for where we can find this package? Also, it > would be nice if the GUI gave some directions to look when it fails to > find a dependency. >Btw, we tried the redhat 9 rpm's for gtkmm2, but they had half a dozen >dependency issues for perl and some other base libs, so didn't look >feasible. >Also, I re-ran the installer on my own system (which I had successfully >installed with autopackage previously), and it installed without >trouble. I didn't have to install gtkmm2 myself as far as I remember. > > $ rpm -qa | grep gtkmm > gtkmm-1.2.10-143 > gtkmm-devel-1.2.10-143 > $ > >Bryce I tried the autopackage last night on Fedora-1 and it worked perfectly. Impressive how smoothly it worked. I have added links to find gtkmm2 and friends for Suse 9.0 on the wiki under "Compiling inkscape" Suse 9.1 comes with all the needed libraries for Inkscape. Cheers, Peter

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export to PNG of a document that contains angled text objects
by Artemio 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello! I am using Inkscape 20040618. If I have a text object that is turned at some angle, exporting of this object as PNG causes the letters to be misplaced, like if the text was following a wavy curve. Here are two examples: snapshot1.png - this the drawing as seen on the canvas snapshot2.png - this is the original exported image, you can see that the letters are not positioned on a single line as they were on the canvas snapshot3.png - this is the same drawing except that the text object was converted to paths before being exported - you see that it looks just like it should, like on the canvas The most obvious solution (or a workaround?) is to convert the fonts to paths before exporting. Is it a good solution to auto-convert the fonts to paths on every export? Artemio. -- A-Man: Artemio's musical self -> http://a-man.artemio.net/ [local time 12:38:47 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 20 min]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] rectangle tool
by Artemio 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

You wrote: > Maybe the trick with the extrahandle to have the radii stay the same > while scaling should be moved into a keybinding for general scaling? > This way, you can still use the right, left, top, bottom and corner > handles, the way you are used to it from scaling rects without radii. Hey, wait up! I dunno what kind of preferences I changed or haven't changed, but if I use the upper/lower vertical or left/right horizontal resize handles for a rectangle object, the covner radii changes while dragging but then reverts to the previous original state after releasing the mouse. I guess I should have tried all ways before posting my message ;-) As always, Inkscape turns out even better than what we think ;-) Artemio. -- The official web residence of Artemio -> http://artemio.net/ [local time 12:24:13 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 6 min]

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape is spectacular -- feature requests?
by bulia byak 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

> This sounds doable (I didn't -really- want to work on my thesis this > week) but I'm not entirely clear how the libraries would work, I guess. > Would they be a valid SVG document where each top-level group > represented an item ? Not quite, each item in the library will be defined exactly as it is in a normal document, i.e. inside <defs>. Take a look at share/markers/markers.svg. > 1. Keep a copy of each library object used by a document in each > document itself. Yes. > Thus, the document will be editable, but you could > (say) open a library and "update" the linked objects. Updating a symbol from the library is not implemented but can be done easily using inkscape:stock_id attribute for matching. > is that you don't have to find / access the library to edit the lib > object -- it essentially keeps a local copy. The downside is the > explicit update step. Yes, and this is the only way to make SVG editable/viewable outside of your system. > 2. Keep the library files separate. This means that to view/edit a > document, you'd need to be able to access the libray, and the document > would have to know how to find the library. I'm not sure this option is workable with SVG. > exist as Free Software. Can I buy the developers a beer? Sure, if you can catch us - we're scattered around the globe :)

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Autopackage install attempt with Inkscape on SuSE
by Bryce Harrington 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Hi Guys, Carl and I just tried out installation of Inkscape onto his SuSE 9.x box using autopackage, but ran into a dependency issue for "GTK 2 C++ bindings". I'm assuming that is the gtkmm2 package. It said that this would need to be installed manually, however we couldn't find what package this corresponds to for SuSE (looking at YaST and rpmfind.net.) Do you have a suggestion for where we can find this package? Also, it would be nice if the GUI gave some directions to look when it fails to find a dependency. Fwiw, we also had to use the `xhost +` trick to be able to see the GUI. Thanks, Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

>1. "Function Bar" >2. "Object Bar" >3. "Main Toolbar" 1 and 3 are acceptable, but 2? It's not related to any specific object, but to the current tool. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-user] terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

> Can two toolbars be placed end to end yet? > (I dont recall being able to do so with GTK widgets in the past or with > any of the applications i randomly tested with) Maybe in the next version of GTK, not sure about the current one > Rather than trying to fit everything into a single standard toolbar (which > if crowded wont fit on small displays) it would be better to have a few > smaller logically organised toolbars (which wont look good on large > displays unless they can be put end to end on the same row). Agree, but this will need to wait for better toolbar management in GTK > An alternative approach might be to somehow add these features to the Zoom > box that is permanently embedded in the status bar. Already done, right-click it and you'll see the commands in the menu.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

>FWIW, I don't find it confusing. If a car salesmam sells cars, a book >shelf holds books Note however that it's more often bookshelf, not book shelf, for exactly this reason. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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