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Scale origin
by Carl Hetherington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, Currently if you select, say, a rectangle and scale it using a knot, the origin for the scale is taken as the opposite corner of the rectangle's bounding box. This is fine if you want snap-to-bounding-box behaviour, but it presents problems if you want snap-to-nodes since the node near the opposite corner of the bounding box will drift wrt its original position. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to take the origin from? If it needs to be optional, how should we decide which point to use for a given instance? Thanks Carl

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape is spectacular -- feature requests?
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:11:52 +1000, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > <g transform="..."> > <image source="....svg" /> > </g> Perfectly possible, except that you lose vector editability and resolution-independence of the linked images.

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support indexed pallete for exported PNGs?
by Artemio 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi everybody! I just thought - would it be possible to have a support to export indexed PNGs? I just thought that it might be very useful for web design - for example, I have many icons/buttons/images that have not so many colours, and I use Inkscape to export them to PNG, and no other tool is used after that, I use the Inkscape.s resulting PNG on my pages. In terms of UI, an "indexed colours" checkmark and colour number chooser could be added in the export dialogue. Artemio. -- The official web residence of Artemio -> http://artemio.net/ [local time 08:51:48 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 22 min]

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slight site reorganisation proposals
by Artemio 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello everybody! I am happy to tell you that yesterday Bryce added me to the Inkscape SF project and now I have access to modify the site ;-) So now it's time to create some nice new galleries of Inkscape usage examples. Here is what I plan, and I won't allow myself a think Current situation (structure). ------------------ Site navigation -> Screenshots -> this page has a link to Examples -> Galleries -> this is a link to a wiki page ------------------ Future scheme (a proposal) ------------------ Site navigation -> Screenshots -> still contains everything it has now -> Galleries -> contains links with thumbnails to [1] Inkscape examples (as now in at the Examples page, plus [2] link to Wiki gallery page (with a thumbnail image too) ------------------ What do you think about my plan? I have already created a new page telling about the creation of the new Artemio.net interface and icons/buttons. I am currently writing a book on sound design (it's getting bigger and bigger), and there are already around 25 structure drawings created with Inkscape, and I plan creating a page about this too. I'd also be glad to add others' info and screenshots! Yours, Artemio. -- Don't be shy, ask Artemio -> http://ask.artemio.net/ [local time 19:14:39 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 1 hr 22 min]

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terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape: 1. Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific operations such as Open, Save, etc. 2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar"). 3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons. The question is: How to call them? They are all "toolbars" technically but using the word "toolbar" without distinction is going to be very confusing. Even using "toolbar" for 3 only is going to be confusing because people are used to calling "toolbars" any horizontal rows of buttons. So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short. Most importantly, they must stick. "Top panel" for 2 did not stick, somehow. Here is the best I could think of: 1. Commands bar 2. Tool controls bar 3. Toolbox Any other ideas? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 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] Menu font size
by bulia byak 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

I've tried this on Windows and it looks much better indeed - the fonts are closer to what standard Windows apps use. Ishmal, can you please include this change into the build kit? Comments from other win32 users are welcome too. On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:26:11 -0700, Maur <maur@...409...> wrote: > > I was wondering how I can could the menu fonts in Inkspace; it displays > display significantly larger than other GTK applications. I found that > by modifying the gtkrc files in \Inkscape\etc\gtk-2.0\, I could get the > size I wanted by replacing this line: > > # gtk-font-name="tahoma 12" > > with this one: > > gtk-font-name="verdana 6.5" > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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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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