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Linear RGB and Mesh Gradient
by Jabier Arraiza 21 Apr '15

21 Apr '15

Hi, a question is posibol use Linear RGB in Mesh Gradients to avoid dark holes? Can be a GUI option? Maybe PDF/AI compatibility problems? Regards, Jabier.

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Mapping icon theme in Inkscape 0.91 to icons.svg on Linux
by Alexi Helligar 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

I am customizing a monochromatic icon.svg theme I found online. I notice there are several icons in the UI of Inkscape 0.91 which do not seem to get their symbols from the default icons.svg provided with Inkscape. These icons are as follows: - Templates — does not seem to have an icon in the default icons.svg. I created a symbol in my customized icons.svg with the ID: *templates* and *document-templates* in an attempt to fix this problem, but these IDs did not work.; - Swatches — has an icon (ID: *swatches*) but renders an icon from an unknown source; - Erase Existing Paths — has two icons (ID: *draw-eraser*, and *draw-eraser-16px*) but renders an icon from an unknown source; - Group — has an icon (ID: *selection-group*) but renders an icon from an unknown source; - Ungroup — has an icon (ID: *selection-ungroup*) but renders an icon from an unknown source. I am using the *Evolvere* desktop theme on KDE4 (See: https://github.com/franksouza183/EvolvereSuit). Apparently, this icon theme is the source for some of the icons used by Inkscape. Perhaps there are fallback icon sources, but I was not able to locate documentation on how Inkscape manages fallback icons. It seems like Inkscape should first locate icons in icons.svg before attempting fallback. What is the source of the other icons used by Inkscape but listed in icons.svg? Is there a reason why "Templates" does not have an icon in icons.svg. What is the best way to resolve these discrepancies? I looked in the application folders for Inkscape and online for the file(s) or table that maps symbol IDs in icons.svg to the elements in the GUI but was not able to find any information. I have attached the tweaked icons.svg file that I am currently using along with some screen shots . Your help would on this is appreciated. Thanks, — Alexi [image: Inline image 6] [image: Inline image 4] [image: Inline image 5]

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Inkscape Hackfest: One week to go...
by Tavmjong Bah 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Hi all, It's just one week to our first hackfest! I'm really looking to this. Here are some things to think about: For everyone: 1. Please review, comment on, add to the Hackfest topics page.[1] 2. It's not too late to attend! For attendees: 1. If you haven't filled out all your flight/hotel details, please do so.[2] 2. We'll be meeting in room 1150 on the first floor of Robarts library. I've sent email to ginger coons to find out if there is anything we need to do to access the room on Sunday. 3. Can everyone prepare a short, informal presentation on what they are currently working on or thinking about? Here are some things I would like to hear about: Krzysztof: Boolean operations Jabiertxo: LPE's Martin: Web site plans Jon/Alex: C++11 migration (note: Jon and Alex may not be present at the same time.) I'll give a presentation on SVG 2 inside Inkscape. Tav [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Topics [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Attendees

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Font size
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Hi to all. Any body notice a 0.x font size when start using text tool? Regards, Jabier.

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Budget page
by Bryce Harrington 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Hi All, The Inkscape Budget for 2015 is now posted on our website: https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/ As mentioned on the page, the purpose of this budget is to help the board in deciding expenditures for the year, and we'll be periodically updating it as further expenses get decided. Bryce

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Donating through Gratipay
by anatoly techtonik 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Hi, I've set up my donation of $1 to Inkscape through Gratipay. Somebody who owns official Twitter account can setup a cash-out to Inkscape bank - that may help gather more funds for upcoming HackFest https://gratipay.com/on/twitter/inkscape/ It then may be possible to add a link to that to https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/ I am learning Inkscape to do SVG art that can then be animated with D3.js to make something like these stats https://gratipay.com/ProjectTox/receiving/ Please, CC. -- anatoly t.

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Save and User Manual
by Roger Sharp 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

As a Tech Writer, UX tester, and newbie Inkscape user: Regarding Bit Barrel’s comments, I agree about not having both ‘Save As’ and ‘Export.’ Confusing. Photoshop uses Export for saving pieces of the art such as paths. Also, the User Manual (or Guide?) looks very good BUT it is not searchable. It would be easy to take the current pages (.html or .xml) and import/convert them into a navigable, searchable compiled Help file (whether Web Help or compile .chm file). And, even though I’ve set preferences to Remember Last Window Geometry, it doesn’t remember the dialog layout, i.e., Layers Dialog, the Undo Dialog, etc. ( Version 0.48). Sharpart

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Oh dear, the import export discussion ;-)
by Jelle Mulder 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Hi all, I think Gez posted the most compelling reason to get rid of pdf and the like in the save as dialog. Inkscape will happily destroy the multipage document with prepress ready infromation with its own export file. If all you do with it is edit an image that doesn't need to go to print that's fine, but I guess those that are accustomed to using Adobe software with its extended pdf files that enable editing it with retaining all the extra stuff Adobe puts into to it to enable a prepress work flow in their own format will have been swearing at the current method. I saw multipage support on the todo list. Would be a nice start for better pdf support. CMYK is another one of the desires related to that. But even then I would really suggest making SAVE only save to Inkscape native and get the rest where it belongs in the export formats with their limited support. I haven't worked in print for quite some time now, but used to dabble around with postscript fill rasters quite a lot to get different effects on similar ink percentages. When using 2 colour print and a varnish, you could create really nice effects with that. None of such information would be maintained in an Inkscape PS export either. They are lossy export filters. Hence they should be in the export menu. The work flow in Inkscape is not ideal when you destroy half the info with a program that seems to claim to save all those file types as if it where native. Whether you put opening a file in the import or open dialog doesn't matter all that much as long as it is clear that the output file is an export or information gets lost by saving it as InkSVG. While following the discussion on SVG2 it became clear that the focus there is web content and for that Inkscape pretty much does everything you'd desire. However, as it turns out Inkscape is a really good and useful vector editor that has found its way into the prepress world and others despite its shortcomings in those fields, I would really like to see a work flow philosophy that reflects those shortcomings for the casual and first time users to prevent them from totally screwing up their work. Otherwise they will be disappointed. I guess that is what drove the Gimp to separate it as well. No Johan,.. it's not okay. Its like boiled and poached eggs. Similar results but different using the same tools and ingredients. But the end result differs through the method. Jelle

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Hackfest 2015 - Topics
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hi, So far we have eight people signed up for the Toronto hackfest. We still have room for more! Our fund raising campaign is doing well. Sponsorship is available for active developers and other Inkscape community members, see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Attendees I've prepared a "Topics" wiki page to keep track of things that we should discuss and/or work on at the hackfest. Please add your ideas... even if you are not able to attend. The topics page is at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Topics Tav

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Using Inkscape for D3.js managed scene (Was: Donating through Gratipay)
by anatoly techtonik 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote: > > [Off Topic - I'll be interested to look up D3.js, to perhaps add it to the > new page I'm making for the Inkscape website, about animation and Inkscape > (first draft and still under development: > http://staging.inkscape.org/en/learn/animation-and-inkscape). :-) ] > For the page from the website of graphics tool it looks overburdened with text. =) As for D3.js I am going to try this tutorial. Looks real from here. http://christopheviau.com/d3_tutorial/d3_inkscape/ -- anatoly t.

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