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Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org Inkscape 0.43 is now available thanks to the work of many developers and the sponsorship of Google's Summer of Code program which sponsored four students to work on features for Inkscape. The main new features in this release are: * Connectors: Objects can be connected using auto-routing lines. * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: You can connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document. * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support. * Better Node Editing: You can now drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. * There is an online book, "A Guide to Inkscape", available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php, which has been updated to cover the 0.43 features. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which will focus on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and more application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. We need translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help us reach our goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and come help us Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, <nowiki>PostScript</nowiki>, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to <nowiki>C++/Gtkmm</nowiki>, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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create UML graph with inkscape
by Laszlo 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi! I would use inkscape to create UML class diagram. The main problem, that I cant resize the diagram the appropriate way. Here is a little illustration how it should be resizable the diagram: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/umlClass.png Im showing with a little diagram the main problem: http://khiraly.4242.hu/tmp/umlClass.png Is it possible to resize a diagram like the above image? OR If I edit an object, and place a node to an another place, is it possible to snap to the grid? (shortkey: F2). The snap to the grid work only with the move tool (shortkey: F1). Best regards, Khiraly

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Re: Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jonathan Chetwynd 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Jon & Bryce, congratulations on .43, however would it be correct that "Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity" can not currently be enabled for OS X? given that the majority of graphics designers and perhaps even wacom tablet users prefer OS X, this remains a long term concern. The Gimp-like application: 'Seashore' is already available for OS X with "Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity" http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ it might be of note, that there is also an outstanding requested for a similar 'stripped' down version of inkscape for children. furthermore on win98: dialogue: Pango-ERROR **: file....aborting.... another dialogue: Pango-WARNING(recursed) **: Couldn't load font "MS sans Serif 8" falling back to "Sans 8" aborting... and no application loads not a happy bunny ~:" regards Jonathan Chetwynd Accessible Solutions http://www.peepo.co.uk On 21 Nov 2005, at 10:01, Jon Phillips wrote: November 21, 2005 — The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. The focus of this release is on the exciting new features sponsored by Google through their Summer of Code (SoC) program which provided funding for four individuals to contribute to Inkscape. The primary additions this release are: * Connectors: A new indispensable connector tool implements creation, editing, and auto-routing (object-avoiding) of connector lines between objects. It is indispensable for drawing diagrams. (Google SoC project) * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: One may now connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document, watch changes, and contribute one's own changes. (Google SoC project) * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support to vary the width and angle of a calligraphic stroke. * Better Node Editing: One may freely drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * Refinements: Inkscape now supports improved precision, expanded limits, usability improvements and several bugfixes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. In response to the release, Tavmjong Bah updated his online book, "A Guide to Inkscape" (http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php), to cover the Inkscape 0.43 features. This guide is not included with the Inkscape release. Users are encouraged to read the guide in addition to Inkscape 0.43's release notes and the help included with Inkscape. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which focuses on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and further application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. Inkscape needs translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help reach the project's goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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RE: Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release
by Alex Biddle 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Congratulations everyone! Blogged it, and yes, the header _was_ created with Inkscape. :D http://blog.heuristicdesign.co.uk/archives/2005/11/21/inkscape-043/ > November 21, 2005 — The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, > an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for > Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

November 21, 2005 - The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. The focus of this release is on the exciting new features sponsored by Google through their Summer of Code (SoC) program which provided funding for four individuals to contribute to Inkscape. The primary additions this release are: * Connectors: A new indispensable connector tool implements creation, editing, and auto-routing (object-avoiding) of connector lines between objects. It is indispensable for drawing diagrams. (Google SoC project) * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: One may now connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document, watch changes, and contribute one's own changes. (Google SoC project) * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support to vary the width and angle of a calligraphic stroke. * Better Node Editing: One may freely drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * Refinements: Inkscape now supports improved precision, expanded limits, usability improvements and several bugfixes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. In response to the release, Tavmjong Bah updated his online book, "A Guide to Inkscape," to cover the Inkscape 0.43 features. This guide is not included with the Inkscape release. Users are encouraged to read the guide in addition to Inkscape 0.43's release notes and the help included with Inkscape. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which focuses on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and further application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. Inkscape needs translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help reach the project's goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

November 21, 2005 — The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. The focus of this release is on the exciting new features sponsored by Google through their Summer of Code (SoC) program which provided funding for four individuals to contribute to Inkscape. The primary additions this release are: * Connectors: A new indispensable connector tool implements creation, editing, and auto-routing (object-avoiding) of connector lines between objects. It is indispensable for drawing diagrams. (Google SoC project) * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: One may now connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document, watch changes, and contribute one's own changes. (Google SoC project) * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support to vary the width and angle of a calligraphic stroke. * Better Node Editing: One may freely drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * Refinements: Inkscape now supports improved precision, expanded limits, usability improvements and several bugfixes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. In response to the release, Tavmjong Bah updated his online book, "A Guide to Inkscape" (http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php), to cover the Inkscape 0.43 features. This guide is not included with the Inkscape release. Users are encouraged to read the guide in addition to Inkscape 0.43's release notes and the help included with Inkscape. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which focuses on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and further application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. Inkscape needs translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help reach the project's goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Some difficulties with the new version of Inkscape
by Ralf Stephan 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

bulia: > On 11/20/05, Hago Ziegler <h@...1083...> wrote: > > since I downloaded a new version yesterday I can't use the node tools in > > the tool-bar anymore. > > I tried another download today - the same. > > I don't see this, but from the description it looks like it might be > related to some recent GTKmmfication work. Ralf, can you comment? Not my area at all, at the moment I'm doing dialogs/their widgets, no desktop. Please give a specific sequence of steps to reproduce. ralf

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Congrats on 0.43 release!
by Mike Hearn 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi guys, I just grabbed the 0.43 autopackage, which worked fine, and had a quick play with the new features. Whoever did connectors I LOVE YOU :) This is one of the features I find most useful in the (shame) MS Word vector editor and now Inkscape can replace it for diagram editing. I also like the new path editing options. In 0.42 I could never figure out how to add a node, now I find I can just double click (or was this feature here before and I just never noticed it). The help tips at the bottom are great but unfortunately my screen isn't wide enough to see all of them. Finally the new about picture is quite funny :) thanks -mike

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Cannot open files on OS X (0.43 pre-releases)
by Andrew Ashton 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I am using Mac OS 10.4.3 with Apple's X11 On an iMac G5 2GHz. I have this problem with all of the pre-release .dmg files (pre0 through pre3), though unfortunately I have been busy and unable to spend much time looking into it. So I can see console errors, I run Inkscape from the command-line[1] and get one error right away: $ /Applications/Inkscape0.43pre3-2.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape (inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Clicking the 'Open' icon or going 'File' -> 'Open...' gives me this: (inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases Finally, actually trying to open any svg file gives me this: (inkscape-bin:822): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed ** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Invalid URI ** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Error: Could not open file '/path/to/file.svg' with VFS And an error window in X11 appears as well: "Failed to load the requested file /path/to/file.svg" Anyone have any ideas of what's going on? I think it's a problem on my end, because other 10.4.3 users seem to have it working fine. Unfortunately I'm still pretty unfamiliar with OS X (and X11 has always baffled me) so I don't really know where to start looking for problems. (Note: importing bitmaps works fine, though importing svgs gives me the same problem) Any help is much appreciated. AJ Ashton [1] I'm fairly new to Mac OS so I don't even know if this is the correct method for running an app from the console. It runs the same when I double click the .app, so I assume it is.

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illustrator version 3 - 7 Sample Files
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi, I took two files from Open Clip Art Library and saved them as illustrator 3 - 10 versions and put them up here: http://www.rejon.org/projects/inkscape/index.php http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AdobeIllustrator Please compare to the SVG file and use these to help develop the Adobe Illustrator import/export features. Jon L. and others (who asked), please create more examples of AI files so that we can get better compliance with Adobe's AI output. Thanks, Jon BRYCE: one more outstanding task done. -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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