On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:

Hi guys,

since I'm working with Linux, I'll never have to personally, but inkscape has become my favorite graphics tool, and I need to share files with win users. Now since svg isn't supported that much, I thought, the easiest solution might be to just have the win users install inkscape... how hard is this? I mean including installing gtk. I hope this is real simple and you can point me at some howto.

Indeed it is really simple. Either there's a README in the package or it runs right out of the zip file, because there's lots of Windows users but hardly any have had installation questions.

Also I wonder if there'll be work done on the ps export soon. Though I really am looking forward to pangoisation being finished, I really need a proper export of transparency for ps, to make pdfs for sharing, instead of pngs, since pngs are huge, for A3 or A4 posters since I need at least 300 dpi.

Any chances, I will see something like that soon?

I haven't heard anyone indicate that they will be working on improving the postscript output, but it is possible someone may suddenly and unexpectedly invent a solution, so who knows. I do know that there is a lot of little bits and pieces of finishing/debugging work from all the new features that have been added. Also, in addition to better Postscript support there have been strong requests for adding layers, metadata, and text-on-a-path. So I would guess it's not on anyone's plate at present.

If you're very desperate for this, an approach that is surprisingly effective is to put some time into it yourself. Often, once one guy starts working on a feature, it seems to attract others to help finish it out. Even if you do not code, there are things that can be done to help move the ball forward, such as explaining the objective, gathering links to relevant specs, collecting example files (before/after), screenshots, writing docs, outline some specific tasks or questions, etc.

Bryce

Sorry for the late reply...

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:37:17 +0200 From: David Christian Berg <david.berg@...240...> Reply-To: david@...139... To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Installing Inkscape on a Win machine

Hi guys,

since I'm working with Linux, I'll never have to personally, but inkscape has become my favorite graphics tool, and I need to share files with win users. Now since svg isn't supported that much, I thought, the easiest solution might be to just have the win users install inkscape... how hard is this? I mean including installing gtk. I hope this is real simple and you can point me at some howto.

If you just want the windows users to be able to view the files then all you need is the Adobe SVG Viewer/Web Browser Plugin, which they might already have becuase it is included with certain versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader (and SVG capable applications like Jasc Web Draw also install it, maybe Inkscape should too?).

If you want another option and like Java based programs Batik might be an option (there is a basic SVG application called Kiyut that is based on Batik that looks quite good).

Also I wonder if there'll be work done on the ps export soon. Though I really am looking forward to pangoisation being finished, I really need a proper export of transparency for ps, to make pdfs for sharing, instead of pngs, since pngs are huge, for A3 or A4 posters since I need at least 300 dpi.

Inkscape can be compiled with Gnome-Print support although I dont think anyone has looked at it in a while. Gnome-Print supports PDF directly so it is worth checking out if you dont mind compiling your own copy of Inkscape.

Hope that helps

Sincerely

Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/