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0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Ted Gould 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hello all, Another milestone release. Hopefully the last. Let's get this release out! I want to put a special thanks to MIT for the 5MB/s upload :) https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre4/ --Ted == MD5 Sums == c27b2c4f74a94c9cc6ae0f341d3b00ed inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 a5076ffe4636eda5ab623d5ad8e85d48 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 5cce22cbe97780f47de1d385bd2bed3b inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz b927fc4caadac9c0269ec1cc5f84c176 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 9f9f4400fe0400b0021523eaa394d7fc inkscape-0.47pre4.zip 6192f8f7d653ed2168df1f222944a981 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 02210ee6eeda65517284c01a3f9d069443affbfe inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 da4c5b963ee9b2636101157822b99d0dedc3db76 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 0340f33315a93b5ec001c62c2790726547e4dc2a inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz 456aa3c99686057648d70c7cb9eb9f246c9a3e02 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 5c00b71555059c2aa455e4e11e9404461c1f6c28 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip d5fc92e15271929576ea515cd86423aa27cf4c99 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc

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Resolution
by David Knecht ATT 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

I am new to Inkscape and trying it out as a way of labeling images for publication. First, is there a way to search the archives for answers? Second, is there a way to get Inkscape to display the resolution of an image in dpi or ppi? Also, where do you adjust the ruler settings? Dave Dr. David Knecht Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Co-head Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Facility U-3125 91 N. Eagleville Rd. University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 860-486-2200 860-486-4331 (fax)

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Price Code Barcode generator.
by John Culleton 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

The current inkscape-devel (Ubuntu) has a barcode facility. But it doesn't provide for the 5 digit price code often used on books next to the ISBN EAN code. Scribus does provide it as does the bookland.py online or local barcode generator. This should be easy to fix. Also, on the latest inkscape-devel the numbers at the bottom of the EAN-13 barcode are jumbled. This could be a font problem. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Round single corner in a square
by Mr.SpOOn 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, I want to round a single corner of a square, but I can't obtain what I want. Inside the square there is a circle and I'd like to have the corner with the same roundness of the circle. What I did till now is: 1) converting the square to a path 2) creating two new nodes in the middle of each side of the corner 3) move handles of the corner to round it This doesn't work very well, so I tried to duplicate the circle and cut the corner dividing paths. Maybe this is a better solution but I can't exactly align the cutting circle with the first one (I have to align them diagonally). Is there an easier way to do this? Or a tutorial or something about rounding single corners? Thank you, Carlo

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Inkscape 0.47 on the horizon (Call for help)
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hey All, I forgot to post to the user and translator lists because I was too excited. :) I think we closed out the last of the blocker bugs today! So, will people please help ensure that the release notes are up to date? I'm headed there in just a minute to document my latest changes. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47 Regarding PR, I am going to continue with what was started here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning047 If you are an inkscape user who wants to contribute, even if you can't program, this is the perfect way to give back to the community. Please help us flesh this out and refine it. Packagers, please package up Pre3 if you have not already done so as a practice run... and honestly, I think it would be safe to plan a release for next week (between Monday the 5th and Friday the 9th), provided packages are available and no new issues arise. Any objections to this proposed plan? Any thoughts on if releasing on a specific day of the week will get more notice? Oh, and translators... please get any updates submitted asap. Thanks! Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.47pre3
by Ted Gould 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hello Inkscapers, I'm happy to be announcing the next pre-release of Inkscape 0.47. It's a pretty cool job to do. We're hoping that this is the FINAL pre-release of Inkscape, so make sure it doesn't crash for you as the final version is likely to be VERY SIMILAR to this one. There's a great set of patches from a variety of contributors, make sure to check them out! I couldn't figure out how to get Sourceforge to make a new releases anymore, and they took away the ability to make directories from SFTP; so I put things up at Launchpad. If someone can figure out Sourceforge, we can put them there as well. http://launchpad.net/inkscape/main/0.47pre3 == MD5 Sums == eaf529011bb4bc8879ff669a4c7f000d inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2 c42ded78f6b58d0f141dca97c5026a6f inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2.asc 283deaf2ace016736eb5e64e38075c17 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz f3f1f5c9e41a7e8e90b9c4542e1a9bf6 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz.asc e5be30c7b2f2f541839d5caee5207346 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip c68cb7c856ba31f1eed098b8c6bcd8ad inkscape-0.47pre3.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 0512e235bcb3391adf44aa4bacbd75c25ac507ec inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2 d7d98787742c6d166f07a518bced4400cb9ca28f inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2.asc 6111f18301b50062c51292c8c9c2ec2896feb071 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz db315c4c353e3315b4830014d3454b9950c8385d inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz.asc b2ec4000f2c758fbe47d9e90b4f3f89463081d47 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip 1fd56b7a29901a822c84f473ed5b8444e2160b58 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip.asc * A few more bits if you REALLY don't trust your ISP --Ted

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SVG Color 1.2
by Jon A. Cruz 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Finally!!!! SVG 1.2 color stuff is out in the wild. (Well, specs at least) "...The implication of this is that it is possible to use a fully colormanaged workflow (using SVG 1.0 onwards) that supports a full CMYK pipeline via the use of ICC profiles." "...SVG Color introduces the ability to use so-called 'named' or 'spot' colors. Named colors are used in many print applications and are supported in SVG Print through the use of ICC named color profiles." http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColorPrimer12-20091001/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColor12-20091001/

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Good, bad, worse.
by John Culleton 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu. So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique? Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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0.47 pre3 and OS X
by John Harrold 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Howdy Folks, I've got the latest pre release running on my computer. I've moved the configuration files (~/.inkscape and ~/.inkscape-etc) to prevent any odd config settings from causing any problems. When I started it, Inkscape said it might take a while for it to cache the fonts and what not. So I let it go and eventually a window popped open --- it took about an hour. Then I tried to use it and the interface was unresponsive. For example I resized the window, and it took about four minutes for the widgets and tools to be redrawn. I don't have any problem with the previous prereleases or version 0.46. Has anyone else had any similar problems? Is there anything I can do to figure out what's going on here? System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30) Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0 X11.app Version: 2.1.6 -- John M Harrold

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Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.47 pre3 and OS X
by John Harrold 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hey Folks, Ok. Sorry, ignore that last post. I was using pre3-1, and I didn't realize there was a newer build. Pre3-2 starts up much quicker and is much more responsive. I've got another issue, but I'll make a separate post about that one. -- John M Harrold

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47 on the horizon (Call for help)
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > So, will people please help ensure that the release notes are up to > date? I'm headed there in just a minute to document my latest changes. > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47 I also have started the page for the next release: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48 I'm doing a pass through the 0.47 page and moving things that were not quite finished on over to the new 0.48 page. Also if people have new things that come up, the 0.48 page is the place for them. Once we hit the main announcement, I'll update the wiki main page to link also to the 0.48 release notes.

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Inkscape 0.47 Python help needed
by Gary Hawkins 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Hi All, I am running inkscape 0.47 on my macbook pro running snow leopard (10.6.1) as 0.47 will not work on snow leopard. I was trying to convert a line to a dashed line as I have to have them dashed to use with my electronic die cutter as fold lines, with extensions>modify path>convert to dashes when I get this error: {Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected. The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension. Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml} I also tried to do a pattern along path with extensions>generate from path>pattern along path and I get this same error: I can download the file from the website given but I don't understand terminal or python enough to mess about with sudo commands (or any commands for that matter) without having a step-by-step guide to follow/tell me what it is doing ( I followed a tut online for the Tivo recorders one time and killed the machine - had to buy a new drive etc - not something I want to do to my mac!!) Thanks Gaz(UK)

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[OT] Looking for speakers to talk about inkscape in Long Island
by Justin Dearing 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi, I'm trying to setup a talk about open source drawing tools for the long island linux user group (http://lilug.org). Lilug is a linux user group that meets in SUNY Farmingdale, in Longisland New York. I was wondering if anyone on this list would like to talk about inkscape, or any other OSS graphic tool that runs on linux. The audience would be linux enthusists, mostly programmers and sysadmins, Most of us don't have a lot of graphics skills. Any inkscape developers would be welcome to speak as well. If you are interested, contact me off list, Regards, Justin Dearing

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Blurry image
by Jmx 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Could it be that you only save it at 72 DPI from Gimp? That would explain why it looks blurry. For print i think you'll need at least 200-300 DPI Cheers :drunk: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Blurry-image-tp25546443p25560677.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Fill calligraphy outlined shapes automatically
by G33K 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi everyone, I'd like to use the calligraphy tool to draw outlines for a shape, and want to fill the initially transparent interior of that shape with a different color. The only solution I've found so far is to apply the "break apart" command, then select the inner shape and change its color manually. That's a lot of steps, which stops the flow of drawing. I've already found this extension which tries to solve the problem: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CalligraphedOutlineFill To lessen the number of manual steps, I'd like to automatically apply some similar logic after each calligraphy stroke, so that a calligraphy outline's inner shape can be filled immediately if it's drawn in one stroke. I think the following steps might suffice: * After a calligraphy brush stroke, apply "break apart" to the resulting object. * If the result is only one shape, then the calligraphy path isn't closed. * If there are several shapes, the one with the largest bounding box is the outline, all others are enclosed inner shapes and are filled in a different color. You could even maintain a history of successive calligraphy strokes, or search the object stack, until the "break apart" command produces more than one shape. My question is: is it somehow possible to execute an extension after each calligraphy stroke? Or is there a way to code this into Inkscape itself? If yes, is there a similar extension of drawing tool feature that I could use as a model? Or have I overlooked some functions that are already built into Inkscape? Best regards, Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

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text and snapping to guide lines
by tj 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

I have a question concerning the way text objects work with guide lines. It seems that when I position text objects to a guide line they "snap" to either the top of the text or the bottom of the text. The problem I have is when trying to line up headings in a form I am creating the snapping action doesn't take into account letters with descenders like Q, q. g, j, y, etc. but set the descenders againest the guide line and not the body of the letter. How do you turn off the snapping action? tj

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Info for promoting Inkscape
by Jon A. Cruz 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi, In preparing for SVG Open, I'm trying to come up with a new single- page flyer that can be printed out and given away at conferences and such to help people get an idea what Inkscape is and what it can do to help them. One key part of this is to point out some general usages to which Inkscape can be put. If we can present in one spot how different uses are all served, we might be able to gain interest of people who otherwise would have overlooked the product. For example, some software engineer looking to do some quick UML sketches might only see some Inkscape artwork and think "Oh, I don't need to draw pictures, better go find something else." We then miss out on another potential user. And when we loose a potential user we also lose another potential *contributor*. To help hash this out I have started a wiki page for jotting things down: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Marketing_Scratchpad Please take a look and see if you might be able to add a bit. Edit some info, add a missing usage/segment, etc. The more information we can gather, the better we can refine and then use it. Oh, and for the flyer itself, we are initially targeting a simple design that can fit on a single page. It may be printed one-sided or perhaps double-sided. So the design will include a primary page and a supplemental page. The primary page will be done so that it is a stand- alone product. The supplemental page will be the optional second side for when the flyer is printed double-sided. We also want to design it so that it is effective when printed out in black and white and also when it is printed out in color.

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Lengthing line causes it to get thicker.
by tj 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

I am new to inkscape and I noticed something I do not understand. I draw a line with a certain length and thickness. But, if I change the length (y) of that line thru the toolbar, the thickness and the y position will change. Plus, if you then change the thickness, i.e. height, sometimes it will not take that entry, but substitute another and have to change it several times before the value you want is retained. Example, create line 2.5" long with thikness of .006". Modify it thru the toolbar to a length of 7" and the thickness increases to .014" and the y position changes by several thousands. Why is the thickness changing? Does this make sense? tj

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PDF Output format X/1a:2001
by John Culleton 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Using Inkscape 47 the only pdf output format is PDF 1.4. If I want to create a cover pdf for the POD printer LSI I need to have PDF X/1a:2001 per LSI specs. Is there any prospect for adding this PDF format to Inkscape? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Problem with pdfx package.
by John Culleton 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

On Saturday 19 September 2009 02:49:41 you wrote: > On 19-Sep-09, at 2:26 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > I think you have identified the disease but the cure doesn't work, > > at least for me. So when you update the package perhaps you > > should test in one of the "minus" timezones like the USA. I'll be > > happy to be the guinea pig. > > Attached is a modified version of pdfx.sty. I shall be thankful for > your feedback. > > Best I could not find the icc profile FOGRAL39.icc so I edited pdfx.sty to use FOGRA39.icc which I found. With that change the compile ran to completion. However the output file was very large, 491328 bytes for a one word test file. In all likelihood the use of the icc profile caused this. There was one non-significant warning message: Package hyperref Warning: draft mode on. Here is my final test file ----------------------- \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[x-1a]{pdfx} \begin{document} Foo \end{document} ------------------------------- If you need anything else please let me know. Thanks again for your work. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Script to slice inkscape (for web heads)
by m h 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all- I've written a script to slice from inkscape. Details/script can be found at my blog [0]. Comments/suggestions welcome. -matt 0 - http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm

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Dimensions in inches rather then pixels.
by John Culleton 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

In Gimp and Scribus I can change the rulers on left side and top to show dimensions in inches. Is this possible in Inkscape? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Dimensions in inches - scaling
by unknown＠example.com 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

The recent comments on dimensions, reminds me of something I have been meaning to ask When working in inches the scale bars are divided into eight a fraction, could we have a decimal bar CorelDraw uses a system whereby the user can set the number of divisions and this satisfies both the fraction and decimal issue - I would suggest setting of 4, 8, 10 & 20 With thanks, Terry

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Where is the perfect bound template on 47?
by John Culleton 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

I have the Floss book "Inkscape for Making Vector Graphics." On page 171, Chapter 41 it says: "The only available extension to create a template right now is Perfect-Bound cover..." This extension is found on Inkscape 46 under "Effects" but I can't find that extension on Inkscape-devel (47.) Is there a way to copy it from one to the other? Or am I looking in the wrong place? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Can't get libpng, essential to Inkscape compile.
by John Culleton 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I installed ubuntu (actually xubuntu but that has no bearing) just to get the latest development version of Inkscape. I downloaded the source tarball, unpacked it and then went through the usual apt-get this apt-get that to get the package to configure. The show stopper after all this was libpng, a pretty common lib. Therefore I did apt-get install libpng but ubuntu didn't recognize it. Then I copied over all the libpng files I could find on another partition to identical locations, and ran ldconfig. Now here is the current showstopper on ./configure: png_read_info is missing. At this point I'll do anything required, including wiping out Xubuntu and installing something else. Anybody here know how to play this game? I sure don't. -- John Culleton

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filter parameters?
by Mike McNally 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

(using 0.47 nightly from a couple days ago, Ubuntu Linux) How does one affect parameters for one of the pre-defined filters in the "Filter" pull-down menu? The Inkscape "Help" chapter about Filters bears little resemblance to the actual application; at least, it's certainly hard for me to tell what it's talking about when I look at what the application actually shows me. When I try to use any of the filters, I get a brief, blank pop-up dialog that shortly disappears, and then the filter takes effect with some canned parameters. I have to assume that the filters are actually configurable, but for the life of me I can't see how one does the configuration. -- Turtle, turtle, on the ground, Pink and shiny, turn around.

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Inkscape nightlies PPA
by Ted Gould 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hello, I set up this repository a while ago, but it broke, and now I think I have it all running again. I'm still running the builds manually so they're not quite "nightlies" but it's been running reliably, so I'm almost ready to move it to an automated script. This is a PPA that contains frequent builds of Inkscape directly from the trunk branch. It creates a separate package called "inkscape-devel" that you can install while you have stable version of Inkscape installed as well. Hardy is still a bit broken, so this is for people on Ubuntu releases 8.10 or newer. https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive/ppa/ Currently, this will have pre2 plus other patches and translations that have been put in trunk since it's release. --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Eraser tool
by Jozef Legény 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

On Friday 11 September 2009 22:58:58 Antonio Roberts wrote: > I just loaded up Inkscape 0.47pre2 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and the first > time that I used the eraser tool on a rectangle there was small red > path. The second time it wasn't there. > After some tests I have found some interesting behaviour patterns with the eraser tool. As for the trailing red line, it seems that just clicking (not dragging) anywhere on the canvas (with the eraser tool selected) sets it off, until either another tool is selected or Esc is pressed or a dragging with eraser begins. One more thing is that the eraser is actually able to erase along a non-continuous path. To do this drag an eraser stroke, then (while still holding the left mouse button) press the right mouse button (which will open the menu) then click somewhere on the canvas. The thick eraser stroke will stay on screen and a thin red line will appear behind the cursor. Now if you start dragging again you can add another eraser stroke. The process is repeatable. I wonder if this is the intended behaviour of the eraser tool or not. In any case it might get handy. (also note that this is pretty much the same way the caligraphic tool behaves) Jozef

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Eraser tool
by Stuart Edwards 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi -- Just checking out some of the new features in 0.47 and tried the new eraser tool with mixed success. Release notes say that there are two modes of operation: vector and 'bitmap', but no instructions on how to trigger one or the other. Tool seems to create a path which if placed on an object will sometimes erase it completely. No luck on getting it to partially erase an object (line, rectangle etc). 'Select' 'Delete' seems to deal with whole vector objects more efficiently, although the partial erase could be handy. Stu MacPro OSX 10.6 XQuartz 2.3.4 0.47pre2

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for MacOS
by Stuart Edwards 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi While checking out 0.47pre2 I jotted down keyboard shortcuts I found that might be helpful for Mac users who don't get the full keyboard functionality of the Inkscape GUI. Stu

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Selected objects sometimes don't respond to arrow keys
by Mike McNally 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

I'm using an 0.47 nightly from 06 Sep on Ubuntu Jaunty Linux. I've been using Inkscape (0.46) for about 8 months now for a variety of random web graphics. I'm not an art professional by any means. Anyway: in the nightly, while it's fixed some chronic crashes from 0.46, has itself a couple of quirks. One that is particularly annoying is this: I select some objects/paths, and then do something - maybe set clipping, or group, or change color; it's not completely consistent or at least it seems that way. After an operation like that, my stuff apparently remains selected (according to the UI), but subsequent attempts to use the arrow keys to move the elements around have no effect. I have to de-select and reselect the elements and then of course the arrow keys move them around just fine. I'm wondering if this may have something to do with layers, or something else about the application with which I'm not very familiar. One reliable way to make the effect happen is this: draw a rectangle, type "s" to switch to the "select" tool, and then go to the "fill & stroke* box and set "blur" to something bigger than zero. After that, the rectangle will be blurry and apparently selected, but the arrow keys won't do anything (for me anyway). -- Turtle, turtle, on the ground, Pink and shiny, turn around.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47pre2
by Michael Wybrow 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

On 31/08/2009, at 6:11 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > Is anyone doing a Mac/native GTK+ build for pre2? > > Sorry for pushing, but it's a week since pre2 was released and all we > have is sources :( I'm working on a universal package that will run on Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don't think it is worth creating another gtk-native-mac build, unless anyone wants to start actively working on the things I mentioned about the one I made for pre0 -- the gtk-native-mac version is going to require a fair amount of attention before it can become the main supported one over the x11-based version. Work on the universal x11-based package for Mac is a little slow... partly because I am quite busy with work, and partly because of the added complication of testing an additional version of the operating system (Snow Leopard 10.6). Anyway, Mac builds are coming and haven't been forgotten. If anyone else with mac packaging experience wants to contribute to the effort, it would be useful to look at some of the outstanding issues I haven't got to yet, like the dictionary bundling or the DBUS bundling/startup (might be similar to what GIMP has). If so, let me know. Cheers, Michael

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Easiest Linux Distro for inkscape 46
by John Culleton 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Compiling 46
by John Culleton 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

When I try to compile Inkscape 46 I run into the usual lib problems. I downloaded the latest versions per the urls on the Inkscape install page but that doesn't work. I downloaded earlier versions and ran ldconfig but that didn't help. For the following products which exact versions do I need? I was successful in loading libsigc++-2.2.3. The rest don't work: gdkmm-2.4 glibmm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 I use Slackware 13 which was just released. I installed the Boehm thingamabob (Bone Collector?). -- John Culleton

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Inkscape 0.47pre2
by Ted Gould 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hello! After too much delay, some for good and some for stupid reasons I've finally uploaded a pre2 source package for Inkscape. This is VERY close to the final 0.47 release so it's important that people pay attention and we don't let things fall through the cracks. https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre2 There should be packages available shortly, packagers please reply to this message with information regarding those. Please discuss any release critical bugs or other information regarding the release on the inkscape-devel mailing list. === MD5 Sums === de351d81cca9f99b3a1fb4faa36c723d inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.bz2 77c6ea1245618af69381067c90e57afc inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.bz2.asc ccced173f66611591006d16ea6a200b4 inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.gz 3df60bde0ca2ef28db283c285d5511b1 inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.gz.asc cb94fa821bff40970260f9530cc0bd84 inkscape-0.47pre2.zip 710c523dfdcf10ad39753788baefba90 inkscape-0.47pre2.zip.asc --Ted

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Copy/Paste to Inkscape under Mac Leopard
by Luc Buker 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hello, For school i had to change from Windows to Mac. One of the problems I run unto is that i can't copy paste for example text from a word document (cmd+v) to Inkscape (ctrl+v, X11 based). Can someone give me some advice. If you're Dutch, you can answer in our mother tongue :D. Thank you. -- Luc Buker www.Lucreative.eu Bloemendaal

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work with inkscape 0.46+devel photorealistc
by Valessio Brito 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

see: http://maddrum.deviantart.com/art/Megan-Inkscape-134931482 very, very real.. see shots in flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maddrum/ :P

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[SPAM] Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Announced
by Jon Phillips 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

GLOBAL - August 22, 2009 - Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software will meet in Brussels, Belgium on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). Held in a historical piano factory, newly renovated into a lively exhibition and work space near Brussels' city center, LGM 2010 offers software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the chance to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend. The LGM community is excited for the opportunity to bring this event to the European capital. About the Libre Graphics Meeting The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats. Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to users and developers alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and informal opportunities to interact. Highlights from LGM 2009 The last Libre Graphics Meeting took place in Montreal, Canada. It involved 150+ participants from around the world working together for four days to give presentations, demos, and meet informally. Through support from the Ãcole Polytechnique MontrÃ©al, the LGM user community (raising money on pledgie.com), Sourceforge, River Valley Technologies, Intel Communities, Open Candy, QT, sK1, GIMP, Python Software Foundation, Gnome foundation and Group Eyrolles, the conference funded travel for many international developers whom otherwise would not be able to work face to face. Highlights included contributions by companies building on Open Source such as AscenderCorp and Open Source Publishing, and presentations of Jeff Fortinâs PiTiVi Video Editor, FontMatrix, Phatch and Michael Terryâs work on In-Gimp user-experience analysis and kinetic templates. All major projects in attendance, Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, and Open Font Library, spent time planning activities for the next year. New projects like the panorama stitcher NONA, Lighttwist, a system for running multi-projector immersive video displays, and Markus Weiland's FacetZoom widget, set the stage for new exciting software developments leading into LGM 2010 in Brussels. A Preview of LGM 2010 For Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, the conference promoters challenge all participating projects and people to set goals and plan creative projects. First, each major project is requested to have set three solid priorities before the conference to work towards. Second, one or more collaborative projects is to be developed, beyond just the tools used, such as a book or animation. And third, the conference hopes to involve an increasing number of artists and academics to show novel uses libre graphics software, and to discuss, analyse and provide inspiration. In the coming months, Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 organizers will release more information about the upcoming conference, raising funds to enable the event, and release the official call for participation for 2010. Immediately, the conference organizers invite all interested in participating to watch the http://libregraphicsmeeting.org website and join the Create Project (http://create.freedesktop.org) mailing list and get involved. LGM 2010 is hosted by the Libre Graphics Community and Constant in collaboration with De Pianofabriek, Master Networked Media and Research programme Communication in a Digital Age (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) and the Bruxelles Linux User Group (BXLUG). For more information, visit http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org Press Contact * Sponsoring Organization: Create Project and Libre Graphics Meeting * Contact: Jon Phillips * Contact email: jon@...87... * Phone (USA): +1.415.830.3884 * Website: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/ * Press Release in other languages: http://ur1.ca/a33b * Press Photos: http://ur1.ca/a34y ###

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[Fwd: Re: Font not showing up in Inkscape 0.47pre1, built Jul 3 2009]
by Bibi Morris 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

That is the problem it is installed, I can use it in other programs, but not in inkscape, it is in .ttf format, but I do not know what it is about one .ttf showing in the font list and another .ttf not showing up in that list. Bibi

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Font not showing up in Inkscape 0.47pre1, built Jul 3 2009
by Bibi Morris 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

I thought all the ttf fonts not showing up was cleared up in an earlier version. I was trying to use this font in the build Inkscape 0.47pre1, built Jul 3 2009, and it will not show up. Can any one shed light on what may be happening? It also does not show up in Inkscape 0.46, built Apr 1 2008 Those of use with personal die cutting machines are really lost when we cannot use the perfect font! I know it is silly but with over 17,000 fonts, we really find the perfect one and really want to use it. Thanks Bibi

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Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Concentric Circles?
by Jim Ford 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi. I want to draw a series of concentric circles, of precise diameters. If I draw a circle about a centre and then resize it, the centre shifts. How do I keep the centre fixed, please? Jim

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Release of JessyInk 1.3.0!
by Hannes Hochreiner 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

The JessyInk team is proud to announce the release of JessyInk version 1.3.0. This release features very exciting contributions from Marc Eberhard, who implemented a drawing mode allowing users to draw on the slides during the presentation in the browser. Another interesting new feature is the ability to assign "views." This feature can be used to zoom-in on a particular region of the slide. "Views" provide exciting new ways to enhance your presentations. Also new in this release is the option to customise the key bindings. To further improve the compatibility and usability of JessyInk, custom keys can now be assigned to all actions. For maximum flexibility, each mode (slide, index, drawing) has its own set of key bindings. Be sure to check out the latest JessyInk release and the showcase file at: http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ About JessyInk: JessyInk is a JavaScript that can be incorporated into an Inkscape SVG image to turn it into an animated presentation. When the image is loaded into an SVG-capable browser, every layer of the image becomes a slide. Some of the many features include transitions, effects, an optional master slide, index sheet and drawing mode, and zoom-based effects.

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snapping of guides + node editing questions
by adam ambrus 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

hello, one of my great latest discoveries in inkscape is the Snapping tool (or settings). however, i have a question about snapping a guide to an object/object's node - is it possible? according to the settings (Ctrl+Shift+D -> Snap) it looks like it is, but whenever i drag a guide from the ruler part of the screen, no snapping happens. what am i doing wrong? or is it a bug? also, my second point of interest is the node editing. one of the features i miss the most is the shortening of distance of two randomly selected nodes. in case you know Blender, after selecting vertices and pressing S to scale, their distance shortens/lengthens according to mouse movement. is there in inkscape any way of performing similar actions? thanks for any answer, -Adam

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Ruben Quinones Ruiz está ausente de la oficina.
by unknown＠example.com 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Estaré ausente de la oficina desde el Vie 31/07/2009 y no volveré hasta el Lun 24/08/2009 . Buenos días, Me encuentro disfrutando de vacaciones hasta el 24 de Agosto de 2009, si por cualquier motivo necesita atención de la Gerencia de Gestión de Red de ADIF Telecomunicaciones y Energía, puede contactar con los siguientes compañeros: * Red Alta Velocidad: eutrilla@...2632... * Red Dedicada: jomagarcia@...2632... * Red Troncal: ammartinez@...2632... * Energía y Parques de Telecomunicaciones: jlsimon@...2632... Para cualquier cosa urgente puede contactar con el Gerente de Gestión de Red: amvaquero@...2632... Un saludo

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Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

There are a couple of .svg "renderers" for blender (and I think they were probably the scripts you are talking about). I have only played with one of them very briefly. Seemed to work okay, but I can't remember what it was called, and I seem to remember it being kinda buggy, it was probably a year ago that I tried this. Other than that, I can't help you much. But yes, what little I did do was interesting. Blender also had, or used to have, a feature that would export a UV map as an .svg file. One thing that I have found interesting to do is to make some text (or whatever) in Inkscape, import it into Blender, and then apply a lattice modifier to it. You can deform text into some interesting shapes (and it works better than the Inkscape node sculpting thing), then render a .png file in Blender and then import that back into Inkscape and run trace bitmap on it. Blender does have it's own built in text capability, but I find it a lot easer to work with text in Inkscape, then import it into Blender for "3D-ifying". Another neat trick is to make a sort of "sheet" with text cut out of it, then import that into Blender, so you have a large surface with a text shaped hole in the middle. You can then animate a light shining through that hole using the halo feature available with Blender's lighting options. This creates a really cool backlit text effect. I have also just started to experiment with using Blender's "hooks" feature to animate imported Inkscape .svg files. There are a lot of interesting possibilities there. --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2657....> wrote: > From: Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 2:40 AM > Can I ask you a "counter"-question? > Do you have experience with EXPORTING > from Blender into Inkscape? There seem to be a couple of > scripts out there > that seem to do this, apart from that they don't...? > Blender & Inkscape > could be a realy interesting combination. One could create > a 3d-wireframe in > Blender, find a nice perspective and then fill it in in > Inkscape, hence > retrieving a vector-drawing from it. > > > On 7/25/09 11:16 PM, "Elwin Estle" <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> > wrote: > > > > > I am just curious: When you delete an object > from your .svg file, does it > > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not > display it any more? > > > > I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the > .svg into Blender for > > extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get > "extra" objects in Blender when I > > do this, i.e., the object that was deleted. > > > > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come > from... > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Maarten van der Velde > graphic designer > > Powel ASA Klæbuveien 194, NO-7037 Trondheim, NORWAY > Phone: +47 73 80 45 00 - Fax: +47 73 80 45 01 > Direct line: +47 73 80 46 21 - Mobile: +47 48 16 46 > 21 / +31 (0) 6 30 80 > 95 91 > Email: Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171... > http://www.powel.com/ > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are > confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to > whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error > please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has > been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.powel.no > ********************************************************************** > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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"phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I am just curious: When you delete an object from your .svg file, does it actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not display it any more? I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the .svg into Blender for extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get "extra" objects in Blender when I do this, i.e., the object that was deleted. ...and I am just wondering where these objects come from...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Thanks for the info! I will try that. --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote: > From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 3:32 AM > On Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:16:15 > Elwin Estle wrote: > > I am just curious: When you delete an object > from your .svg file, does it > > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not > display it any more? > There is a button to open the XML editor/viewer. > Edit->XML Editor (A little > window icon with <> in it) > It's worth watching what happens there as you select and > edit (and delete) in > the design window. You can also edit the SVG from that > window. > > > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come > from... > You can 'vacuum' the defs File->Vacuum Defs, this cleans > a lot of gumpf (a > technical term that I cannot explain without killing you > first ;) ) out of the > XML file. > > hth, > \d > -- > home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ > 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ > Font manager : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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text-decoration and overline-position / overline-thickness
by Beims Bob-RWBC70 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Folks; SVG 1.1 provides the @overline-position and @overline-thickness attributes (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html#FontDescriptions) and @text-decoration="overline" (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TextDecorationProperties). I can't figure out how to apply such text decorations (in particular, overline) to text in Inkscape, and I'm finding that some rendering engines don't know how to display them. As a test, if one takes opens the file @ http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/textdecoration01.svg in Firefox 3.5, the text decorations aren't applied. They are rendered in Safari 4 and Chrome 2. So what's the *real* status of text decorations in SVG? Thanks in advance for your help, Bob

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(no subject)
by Daniel Drijard 23 Jul '09

23 Jul '09

Hello, I do not know if this is the right place for my questions. I did not find a better possibility. Cordially Daniel -- Daniel Drijard | Telephone | 04 50 41 2089 (France) PH Department | Fax +41/22 767 9475 CERN | Mail <daniel.drijard@...2655...> CH - 1211 Geneva 23 |

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