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Ruler Preferences
by Rob Lowe 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

By default, the rulers on an Inkscape document have an origin in the lower-left hand corner. Is there a setting or pref or config line I can change to move the origin to the upper left-hand corner?

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delete several guides at the same time
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

hello all, just updated to the last build. works fine. Let me ask, is there a way to delete several guidelines at the same time? Sometime I use a lot of guides, and then I have to drag them one by one to the ruler.. Other thing, I would be really nice if in the dialog at the bottom left, where there is the color of the fill/stroke etc, we could see the grey values as they appear in the color bar. I mean if I have several objects, all in shades of grey, it helps a lot if I select one of them and see that is is filled with "20% grey" instead of "cccccc/1". thanks -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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bugs in build 19 aug
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello. using the build of 19 Aug on an Ubuntu malchine. I found that I cannot import anything. I tried with SVG and TIFF, and I always get the "inkscape encountered and internal error and will close now" Also there are times I cannot copy from one draw and paste in another. I have two inkscape windows, side by side, I copy (or cut) something from one and when I try to paste into the other draw, I get "Nothing in clipboard"... weird... Carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Looking for help with a script
by sunil joshi 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, I am using Inkscape to create some tea caddy labels. Typically, the process involves a few steps. Since the process is highly repetitive, I am wondering if it is possible to script the processes that minimizes my intervention. I am no computer wiz, and could use help from some one who is. If so, please email me, and we will work on this together. We could then document and release the script as a tutorial for others to use. So, here are the steps... 1. Open one of the three templates 2. Modify the text in the template, and save the file as new label. 3. Export file as png (check examples http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamteabaglabel.png http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamloosetealabel.png ) 4. Open new 8.5x11 document, and import png file 5. Resize png import, and place accurately using x and y values 6. Tiled Clone to create a row of three (some x & y shift values need to be changed) 7. Tiled clone to duplicate the row to 10 rows (some x & y shift values need to be changed) 8. Save as a new file. check example - http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamloosetealabelsheet.png 9. Print file I am not sure what all can be completely automated, but I am sure some of these could be easily automated. Any takers? Sunil www.jayateas.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by Cedric Sagne 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Hi David, I had a discussion a few months back re SVG features with Chris, who works on W3C SVG, on colour space and how these features are implemented in Inkscape. To make a long story short, it seems that CMYK colours are perfectly supported by SVG standards but that Inkscape only encodes colours as RGB. (apart from the fact that you can use a CMYK interface to input them) . Thus resulting in the following situation: Inkscape allows you to input CMYK values to pick a colour but saves the SVG file with RGB, although SVG does support CMYK colours. My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove unused colours). Fortunately for logos you should have very few colours. It is a somewhat tedious workaround but the one I picked as it is reliable. Cedric > For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. > Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and > not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai > or pdf. > Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily > redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there > seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this > effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university > tomorrow, though. >

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wish for inskscape
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi all don't know if this feature is planned or even already implemented in snv. There is one feature of CorelDraw I haven't see anywhere else. When you click an object and then you can transform it, change the width, for instance. If you hold CRTL while doing it, it will cause the object to be moved or scaled, in amounts equal to its size, so you can use it to mirror the object or to place a duplicate aligned to the original one, without the need of additional actions. the problem is that in Inkscape, if you drag the diagonal modifiers, you need to hold shift to make it changes proportionally, while this is the default action for Corel. So maybe it would need to hold two keys, or use some other key (like Alt).. don't know if I made myself clear, but it's a feature worth having. Carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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exporting slices as boxes
by Nahuel Defossé 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi! I've made some graphics for web pages with inkscape, but I find hard to export certain areas. For example, I have a Box, a rounded corener one, that should be exported in three vertical slices, the middle one, will be repeated as a background latter. The point is I make a rectagle surrounding the area I want to export, then, I lower transparency to 0%, so the box won't be exported, but the drawing inside its area (this box has no stroke). Then when I want to select this "ghost" box, it's gone! If I select an area that contains the box, there it is, but, no simle way to select just _that_ box. Any suggestion? I think that maybe the search box may help, but I don't undesrtand how it works. Thanks in advance. Nahuel

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Wow... does that mean that at some point in the future a SVG file imported in Scribus will import a colour in the CMYK space? If so big thanks to all involved in this. Cedric > Good news is that once things are in, we've already coordinated work > with the Scribus guys. We will just need to wind up a few things on > the details of placement and then hand off to them.

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Compiling on Win32
by Docsonic 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Oops.... who woulda thought 'send' had a keyboard shortcut? Here is my complete question.... I followed the directions from JonY to compile the SVN on Win32 (I know I don't really need to as the new win builds are perfect but I enjoy the challenge) and I keep hitting the same problem. When I run 'g++ buildtool.cpp -o btool' I get a string of errors starting with - buildtool.cpp:53:18: error: string: No such file or directory buildtool.cpp:54:15: error: map: No such file or directory buildtool.cpp:55:15: error: set: No such file or directory buildtool.cpp:56:18: error: vector: No such file or directory followed by a lot more that seem to be related to these initial errors. I found the files in question in C:\mingw4\include\c++\4.2.0 but I have no idea how to make g++ see them. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Tony

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Letterspacing Keycommands under Linux
by Joey Pender 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

I've spent a full day trying to figure out why the letter-spacing and line-height commands (Alt+<, Alt+>) are not working under Linux. I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2, with Inkscape 0.45.1, but no matter what I do, the only thing Alt+< does is put commas and periods in my text. I tried the text section Inkscape Advanced tutorial. Manual kerning shortcuts work (Alt+arrows), but letter-spacing (Alt+<, Alt+>) and line height (Control+Alt+<, Control+Alt+>) do not work, it only places commas or periods, as if the shortcut didn't exist. Outside of text edit mode, Alt+< and Alt+> perform a uniform scaling. I've already changed my GNOME Keybindings away from using ALT as a modifier (it was conflicting with Maya). I've checked the default.xml keys file and I don't see any mention of an action for letterspacing/line height, so it doesn't seem like I can change it. And I tested 0.45.1 under Windows and the commands work perfectly fine. I'm thinking it could be the build, but I doubt it - it was installed via the autopackage from the Inkscape website. I would gladly appreciate some help on this situation! Thank you!

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broken perspective effect
by heathenx 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

I have just formatted my computer and reloaded opensuse 10.2. I have everything put back together and that includes Inkscape v0.45-1 (inkscape-0.45.1-2.guru.suse102.rpm). However, I have run into a brick wall with the perspective effect. It seems a long time ago I had a similar problem but I cannot for the life of me figure out what I did to fix it. Not even sure if it's the same error. I have attached a pic of the error that I am getting. I have python-numeric-24.2-36 and python-numpy-1.0.3.1-0.pm.1 installed. An 'rpm -q python' results with python-2.5-19.4 if that helps. Hmm... heathenx

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When is the next version due?
by Phil Rhoades 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

People, I had trouble building the SVN version - when is the next version with PDF import due? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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svn needs files not installed by poppler
by unknown＠example.com 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hello! I start this as a new thread to avoid misunderstanding and to give it a better titel for others to find answers easier. It's basically what I posted in "[Inkscape-user] When is the next version due?". I have a linux from scratch. gtk 2.10.13, poppler-0.5.91. svn inkscape Revision: 15884. I do ./autogen.sh; configure; make. Configure is happy with my system and also with my poppler-0.5.91. poppler-0.5.91 has the header files that can't be found during inkscape make but these seem to be headers only for compilation of poppler or poppler at least does not install them. Telling inkscape configure about the sources of poppler helps but then the make gets stuck because some includes in the poppler-headers are local ones which then of course don't resove. I couldn't find any hint about some special poppler install in the docs but as it is brand new developpment docs are often behind. I just wonder if and then how someone made a complete make with poppler used with current svn so far? Regards, Lynx

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a lot of stuff (pdf, guidelines, bitmaps..)
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

> Hello all > just registered at the list Been using Inkscape for a while now, and I > like it, but there are some points I want to discuss: > > - PDF export: the file size (in Mb) of the PDFs I export from Inkscape. > Comparing with other draw soft (like Corel), those PDFs created by Inkscape > are _huge_. Why? > > - Bitmap import: I seems to me that bitmaps are imported as if they were > 72dpi, so if you have a 300dpi image, it comes very big. IMO, images should > be imported with the size defined by the resolution of the image. > > - Guidelines snap: if I don't want to snap, I just turn that off, but after > I moved an object or create nother guideline, snap is on again! Is this a > bug or a feature? If it is a feature, please remove. I don't want to keep > turning snap off every time. > > - General preferences: anyway I can set up my preferences (like units in mm, > page a4, etc) for _ever_? Every time I create a document I have to change > units from px to mm, etc. that's annoying. Same goes to Alignment. I'd like > to set up so alignment would _by default_ be about the last selected object. > (which is a much more useful IMO, people want to align two things, but > usually one of them is a reference, so default should be either last or > first selected, not "selection"). > > -I don't know about most of you people, but that little hand that replaces > the arrow cursor when some object can be moved.. I hate that hand :), I > would be much more happy with a plain arrow cursor all the time I'm using > the "selector" tool, like in most programs. > > - I _really miss_ shortcuts for alignment, like "b" for bottom , "t" for top > and so on. This makes life _much much_ easier (and faster). > > - This should be a little silly but, how can I change the shortcut for > display mode? what is Crtl+KP_5? > > Well, I guess that's it so far > Keep up the excellent work! > > cheers -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Inkscape back up.
by John R. Culleton 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Whatever Gremlin there was blocking www.inkscape.org has been slain by some anonymous internet hero. I can get on lne and I'll wager so can you. -- John Culleton

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How do I do 'Power clips' (or Feature request)?
by izak marais 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi I used to work in Corel draw 7.0 (now seven years old) before switching to inkscape. However there was one very powerful feature that I can't seem to emulate in inkscape: the so called 'Power clip'. In Corel Draw you could place any object inside another object. For example I could design a complex vector drawing and then have the place the whole thing inside a circle so it's clipped as though I'm looking through a port-hole. You could even nest multiple power clips inside one another. Is there some way to achieve this in inkscape? I know you can use object->pattern but that doesn't allow for fine control of positioning one object inside the other and it necessarily tiles the interior object. If there is no easy way of doing this I would like to make a feature request. It's a really powerful tool and Corel draw had it seven years ago! Thanks to the developers for an awesome program :). Izak --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more.

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Inkscape not printing properly
by bcaldwellmusic 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi! I'm having trouble printing out my poster project. It consists of 1 layer with several shapes, fonts, and an imported gif w/ background transparency. When I print it, several objects....specifically my background does not print out. I saved it as a pdf and the imported gif did not show up when I viewed it, but everything else was there. Any ideas? Do I have to flatten? If so how? Thanks, Billy -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-not-printing-properly-tf4309760.html#a122690… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape back up.
by Jon Phillips 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Do it. They are great and paid to do this... -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:31 PM To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; inkscape <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape back up. John R. Culleton wrote: > Whatever Gremlin there was blocking www.inkscape.org has been slain by > some anonymous internet hero. I can get on lne and I'll wager so can > you. I'd really love to know who the gremlins were. I'm considering handing over our root priviledges to osuosl and allowing them to administer the server for us. Any comments or objections? Aaron Spike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Why can't Inkscape import eps?
by John R. Culleton 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

EPS is AFAIK a vector format. svg is a vector format. So why can't Inkscape import it? Is there a technical problem in creating an import filter? -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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open source animation toolkit! <--
by Dave 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Hey Maarten, The distribution you're thinking of is called Ubuntu Studio ( http://ubuntustudio.org/). It's a derivative of the Ubuntu distribution that focuses on multimedia editing/creation, I've only tried it once, but it seemed to work well. Though I think if you are already running Ubuntu, you can install all the same packages just by adding the Ubuntu Studio repositories to your sources list. Mediabuntu is actually just a repository of packages that can't be included in the main Ubuntu release for legal reasons (libdvdcss etc..) Oh and this is my first time posting here, hi! I've been using Inkscape a little for various pieces of college work and have found it much more enjoyable to use than existing commercial applications. Software is so much more interesting when there is a good community behind it, keep up the good work everybody involved -- developers and users. Cheers. Dave Hey, > > I hope you don't mind me contacting you personally, but the phrase "open > source annimation kit" sounded to tempting... Wat are the other tools in > your kit, if I may ask? Also, I came across a distribution called > "MediaBuntu", it might be of interest to you, too, although I didn't try > it myself. > > Regards, > > Maarten > > >

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Can't reach www.inkscape.org
by John R. Culleton 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

If you have tried the site in the last hour or two did you get through OK? I haven't been able to. If others in the US haven't had that problem then I will climb all over my ISP. But if it is a shared problem then I will be patient. :<) . -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Question, for the Scrapbookers who love inkscape.
by Bibi Morris 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I am currently running inkscape.45.1 I am a scrapbooker who uses inkscape to generate DXF Files that we convert to files that cut on the personal die cutter machines, We use these as scrapbook titles and die cuts. We found a "Bug" a few versions back that worked great for us, but I think it was tightened up in this version, so I will explain what I need, and see if you wonderful developers can help, yet again. When we want to do a title, it is so much easier to "connect" our letters before we cut, therefore simplifying the assembly of it. In a previous version of inkscape we could type in our title, then kern the letters to our liking, and hit "control j" and then "control l" and have our title all connected and the centers of the letters preserved. This is so much easier than converting to path, then having to break apart, and select the outside paths only and doing a union, However in inkscape.45.1 the control j and control l no longer works, as where the letters overlap, instead of unioning the letters, the overlapped part, the overlap has a path, that would cut on the cutters, and we would have individual letters, instead of a connected word. Is there any way of adding a "Letter Union" function where we can just kern, our letters, and do a letter union, thus preserving the centers, and connecting all the outer parts of the letters, and generating one path for them? (When we do this we always work in outline mode) Thanks, you designers have been fantastic for us. This would really save us lots of time. Bibi Morris -- Inkscapes by Bibi Morris All cutter files designed exclusively in Inkscape Find my Cutting designs at http:\\inkscapesbybibi.cuttersmarket.com www.Cuttersmarket.com Private Inkscape, and WB/CR/Silhouette classes available

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How to create a circular pattern
by Dan H 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I feel completely stupid. Maybe I'm just not seeing that "Get your free circular pattern here" button in Inkscape. What I need is a circular arrangement of clones of an object where I can select an object, set a center point, an increment angle and number of clones and just get some clones along a circle or arc. There's this ultracomplex thingy for "tiling" things but I don't think it does what I need. Thanks, --D.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by Cedric Sagne 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

David, Re my previous post, your question also implies a workflow that will go to Indesign, and well such a workflow is always a source of problem - I got good results nonethless even on transparency, and transparent gradients, with PDF export from Scribus, and import into InDesign. Nonetheless I was unable to check whether CMYK colours remained in the case of Scribus PDF imported in InDesign. Direct PDF export from Inkscape was not so good with the loss of transparent items when imported in InDesign. Such PDF can be imported in Illustrator but not modified! As a matter of fact, creating a gradient where the second colour ONLY has a transparency seems not supported by Illustrator (and very simple in Inkscape). Even creating a gradient fill with only ONE transparent colour in the gradient seems unsupported by InDesign (my latest investigations). Therefore if it was specifically what you intended to do, you may be trying to get InDesign to do what it does not support, even when designing objects from scratch. In the case of the Scribus PDF imported successfully, transparent gradients lead to blending with the background, which of course is not acceptable for a logo, but may still be what you want to achieve. I hope you find this information useful. Cedric > My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in > Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove > unused colours).

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Inkscape cannot correctly render LaTeX formula
by Paul Smith 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Dear All, Inkscape 0.45 can render correctly the formula $\pi$ (Effects --> Render --> LaTeX formula). However, the formula $a^2$ and many others cannot be rendered. Do you confirm this? Paul

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Bucket Fill
by Axiom X11 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Playing around with the new flood fill in the nightly builds (Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Aug 7 2007, Windows) I notice that it will sometimes fill only to edges visible on your screen. I would expect it to fill all the way until it hits a line, even if that line is off screen. Is this a bug or a "feature"?

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Problem exporting to png
by Prasad H.L. 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Inkscape is a wonderful software. Using it to develop vector graphics is a breeze. I have prepared one inkscape SVG file which is of A3 size for the purpose of a wall poster. I wanted to get it printed. So, I was exporting it to PNG format with 600 dpi. (Please let me know of any other approach to print SVG file with good resolution) Inkscape took a lot of time for exporting it. In the process, I was getting some warning messages in the shell in which I ran inscape. The error messages were like ** (inkscape:20742): WARNING **: 249003000 bytes requested for pixel buffer, I won't try to allocate that. The SVG file has a large rectangle as background spanning almost the entire A3 size with some linear gradient. I suspected that the above warning is because of this large rectangle which turned out to be true when I saw the resulting PNG file. The large rectangle was having only the border and no gradient inside it. Kindly somebody suggest an approach to be followed exporting this SVG file. Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469

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inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by David Christian Berg 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hey everybody! While I'm regularly reading the development list, I've not been signed up for the users list so far. However, I now really got a problem, I just don't manage to solve and hope that you can help me. I created the attached knight to be part of the new logo of TIMES, a case study tournament organised by the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) -- www.times.estiem.org. Now to go on after having weeks of discussing the logo is moving towards the poster. For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though. But maybe you can help me out with this? That'd be perfect. Thanks in advance! David

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Problem with swf extension
by Juho Viitasalo 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hey! I just subscribed to this list because I have a problem that I can't solve myself. I have following .inx file in extension directory swf_output.inx ------------------------------------------------------ <inkscape-extension> <name>SWF Output</name> <id>org.inkscape.output.swf</id> <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.pdf</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</dependency> <dependency type="executable">pdf2swf</dependency> <output> <extension>.swf</extension> <mimetype>application/x-shockwave-flash</mimetype> <filetypename>Flash SWF (*.swf)</filetypename> <filetypetooltip>Flash movie shape</filetypetooltip> </output> <script> <command reldir="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.pdf</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension> ----------------------------------------------------- In same directory I also have pdf2swf.cmd ----------------------------------------------------- pdf2swf %1 "%~dp1%~n1.swf" pause ----------------------------------------------------- It creates the .swf file but it's empty. I think that it's not running my cmd file or it doesn't get the input. Can anybody tell me what is the problem? pdf2swf.cmd works nicely when dragging a pdf file on it. -Juho-

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gradient dithering
by Francois du Toit 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Don't know if this has been discussed before. Gimp has options for dithering and supersampling in gradient blends which prevents banding on some displays and printers. Anything like this in inkscape?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 15, Issue 13
by Diederik van Lierop 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

JiHO wrote: > To everyone: > - is this setting really at the best location? It seems a little hard > to find there. No, it is not optimal. But at the time I didn't see a better location. Maybe we should consider adding a new tab? > - is there someone working on the previously mentioned bug currently? > It seems pretty important as it makes the geometric mode very hard to use It's been assigned to mental, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1728776&group_id=93438&atid… Georg, you might want to try a development version as JiHO suggested, because snapping has been improved a lot since v0.45.1. You can find precompiled windows versions here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. But please be aware that these will be more buggy... Regards, Diederik

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how to make inkscape precise
by Georg P. Israel 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Dear all, how can I make precise drawings in Inkscape? I have done several drawings in Inkscape, this tool really is great, but I am not able to make a precise drawing with it! The grid is activated, but still the resulting lines are not precise on the grid. This error becomes strongest if I export the drawing to a PDF. If I then view the drawing with acrobat at different zoom factors, then I see clearly that all the lines have small shifts against each other. This is really devastating. Is there a trick to make Inkscape precise?? Please let me know Best regards Georg P. Israel

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Inkscape build problem on Windows
by JonY 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Building Inkscape-r15804 using btool ends with: Make error line 178: problem compiling: src/inkjar/jar.h:41: error: 'uint8_t' do es not name a type src/inkjar/jar.h:42: error: 'uint16_t' does not name a type src/inkjar/jar.h:43: error: 'uint32_t' does not name a type src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'bool Inkjar::JarFile::read_signature()': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:131: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:131: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'guint32 Inkjar::JarFile::get_crc(guint8* , guint16)': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:158: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:158: error: expected `;' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'GByteArray* Inkjar::JarFile::get_next_fi le_contents()': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:203: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:203: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:204: error: 'ub2' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:204: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:205: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:206: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:207: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'bool Inkjar::JarFile::check_crc(guint32, guint32, guint16)': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:413: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:413: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:419: error: expected `;' before 'bytes' Adding "#define HAVE_STDINT_H" to config.h fixes it. Anybody having the same problem?

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drawing SDL diagrams using inkscape
by ali azimi 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Dear all, I would like to thank you in advance for any advice you might give me. I am currently a student at MSc level in computing. For my final project, I have to implement a program which is able to accept CIF files and display SDL-GR diagrams on the screen. I have successfully managed to produce a lexer, parser, Abstract Syntax Tree and a tree walker in java environment. I have written a java test rig which when is run, accepts input CIF text and produces AST then tree walker displays flat version of the tree. Now for the final part of the project, I need some utility that will turn the abstract syntax tree into concrete graphical syntax for SDL. I could embed some java code within tree walker and use java 2D to display the symbols and their connections. However, their coordination and some other issues seems to be a daunting task in my opinion as I do not have great experience of programming and have just one month to the deadline of my project. I have been advised that the Inkscape tool could be an option for the purpose of my project. Would you suggest the Inkscape tool? Can I draw SDL diagrams with Inkscape using command line and writing codes? If yes, would you please give me some advice? Thank you a million time. Best regards, A. Azimi --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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inkscape covered in PCWorld.com blog post
by Phil Shapiro 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

hi inkscape enthusiasts, last week i started blogging for PCWorld.com under their new Community Voices group blog. this afternoon i blogged i about why inkscape is the best thing since sliced bread. see http://tinyurl.com/25ysyy i hope this blog posting brings inkscape joy into more people's lives. phil shapiro washington dc i'll be adding a link to the digg submission at the end of the blog posting -- after someone else submits this to digg. -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness."

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[resolved] Problem saving a file in a "usable" format
by Colin Wilson 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I managed to find someone with an old version of Adobe Illustrator, and simply loaded "my" EPS file and saved as EPS again - in the process turning it from a 70k file to a 770k file... Thanks again for all the help, it was very much appreciated ! :-)

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Win32 Builds
by Docsonic 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

My apologies in advance if this is not the correct mailing list for this question- Is there an alternative download location for the Win32 builds? The last 2 builds have been empty and I am dying to check out the new tweak tool! I have tried (unsuccessfully) to build on WinXP, Debian Linux and cross-compile for Win32 so I have been eagerly waiting all weekend for the new nightly builds and the suspense is killing me :-) Thanks, Tony

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Problem saving a file in a "usable" format
by Colin Wilson 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Not sure if anyone can help with this (and apologies if it's been covered elsewhere, i'm not sure where to start looking), but... I need to get some simple artwork (vectorised silhouette of a tree, with "flowed" text in a circle around it) off to a printer for an event in about 3 weeks time - they're supposed to take EPS or PDF files according to their site. A PDF of it exported fine, and can zoom without loss of quality, but they say they can't use it for some reason - their exact wording is "what he needs is a vectorised, editable eps file in black" The EPS I exported won't open again in Inkscape :-} but does open in Photoshop - but upon zooming, it appears to have turned into a bitmap rather than a vector image. Can anyone advise of a way to do what they're asking for ? (i'm an absolute newbie with gfx apps unfortunately) I've uploaded the image as-is to: http://www.phoenixbbs.co.uk/fodp.svg ...just in case someone has a flash of inspiration and fancies doing me a real big favour and emailing a "corrected" image :-} inkscape at phoenixbbs.co.uk would do nicely ! Thanks :-)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] disappearing gradients when moving/scaling
by Carl 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

On Friday 10 August 2007 10:40 pm, inkscape-user-request@...2326...net wrote: > > Gradients work fine. However when they are moved or scaled, they > > disappear. I see nothing on the bug tracker about this. > --------------------------- > You just have the "transform gradients" button toggled off in the > selector toolbar. That's the mode in which transforming an object does > not affect the gradients - they stay in the original place. Toggle it > back on and it will work as you expect. > -- > bulia byak > > --------------------------- > Any ideas for reducing this problem? It's becoming a huge FAQ because > people toggle it absent-mindedly and then don't remember doing it > because they don't think it did anything. I don't really have a better > UI idea than what we currently have, though... > -mental I looked for a solution before I posted. I really did. But I didn't see anything in FAQ. It has now been added. This was not a UI flaw for me, mental. I just didn't know what I was doing; Google and Inkscape UI didn't seem to have anything. I don't recall messing with this button. Perhaps it could be defaulted to "on", if it's not already. The fish image is part of the logo for LinuxFest Northwest (linuxfestnorthwest.org), which has been produced by the Bellingham (WA) LUG for 8 years. I gave a presentation on Inkscape to the Bellingham LUG a few weeks ago. It was scheduled 7 - 9, but questions kept it going for another 40 minutes. Excellent application, thanks to the developers and the rest of the community. Carl

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disappearing gradients when moving/scaling
by Carl 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Gradients work fine. However when they are moved or scaled, they disappear. I see nothing on the bug tracker about this. The gradient stop (colors/alpha) information is still available with the Stroke and Fill. The gradient control bars are gone. For an example, there's an SVG image file at www2.vaultechnology.com/CGS/TotemFish.html Thanks for an addictive application! Carl

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NEW: Tweak tool
by bulia byak 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

As discussed before, I moved the thinning/thickening functionality into a tool of its own, added two more modes and some controls. For one thing, you don't need Alt anymore :) Attention lib2geom hackers: please consider this a challenge! Can you switch this to using your new lib instead of livarot? Livarot sucks big time with regard to performance and memory leaking (see Known Problems below), and working with it involves way too much black magic which I don't like. What is needed is simple: convert a path to a polygon with a given tolerance, move the points of the polygon according to some simple algorithm, and convert the result back to path with some simplification. If someone switches this to lib2geom and it works good, I will consider adding more modes. Otherwise, I'm afraid I may have to remove the Roughen mode before the release because it's really not working reliably enough (often locks the path with the "directed eulerian" warning, caused by too small subpaths). Now for the official announcement: Tweak tool The Tweak tool is an exciting new way to edit paths. Unlike the Node tool, you don't need to worry about where the nodes of a path are and how to manipulate them to obtain the shape you want. Instead, you just act on any part of a path using the tool's "brush" in order to bend, twist, or stretch that part, and the path will respond smoothly and naturally regardless of where its nodes lie. While not very useful for technical applications such as schemes or diagrams, this tool will be indispensable for artistic uses of Inkscape - cartoons, drawings, sketches, anime, etc. This new functionality is somewhat similar to the "Pucker", "Bloat", and other similar tools in the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator, except that in Inkscape it works softer and is easier to control. The area of the tool's action (its "brush") is visualized as an orange-colored circular outline centered at your mouse pointer. However, that area actually has no sharp boundaries; the power of the tool's action falls off gradually, following a smooth bell-shaped profile. This makes the tool act softly and smoothly, and the paths respond as if they are made of soft jelly. The tool will work on any number of selected objects; for example, you can select all (Ctrl+A) and "smear" your entire drawing by Push. If applied to a shape or text, the tool converts them to paths automatically. You can also apply it to groups of objects. If you're trying to use it without anything selected, it will remind you to select some objects by a statusbar message. Width The width of the tool's brush can be changed by the Width control in the tool's controls bar above the canvas (in the range from 1 to 100). You can also change width by Left and Right arrow keys (same as in the Calligraphy tool) at any time (including during action). Also like in Calligraphy tool, the visible width of the brush is independent of zoom; simply zooming in or out is often easier than adjusting the width if you want to cover a smaller or larger area of the drawing. Force The next control is Force which adjusts the power of the action (in the range from 1 to 100). You can also change width by Up and Down arrow keys at any time (including during action). Think of it as the force of pressure you apply to the paths you tweak. If you have a pressure-sensitive tablet and the "Use pressure" button on the right-hand end of the controls bar is on, then the force will also depend on how hard you actually press your pen into your tablet, varying in the range from zero to whatever you set in the Force control. If all you have is a mouse, then the force will be constant but still settable by the Force control. The force of the effect also depends on zoom (or in other words, it stays the same when measured by screen pixels, same as when you move and object by Alt+arrow keys). Fidelity Any tweaking of a path slightly distorts the entire path, including even those parts that you didn't touch. These distortions are similar to those that a Simplify command produces. The Fidelity value (also in the range from 1 to 100, default is 50) allows you to control the amount of these distortions. With a higher fidelity, the distortions are less noticeable, but the path may end up having a lot of nodes which blows up the SVG size and slows down Inkscape. The best value of Fidelity depends on the nature of your artwork. If you're sculpting an amorphous blob, you can do with low fidelity of about 20. If, however, you are pushing or blowing a text string (as a single path) and want the letters outside the distorted area to remain crisp and clean, you will need to raise fidelity to 80 or more. Modes There are currently four modes in the Tweak tool: Push, Melt, Blow, and Roughen. * This default mode of the tool, Push, simply displaces the part of the path under the cursor in the direction of the drag. The path behaves like soft jelly, bending and bulging smoothly and naturally. It's an easy way to produce various irregular, lifelike, handmade-looking shapes starting from something as simple as an ellipse or a calligraphic stroke. For parallel-stroke hatching (engraving) done in the Calligraphy tool, pushing is an easy way to bend, pinch, or curve the entire hatching uniformly. * The Melt and Blow are two opposite modes that move each point of a path in a direction perpendicular to the path's surface at the point, either inwards (Melt) or outwards (Blow). This is similar to the Inset and Outset commands, except that the Tweak tool can act on a part of a path instead of the whole path. For example, the visible lightness/darkness of an engraving hatching may not exactly correspond to your artistic intention. Also, the ends of strokes are often far from ideal - they may be too blunt or have unsightly bends or blobs. This is where the Tweak tool may help. Select all the strokes in a hatching pattern and apply a light Melt action where you want the lines to become thinner (and the hatching to become lighter), up until total disappearance. If you press hard, melting works as an eraser, so you can easily clean the strokes' ends in a hatching to making them thin, sharp, and uniform. Conversely, applying Blow makes strokes wider (i.e. the hatching becomes darker). Of course, melting and blowing are useful not only for calligraphic strokes. Same as with Push, with Melt and Blow you can sculpt any path, spawning smooth treacle-like appendages with Blowing and carving holes with Melting. Unlike the "node sculpting" mode in the Node tool, however, this does not require adding new nodes, selecting any nodes, or even being aware of nodes at all. * The Roughen mode does exactly this: roughens the edge of the path without changing its overall shape. Slight roughening simply makes the edge crooked and uneven; strong roughening tears and explodes the edge into random blobs and splotches. Note that this operation, especially with high Fidelity, adds a lot of nodes which increases the size of your SVG document and may slow down Inkscape considerably. In particular, pushing/melting/blowing of a roughened path becomes much slower and more difficult, so it's recommended to finalize the overall shape of a path first and roughen it, if necessary, only as the final step. Keyboard shortcuts * W, Alt+F2: switch to the Tweak tool * Shift+P: switch to the Push mode * Shift+M: switch to the Melt mode * Shift+B: switch to the Blow mode * Shift+R: switch to the Roughen mode * Left, Right: change width * Up, Down: change force * mouse drag: act on selected path in the current mode * Ctrl+mouse drag: temporarily switch to Melt (while Ctrl is down) * Shift+Ctrl+mouse drag: temporarily switch to Blow (while Shift+Ctrl is down) Known problems Known problems with the Tweak tool: 1. it is rather slow; 2. it quickly eats memory; and 3. it is sometimes buggy - thin calligraphic strokes may suddenly disappear or change their shape drastically as you're melting or blowing them. For (3), it helps to increase Fidelity. Also, you can undo the bad change and try again with less pressure on the pen - if you do your thinning in several light touches instead of one heavy press, usually you will be able to get the desired result without the buggy behavior. Also, sometimes after roughening, further tweaking of a path becomes impossible with this diagnostic: WARNING **: Shape error in ConvertToShape: directedEulerian(a) == false All these problems stem from the livarot library that we use for geometric manipulation of paths. Fortunately, livarot is scheduled for replacement by lib2geom, a new library now in development, so hopefully these issues will be addressed then. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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How to make zines with open source software workshop
by Tom Lechner 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

In case anyone's interested, In Portland Oregon August 12, I will be giving a workshop on How to make zines with open source software, as part of the Portland Zine Symposium: http://www.pdxzines.com With demonstrations, I will cover use of such software as the Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Laidout, and more. I will certainly be mentioning various aspects of Inkscape, such as the cool new line tools, techniques of exporting, plus some pitfalls to beware of if one tries to import svg into various other programs. Sunday, August 12, 1-1:30pm Portland State University Ask at the Smith Center Ballroom for the specific room. Tom ------------ http://www.tomlechner.com http://www.laidout.org

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disappearing gradient system details
by Carl 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Apologies for not including in the original. Inkscape 451 from source Mepis Linux 6.0 (using mostly Ubuntu repositories)

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save gradients
by heathenx 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

is it possible to save gradients so that when starting a new project i can use them? i figured that all i needed to do was save the gradient in my default.svg or even make a new template but perhaps there is an alternative way. heathenx

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experimental versions on mac osx
by John Breedlove 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hello inkscapers, New to the list and to inkscape. Stumbled across the experimental "engravers toolkit" features and got extremely excited. Can anyone confirm for me that there does not yet exist a mac osx build that has these? Much thanks, -John

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Epic and Inkscape cross reference question
by Andreas Neumann 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hello Skeeter, I think in order to be able to help you we would need more information. In what XML dialect did you embed the SVG files? Is this your own XML markup or something standardized, like e.g. docbook? In what software are people viewing your XML document? In a regular browser with SVG capabilities? Directly in the Epic editor? Is the Epic editor supporting SVG? Or is Are you transforming your XML with an XSL file? There are several linking mechanisms in SVG that you might use, but without knowing more and having an example, its probably hard to help. Andreas > I had posted the question below last week. I received no answers or > help at all. > Am I to take it that what I am asking is not possible? > > We use Epic as out xml editor and use Inkscape as our SVG editor. > > We have imbedded SVG graphics into our xml documents. > > We would like to place cross reference tags into our SVG that hot link > into sections of the xml documents. > > As an example in our xml document we would have a flagnote "FL1" talking > about a part of the SVG graphic we want to point attention at. When the > end user would be reading the xml document, they could click on the > "FL1" located inside of the SVG and it would take them to that part of > the xml document that describes that SVG. > > So, how do I create that link from the SVG "FL1" to the xml document > "FL1"? Remember that the svg is imbedded with in the same xml. > > Skeeter Glenn > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: a.neumann@...2251..., Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland)

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Epic and Inkscape cross reference question
by Glenn, Skeeter 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

I had posted the question below last week. I received no answers or help at all. Am I to take it that what I am asking is not possible? We use Epic as out xml editor and use Inkscape as our SVG editor. We have imbedded SVG graphics into our xml documents. We would like to place cross reference tags into our SVG that hot link into sections of the xml documents. As an example in our xml document we would have a flagnote "FL1" talking about a part of the SVG graphic we want to point attention at. When the end user would be reading the xml document, they could click on the "FL1" located inside of the SVG and it would take them to that part of the xml document that describes that SVG. So, how do I create that link from the SVG "FL1" to the xml document "FL1"? Remember that the svg is imbedded with in the same xml. Skeeter Glenn

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Segmentation faults in Windows builds
by JonY 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hi, I just successfully built inkscape svn on Windows XP using Mingw and GTK from Modevia and have found a problem with the file save as dialog. Every time I try to save a file I created in Inkscape, it errors out with "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now." It also affects the save a copy dialog. The only workaround I found is to save a blank file when I start Inkscape, and use the save button after some work has been done to avoid the file save as dialog. GDB backtrace says: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x77c478c0 in strlen () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll ..... #1053 0x00b0e6d8 in intl!bind_textdomain_codeset () #1054 0x00b12b08 in intl!bind_textdomain_codeset () #1055 0x00b129f8 in intl!bind_textdomain_codeset () #1056 0x00f414f0 in sigc::internal::signal_impl::sweep () at c:/mingw4/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4. 1.1/bits/stl_list.h:141 Cannot access memory at address 0xabababab This error also happens on recent inkscape.modevia.com win32 builds. The stable 0.45.1 is unaffected. Unfortunately I have no experience in GDB. What can I do to help?

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Aligning object centers to polygon vertices
by Benjamin Esham 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hello all, I am trying to align five paths so that the center of each is located on a vertex of a regular pentagon (or, equivalently, the point of a five-pointed star). The paths are all different sizes. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks a lot, -- Benjamin D. Esham E-mail/Jabber: bdesham@...155... | AIM bdesham128 | PGP D676BB9A "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." — Albus Dumbledore in HBP

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N-way node
by Facundo Casco 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi, I know there a lot of expert Inkscape users here so I'd like your advice on something I was thinking. I wanted to draw some pattern with lines like the ones seen in dry lands, see attached file for an example. My first approach was to draw a grid (starting with one rectangle and Tiled Clones) and using Jitter Nodes on it, but it doesn't work. Then I realized that what I need is a line with nodes with more than to segments conected. In this case every node would connect four segments except for the ones on the edges which would have three and the four ones on every corner which would only have two. I believe there is no way to make such an object in Inkscape 0.45, is it at all posible in SVG? has someone found this kind of object interesting or usefull? Thanks in advance for your reponses. Regards, Facundo -- =,=

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