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Re: [Inkscape-user] question about clipart
by Jon Phillips 18 May '07

18 May '07

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:08 -0500, ritalouise2@...2242... wrote: > I created a clipart on inkscape and saved it as a png, and it saved > the selector box at the same time. I exported it. How do I get rid of > the selector box? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, as I am sure > that it is...) > Thanks. > Rita L. That is weird. I'm cc'ing the inkscape-user list to help out. That is a good list to be on for help on this type of thing: http://inkscape.org Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Illustrate screenshots (bitmap) with vector objects...
by Tony Vigil 16 May '07

16 May '07

After you import your bitmap, go into the "Document Properties..." dialog and select "Fit Page to Selection". After you annotate your image, you can export to PNG and it will be the same size as your original image. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: "Jean-Marc Molina" <jmmolina@...206...> I would like to use Inkscape as a screenshot illustrator (image editor). I have a bitmap, a software interface capture for example, and would like to draw some vector objects over it. However I can't find the proper zoom level to display the bitmap properly (at 100% or 200% it randomly works, it depends of the screenshot size) and more important, export it so the result is not "jagged". The zoom level, even at 100% (1:1) is never correct as Inkscape doesn't consider the canvas as a bitmap, as The GIMP does for example, but as vector. The only solution I found is to set the exported bitmap dimensions to 90 ppp but I'm not sure it works in all cases. I don't even know why 90 works, I suppose it balances the bitmap/vector ratio. I guess I'm looking for some sort of hybrid mode between bitmap and vector image editing.

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Defining a clones group as a mask
by Jean-Marc Molina 16 May '07

16 May '07

It seems a group of clones can't be defined as a mask. I drew 1 ellipse shape and cloned it 2 times. Then I grouped the 3 shapes and defined it as a mask to an other shape. It seems only the original shape is used as a mask, the others are ignored. Worst when disabling the mask, only the original shape is restored. The group is lost and all its clones. Try to define the 3 red ellipses as a mask to the black ellipse using the attached file. Am I missing something ? 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Clone across files
by Marc Eberhard 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, is it possible to clone an object/group across files? I tried using clone, but pasting into another file results in an orphaned node (apparently the reference is only valid _within_ the file with the original). Is there some other way to achieve something like this? I want to prepare a set of slides with the same background. I can of course select and copy the background from one slide to the next, but if I want to change something on it then I need to go over all files again. Is there a way to define an object/group in one inkscape file and then link to this in another inkscape file? For plain XML files it would look like below, but I don't know, if this would work for SVG files and if I can use the XML editor in inkscape to achieve an effect like this. All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Marc --- common.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <somedata>xyz</somedata> --- slide1.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide> --- slide2.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide>

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Embedding/linking bitmaps
by Bill Baxter 15 May '07

15 May '07

Is there some way to embed bitmaps in SVG? I was looking at a file I made with a bitmap in it and noticed that the absolute path to the image was hardcoded into the .svg, making this svg useless on any machine but my own. So is there some way to embed bitmap pixel data in SVG? Does the standard even allow that? Aside from that is there some way to get Inkscape to copy linked images to be side-by-side with the svg and use relative paths rather than absolute paths? Does the w3c have some sort of .jar-like standard for creating svg bundles that include both a main svg and associated bitmaps and other linked content all-in-one? That seems like it would be the ideal solution. --bb

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Diagramming with Inkscape
by Kent Tenney 15 May '07

15 May '07

Howdy, I am interested in using Inkscape for flowchart-type diagramming. Are there any libraries of symbols for this sort of thing? Thanks, Kent

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Group a shape with a text object
by Stranger, Stefan 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi there, I'm new to Inkscape but I want to know if it's possible to group a shape with a text object like you can do in Adobe Illustrator? In other words if you draw a square that you want to color programmatically, that square will need a text object grouped to it, e.g. 'My Square' and finally save it as SVG file. Can I do that with Inkscape and if yes how? Regards, Stefan Stranger

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multiple circles aka polor grid
by Rick van der Zwet 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi all, I have been trying to make a polor grid like picture, but it's a bit hard to do it by hand every time (circle->duplicate->make smaller->duplicate->make smaller->...) http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.svg http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.png (How do you call this scape(s) in proper English by the way?) As I understand correctly [1] Inkscape doesn't have a build-in function to accomplish this, so does anyone know a workaround to speed things up a bit? [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AdobeToolMap Thanks a lot! /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl

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Adding lines to a path
by Gian Paolo Mureddu 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hello all... Sorry if this question is unclear/confusing and if it is rather simple, but for the life of me, I've not been able to do it. I have a closed path (by that I mean a shape with a "closed" border, a border in all faces), my problem is that I want to add a line which crosses the shape from one side to the other, but I want to do it so that the line seems to be a continuation of the border (and ideally become part of the shape or object), the problem is that I don't know how could I do this? Heck, I'm not sure if I make any sense at all... Thus far I've tried drawing a single line with the bezier tool, but trying to "merge" the line with the rest of the shape using the stroke tools doesn't yield the desired effect... And I'm quickly running out of ideas, maybe what I want is not possible and I'll have to manage both parts (the shape and the line) as different objects grouped together, or it is possible, but I haven't found how... Any hints?

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Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi list, I suppose this is slightly OT. I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over to Word. I realize that I can't just do an Edit -> Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would be nice). So, I have to do it by creating a new file, save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do an Insert -> Picture - From File. That works. However, the resulting figure is a full page figure - with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can import it into Word? Thanks, -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Yes, JiHo, I just discovered that that is the way to do it. Shrinking the page to the object size works beautifully. > I've never tried export to EMF but PDF show a similar behaviour. If > your blank space corresponds to the blank area of your > Inkscape page, > you can just fit Inkscape's page to the content of your drawing: > Document prosperties > Page > Fit page to selection > > It would be nice however to be able to do this from the export > dialog, i.e. to have some options similar to those of the bitmap > export dialog such as export only selection, export all drawing or > export the whole page. Maybe there is already a RFE (Request For > Enhancement) about this, otherwise you could fill one. > > Hope that helps. > > JiHO -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Karol, Thanks for the reply. Well, yes and no. :=) Following your advise, I discovered a way to do it. After pasting the objects onto the new page, *don't* do the "Fit page to selection" from the object property. That won't work. Instead, invoke the "Document Property" function from the top (under File), and then select the "Fit page to selection" from there. The whole page then shrink down to the size of the object - rather then trying to explode the object up to the size of the page. Works perfectly. :=) Thanks for your inspiration. Regards, > > with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is > > no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please > > point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can > > import it into Word? > > Crop can be done via setting page size. You can select the > object(s) and > ctrl+shift+d and "Fit page to selection". That results in the > object(s) > filling exactly the whole page. > > Karol > -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Thanks for the reply, Aaron. I don't want to work in PNG mode because there is an obvious quality disadvantage when I resize the figure later inside Word. That's why I am using EMF. The quality is very good in EMF mode. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Elmquist Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop This is cheesey but might work. I say might because I'm at work and don't have Inkscape in front of me. You might also want to work from a copy of the file. Group the entire image. Create a shape around the area you want to keep. Select the grouped image and the shape created in step 2. Clip - Set. Export to PNG to the desired dimensions. Word seems to play nicely with PNGimages. On 5/14/07, kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... <kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... > wrote: Hi list, I suppose this is slightly OT. I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over to Word. I realize that I can't just do an Edit -> Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would be nice). So, I have to do it by creating a new file, save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do an Insert -> Picture - From File. That works. However, the resulting figure is a full page figure - with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can import it into Word? Thanks, -- John Henry -- John Henry

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SVG to EMF via command line
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hi list, Is there a way to convert a SVG file to EMF using inkscape's command line option? I see that Inkscape supports EPS, PNG, and others but don't see EMF listed. Thanks, -- -- John Henry

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Inkscape 0.45.1. for Mac OS 10.3
by jiho 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hello everybody, As promised there is now an official release of Inkscape version 0.45.1 compatible with Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). It as available for download at SourceForge, as usual: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=495106 Future releases should stay Panther compatible as long as there is someone to test them on this operating system. Thanks again to John Faith for his work and to Areozol for initiating the process. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to make shadows with inkscape?
by RoSourceforge 12 May '07

12 May '07

----- Original Message ----- From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to make shadows with inkscape? > > Glad to see it works, so sad Inkscape doesn't support "live effects" like > > Photoshop do. It would allow real-time shadow update when a shape is > > modified. > > > Go read the FAQs - using clones it does! Yeh, it's true, it works fine !! R.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to make shadows with inkscape?
by RoSourceforge 11 May '07

11 May '07

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example svg file for explaining a font scaling issue in inkscape
by Gijsbert Stoet 11 May '07

11 May '07

I have recently asked how to easily scale multiple objects, including characters, and then later scale only to a particular font size. Somehow, this is difficulty to do in inkscape (but I hope there is an easy trick!). It is much easier to understand the problem if you see what I mean by example. I have put the question in an svg with an example. http://volition.uwe.ac.uk/example-font-scaling-issue.svg Thanks to anyone would can help (or tries :) This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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PDF export seems chopped off at the top with margin at bottom
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 10 May '07

10 May '07

Folks, I am trying to get a tight bounding box around a single exclamation mark input as text at large font size, selected, converted from text to path, and saved as a PDF, from within Inkscape. I have used Path-> Object to path and File -> Document properties -> Page -> Fit page to selection and exported as PDF. There seems to be a margin beyond the object at the bottom, and the top of the object is cut off, possibly by the same amount. This is seen when viewing the exported PDF at 6400% in Acroread. The dotted box that appears in Inkscape when the object is selected appears perfect. The settings for snapping to grid/object/path have been toggled with no change in behaviour of the exported file. I can post PDFs illustrating this if told where to post them. Is this a bug, and if so, is there a workaround? Thanks. Chandra 30 Apr 07

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Blood Splat
by Tony Vigil 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi! This comes a day late and possibly a dollar short, but maybe it could be useful all the same. I created this blood spat as a personal Inkscape learning exercise. http://soundnvision.homestead.com/files/blood_splat.svg Let me know if you think a tutorial worth doing. - Tony

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restoring aspect ratio of text objects after they have been scaled
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

>Hey people, Bulia, Gijsbert, > >What _I_ would like to know is: how could you _restore_ any object, >most >particulary a text-pbject, to the orignal aspect ratio (1:1) after you >scaled it without ctrl and worked with it for a while? Especially for >text it would be helpfull to be able to restore it to the original >aspect ratio, while keeping other changes (such as rotation or color or >... ) >Well, you should never use text in another aspect ratio as intended by >the font desinger,... But anyway..., >Kind regards, >Maarten Right, that is exactly my problem. If often need to scale a number of objects, including text objects. For design reasons, it is easiest to scale all objects first, then select the text tool with the same objects selected, and then setting the ORIGINAL font size in the text tool bar. And often, I need to scale the drawing as a whole in a non-aspect-ratio-keeping way. Because the original aspect ratio is not kept, it would indeed be extremely helpful to be able to restore text objects to the original aspect ratio. The way I do this now is going into the SVG file, but that is inconvenient. One of the 'dangerous' things is that right now, text objects with the same font size can be of different sizes, depending on their set aspect ration in the 'transform scale(a,b)' part of the xml text object. The way to solve it is to take the 'transform etc' part out of the xml. Maybe one could write an EFFECT for this, or write a simple shell script. I say that this is dangerous because I think it is a little bit counter intuitive that a text object with the same size can have different actual sizes. It is really easy for a user to get confused. For example, if you have two text objects that APPEAR to be the same given their font size, as shown in the tool bar, there is no way to tell which one is in the original font aspect ratio and which one is in the non 1:1 aspect ratio (unless you look at the transformation part in the xml, I guess). This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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more on text object scaling
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

On 5/8/07, Gijsbert Stoet <Gijsbert.Stoet@...2082...> wrote: > > I have recently asked how to easily scale multiple objects, including > > characters, and then later scale only to a particular font size. > > Somehow, this is difficulty to do in inkscape (but I hope there is an > > easy trick!). It is much easier to understand the problem if you see > > what I mean by example. I have put the question in an svg with an example. > > > > http://volition.uwe.ac.uk/example-font-scaling-issue.svg >I don't see any problem. For the unscaled one it shows about 41px font >size, for the scaled one about 28. I don't see a discrepancy between >toolbar and dialog either. You can select all text labels and set any >font size for them. Thanks for picking up on this. It turned out that what I described was due to the particular development version of Inkscape. After I checked the stable version 0.45 it works as you say. As you say, rescaling fonts in inkscape correctly changes the font size in the font-toolbar. What I do not understand is how you get the 'original' aspect ratio of a text object. For example, if I do the following: 1) Make text object in fontsize 32px 2) Select the text object, make it very wide, for example 3) Select it with the text tool again. Now set back the font size to 32px, and it will still not have the original aspect ratio. Is there a way to deal with this? Thanks a lot, it is fantastic to have such a helpful forum! :) (sorry for not replying correctly, I get my messages in digest and cannot reply to a single post in the digest list, I guess) This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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how to delete all the guides at once?
by Seweryn Kokot 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello, I have a problem with several guide lines which I want to remove but doing it manually is a tedious work. Is it possible to do it at once? XML editor doesn't help here since I can only select one guideline under <solidpodi:namedview id="base"> node. I thought to open the xml file in an external editor and then remove the guides while the file is open in inkscape. But then how to update the canvas and is it safe to change an xml file from outside while it is loaded in inkscape? regards, Seweryn Kokot

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L-System, Whirl, and System Requirements
by Aaron Elmquist 08 May '07

08 May '07

First I'd like to say that I'm very impressed with the level of talent and artistry in the inkscape community. Makes a hobbyist like me feel like a definite poser. The L-System I really like this feature. I was just using it to draw the the teeth on a gear. I don't fully understand how it works though. Obviously A though F will draw a line forward the specified number of steps. G though L move the cursor without drawing. + and - designate a right and left turn respectively and | (i think it's the pipe symbol) is 180 degree turn. I am having a hard time with the "[" and "]" that designate remember point on stack and return to point on stack, what's meant by Axiom, and what happens if an X or Y is thrown into the function definition. Also, does anyone know a good page/reference for most of the famous fractals? Whirl Whirl also has me a little stumped. I would think that x,y coordinate specified in the dialog would define the axis of rotation. I've tried several times to make an object whirl around it's center of mass/symmetry without any luck. I've use the points designated by the selection dialog which didn't seem to work. I'm guessing it's one of the corners of the bounding box. The I tried putting guides through what I thought was the center and using those values. No luck there either. My System My system seems to get really bogged down when ever I have any significant amount of nodes/objects for inkscape to keep track of. I'm running Windows XP with a 2.4 GHz Celeron and 640 MB of ram. I think this is going to become a significant source of headaches for me in the near future. I want to upgrade. Thoughts about minimum requirements for working comfortably on a Mac? I was thinking of trying a Linux system, but decided against it after installing Fedora Core 6 on my PC. I ran into too many compatibility issues with modems, monitor, printers, and other input devices. But, that's a discussion for another forum. Thanks for some great software. I hope I can contribute in the project in the near future. ~Aaron

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Blood Splat
by Tony Vigil 08 May '07

08 May '07

Greetings, all! Not much was "done by hand" in this case. I used 3 very "disturbed" stars with various settings (Unioned together) to create the basic shape. The highlights and shadows are merely a matter of making offset copies of my base shape, doing a difference of an offset and the original for each effect, blurring the results, then grouping and clipping the two lighting effects. This allows me to change the base color to resemble ink or paint or even glowing toxic waste. Also, I've made some improvements to the results of my technique. The new splat is much smoother looking than my initial posting! More liquidy-looking gooeyness!!! I'll definitely put a tutorial together over the next few days. - Tony

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Comparing Inkscape to Krita
by John R. Culleton 07 May '07

07 May '07

Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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URW Chancery L font needed
by heathenx 07 May '07

07 May '07

does anyone know if it's possible to get the "URW Chancery L" font loaded in winxp? this font is loaded on my ubuntu 7.04, opensuse 10.1 and 10.2 systems. from what i can tell it's a ghostscript font of some kind. i don't think it's a truetype font. btw, i have ghostscript installed on windows, if that does any good. thank-you, heathenx ps. shame on me for using a non-truetype font. live and learn.

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Presentations in Brazil
by ValessioBrito 07 May '07

07 May '07

Looking at now as the presentation of our friends was made: "Ted Gould"[1] and "Bryce Harrington"[2], in LGM I would like to share the presentations[3,4] that I made here in Brazil on Inkscape, different of that he exists I I used Layers. To facilitate the presentation in layers, I made a request[5] and reported one bug[6]. Two photos of the participants if find in a notice(pt_BR)[7] published in the InkscapeBrasil, other photos are for the InterNet in flirck for example. [1] http://gould.cx/ted/presentations/lgm/ [2] http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07 [3] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/ApresentacaoInkscapeDesen… [4] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/QuemEOInkscape/PalestraFL… [5] sf.net / inkscape / request #1714270 [6] sf.net / inkscape / bug #1714277 [7] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/Noticia20070501002020 -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Question on Taking Part of An Image
by Grey 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hello, I'm trying to draw something for my webcomic and have come across a problem. I have several images of flags and I want to just take a section of them. For example, I would like to be able to draw a shape (a circle) on top of the flag, then remove all of the flag that sticks outside of the shape so I'm left with just a circular section of the flag. Is there any way to do this? Thank you for your time, -Grey http://www.WellingtonGrey.net/

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scaling fonts
by Gijsbert Stoet 05 May '07

05 May '07

I have a problem with scaling fonts (I am using Inkscape .45 on Ubunty Feisty). 1) Imagine you write some text in fontsize 32. 2) Then you scale the text object without keeping the aspect ration the same. For example you make it smaller 3) Then you select the text object. You will see that the size is smaller, it might be, say 30.2. 4) Then you decide that the text object should be 32. Then you select the text icon on the left and select 32. 5) NOW THE PROBLEM HAPPENS: Inkscape says that the text is 32, but it still keeps the wrong aspect ratio. Of course, you might wonder why this is a problem. What happens is that I need to rescale multiple objects (in step 2, not just text objects) and then afterwards select all text objects and set them to the intended point size. Inkscape seems to keep track of the transformation scale matrix and the aspect ratio. I am sure that has a purpose. But what if I want to say that a text object which has been scaled and transformed multiple time should have a particular font size. That seems impossible right now. Can anybody help me how I could resolve this problem? Thanks for your help! This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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How can I update my Inkscape
by Daniel Salgado 05 May '07

05 May '07

Im using SUSE, I have the 0.42 version of Inkscape. When tryinig to use Yast it dosent let me install becoause it looks as if it was allready installed (but not the version I want).

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to make shadows with inkscape?
by RoSourceforge 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi peoplw, I found this old message from Hadmut and I need to reproduce his effect. I can't blur the object. I can't find any "blur" command in my italian version. Can you explain me in a more detailed way ? Many thanks, Ro. At 20.19 21/03/2006, you wrote: >Hi, > >how would I create an object with a shadow with inkscape? > >I have attached an example. It is a stripped down SVG file taken from >http://www.germane-software.com/software/SVG/SVG::Graph/ >which uses a ruby library to generate charts (including pie charts >with shadows) in SVG. > >Basically, the shadow is just a translated copy of the main object, >black, and blurred. > >Any chance to generate such a shadow in inkscape? > > >regards >Hadmut

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Inkscape runs on Max OS 10.3
by jiho 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello everybody, Thanks to the repeated efforts of John Faith, the latest version of Inkscape now seems to run on OS X 10.3 aka. Panther. Many Panther users reported some bugs and were disappointed that the new 0.45 release left them behind. These cruel days are hopefully over! A build is available in Inkscape's development builds repository: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D [pick Inkscape-20070504-10.3.dmg] This build is made from a recent SVN snapshot so it has more features (and potentially more bugs also ;) ) than the 0.45 release. The application is also larger than usual (>100Mb) because it is not stripped from debugging symbols. Currently John is still struggling to complete a compile from a fresh start. Once this is sorted out and once this first build gets some testing, we'll provide a more official build (maybe a 0.45.2 if this is ever planned to happen). Thank you for your patience and thanks again to John who made this happen. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Paint Bucket Tool
by heathenx 04 May '07

04 May '07

does inkscape .45-1 have a paint bucket tool? if so where is it? i have burned through all of the options and i cannot find it. thanks, heathenx

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Live trace?
by John R. Culleton 04 May '07

04 May '07

Is there a function in Inkscape equivalent to the "live trace" in the latest version of Illustrator? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Creating Abstract Backgrounds
by D. Jones 02 May '07

02 May '07

I was how is it possible in inkscape to change the modes of gradients and layers like in this tutorial. http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/abstract-background/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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using current stable and development version of Inkscape
by D. Jones 02 May '07

02 May '07

I was wondering how would I go about using the stable and current development version of inkscape on Windows XP SP2 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Text Dialog... apply button disabled
by Roberto Leibman 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi! I'm trying to write some text and the apply button seems to be off. Furthermore I cannot seem to select the particular font I want. The font is "Myriad Pro Semi Bold Condenesed Italic", in the dialog I only see Myriad Pro, with the various variations (that's on my Ubuntu Feisty installation). On my windows installation I don't see that font at all. Another point is that the font is an OTF file. So, what gives? Thanks! Roberto Leibman

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Logo "contest"
by Alberto Simões 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi First, not a contest because I can't offer anything to the winner. Just to be "the winner". Next, I am just announcing this here, at inkscape users list. Mainly because I want a vectorial logo, but also because I am an inkscape user and love it (but I do not know how to draw anything). Ok, what is the "contest"? I am involved in a project of an 'open dictionary' (dicionário aberto in Portuguese) and I would like to have a logo for it. The actual page is available at http://dicionario-aberto.net and is just in Portuguese (and will be that way forever), but I'll create a page with the received logos (if anyone contribute). We will choose the logo by 13 May. Cheers Alberto -- Alberto Simões

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Native Inkscape on OS X
by Eric Bednarz 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I wonder what the current status of a native Inkscape version for OS X (ever since the first announced good news) is (the wiki doesn't really help [me, at least]). To cut it short: * I love Inkscape * OS X is my primary development platform these days (I do have flavours of Windows and GNU/Linux available for testing and special tasks, I'd like to cut that down to testing) * I want my Intuos tablet to work properly with the calligraphy tool (did I mention that I love Inkscape?) * I'd rather pump € worth of a CS3 Illustrator (missed opportunity, as far as I'm concerned ;-) license into a worhtwhile project, if that helps (I don't drink beer anyway [0] :-) [0] Seriously, I encourage everyone thinking about the issue if you can afford it at all -- personally, I'm not exactly getting rich but wealthy enough to start thinking about it. I've gotten more out of free software (or whatever your label is) than I could ever pay back, which is not say that I shouldn't pay back at all, anywhere. Now that I could afford Adobe products, I'd rather invest into freedom (and to me, there are no 'leechers', 'undecided professionals' maybe, which is unconditionally fine :). Thanks, Eric -- ||| hexadecimal EBB o-o decimal 3771 --oOo--( )--oOo-- octal 7273 205 goodbye binary 111010111011

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Setting Fill for a Self-Intersecting Path
by Aaron Elmquist 01 May '07

01 May '07

Here's the deal. I have a bezzer curve that loops back on itself. Basically I drew the out line of a very curvy pipe. When I set the fill the areas that overlap are transparent. Any simple fixes for something like this? I think I could start pushing nodes around and join/cut them, but then I'd loose the outline for the stroke represent that part of this is in the foreground while the rest is behind it.

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Bulleted lists in Inkscape? Hanging indents?
by Niall Mansfield 01 May '07

01 May '07

I want to create a bulleted list in an Inkscape document, along the lines of * the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog * lazy dog quick jumped over * the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog If I have to insert the bullet symbols by hand, that's OK (though not ideal) but is there any way to get the hanging indent on the paragraphs? (In case the layout of this post gets messed up, the list items items should just like the standard bulleted lists on an HTML page.) Thanks, Niall

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Creating blood spatter.
by John R. Culleton 01 May '07

01 May '07

For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :) -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Help! (problem with OS X 10.3.9)
by Adam Lombard 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I downloaded Inkscape, dragged it to my Apps. When I try to open Inkscape, X11 opens then nothing happens. It sits there forever. Anybody out there have any ideas?? a.l.

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"Scale rounded corners" button doesn't work for clones?
by Jan Kosinski 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hi, I think the "Scale rounded corners" button doesn't work for clones. When I open the "tutorial-shapes.svg" (Inkscape: Shape tutorial) and select any rectangle with rounded corners I can turn off scaling of rounded corners by releasing the button "Scale rounded corners" (as explained in the tutorial). But when I create a clone of such a rounded rectangle, scaling of rounded corners is not turned off anymore for this cloned rectangle. Scaling is turned off again only if I unlink the clone. Is this behavior a bug? I would like to create a rectangle with rounded corners, clone it several times and rescale each cloned rectangle in different way but do not rescale rounded corners. Do you know how to solve this problem? Thank you in advance, Jan Kosinski :ms

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White overlap in glyphs
by Kyungjoon Lee 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hi, I found that with some fonts, Inkscape fills parts of letters with white, not black. (With default colour settings.) For example, using the Summersby font: http://packages.debian.org/ttf-summersby I found that the letter X has a white bit where the two lines meet. It goes away if I convert it to paths, but sometimes I'd rather not do that. ----- Most fonts don't show this behaviour, but UnFonts (one of the major free software fonts for the Korean language) do. Could this be a bug? Would it be a bug with Inkscape or the fonts? Cheers, Kyungjoon Lee

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Kochify...
by Tony Vigil 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Terrry, You can get the effect by separating your multi-point line to individual segments, then applying the pattern to path for each segment. It's not the most ideal solution, but it is a workable. I really like your idea of allowing for a single pattern along each segment. Even better... allow the user to specify the number of patterns per segment. This would definitely be a very useful option for the Pattern along Path effect! - Tony ----- Original Message ---- The new patterns along paths is way cool. But am I right in thinking that it won't do one thing that the old kochify effect did - put one copy of the 'pattern' along each internode of the path? I think it would be good if there was another mode - "one copy per internode". Not sure if it makes sense for that to come in stretched, unstretched, snake, and ribbon flavors. Cheers -Terry

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OFFTOPIC: Graphic designers computer setup?
by Jarlath 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

This is way offtopic, but I'm learning Gimp and Inkscape and planned on buying a desktop PC soon and then trying to get some work in graphic design - maybe in a printing company for starters. However, during this learning phase, I've noticed that my 750Mhz / 512MB Ram laptop is doing quite well under Ubuntu. Do any of you think it would be as practical to work on a laptop exclusively? Thanks for reading, Jarlath

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Mimicking illustrator brushes
by D. Jones 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

How would you do that with something such as this? http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/free-vector-swooshes-and-fancy-corner-desig… Is it possible to add patterns to inkscape like in the gimp or is there some other method It's not directly possible, but you can mimic some of this feature by using the "Pattern along Path" effect and/or the "Tiled Clones" tool. - Tony Is it possible to have something like illustrator brushes in Inkscape? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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graphics tablets
by dwain 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

since we are on the subject, does anyone have an answer as to why i can't make any changes to my settings for the puck and why the settings disappear when i change to the pressure stylus in 0.45.1 and unable to save the settings if i could change them? i had the save problem with the last version along with what i am describing here. wacom graphire3 (usb) with the most recent driver, pen tablet 503-3 (rc) windows xp pro -- Dwain Alford http://www.studiokdd.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Kandinsky

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