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Text is lost after saving as odg
by Paul Smith 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Dear All When I save the attached file to odg (OpenOffice drawing format), the text is lost. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul

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error dz.po, compile ink.45 svn revision 13822.
by ValessioBrito 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

valessio@...2088...:~/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45$ svn update Na revisão 13822. valessio@...2088...:~/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot . . . . . . make[3]: Entrando no diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir/po' cd .. \ && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ /bin/sh ./config.status config.status: creating po/Makefile.in config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing intltool commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands make[3]: Saindo do diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir/po' make[3]: Entrando no diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir/po' file=`echo am | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/am.po file=`echo az | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/az.po file=`echo be | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/be.po file=`echo bg | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/bg.po file=`echo ca | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/ca.po file=`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/cs.po file=`echo da | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/da.po file=`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/de.po file=`echo dz | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ../../po/dz.po ../../po/dz.po:4865:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:4865: palavra chave "mine" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4871:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:4874: palavra chave "r13821" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4886:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:4886: palavra chave "mine" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4891: palavra chave "r13821" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4895:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:4895: palavra chave "mine" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4900: palavra chave "r13821" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4904:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:4904: palavra chave "mine" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:4909: palavra chave "r13821" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:6925:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:6925: palavra chave "mine" desconhecida ../../po/dz.po:6933:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:6936:2: parse error ../../po/dz.po:6936: palavra chave "r13821" desconhecida /usr/bin/msgfmt: encontrados 18 erros fatais make[3]: ** [dz.gmo] Erro 1 make[3]: Saindo do diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir/po' make[2]: ** [all-recursive] Erro 1 make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir' make[1]: ** [all] Erro 2 make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/valessio/Desenvolvimento/inkscape/inkscape-0.45/builddir' make: ** [build] Erro 2 ---- Error in dz.po -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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Problems with pdflatex and inkscape
by Julian Hagenauer 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

HI, i created a svg-graphic with inkscape 0.44 (see attachment). I saved it as pdf with transparency. I can view it perfectly with acrobat reader. Than i included the file into a latex-document, which i compiled with pdf-latex. When i reach the site of the resulting document, where the pdf normally shows, acrobat reader says: No resource found. The figure is completly shown, only the text-surrounding boxes are missing... What's wrong? Thank You, Julian

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cloned copy fill/stroke
by Jakub Steiner 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Howdy fellow artists! I've been unsuccessful in something I'd imagine being very common case. I'd like to be able to create editable text with a dropshadow, that would be easily editable. Clones seem an ideal solution for the task. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to change colors of the clone independently from the original. Either I have to keep the original object black (unset property). This works in most cases, as the shadow indeed needs to be black. But I'm unsure if it's safe to depend on 'unset' looking black in other renderers. Cornelius suggested to use the linked offset instead, but that appears to shift the size by default and it's hard to tweak as text usually tends to create very complex paths for interactive scaling. Is there a smarter way way to achieve this? -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...469...>

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Alt key in tutorial
by Albert Wagner 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

I have just installed 0.44 and am progressing through the Help->tutorials. I notice that all references to the Alt key actually require Ctrl+Alt to have the desired effect. e.g. Alt+drag doesn't work, but Ctrl+Alt+drag does. Is this a change in 0.44 that the tutorial has not yet reflected? Or is there some tuning that I have yet to do?

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About Screen for 0.45 - Results
by Joshua A. Andler 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

We have a winner for the About Screen contest! Congratulations to Molumen for his winning entry: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45360907/ The SVG can be obtained here: http://www.lumenstudio.net/if/inkscapeabout045.zip Developers, are there any requests as to changes that you would like made? The sooner we get moving, the better. :) I'm now off to post the results on DeviantART. -Josh

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Inkscape in Proposal Submission Presenters/Exhibitors in SIGGraph
by ValessioBrito 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Who could submit a proposal Inkscape to participate it of SIGGRAPH 2007? http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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tutorials cleanup: help needed
by bulia byak 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

We have tutorial-calligraphy.pt_BR.svg in share/tutorials, but no corresponding xml file in the doc-docbook module in SVN. Please _everyone_ who has ever translated the tutorials, upload the docbook xml sources to that module, or send them to someone with SVN commit rights asking him to upload it for you. Without that, we can't for example fix the tutorial-calligraphy.pt_BR.svg file which is badly broken. Also, we have much more tutorial translations in SVG than we have HTML tutorials here: http://inkscape.org/doc/index.php. Please remember that if you submit a new translation, you need to generate not only SVG but also HTML (use the make-html script) to be put up on the web site and linked from that page. (Again, if you don't have commit rights for the web site, ask someone to do it for you.) Volunteers are welcome and encouraged to help us sync this all up for the release. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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creating a pdf slideshow (with incremental slides) using inkscape
by Gijsbert Stoet 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Dear fellow Inkscape friends, I like Inkscape and prefer to draw my slides using Inkscape. I coded a script for easily creating a PDF file out of a set of SVG files that can be used for presentations (each page being a slide). It allows you to create incremental slides, using the xml ID tages of SVG. Using shift+ctrl+o you can easily change these tags. Acrobat reader or evince work great in full screen, and acrobat is available on nearly every computer. I have made everything (programs and manpage) available on a webpage: http://volition.wustl.edu/slides I just finished it, and it works fine for me; however, there might still be some errors in it. There is also a short PDF tutorial/example (both in one!) on the webpage. Gijsbert This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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Runtime error
by Hago Ziegler 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi, a moment ago I downloaded Inkscape0701101629.7z 10-Jan-2007 22:34 20M from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D when I try to open the preferences-dialog I get the attached message and Inkscape shuts down. (WinXP) Regards, Hago

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SVG not displaying correctly in inkscape
by Sujesh Babu N 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hi All, I tried to open a small SVG file in inkscape , but it is not displaying correctly .The file is attached here with . The svg is viewing correctly in adobe svg viewer and other editors. Any idea , why the svg graphic is not displaying correctly in Inkscape? Any help will be appreciated . Thanks Sujesh *COntents of the SVG FIle* ** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1 Tiny//EN" " http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11-tiny.dtd"> <svg baseProfile="tiny" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="348" height="40" viewBox="0 0 348 40"> <switch> <foreignObject requiredExtensions=" http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/" x="0" y="0" width="1" height="1" content="structured text"/> <g> <g> <path fill-opacity="0.62" stroke-opacity="0.62" fill="url(#_x33__x5F_vaaleampi_2_)" d="M348,37c0,1.656-1.343,3-3,3H3 c-1.656,0-3-1.344-3-3V3c0-1.656,1.344-3,3-3h342c1.657,0,3,1.344,3,3V37z"/> <defs> <linearGradient id="_x33__x5F_vaaleampi_2_" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="0" y1="20" x2="348" y2="20"> <stop offset="0" style="stop-color:#227BD4"/> <stop offset="1" style="stop-color:#D9EFFF"/> </linearGradient> </defs> </g> </g> </switch> </svg>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Remaining critical bugs for 0.45
by Adib Taraben 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

All, On Win32 when I use a daily snapshot all menus are not localized. The remain in plain English. (except some buttons from standard dialogs) When I use a previous 0.44 menus gets localized perfectly. So I guess it is not settings related. I mentioned this some times in the chat to get a confirmation or negative response but there was no feedback. Thats why I did not post a defect for this. If this is confirmed to be a bug this is also a must-fix. pls win32-developer or tester give some feedback. Adib. --- Bryce Harrington schrieb: > With the bug hunt out of the way, the last bit of bug fixing work is to > attend any MustFix bugs. These are extremely serious bugs such as ones > that cause frequent crashes, or that risk bad data loss. > > I've gone through the current (as of 1/8/07) bug list and separated out > the ones that a) we don't have enough info to debug, b) are out of our > hands anyway, or c) don't cause crashes or data loss. > > Please review this list and identify any you can show to be must fix > bugs. > > For a bug to be nominated to be a MUST FIX bug, it must also include a > willing owner who can work on it right now, and some form of a plan for > what to do about it. (Otherwise, blocking on it may prove > unproductive.) > > > > > CRASHES OR DATA LOSS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1515192 make check failure > 1630485 Inkview don't support blur / crashes > 1630101 crash inkscape click in connectors network aling > 1575829 Metadata are truncated at 4 chars and add a char 18 hexa > 1464771 whiteboard: cannot connect to jabber server then crashses > > > REQUIRES UPSTREAM ACTION > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 969321 "Dialogs on top" does not work on Windows > > > REQUIRES MORE INFORMATION OR CONFIRMATION > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1627110 Assertion hit in inkscape_get_repr when getting prefs > 1612057 memory limit at 1GB > 1538282 crash when switching to selection tool > 1519462 OpenBSD: Inkscape hangs/segfaults > 1418122 Conf corruption when opening files with non-UTF encoded > 1507967 [INFO NEEDED] Cannot open svgz > 1516476 build problems on Solaris > 1395505 0.43 crash at startup on Win98se > 1614820 Crash when moving nodes in XML Editor after duplicate. > 1603579 Crash open file dialog start directory with > 1513877 autopackage libcairo.so.2 dependency problem > 1508157 GDKpixbufInput files to Init on SuSE 10.1 with 0.44pre4 > 1503564 win2003 SP1: crash on start > 1467137 Shrinking a pattern causes lock-up > 1624076 Crash after changing canvas size fields by click > 1499971 detect and warn about installed libsmooth > 1496718 Text paragraph display problem on OS X > > > MISBEHAVIOR BUT NO CRASH OR DATA LOSS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1469554 fixed length toolbars prevent working on narrow screens > 1494967 Text toolbar: too difficult to close fonts drop-down > 1495039 whiteboard backtrace reveals sensitive information > 1448618 Fonts weight variants selection > 1441003 flowRoot error with inkscape's svg > 937347 symbol fonts not supported? > 1586421 Mandarin TEXT RENDERING problem > 1584935 blur not exported to pdf > 1519730 Linked offset performance issues > 1513484 icc compile error > 1441767 OpenType fonts with postscript outlines not supported. > 1370904 isnan issue, sun Solaris 8 gcc > 1143821 COPY/PASTE doesn't work with system clipboard > 1505549 drag and delete line crash Inkscape 0.45devel (crash fixed) > > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Creating gears
by Claus Cyrny 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi, I would like to know if there is a tutorial on how to create gears in Inkscape (I am still using 0.42, but would like to update as soon as I have the new Ubuntu release installed). At the Inkscape web site I only found several links to Youtube videos, but none of those was what I was looking for. TIA, Claus -- Home Page: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (Photographs) Photo gallery @ depo consulting: http://www.depoconsulting.com/gallery/clauscyrny.htm "Djangology" (my Django Reinhardt site; in German): http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/djangology/

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Inkboard Status
by Esben Stien 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Will inkboard be included in the next release for all platforms?. It was pulled out of the main branch some time ago and it's a little unclear what is happening to it. -- Esben Stien is b0ef@...2066... s a http://www. s t n m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@ n n

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Bug Hunt Finished!
by Bryce Harrington 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Today Inkscape achieved the 300 point Bug Hunt goal, thanks to work from Bulia Byak, Johan Engelen, Gustav B, and others. The number of critical bugs has dropped to 20. Due to these efforts, we are now ready to move to the next phase of the release cycle. ID Pts Description Assignee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1517414 9 Node join crash: delete segment left subpath bbyak 1630193 9 crash when joining an orphan node bbyak 1591411 9 Paths w/ spaces need to have double quotes johanengelen 1502439 9 Crash :Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach gustav_b 1629994 9 SEGV on CTRL + with nothing selected johanengelen 1620741 3 commit 12417 contains C99 strtof bbyak 1623869 6 clip mask with gradient fill makes objects disappear bbyak 1629384 3 The Post Dates are Wrong cwebb 1537876 6 tutorials in Russian not available nodoby 1628254 9 Localized tutorials do not load nobody 1628295 6 Bottom of the web site page cwebb 1505549 9 drag and delete line crash Inkscape 0.45devel bbyak 1628173 6 Gradient tool not working for flowed text bbyak 1580903 9 crash adjusting slider when spinbutton has focus bbyak 1538282 9 crash when switching to selection tool bbyak 1332888 12 Clones: moving two adjoining objects in chain moves bbyak 1593499 6 Tablet cursor drift when dragging bezier gustav_b 1624880 9 download page ishmal 1588594 9 Link broken - Daniel's Thrice Daily builds bryce 1628085 3 PNG file not created/not recognized by WINXP johanengelen 1598192 6 Download Page Instructions Need Updating bryce 1617112 9 Blur is applied after transform, not before bbyak 1488128 9 Aligning (Snapping) to Grid or Guides does not work nobody 1349761 9 Inkboard: inkscape crashes when trying to connect dwyip 1507710 9 crash after leaving an isolated node handle nobody 1605927 9 Path combine (and other ops) lose transform johanengelen 1610103 6 font-size px missing after font family change johanengelen 1590980 9 CRASH: Markers to Stroke Paint bbyak 1625278 9 Crash when trying to load a SVG file bryce 1501553 3 Can't rotate with transform dialog box bryce 1520625 6 Linked clone as clip path does not update nobody 1516933 9 text stroke crash inkscape nobody 1575685 6 web redirects inkscape.org/faq/ kidproto 1565162 3 Gradient stop color not updated in list nobody 1595030 6 Stroke width after Union changed in a strange way nobody 1620066 6 Lost dialog for exporting and color nobody 1598337 9 Crash when trying to delete invisible layer cyreve 1561416 6 EPS export broken theadib 1597605 6 Fontnames containing spaces are incorrectly written theadib 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 303 Done! Bryce

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Inkscape 0.45 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

The contest begins today and the deadline is December 31st. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART. You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/11071733/ Good Luck! -Josh

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others proposals not sent for contest
by ValessioBrito 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

all others my proposals not sent for contest.. :P in case that you it wants to use in another project, it's Public Domain. 1-9 - http://valessio.ul-jb.org/projetos/inkscape/propostas/ 9 is very hot. .ValessioBrito

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

1488128 9 Aligning (Snapping) to Grid or Guides does not work nobody 1349761 9 Inkboard: inkscape crashes when trying to connect dwyip 1507710 9 crash after leaving an isolated node handle nobody 1605927 9 Path combine (and other ops) lose transform johanengelen 1610103 6 font-size px missing after font family change johanengelen 1590980 9 CRASH: Markers to Stroke Paint bbyak 1625278 9 Crash when trying to load a SVG file bryce 1501553 3 Can't rotate with transform dialog box bryce 1520625 6 Linked clone as clip path does not update nobody 1516933 9 text stroke crash inkscape nobody 1575685 6 web redirects inkscape.org/faq/ kidproto 1565162 3 Gradient stop color not updated in list nobody 1595030 6 Stroke width after Union changed in a strange way nobody 1620066 6 Lost dialog for exporting and color nobody 1598337 9 Crash when trying to delete invisible layer cyreve 1561416 6 EPS export broken theadib 1597605 6 Fontnames containing spaces are incorrectly written theadib 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 138 (Goal: 300) We're almost halfway there! I notice that due in part to our bug activity, Inkscape has gone up to rank #20 on SourceForge's most active list. Still, there are 30 level-9 critical bugs still open. I don't see any that are absolute release killers, but the fewer of those left in inkscape when we release, the better. Bryce

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Bug confirmation needed
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi all, I've added two new categories 'NEEDS CONFIRMATION' and 'NEEDS CONFIRMATION ON SVN HEAD' to our bug tracker, and have begun marking a few bugs that need this. If you have a recent inkscape installation and are on either Win32 or OSX, you can help greatly by seeing if you can recreate these bugs. Please go to this page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 Search on Category = NEEDS CONFIRMATION ON SVN HEAD, and set the Group to the platform you're on. Also look in Groups 'Any' or 'All Platforms'. Try to recreate the problem, and then please write in the comment section if you could or could not reproduce the problem. Some of these are very, very old bugs, so just having people confirm that the bugs are no longer present would be extremely helpful in enabling us to focus on bugs that really need our attention. Thanks! Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] flowRegion
by Sean Wheller 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:06, thomas.deweese@...2076... wrote: > Hi Sean, > > Sean Wheller <sean@...2075...> wrote on 01/02/2007 11:59:38 AM: > > Whenever I have a document with a flowRegion batik is failing. Is > > there a work around? > > > > <flowRoot > > flowRoot was from SVG 1.2 (be warned it is no longer part of > SVG 1.2). > > So you need to mark your SVG Document as being version > 1.2 (the version attribute must be on root svg element): > > <svg version="1.2" > > > y="347.66333" /></flowRegion><flowPara > > id="flowPara1353">Your FAF numbers are > > 081123456,082479628,083635846,084695691,085965555, > > 086789654</flowPara></flowRoot> > > We also require that the 'flowPara' element be wrapped > in a 'flowDiv' element. OK, now that looks like a problem in Inkscape. I am using Inkscape 0.43 (Mar 9 2006) on Kubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper). Inkscape automatically creates the svg as follows: <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" width="744.09448819" height="1052.3622047" id="svg2" sodipodi:version="0.32" inkscape:version="0.43" sodipodi:docbase="/home/sean" sodipodi:docname="test.svg"> Note it does not supply @version but does create @id with value of svg2. -- Sean Wheller Technical Author email: sean@...2075... im: seanwhe@...19... skype: seanwhe cel: +27-84-854-9408 web: http://www.inwords.co.za

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Document properties
by Jorge Gusmao 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi there, Im using Inkscape 0.44.1, built Sep 9, 2006 under windows xp. When I try to access the document properties panel -> file -> document properties, the panel does not show up. Is this happening with someone else? Thanks

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:35:29 -0800 > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:04:49AM +0000, re2823@...2071... wrote: > > > re2823@...2071... wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the > > > > intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line > > > > into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path > > > > merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > > > > > > Would it do what you're looking for if you turn on snapping and snap > > > nodes to paths and have the appropriate sensitivity set (in options)? > > > > Interesting idea - I've tried it out (with both "Snap nodes to > > objects", "Snap to object paths" and "Always snap" enabled) but > > (suprisingly) I still find it very difficult to pin new nodes > > exactly on the intersection point... > > I tried it too using the double-click-while-node-editing, but it doesn't > seem to obey object snap settings. Would be pretty spiffy if it did, > though. > > The approach I've used when needing to do this is zoom in really close > to the intersection point, select the line to add the node to and just > manually double-click on the junction while in node editing mode, and > touch up as needed. Not CAD quality perfection, but good enough for my > purposes. Yeah, that was kind of my backup plan. I just thought that it would be nice to have a procedure which didn't rely of "manual accuracy", if you know what I mean. I've only just noticed that inkscape can be extended using python scripts. I wonder whether inkscape exposes enough of an api to be able to script this particular problem. Time for me to read up on inkscape effects... Jaime

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...233...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:32:46 -0700 > re2823@...2071... wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the > > intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line > > into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path > > merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > > Would it do what you're looking for if you turn on snapping and snap > nodes to paths and have the appropriate sensitivity set (in options)? Interesting idea - I've tried it out (with both "Snap nodes to objects", "Snap to object paths" and "Always snap" enabled) but (suprisingly) I still find it very difficult to pin new nodes exactly on the intersection point...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:19:56 -0800 > Could you check and make sure there is a feature request in for this? > > Thanks, > Bryce Sure, will do. Thanks, Jaime

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: catoblepa <puntoebasta@...155...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:24:08 +0100 > re2823@...2071... ha scritto: > > > Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the > > intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line > > into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path > > merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > > Hava you tried with path --> cut path ? Yeah, I've just spent some time trying to work out exactly what "cut path" does. It's easy to understand when both parties are shapes with area, but when either (or both) are just splines, the results are a little confusing. It certainly doesn't seem to do what I'm after (which is to chop each of my two splines into two pieces)... :-(

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How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi. Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). Also, would the same procedure work for two beziers splines? Thanks, Jaime

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:32:41 -0500 >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:26:52PM +0000, re2823@...2071... wrote: >> Hi. >>=20 >> Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the >> intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line >> into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path >> merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > >None that I'm aware of. I was swearing at that yesterday. It would be >really nice (and really impossible task) to have the geometric features of >Geometry Expressions in Inkscape. Just out of interest (as your post kind of makes me think that it's theoretically "hard" to do), how does inkscape calculate intersection points when I ask it to do path intersection of solid shapes made from bezier curves? Does it use these "geometry expressions"? Jaime

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install/un-install and 'libXinerama.1.dylib' problem
by Gareth Jordan 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi all, I hope this is the right place to post this, apologies if not. Happy New Year anyway. I had Inkscape (IS) installed a long while ago and it worked ok for a while. I had some novice but useful results. i am using an G4 iBook 933 OSX 10.4.8 After a longer while it became impossible to open either an old or new file in IS. I uninstalled IS but was unsuccessful in my attempts at re-installing for similar reasons as I have just encountered today. Today I have tried to install IS again, all seemed to go ok, but when I started Inkscape up, it got the Apple X11 programme going and then the IS logo appeared in the dock but nothing else whatsoever. I trashed the IS app and now it won't let me delete it from the Trash, even though nothing is open, and shows a trash error msg as follows: 'The operation cannot be completed because the item "libXinerama.1.dylib" is in use.' Does anyone know what may be going on? What solution might there be? Many thanks regards Gareth

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PDF output...
by Phil Hendry 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi folks, I'm trying to work out a way of integrating Inkscape into my workflow. Indesign CS2 doesn't support SVG import. Saving as PDF from Inkscape seems a wee bit flaky - I used a pattern fill in a couple of places, and that had disappeared when I opened the PDF. The EPS export, of course, doesn't support transparency - I suppose I could 'flatten' the transparency somehow, so it appeared to export - but that seems a lot of work. EPS export also seemed to screw up the fonts, but that's no surprise, and I can export them as curves - but it also lost the pattern fills. PNG export works fine, but then I'm up against all the 'issues' of using bitmaps. Ho, hum. Frustrating. Of all the drawing packages I've tried since switching to the Mac, Inkscape is the most promising - far easier to use than Illustrator and with a similar (but better?) feature set. A 'pukka' OS X version would probably answer the PDF export problem, since printing to PDF on the Mac works so well - I often use it where other export methods fall down. I must find a way around this issue - I'm b*gg*r*d if I'm going back to fighting with Illustrator when I need a drawing. Phil

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I may have found a bug...
by Phil Hendry 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

...But I'm not sure - it may just be me not understanding how the package works. I can create new layers (apparently - at least the dialog appears and I can type a new layer name in it), move stuff to other layers and that sort of thing, but I can't open up the layers dialog - CTRL- SHIFT-L does nothing at all as far as I can see. Also, is there any way to lock the contents of a layer? If I go to Global Inkscape Preferences, I can check the 'Select only within current layer' box, but even if I then go to the layers menu and select 'Switch to layer above', the objects on the layer I've just moved from are still selectable. Phil

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Apropos letter spacing
by Michèle Garoche 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Could the alt modifier key not be hardcoded for that function, i.e. customizable as already done for some other functions? Reason: the alt key is used for accented characters on a Mac, hence not usable as a modifier for people with native languages using those accented characters. This leads to impossibility to use the letter spacing function.

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letter spacing
by Hago Ziegler 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi, I need letter-spacing a lot. How do you do that in inkscape? For the moment I always have to use other programs for that. Regards, Hago

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please test the proposed perspective extension
by bulia byak 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

We have a new Perspective extension in our patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600298&group_id=9… It's very useful potentially, but for some reason, I can't make it work properly, although it reportedly works for the author and another user. I would appreciate if more people could try it out and report their results. Note that to use it, you will need to install Numeric Python: http://numpy.scipy.org (in addition to regular Python). To install the extension, place the inx and py file from perspective_v0.3.tgz into your extensions directory. Please share your experience - thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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THANK YOU to Inkscape developers!
by John Beale 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Dear Inkscape Developers, THANK YOU so much for creating this amazing program! For a long time I have wanted to have the capabilities of something like Adobe Illustrator but I could never justify the cost for an occasional use. I just discovered Inkscape and within a few hours I was able to do useful work with it (well- creating holiday greeting cards, if that's useful!) I'm running on Windows XP, generating a PS output file and converting that to PDF with Ghostscript for laser and inkjet print. It looks great. All the built-in features I've tried work smoothly and I was particularly impressed by the ease of use, and output quality of the built-in bitmap-to-vector converter. Great stuff- thank you all! season's greetings, John

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yet another stupid animation question
by ilya y. rostovtsev 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

On 12/18/06, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Inkscape is an SVG-based 2D illustration (and maybe, in the future, animation) package. I've been using Inkscape for animation for quite some time already. I'm psyched about that whole "path morphing" thing, because that really (and I mean REALLY) expands my abilities in the department. However, I'd love to see some "bones" that could alter the paths composing a character... Does anyone know of any FREE software package that would do the trick of providing easy path-modification animation? I haven't had much luck finding much else, though Inkscape is better suited for such than what most give it credit for, especially since varying opacity on full objects is so easily tweakable (multiple frames can be referenced without any pain whatsoever). [If anyone has any "non-Free" packages to recommend, I'd like to know about them, though I can't really promise I'll be able to follow up on each recommendation due to conflict of ideology. :) ] -ilya.

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Qs re Save As - eps, pdf, odg
by Phil Rhoades 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

People, Saving as: - eps - produces usable but not great output - odg - does not seem to work? - pdf - produces very rough output? I would like to output directly to PDF or to consolidate pages in Open Office and then export to PDF - is there improvements to these output formats? Thanks for nice software! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Inkscape.org down?
by Alberto Simões 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hi For some days I can't access inkscape.org. Any problem with my network or is the server down? Cheers -- Alberto Simões

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NURBS
by Esben Stien 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

SVGs' are not really scalable. Are there any plans to implement NURBS curves and surfaces?. -- Esben Stien is b0ef@...2066... s a http://www. s t n m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@ n n

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Blur Breaks on Export
by Axiom X11 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Ok, so I have this strange tendency to answer my own questions shortly after I post them, but I really needed that image, so I figured out how to alleviate the symptom. I think my last post still showed some kind of rendering bug. The reason why I have the crazy shapes at the edge of the drawing is because when you export the drawing, it cuts things off where it sees that the edge should be, ignoring the blur. This should be fixed. An auto shadow/glow tool would be fun too. Perhaps I should go file some bugs. -Brian

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Blur Breaks on Export
by Axiom X11 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I'm not sure how I would report this as a bug, but I have got this SVG in which the blur never exports correctly to bitmap. It always shows an artifact in the blur, and I can't tell exactly what is causing it, becasue it only shows up after the export. I am using Inkscape 0.45+devel, built Dec 14 2006 on WinXP. -Brian

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Postscript fonts not being recognized
by unknown＠example.com 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I'm running Inkscape v0.44.1 on Windows 2000. Recently I installed several adobe postscript fonts and Inkscape is not recognizing them. I have Scribus installed on this machine as well and it recognizes all the new postscript fonts. If I run notepad.exe I can see the postscript fonts as well so I'm pretty sure they're installed correctly but I just can't seem to get Inkscape to see them. Any suggestions? Also by not recognize I mean when I open Inkscape's font selector I don't see the new postscript fonts. Thanks, Kevin

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Hi all, We're ready to move into the bug fixing portion of the release. Traditionally, we specify a point target for us to reach, and award us points based on the severity of the bug: 3, 6, or 9 points for low, medium, and high. But this time, to encourage work on old bugs, lets give double points to fixes for any bugs that have been open for a year or more. Bug Hunt Goal: 300 points Current: 0 points Low: 3 - 6 pts Med: 6 - 12 pts High: 9 - 18 pts We especially need testers (and bug fixers) for Windows and OSX. A lot of bugs have accumulated that only show on those platforms, so they are difficult to test. If you are a Windows or OSX user, you too can be a big help, simply by browsing the bug tracker and see if you can reproduce the bug, and then add a comment on the bug one way or the other. No technical experience required. :-) Thanks, Bryce

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Introduction - and help!
by Phil Hendry 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Hello folks, My name's Phil. I'm a 'house-husband' these days, though until June I was a low-temperature physicist, working in the research labs at Lancaster University. My wife and I had this long-term agreement that when she got promoted to Professor, I would 'retire', run the household, look after the kids, etc. And lo and behold, she did, so I did! Best move I ever made! When I'm not cooking, cleaning, washing or acting as the kids' taxi service, I'm involved in a variety of projects for a variety of people requiring me to produce drawing and lay out pages. Page layout is almost all done in Indesign CS2, but, since switching from PC to Mac I've (thus far) dismally failed to find a drawing package that doesn't try to fight back. I'm a fairly recent (autumn 05) switcher from PC to Mac (dual 2GHz PowerMac). There's only one thing about my PC which I miss, and that's Xara (I used Xara right from it being called 'Xara Studio' up to the name change to 'Xara Xtreme'). Xara Ltd are (or were?) supposed to be sponsoring an open source version of Xtreme to run on the Mac, but there doesn't seem to be any progress - I suspect that the advent of Macs which can run Windows has removed some/most of the impetus behind this. The only thing I don't like about my Mac is the lack of a decent, usable, drawing package. I don't want to change to an Intel Mac (yet), and even if/when I do, I really don't want to run Windows on it - I started using a Mac to get away from Windows (sorry, to any/all the Windows fans here - I just got fed up with it!)! So I want a drawing package that runs under OS X. Illustrator is so clunky it's untrue - I *can* use it, but fighting it to get it to do what I want robs me of all my creativity; Canvas X is a bug-fest; Eazydraw doesn't have enough features and is too 'eazy'; etc; etc. I've just downloaded the X11 version of Inkscape. So far so good but... The text on things like rulers is so tiny that I can't read it. Is there any way to make it bigger? I've trawled through the document setup and preferences and can't find a way to do it. At the moment it makes using it *almost* impossible. My screen isn't exactly huge, but neither is it tiny - it's an Apple 20" Cinema Display. The 'tooltips' appear under the Dock (which I usually keep on the LHS of the screen), unless I undock the toolbar, in which case the tooltips appear *under* the toolbar: AARRGGHH!!! Either way, they're unreadable. Probably won't matter once I get the hang of the package, but for a newbie, it's a PITA! The size of objects seem to change as one changes the thickness of their outline - seems odd to me - it makes aligning things a bit 'hit and miss' if you then go back and edit them later. Admittedly, Xara had a similar (but not identical) issue - it's the one and only area where I think Illustrator is superior. Thanks, Phil I used to earn a living, now I have a life!

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Inkscape and GPU
by Karol Krenski 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Hi list, Does inkscape depend of how fast my GPU is? From what I understand GPU allows for hardware matrix/vector calculations and vector graphics is all about those. But does inkscape use the GPU or does it use CPU rather? I heard Macromedia Flash depends on GPU. Karol

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Questionnaire on Inkscape and Gimp
by ilya y. rostovtsev 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

> Hmmm... if his perspective really is anti-oss, well it sucks for him > that I didn't read that paragraph. I could care less when it comes to > anonymous surveys and what they use them for... so I skipped all the > "wordy" junk at the beginning and just filled it out truthfully. > > Honestly, if he is anti-OSS, I find this to be a bizarre place to ask. > It's almost like going to a church and asking people if they believe in > God or not. They're probably there for a reason. :) > > -Josh It would be more accurate to say that he went into a church, and asked people to fill out a survey that hopes to prove that there is no God. The survey is terribly written: it doesn't account for individual graphic artist work against a set team of graphical developers. I do not know of an Open-Source equivalent to Adobe bridge (which I haven't used in a multi-user environment), so I suppose a point can be made against OSS provisions for large-scale work (e.g. vector design -> color/texture providers -> layout implementation -> content management of some sort) at present. However, for single-man jobs, it has been me experience with OSS user base that they are, quite simply, more aware of extended abilities of the software toolset in their disposal than most users of "well locked up" proprietary stuff. Naturally, the preceeding argument is made about college kids doing web-design. When it comes to digital artists of highest caliber, there is no question that their experitise would be honorable regardless of which package they choose for themselves. I'm definitely interested in seeing the results of the survey, mostly due to the fact that no single good conclusion can come out of it. The "practical exercise" section of the questionaire is a complete joke that ought to take less than 30 seconds to finish INCLUDING the loading times of GIMP splash screen and initial "deep thought" phase of Inkscape. Last question: am I the only one of the opinion that most if not all OSS, graphic or not, has better documentation given out for free than most of the fancy (read: expensive) packages provide for extra dough? -ilya.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Questionnaire on Inkscape and Gimp
by Flachland Tapir 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

I am trying to answer some severe critics from bryce and mental on my questionnaire: 1. For getting a larger sample size, be sure that I am posting my questionnaire not only on an Inkscape mailing list but also eg in an Adobe forum. 2. I didn't take Scribus, because its targeting mostly people active in print 3. its "just" a survey for my master thesis and it would go beyond the scope to consider all proprietary and OS packages available. 4. science is always distorted and subjective! 5. the questionnaire is only a part for verifying my thesis, I will also use other research methods for getting answers. 6. I am further using ISO 9126, the standard for software testing 7. I am not changing my hypothesis, I am changing the text on the website to sound more neutral! fltp -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Questionnaire on Inkscape and Gimp
by Flachland Tapir 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi volks, Where else should I go if not here? To find out about the professionalism of Inkscape and Gimp I have started a research project called "OpenSource graphics software in the creative media sector". It would make me happy if you spend a few moments to fill in the questionnaire. You find all you need to know at: members.kabsi.at/amiga tanks a lot fltp -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Questionnaire on Inkscape and Gimp
by Flachland Tapir 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

A research under a scientific aspect has to set up a hypothesis and verify it. I don't know if the answer to my hypothesis will be yes or no, so one shouldn't derive that I am for or against OS. To let you know, I am a great supporter of OS and so it came to my mind as a professional user of graphics software why programs like Inkscape and Gimp are not widely in use compared to e.g. Photoshop or Illustrator! So how would it sound to you if the hypothesis claims: "Inkscape is mature for a professional workflow, so it isn't widespread and this is because it's free"! Anyway, I am glad to get feedback!!! It is hard to stay neutral on that matter, and I'll try to rephrase my question in the survey. My opinion is that this is because the software isn't mature, what doesn't mean that I am against Open Source. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gary <pajer@...1943...> > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Questionnaire on Inkscape and Gimp > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:27:43 -0500 > > > Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:59:16PM +0100, Flachland Tapir wrote: > > > >> Hi volks, Where else should I go if not here? To find out about > >> the professionalism of Inkscape and Gimp I have started a > >> research project called "OpenSource graphics software in the > >> creative media sector". It would make me happy if you spend a > >> few moments to fill in the questionnaire. You find all you need > >> to know at: > > > > On your webpage you state the purpose of this survey is to prove: "I > > claim that the application in a professional workflow isn't mature > > compared to proprietary software used in the CMS. The effort for > > maintaining OSGS exceeds the costs & benefits you could save when using > > free software." > > > > Since your purpose is anti-Open Source, there seems little reason to > > help you. > > > That's not how I read it. He might be supportive of OS software, and is > trying to find out why its not more pervasive. In any event, wouldn't > you(we) want to know where and why our OS initiatives fall short? I > admit I'd feel more comfortable if I had some assurance that he's making > at least an attempt at being neutral. > > Bryce > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape site slow?
by Bryce Harrington 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:26:44PM -0800, John Bintz wrote: > Bryce Harrington said: > > Thanks. Next let's try upgrading apache. I notice some issues with > > non-exiting child processes, which seems weird and is probably what's > > resulting in the slowness. Should take a couple hours; I'll let you > > know when the upgrade is complete. > > I don't know much about the config for the Inkscape server, but are you > using Alternative PHP Cache along with PHP 5.1.4? I've managed to kill > APC on really busy servers in such a way that the child processes never > exit, eventually using up all of the MaxServers. I don't think we're using that cache (how would you tell?), but we do have php 5.1.4 installed. I'll try upgrading it to 5.1.8. Thanks, Bryce

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Inkscape web site still slow
by Lars Behrens 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hi Bryce, the Inkscape site is still or again slow/unreachable. Just wanted to let you know, as you requested. Cheerz Lars

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