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Inkscape site slow?
by Jasper van de Gronde 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Is it just me or do other people also experience rediculous load times for the Inkscape site? (homepage and Wiki main page, I didn't dare go any further) With rediculous I mean something like a minute, or even several minutes.

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Boolean intersection of bitmap and vector shape?
by Richard Querin 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Is there some way to import a bitmap into Inkscape and then trim the bitmap to match some arbitrarily drawn shape? I've tried doing a boolean 'intersection' between an imported bitmap and a closed curve object I've created to no avail. Do I have to trace the bitmap first? Any hints or tips how best to do it would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I'm experimenting with screencasting and have created a quick Inkscape screencast to try it out: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMDIK4uvV8)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Mask/Clip is kinda hard to use
by Donn 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:17, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Paste Inside sounds like a very nice concept. Provided you can paste inside > and In Place. It was nice. Very nice. It had the superb quality of being entirely intuitive. You draw some larger shape. You select a bunch of any other stuff. You select the big shape and Paste Inside. Bang! Your stuff now lives inside the big shape - as if in a new world - like a new canvas almost! You could select the stuff inside, move-it, node-edit it, fill it, etc. Anytime you wanted stuff out, you sub-select it and Cut it. Bang! > An Outliner that lists objects and shows clipping/masking/cloning > relations would be helpful :) It would only be useful if the user-interface of mask/clip remains so hard for humans to actually use. Thanks for you other info! /d

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Re: [Inkscape-user] pattern mismatch - the reason for it
by Henning Lorenz 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

I discovered now the reason for the mismatch: The problem is that inkscape takes the path AND its stroke width into account when processing a tile clone, i.e. the offset of the new rows and columns is not based on the centre of the line but on the outline of it which depends on the stroke width (see attached screen shot). However, to produce a pattern which is good for a patternfill it is necessary that this process is based only on the centre of the line, i.e. the offset of the new rows and columns is independent from stroke-width. (Screenshot: thin line results in small offset, thick line results in larger offset - take the grid as a reference; to make the pattern suitable for a fill pattern each line has to be place on the grid without offset) A solution is to diminish stroke width to 0, do the tile-clone, and then adjust the stroke width to the wished value. However, the problem reoccurs when this pattern is used as a fill pattern! Even there the stroke width is taken into account! This could be easily fixed with a clipping mask. But the latter does not work with the command "objects to pattern", it results in an empty pattern. Henning On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:37:39 -0500, bulia byak wrote: > On 11/29/06, Henning Lorenz <henning.lorenz-wmbx2sCzPmCzQB+pC5nmwQ@...2053...> wrote: >> Then I changed the colour in the source, but there is a principal >> question: Is something wrong and if so, what? And why doesn't this affect >> the "pattern-pinstripes-diagonal" pattern? >> Maybe I just missed an important point in constructing patterns in >> inkscape? > > It's hard to visualize what you're talking about without a sample or > screenshot. However one thing you should be aware of is this: "Object > to pattern" creates a rectangular pattern with its sides parallel to > x/y axes. Only after that can you rotate or skew it. So if your > existing pattern is rotated or skewed, then converting it to objects > and then back to pattern will not give the same result. If you want to > edit it, first rotate the pattern so it's rectangular, convert to > objects, edit, convert to pattern, and rotate back to the original > angle.

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blend function in inkscape
by adwin wijaya 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Hi, I am new in Inkscape and I am happy with the function that provided in Inkscape. It is great ... and I would like to learn on how to use this tool :D I would like to know, whether there is function Blend like in Adobe Illustrator ? I would like to know if there is the equals function in Inkscape. I tried extrude / expand path but It doesnt do the same function as in Illustrator .. or I just dont know how :D If extrude path is the equal function as blend, then I would like to know how to blend using path as well. .. thnks ... note: I am using Inkscape 0.441 in Windows. adwin Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

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Mask/Clip is kinda hard to use
by Donn 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Hello, I don't know if I'm alone in this, but the mask/clip options in vers x.x are very hard to use. The results are hard to predict. Colours of objects will change (depending on fore/back ground order etc). Also, the difference between clip and mask is not clear. I come from a (distant) background in Macromedia Freehand and in that world they had a concept called "Paste Inside". 1. Now that made perfect sense and was perfectly predictable. One did not have to setup a bunch of "tests" on the side. 2. You could select items within the mask, and easily edit/move them. In Inkscape 0.44, I get the feeling that those items are new and experimental, perhaps they will get a better user interface - I'm not sure where the coders are at now, I know they move really fast on a thousand fronts. Anyway, any pointers? /d

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wiimote+inkscape (YouTube)
by MenTaLguY 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Inkscape featured (briefly) as a demo application for this guy's project to develop Linux drivers for the Wiimote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1_pZ-AteA&eurl= -mental

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changing all fonts in a document
by Oguz Akyuz 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi, Is there a way to change the size of all fonts in a document from 8 to 10 points without breaking my existing groups? Thanks, Oguz

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non-transparency gradient
by Oguz Akyuz 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi, How can make a gradient which is not transparent? Thanks, Oguz

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Ann: A new version of FontyPython - TTF manager for Gnu/Linux
by Donn 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

> Heya, you should take a look at http://openfontlibrary.org and email the > list there...there is interest in this type of tool and it would be > great to get you involved in that project. Jon, thanks I'm off there now. /d

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Ann: A new version of FontyPython - TTF manager for Gnu/Linux
by Donn 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hello all, please forgive the intrusion ... If anyone wants to manage TTF fonts under Linux, then FontyPython should do the trick. I just finished and released version 0.2.0 which is my second release onto: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython I have attached a screeny so you can get a quick idea of what it's all about. If anyone wants to help me, we could get it working with other font types too. I know nothing at all about Type 1 and company. I hope there are no showstopping bugs, enjoy. Donn.

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Mask/Clip is kinda hard to use
by Donn 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hello, I don't know if I'm alone in this, but the mask/clip options in vers x.x are very hard to use. The results are hard to predict. Colours of objects will change (depending on fore/back ground order etc). Also, the difference between clip and mask is not clear. I come from a (distant) background in Macromedia Freehand and in that world they had a concept called "Paste Inside". 1. Now that made perfect sense and was perfectly predictable. One did not have to setup a bunch of "tests" on the side. 2. You could select items within the mask, and easily edit/move them. In Inkscape 0.44, I get the feeling that those items are new and experimental, perhaps they will get a better user interface - I'm not sure where the coders are at now, I know they move really fast on a thousand fronts. Anyway, any pointers? /d

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Times New Roman
by Oguz Akyuz 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi, I cannot see this font among the default fonts, is this not supported? Cheers, Oguz

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PSfrag replacements problem (importing eps)
by Oguz Akyuz 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, When I import an eps file I lose all the text in the eps file. Instead a text is added which says "PSfrag replacements". I'm using version 0.44.1. I've uploaded the problem eps file into http://www.coolhall.com/dynrange.eps Could you please help me out with this? Thanks, Oguz

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pattern-fills scale according to former transformations of an object
by Henning Lorenz 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

How do I reset former transformations/scaling of an object? When I fill an object with a pattern, it becomes scaled according to earlier scaling applied to the object. However, I want several objects which have different "scaling-histories" to fill with the same pattern in the same scale. How can I do this? Thanks! Henning

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pattern mismatch
by Henning Lorenz 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

I try to construct a regularly spaced, diagonally striped pattern. Beginning with on diagonal line in the upper left corner, "tile clone" produces a mismatch between the columns and the rows. When I construct the pattern by hand and use it on an object I get similar mismatches between the pattern-tiles. An example to visualize the problem: I fetched this pattern from openclipart.org: http://openclipart.org/clipart//special/patterns/pattern-pinstripes-diagona… An object filled with this pattern looks fine. Now, convert with "pattern to objects" (which I did to change the colour) and convert back with "objects to pattern". An object filled with the resulting pattern shows the mismatch. Then I changed the colour in the source, but there is a principal question: Is something wrong and if so, what? And why doesn't this affect the "pattern-pinstripes-diagonal" pattern? Maybe I just missed an important point in constructing patterns in inkscape? Cheers, Henning

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cross compilation
by sylvain 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hi,I know it may not be the best mailing list to do that but as i heard you know how to do it and i didn't find resources elsewhere, i'll ask it here.It seems that you manage to cross compile programs using gtk and autotools, so as i try to cross-compile c++/gtkmm programs, i'd like to know if someone could contact me to give me some resources and help about cross-compiling such programs. I apologies for the inconvenience.And thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Essayez Live.com, votre nouvelle page d'accueil ! Personnalisez-la en quelques clics pour retrouver tout ce qui vous intéresse au même endroit. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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Re: [Inkscape-user] delete all guides
by Johan Engelen 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:26:13 +0100 > From: Henning Lorenz <henning.lorenz@...2052...> > > Is there a possibility to delete all guides in a drawing with > one command? It's rather time-consuming to pull some 50 > guides back onto the rulers, one by one. Thanks! Just this week I was made aware of this problem by a friend: creating a guide management UI has been added to my to do list!

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configure error libpng
by Paul Campbell 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

When I try ./configure I get the configure error below. I have libpng 1.2.7 installed. checking for sys/stat.h... yes configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape > Name : libpng > Version : 1.2.7 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. > Release : 1.el4.2

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delete all guides
by Henning Lorenz 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Is there a possibility to delete all guides in a drawing with one command? It's rather time-consuming to pull some 50 guides back onto the rulers, one by one. Thanks! Henning

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NEW: grow/shrink selection in node tool
by bulia byak 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

* You can grow or shrink node selection by hovering the mouse pointer over a node and using mousewheel (up = grow, down = shrink) or the keys PageUp (grow) and PageDown (shrink). Growing adds the closest unselected node to the selection; shrinking deselects the farthest selected node. There are two modes that differ by how the closest/farthest nodes are chosen: o Spatial selection (Mousewheel, PageUp/PageDown): distances to nodes are measured directly, regardless of which subpath a node belongs to. o Linear selection (Ctrl+Mousewheel, Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown): node distances are measured along the path, and only the nodes belonging to the same subpath as the hovered node are considered (i.e. other subpaths are never selected). This technique is convenient for quickly selecting an area in a complex path starting from a center - for example, for node sculpting. Let me know if you think linear mode will be more often used than spatial - I can swap the shortcuts so that the more common mode can be used without Ctrl. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Activating? Extensions
by Magnus Gunnarsson 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

Dear everybody, I have read about all the wonders that so called extensions can add to Inkscape, but nowhere can I find any descriptions of what extensions are, or how to find/install/activate them. I have downloaded the Mac distribution (0.44), and there is a folder called extensions and a set of files with interesting names, so I think that the extensions are there. However, I see no traces of them in the user interface. What are extensions? What extensions are there? Where can I find them? How do I install/activate/use them? Best regards, MagnusG!

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Problem compiling inkscape
by Thomas Zastrow 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Hi there, I again tried to compile the SVN-version under OpenSuse 10.1 and get again the error: ./configure: line 9678: syntax error near unexpected token `XFT,' ./configure: line 9678: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, xft, xft_ok=yes, xft_ok=no)' zastrow@...2050...:~/inkscape/inkscape> ./configure --prefix=/opt/inkscapeNov/ --without.xft configure: error: unrecognized option: --without.xft Try `./configure --help' for more information. I think, I had this error some times befire but than it disappeared? Now it's back again and I can't find a solution on the list or somewhere else ..?? Best wishes, Tom

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Help Wanted: Testing Autopackages
by Aaron Spike 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

The quality of the Autopackage builds could be greatly increased with more consistent testing. There is a need for volunteers running various distros (Slackware, Suse, Mandrake, Fedora, Debian) and various versions of these distros to work with the autopackager to ensure compatibility throughout the release cycle. This work involves regular downloading and installing of inkscape autopackages (about 10MB), submitting detailed bug reports to the autopackager and testing fixes as they are prepared. Snapshot builds for testing live at: http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?C=M;O=D Thanks, Aaron Spike

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separate traced objects
by Hago Ziegler 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Hallo, I made some designs like this one: http://hagoschaos.de/test/ _W-NJ-07.jpg_ They are A4 or larger. I scanned or fotografed them with high resolution. Now I have PNGs with 300dpi. The one that you can see, is the smallest and simplest. What I'd like to achieve is, to have every little part of the design as a separate object in inkscape. I already imported the files into inkscape and traced them - it gives a good result. But I can't separate the single parts. Is there a way inside inkscape? (I found a way separate the parts it in gimp and trace them separately, but that's a huge lot of stupid work) Regards, Hago

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Can someone tell me where I might find some better documentation on Flow INTO FRAME
by Bibi Morris 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

I am looking for better documentation on Flow into frame, I am looking to flow text into a shape, where the text follows the contours of the outside of the shape. Can anyone help with pointing me to where some good documentation on this may be available. Thanks in Advance Bibi -- Design Team Member www.thescrappinpath.com Providing Inkscape answers at the Yahoo Group inkscapeDXFcafe

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kerning possible in Inkscape?
by Seymour Fine 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Can one do kerning on text in Inkscape? Or is there any other way to get a few lines of type justified on both left and right sides? Thanks

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Zooming and shortcuts
by vicarius 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

Hi guys, My zooming numerical shorcuts don't work on my Linux (Novell Desktop Linux 10) 0.44.1 version. The only which works is 5. Others don't do anything, but using the palette icons do work. I have a french keyboard, maybe that's t related? Any hint? Thanks a lot. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Zooming-and-shortcuts-tf2651874.html#a7400039 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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(no subject)
by anas emad 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-- with my best weshes Anas Emad www.anas.co.nr

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Best way to change color scheme on drawing?
by Andrew S. Townley 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi folks, Maybe doing this through the XML file is the best way to do it, but I was wondering if there was a better way than that. What I want to do is take an existing (fairly complex) image originally defined as EPS, but then create a new color palette for it so I can use it in a different way (it's using shades of blue now; I want shades of yellow/orange). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast@...2044...> http://atownley.org

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NEW: Trace Bitmap dialog redesign and new parameters
by bulia byak 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

* This dialog now provides access to three more tracing parameters: o Suppress speckles: If set, spots or speckles larger than the given size are suppressed in the trace. o Smooth corners: This parameter controls how much smoothing is applied to corners in the traced path. o Optimize paths: If set, trace paths are optimized by joining adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance. * The dialog is redesigned to use three tabs: Mode, Parameters, and Preview. The controls are reorganized to be easier to find. Most labels and tooltips are rewritten for clarity. * The trace preview image is made twice larger. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: file name entry field finally fixed
by bulia byak 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

* We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.10, GTK+ has finally restored this field in their standard file dialog (better late than never!). The standard field at the top of the dialog supports type-ahead find and performs the default dialog action (open or save) by pressing Enter, which means you can now do a quick Ctrl+O, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence to open the file whose path is in your clipboard (this closes a long-standing usability bug). Those who use older versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2.10 or use Ctrl+L to open a pop-up filename box. (Our Windows builds are shipped with GTK+ 2.10.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Ted Gould wrote: > Yeah! Go Aaron! Well so far I haven't created much new text on the wiki, just moved it around. So let's give a round of applause to the folks that have added some docs recently. Thanks guys. > I actually have looked for that file on more than one occasion. Really, > if someone out there has a mailing list archive... I'd like to update > it with all the new fun things that have been added. Right under my nose the whole time! Sf.net's new interface makes it way easier for me to find things. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11420660 I pasted it to the wiki. This was from a time before extensions had parameters and the autogui. Wow, things have come a long way since 2005-04-07. Aaron Spike

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Clipping & EPS export
by Arnout Standaert 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hi list, I'm using clipping in some of my graphics and just noticed that the clipping gets lost in the EPS export. In other words, the EPS shows the full clipped object instead of only the unclipped part. This corresponds to bug 1537281 as far as I can see... is there a quick fix for this? Thanks a bunch for any useful tips, Arnout

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Install miseries.
by John R. Culleton 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

I have a Slackware Linux system, at this point release 11. Slackware does not include Gnome. when I attempt to compile Inkscape I get a long list of missing packages. When I attempt to install the precompiled version using: inkscape-0.44.1.x86.WONKY.package things get even worse. Fontconf gets messed up and I have to reinstall Slackware 11 from scratch to straighten things out. Which distro of Linux is Inkscape friendly? I can set it up on a separate partition. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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NEW: color effects extensions
by bulia byak 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Contributed by Jos Hirth, with some changes by me: * Color effects: a new group of extensions in the Color submenu of the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands include Brighter and Darker (adjust brightness by up or down by 10%), Desaturate, Grayscale, Negative, commands for removing or swapping the Red, Green, Blue channels, as well as a Custom command where you can set your own formulas for modifying the color channels. These extensions are a temporary solution; in a future version, similar functionality will be added to Inkscape core. Adjusting gradient colors may be buggy because a gradient is sometimes shared by more than one object. Also, undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an object seems to "disappear"; this is however only a display issue (probably caused by the order in which gradients and their users are restored on undo) not causing any loss of information. Finally, on large documents and large selections with gradients, Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these shortcomings, I decided to commit this, because it's genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in Inkscape. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

People have been noticing the sad state of Extension System documentation frequently. I think we should change this. I've started reorganizing things on the wiki. I've taken an old mail from Ted and pasted it at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionArchitecture Never seen a clearer description! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ScriptingHOWTO describes in general terms what is needed to write a script/program in any language that communicates with inkscape as a Script extension. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingAnINX will be home to a description of the INX format. Ted or anybody else do you have the INX DTD that I had worked up way back when? I can't seem to find it. The last step will be to create a page describing the helper modules for extension writers who choose to use python. :-) It is just a start, but I hope we can clear things up and reduce the barriers for contribution. Comments? Aaron Spike

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Help Wanted: Autopackager
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I took over maintaining the Inkscape Autopackages both to relieve Mike Hearn, who was not an Inkscape developer, and to increase my knowledge in how applications are compiled and packaged on linux. Since then my free time has diminished and my interests have shifted. So I'm looking for an interested group or individual to assume this responsibility. Some knowledge of compiling applications on linux or a strong desire to learn recommended. :-) Anyone? Aaron Spike

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Extensions Repository
by ValessioBrito 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

You it made or it knows an extension for inkscpae? it divulges! - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionsRepository .ValessioBrito PS: PathDeform is rules! Pretty.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30
by ilya y. rostovtsev 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

> Trace Bitmap is actually a wrapper around another tool called potrace, > which can be used from the commandline. While Inkscape adds some useful > capabilities in its wrapper, you might be able to achieve what you need > directly. More info on potrace: > > http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ > > Bryce Thanks, that actually helps quite a bit. Q: Say I have a complex path that needs to be broken up into pieces. I generally copy-paste-in-place and then delete unnecessary nodes that leave me only with the piece that is most curious to my cause. I am familiar with "Break Apart" function, yet it only works for objects which contain multiple disjoint paths. Would be rather nice if I could select necessary points of the path and "extract" them into a new object without using "Cut Path," since it requires another shape to place correctly... -ilya.

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(no subject)
by anas emad 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

-- with my best weshes Anas Emad www.anas.co.nr

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Mike Causer 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:38:00 +0000 "Andrew S. Townley" <atownley@...16...> wrote: > I know IE doesn't support PNG (which is what the FAQ entry is about), > but if I create a transparent GIF with the Gimp, I get a transparent GIF > (albeit with much worse-looking text) than if I do it with Inkscape. > It's been a while since I looked at image formats in detail, but if it > is simply a matter of massaging the color of the "background" pixels in > the GIF, is there a tool that can do this? I changed the document > properties from #ffffff00 to #00000000 wondering if that may make a > difference, but it doesn't. If you know the background colour, gifsicle will fix it for you. (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/) The MS-Windows binary is not as current as the Un*x ones, but will still do the job you need. Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:mikec@...2046... GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.com Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk

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Automating Inkscape
by ilya y. rostovtsev 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hello: I've been working on a number of things in Inkscape, a lot of which deal with tracing of many frames of 2D animation. Since I generally apply the same settings to a multitude of files, I was wondering if there is a way to do command-line access of "Trace Bitmap" command that could still utilize my settings... I only ask because most characters are extremely low-res to begin with and require being cut into a number of parts to create a good final composite. If there was a way to convert large amounts of bitmap data to SVG based on a specific setting I've set, and perhaps a way to cleverly automate coloring of the parts as well (if I can trace, I can figure out the rest), I could save a monumental amount of time. Any information is greatly appreciated. -ilya.

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Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Andrew S. Townley 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi, I know there's an entry in the FAQ on the wiki about this, but I was wondering if anyone could shed more light on why this isn't working if you export to GIF rather than PNG. I know IE doesn't support PNG (which is what the FAQ entry is about), but if I create a transparent GIF with the Gimp, I get a transparent GIF (albeit with much worse-looking text) than if I do it with Inkscape. It's been a while since I looked at image formats in detail, but if it is simply a matter of massaging the color of the "background" pixels in the GIF, is there a tool that can do this? I changed the document properties from #ffffff00 to #00000000 wondering if that may make a difference, but it doesn't. Why I care: I'm trying to create some white text to be composed over a colored background, but I want to be able to control the color of the background via CSS in a web page rather than have to create a separate image for each color I want. Any ideas/suggestions/information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast@...2044...> http://atownley.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [RE] Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Andrew S. Townley 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 19:44, Black Fire wrote: > Your message isn't clear how you tried to use GIMP. Did you use it to > convert at PNG made with Inkscape? > If not, then try exporting your Inkscape drawing as a PNG, then use > GIMP to convert it to a GIF. I was actually just pointing out that if I did something similar with GIMP, e.g. new bitmap with transparent background, white text, that it did what I expected. I actually did what you suggested, but I gave up after I discovered that I was really dealing with a PNG anyway (see earlier message) and that I couldn't figure out in under 20 min how to get the image converted from PNG to GIF and still keep the anti-aliasing so the text looked presentable. I finally took the original PNG, pulled it into GIMP and added the background color as a new layer to save as a GIF. Isn't what I wanted, but the visual effect is the same as long as I don't change the colors. ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast@...2044...> http://atownley.org

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wiggly lines, springs & coils
by Kasper Peeters 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Is there a way to draw wiggly lines with Inkscape? (I don't mean hand-drawn wiggles, those are never regular; I need wiggles which have the same size everywhere on the path). A related question: is there a way to draw paths with a "spring" or "coil" shape superposed on it? Thanks, Kasper

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Assign hot keys to specific actions?
by Thorsten 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi, is there a way to assign hot keys to specific actions in Inkscape instead of specific menu entries? I often need to center objects horizontally and vertically and it would be a massive timesaver if I could simply use hot keys, maybe even one hot key for both actions (applied successively)? I checked through the keybindings settings and the wiki, but failed to find an info. Keep up the good wirk, - Stellaris

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Joining two paths.
by Thetargos 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hello list, I use Inkscape 0.44.1 on Fedora Core 6 Linux, and I would like to know how could I sort of "join" two paths together. I'm not necessarily talking about grouping them, but rather like what happens in Blender, where you can have a mesh and then start molding another mesh separate from the first, but sill be the two part of the same "object". I don't know if I make any sense with this. Particularly what I want to do is have the two objects be as one. The reason I want this is because I'm trying to prototype a font style, so I need to have characters such as 'ñ', 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'à', 'è', 'ì', 'ò', 'ù', 'ä', 'ë', 'ï', 'ö', 'ü', 'â', 'ê', 'î', 'ô', 'û', etc. From what I have been gathering, these have to be treated as a single entity so that the font renderer can "pick" the right character. I'm trying to make this and hopefully turn it into a TTF (would be my first). I'm not sure if I could then "import" the individual characters into a program such as FontForge and have the font made. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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opacity and blur: 0.15 or 15%?
by bulia byak 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Here's a usability question that I'd like to get some feedback on. Myself, I'm undecided. How to display and input values of opacity and blur? 1. As percent, 0 to 100, or 0.0 to 100.0. Pro: easier to pronounce; more common in "real life"; spinbutton can be shorter by one character (dot). Contra: requires a "%" label after the spinbutton; if the label is not there (as e.g. in the statusbar there's little room for it), it may be more difficult to guess, when you see e.g. "15", that the maximum is 100; requires a change from the Inkscape status quo. 2. As numbers from 0.0 to 1.0 (with two or three significant digits). Pro: no need for a % label; easier to guess what the maximum is (though still not entirely obvious, unless you have a slider too); no need to change the status quo. Contra: slightly more "geeky", more cumbersome to type and pronounce, requires slightly wider spinbutton. Opinions? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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new screenshots
by bulia byak 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Those without an SVN build of Inkscape are invited to visit the recently updated gallery of 0.45 screenshots: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/ The exhibits demonstrate the two photorealistic car renditions, a demo of the proposed gradient mesh approach, and a mini-tutorial on creating life-like shading for arbitrary rope-like shapes. All examples use Gaussian blur, and the source files of all examples are in share/examples in SVN. Enjoy! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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