October 2004 - Inkscape Users

doubleclick on object switch to edit mode
by Michal Žeravík 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi, I have got an idea: When I doubleclick to any object (from select mode - F1) I'd like to switch automaticly to edit mode (F2). What do you think about it? Michal ps. good work with layers and text-on-path

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Using potrace to produce SVG files for Inkscape
by Bill Peel 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Some of my initial attempts at using potrace to produce electronic components in SVG format for use with Inkscape can be seen at the URL below. The embedded figures are in SVG format so you will need a browser with an SVG plugin or save the figures and open them in Inkscape. http://www.isu.mmu.ac.uk/~za9ra01/svgstuff/svg-libs.html I have another Inkscape SVG file containing a collection of various transistor symbols which I have not put up on the web yet. Thanks Bill Peel

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[Inkscape-devel] Notes on tracing (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Anyone interested in helping Bob make an SVG document out of this? Bryce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:29:17 -0500 From: Bob Jamison <rjamison@...192...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Notes on tracing I wrote up a few paragraphs about using the tracer, in OpenOffice format, here: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/tracing.sxw ...if anyone would like to help in documenting this stuff... Maybe produce an SVG document. We could use some help. Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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[Inkscape-devel] Happy Birthday Inkscape!
by Bryce Harrington 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Has it only been ONE year? Yep, today, October 26, 2004 is Inkscape's first anniversary. This time last year we registered Inkscape with SourceForge and poured ourselves into converting it over to C++. Our first public announcement of the founding of the Inkscape project occurred a bit over a week later, on Nov 6th, to be followed closely by our first release to Freshmeat on Nov 10th. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3416220&forum_id=3970 It's been an amazing year with the project. We've had five very solid releases, each a major advancement over the previous. We've taken a project from scratch to being included standard in nearly every major Linux distro. Tens of thousands of people use Inkscape today! Most importantly, we've succeeded in building a very open and prolific development team, and have been fortunate in gaining a very supportive and friendly user community. For the year to come, I think we can look forward to gaining solutions to many of the features and issues we're worrying about right now like PDF, extensions, Gtkmm, etc. CSS will probably be a major effort, but one we'll gain a huge amount of benefit from. I think (hope) we'll see expansion of Inkscape's audience to include technical drawing in a big way. I'd like to put some effort into building up a healthy donation system since we already have users asking about that. I also hope we can continue to expand the size of the development team and the userbase. We should continue to encourage users to peek under the hood and fiddle with stuff; I'm hopeful the extensions system will also provide an easy way for users to get involved. We would also do well to expand our efforts at demoing and presenting Inkscape at trade shows and conferences. Congratulations and thank you to everyone that's helped us get this far, and look forward to seeing what Inkscape can achieve in 2005. :-) Bryce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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New Win32 Build
by Joshua A. Andler 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Thanks to Bob Jamison there is a new win32 build as of today. I just thought anyone doing testing on windows boxes might want to know. http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/Inkscape0410261 427.zip -Josh

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Talented artists wanted, announcing GUADEC#6 logo competition (fwd)
by Alan Horkan 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I just wanted to post this here in case anyone might be willing to help out designing a logo for this years GUADEC. - Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:35:28 +0200 Subject: Announcement: GUADEC#6 logo competition ## GNOME Foundation and GUADEC#6 commitee announce logo competition ## http://www.guadec.org In 2005 the Sixth Annual GNOME User And Developer European Conference (GUADEC#6) is organized by the "GNOME Foundation" in cooperation with "Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation" and "GNOME Deutschland". This is a good chance for any talented graphician to show off their work but anyone can submit a logo if they think they have what it takes. The winner will have their logo displayed on guadec.org for at least 1 year along with a credit to them and a bottle of well known wine from Stuttgart region. Furtheron the logo will be put on each conference T-Shirt of GUADEC#6. The competition can be entered by anyone. After the submission period is over (29.Nov 2004) the GUADEC#6 organization comitee will vote for their favourite design. So why not submit a logo? The rules and schedule can be found at http://www.guadec.org/logo-competition.html GOOD LUCK and spread the word, the more submissions the better! ## Bookmarks: ## http://www.guadec.org ## http://www.gnome.org ## http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de ## http://www.gnome-de.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
by Jon A. Cruz 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Alan Horkan wrote: >tried saving as >'abc.......ab' > >(the dots are unknown characters, some Hebrew some Arabic insterted using >windows charmap. the two characters after abc look like accented versions >of 'A' and 'a' but the other characters do not even display in the text >entry and instead I just get empty rectangles) > >got the following error. > >Could not build file name from 'file:///U:/Desktop' and >'abc.......ab': >Invalid byte sequence in conversion input > > Guess what? As far as I can tell, that's not an Inkscape error, but a GTK+ one. It seems to be that the file dialogs won't allow you to build filenames/paths that do not map into the current "filename" 8-bit encoding. If you have multilingual support (via Microsoft MUI or some such), you could try switching to a language that has those characters, then switching back and using the MRU list to access them. Also (and if you can't switch language), you could use some text editor that supports UTF-8 to edit your preferences.xml directly and stick that name into your MRU list. Hmmm... I wonder if it's time to use Inkscape to draw a little 'zone' diagram of the program and all the different points that could be affecting non-ASCII names? Hmmmm....

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Exporting EPS
by Steffen Glückselig 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hello, I searched a way to export my graphics as eps (to use them with latex) but couldn't find an option in inkscape. Is it possible at all? If not, does anyone know of a tool that converts svg to eps? (Or even a better, more comfortable way to include svg in latex?) regards Steffen

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Call for bug check
by unknown＠example.com 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me? 925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work 934062 win32: international characters in home path 1052307 Saving fails because of UTF-8 Error In generall, the steps to check these are 1) run a version of Inkscape that is belived to have the bug 2) try to reproduce the bug 3) report if it was reproduceable or not 4) once the bug is being reproduced, update to a version of Inkscape that should have it fixed 5) try to reproduce the bug the same way as worked for step 2 6) report if it is still reproduceable. With that in mind, I mainly need to get people to verify the bug via steps 1 through 3. Getting them checked on Windows 95/98/ME and also on Windows NT/2K/XP is helpful, as they are very different bases. Thanks, Jon

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Shape-tutorial
by Steffen Glückselig 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hello, I've just stumpled over the new tutorial on shapes and played around with it. I've noticed that some features described in the tutorial won't work with me. Most of the CTRL+click and Shift+click things do not work, e.g. I also couldn't find the handles for resizing an ellipse. There are just the two handles for creating arcs. I am using Inkscape for windows. Must be a build from last week... Before I forget: The tutorial is great. I learned a lot. Inkscape is marvelous! :-) best regards Steffen

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