doubleclick on object switch to edit mode
by Michal Žeravík
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
18 years, 7 months
Using potrace to produce SVG files for Inkscape
by Bill Peel
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
18 years, 7 months
[Inkscape-devel] Happy Birthday Inkscape!
by Bryce Harrington
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
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18 years, 7 months
Talented artists wanted, announcing GUADEC#6 logo competition (fwd)
by Alan Horkan
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
18 years, 7 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
by Jon A. Cruz
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....
18 years, 7 months
Exporting EPS
by Steffen Glückselig
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
18 years, 7 months
Call for bug check
by unknown＠example.com
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
18 years, 7 months
Shape-tutorial
by Steffen Glückselig
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
18 years, 7 months
