October 2004 - Inkscape Users

RE: [Inkscape-devel] RE: Le tutoriel \'effet mirroir avec inkscape\'
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

When I see the work done by Bulia for his tutorials, I much more see this document as an example (a kind of Inkscape in action) and it can't be compared to the complete and exaustive presentations of the fonctionnalities brought by Inkscape tutorials. -> I'll create an "Examples: Inkscape in action" page on the Wiki, and add this there. Guys from www.linuxgraphic.org have issued a lot of excellent tutorials/examples : I'll ask them permission to perform some other translations and then bring them on the same wiki page if they agree. Regards, Matiphas > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Phillips [mailto:jon@...87...] > Sent: samedi 23 octobre 2004 06:49 > To: Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) > Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; > inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net; Boyaval Olivier > (linuxgraphic.org); > JP Bourgoy > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] RE: Le tutoriel \'effet mirroir avec > inkscape\' > > > Excellent. Are you going to refactor this into a tutorial to > be included > with Inkscape. This tutorial seems short enough to possibly > include in > the file TIPS AND TRICKS that is included with Inkscape. > Otherwise, go > ahead and post to the wiki where you see appropriate. > > Great! > > Jon > > > > Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > here is a translation and update of the 'mirror effect' > tutorial published on the www.linuxgraphic.org web site, by > J.-P. Bourgoy > > > > If you can take a look at it, I'll accept with great > pleasure any correction/update/remark. > > > > I've updated it with the use of clones, added some exported > bitmaps of some icons and inserted a few remarks. > > > > It is in HTML at the moment (edited with Nvu), and can be > put on the Wiki. > > I plan to have a PDF and SVG version (with scribus) asap. > > > > Regards, > > > > Matiphas > > > > PS: please note that the file is a zip file. If necessary, > add a .zip extension to its name. (zip files are filtered by > the proxy of my company, sorry). > > PPS: as the author of the original tutorial had published > his document without any license, this applies also to this > translation >

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two new tips from the tipsandtricks tutorial
by bulia byak 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

I added two new tips to the tutorial. Feel free to send me your favorite Inkscape tips for inclusion - preferably something non-obvious, useful, and not documented elsewhere. Clipping or masking a bitmap By default, an imported bitmap (e.g. a photo) is an <image> element which is not editable by a Node tool. To work around this, convert the image into a rectangle with pattern fill by Alt+I ("Tile"). Now this object can be converted to path, node-edited, intersected with other shapes etc. In Preferences (Misc tab), you can set the option of always importing bitmaps as tiles. Open dialog as an object palette If you have a number of small SVG files whose contents you often reuse in other documents, you can conveniently use the Open dialog as a palette. Add the directory with your SVG sources into the bookmarks list so you can open it quickly. Then browse that directory looking at the previews. Once you found the file you need, simply drag it to the canvas and it will be imported into your current document.

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RE: Le tutoriel \'effet mirroir avec inkscape\'
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Hi, here is a translation and update of the 'mirror effect' tutorial published on the www.linuxgraphic.org web site, by J.-P. Bourgoy If you can take a look at it, I'll accept with great pleasure any correction/update/remark. I've updated it with the use of clones, added some exported bitmaps of some icons and inserted a few remarks. It is in HTML at the moment (edited with Nvu), and can be put on the Wiki. I plan to have a PDF and SVG version (with scribus) asap. Regards, Matiphas PS: please note that the file is a zip file. If necessary, add a .zip extension to its name. (zip files are filtered by the proxy of my company, sorry). PPS: as the author of the original tutorial had published his document without any license, this applies also to this translation

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Little suggestion for "sticky" bitmap exporting
by Paul Libbrecht 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Dear Inkscapers, Here's a first suggestion: a feature I would have wished since ages in Illustrator but... never had a chance to provide... When you export as bitmap a document from a design program, you often want to export it several times. I'd love Inkscape to have a checkbox in the export-as-bitmap dialog that says "and export every time I save". Another file-menu-command such as "export-again" would also help. And maybe "settings-set-for-export" may make sense (at least in some future). paul

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selection cue
by bulia byak 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

A long time ago, when Carl proposed the box selection cue (every selected object is enframed by a dashed box), I did not want to make this the default because I found it to be too intrusive. However, since then I grew to like this more than the default selection cue (every selected object has a diamond mark in the top left corner) and I find that I use the box selcue all the time. It's not so intrusive once you get used to it, and it gives a much better idea of the object extent and is nice for aligning things. Also, previously the selcue was only displayed in selector, where the scale/rotation handles make the selcue box a bit redundant; now however the selcue is displayed in most other tools that have no other handles around the selection. Hence a question: would you agree or disagree if I make bbox selcue the default? In case you don't know how to change it: Preferences > Tools > Selector, change "Per-object selection cue" from "Mark" (current default) to "Box".

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difficulties with ill2svg
by Paul Libbrecht 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi List, I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity! One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues: - shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or less) are filled with black - no text is imported I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ? thanks paul

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document templates
by Stefan Seefeld 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

hi there, I'm looking for software to help me designing CD labels, and so I tried a variety of tools, all raster based. It strikes me that a vector-drawing editor would be a better fit (IMO), and so I wonder whether inkscape has support for this kind of thing. I believe all that is required is a way to import document templates that provide the 'frame' for users to draw into. Is that true ? If so, the 'glabels' application comes with an impressive set of templates (in xml) which could probably be converted to something inkscape can use. Would that be an option ? Regards, Stefan

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Importing a logo to Inkscape
by Alberto Simões 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Hi I need to import two logos for a work I'm doing in inkscape. One of them is eps, tiff or jpeg. As I need quality for A3 paper, I needed eps. Inkscape does not load eps. pstoedit does not export to svg (the plugin fails). Ideas? THe other is in FreeHand. I managed to convert to Illustrator, but ImageMgick convert also don't convert it at all. Ideas? THanks. Cheers -- Alberto Simões

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Preserving resolution of embedded bitmaps
by Robert G. Davis 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

File->Inkscape Prefs.->Misc tab. On a related note. When I import a picture (tried PNG and BMP) the image size says the correct resolution but the selection size is too small. Inkscape .39 Robert Davis -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Henry House Sent: Sat 10/16/2004 12:24 AM To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Preserving resolution of embedded bitmaps På fredag, 15 oktober 2004, skrev Robert Davis: > Can't you tell in Inkscape Preferences to scale as 300dpi and not 72? > Haven't tried it since everything I did was 72. I would do just that if I knew how, but I have not seen control for the resolution of imported bitmaps in the Inkscape Preferences. Can you point me to it? I have Inkscape 0.39. -- Henry House Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system will reject it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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color of arrow-head
by Steffen Glückselig 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hello, I just noticed that changing the color of a line won't change the color of the arrow-head. Is this on purpose? Is there are workaround other than drawing one's own arrow? best regards Steffen -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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