November 2004 - Inkscape Users

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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gamma-correcting SVG files?
by Ben Crowell 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi all -- I'm new on this list. It's very impressive how Inkscape is coming along! I have a large set of SVG files (665 of them) that I've exported from Macintosh Adobe Illustrator and am now hoping to be able to work on exclusively in Inkscape. (Bye bye proprietary software!) As part of the process, I need to gamma-correct all these files, since the gamma correction on a Mac is different from the one used on Linux and Windows. In the past, I've done this by taking the EPS output from Illustrator and munging it using a kludgy perl script I wrote. (I convert the figures from EPS to PDF, and include them in a book done in pdftex.) I'd like to be able to do this to the SVG source files now, and solve the problem once and for all. Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this? Can this be done in Inkscape, and, if so, can the operation be scripted? Or is there some other utility that can do it? As a last resort, I could look into writing a less-kludgy Perl script using XML::LibXSLT or something, but I'm hoping for an easier way. TIA! On a related note, it occurs to me that if Inkscape has a test suite of SVG files, some subset of mine might be a useful addition to it --- if so, let me know. (They're technical illustrations from a physics textbook.) For example, when a new release of Inkscape comes out, it might be a good workout for it to see if it can read in a bunch of files, and render them as PNG without choking or producing an empty output file on any of the inputs.

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"Art Tips for Programmers"
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There's a post on Slashdot right now asking about "Art Tips for Programmers" with a link to the Open Clip Art Library. Add your comments here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/016244&tid=152&tid=156&tid=4 Bryce

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Inkscape for Mac OS X
by M-Rick 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

There is no other way than fink to install Inkscape under Mac OS X ? Because I will not install 100 Mo of packages and binaries requested by fink only to be able to use Inscape .... There is really no one binary somewhere ??

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