November 2004 - Inkscape Users

pixel measurement
by volvoguy 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Hi all, Just a quick question. Previously when I worked in Illustrator or CorelDraw, I set the measurement to pixels, since most of the stuff I was doing was for the web. I noticed in Inkscape that the global preferences set some things with pixels, but you can't set the overall measurements to pixels. Is there a reason for this? I've been getting around it by designing in point measurements and then changing the DPI when I export to bitmap to get to the pixel size I want. At least the proportions work ok when I do this. Any thoughts? -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton

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a question for object selection
by nick 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

I have drawn some objects in my composition, some objects overlay on other objects, but now i want to edit these overlaid objects, how can i select these objects? -- Chen Yue www.360degreeweb.com.cn GnuPGP Public Key ID: 0x8F197001 PGP Key server: hkp://pgp.mit.edu gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x8F197001

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calligraphy fun + new screenshots
by bulia byak 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Until yesterday, I considered Inkscape's calligraphy tool pretty useless. It was too weird and not really suited for any real work. It turns out I was wrong. The problem with this tool was that its most useful mode - flat nib - was disabled and there was no UI to enable it. As a result, the Angle control had no effect because the "pen" was actually more of a "brush". I fixed this, and even made the transition from flat to round a gradual one, controlled by the new Flatness control (0 = round nib, 1 = flat nib). (Actually 0 is not "round", but the pen is always rotated perpendicular to the stroke direction; any suggestions for a better term?) I also added a Thinning control which tells how much to change the width of the stroke depending on velocity (0 = uniform width, >0 makes faster strokes thinner, <1 makes faster strokes broader). I also changed the defaults of the rest of the parameters. With these changes, the tool is now capable to do some real calligraphy. All of this screenshot was done entirely in Inkscape using a Wacom tablet: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.40-CVS-linux-calligraphy… Other screenshots added today: tracing, text on path, tutorial, and a work screenshot from David Christian Berg. Enjoy, and don't forget to send us your screenshots! http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php

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Confirmation
by unknown＠example.com 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

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Feedback 0.40pre1
by Aaron Digulla 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Hello, I've just compiled 0.40pre1 and wanted to give some feedback: - Like 0.39, very large paths (4000 nodes) are very slow, especially during zoom and when I go into node-edit-mode (inkscape spends a lot of time drawing stuff that's off-screen). - While dragging with the middle mousebutton, inkscape should stop drawing when I move the mouse. That would prevent these nasty "hickups" when panning and allow to pan in models of any complexity. - Is there a way to leave the "cut object" (used in cut path) alive? - There should be a way to set the layer of an object; using "next layer" and "prev. layer" is ugly. - I'm editing a vectorized image (a scan of a map). Unfortunately, the "strokes" of the original image were converted to polygons by potrace. Is there an easy way to turn them into lines? - I'd like to have a way to split a path at a point (turning that point into two endpoints, leaving orientation, etc, alone). Can you add that, please? Ideally, the tool should use a crosshair which snaps to the closest path and whenever I click, it should cut the path. - How do I join the ends of two paths? - Is it possible to create a polygon by specifying a set of paths? The idea is that I have N paths which are the borders of an area (a land on a map). Now, I want to be able to create a polygon and the borders from the paths. The borders themselves should get special styles (border to the sea, to another land, province, etc) while all "borders" of an area joined should give the outline of the background. Even better: Two adjoining lands would share the same border. When I move a point of the border, I change the border and the two "land areas". Can I do that in inkscape? Thanks, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://www.philmann-dark.de/

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layer progress
by MenTaLguY 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

bulia's gotten layer locking/unlocking and show/hide from the layer selector working now in CVS. Give it a spin and see if you can find any remaining bugs~ -mental

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Embedded fonts in SVG files ?
by Paul Libbrecht 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Dear Inkscapers, I wonder how hard it would be to provide a feature to save the fonts along with the SVG documents, and even maybe use them in future usage of this document... Except for the delicacy of font-parsing, it tastes like something that would be useful to all! thanks paul PS: I seemed to notice that InkView didn't support embedded font, at least yet.

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Glue : SVG Support ? Inkscape Sypport ?
by NAGY Endre 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Greetings My goal is to implement in Inkscape the equivalent behaviour of "glue" as found in Visio. In Visio this is exhibited by creating two "lines" and then dragging the end point of one line to coincide with the end point of the other. The behaviour of these "lines" are defined such that when a "coincidence" event occurs the end points are "glued", ie a transformation of one of the lines (e.g a translation) causes the end point of the other line to continue to coincide with the position of the other end point (i.e the end of one line "follows" the position of the other). It would be nice if, within Inkscape, I could specify such behaviour, but its absence would not be fatal because I have other means of specifying the content of the SVG that would be input to Inkscape. Firstly, are there any elements within the SVG specification that would naturally allow this behaviour to be defined?. Unfortunately I am not in a position to specify the glued coordinate as one that is part in a single polyline. I am constrained by a requirement that this behaviour be exhibited between two distinct geometric elements. I initially had in mind providing an identifier for one of the points in one polyline. I could then define a point in the other polyline as a reference to this identifier. But I dont think SVG's element and attribute structure allows this. Secondly, if the SVG specification supported such a semantic, would Inkscape reflect this in its behaviour. That is, if (to take one possible solution) one point were defined as a reference to the other, would Inkscape know to update all points that were defined by reference. Thanks in advance for any assistance Endre Nagy IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

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default template + screenshots
by bulia byak 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Just a quick note that I added an initial layer to the default template. Now new documents will be created with "Layer 1" active. Also the hide/lock buttons now at last look correct (though they are not functional yet). This means that Inkscape's face is now fit for shooting. Please send here (or submit to patch tracker) your screenshots showing the nice things you are doing with Inkscape CVS. The more complex and beautiful is the stuff on your canvas, the better. Show something that not everyone can do! The best shots will be published on the site in time for the 0.40 release.

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Duplicating à la Illustrator
by Paul Libbrecht 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Dear Inkscapers, As the tutorial says.... duplicating is one of the most common operations. In illustrator, I had the habit of doing the following which turned out to be quite useful: select something, then alt-drag it... it'll be duplicating. Actually several other places with a duplication "modes" exist. For example all transformations have a "copy" checkbox... That's particularly nifty when combined with Illustrator's "repeat last command". For example one can easily rotate by 45 degrees with copy, then request repeat-last-command 6 more times to get the objects spread around in all 8th of the circle... Making a horizontal sequence of strokes is another example. How does it sound ? paul

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