December 2004 - Inkscape Users

NEW: Tile clones
by bulia byak 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Before getting deep into the boring stuff planned for 0.41, I decided to do some eye candy... http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles2.png * The new powerful "Tile clones" dialog implements all 17 plane symmetry groups, allowing you to easily create all sorts of symmetric patterns, Escher-like tesselations, ornaments, etc. Since the pattern is made out of clones, you can freely edit the original tile and the entire pattern is updated live. This feature puts Inkscape into competition with software such as the free Arabeske or commercial SymmetryWorks. ** Apart from selecting the symmetry (and uniquely to Inkscape), you can also set the shift, scale, rotation, and opacity of the clones in the pattern, per row and/or per column. Any of these parameters can also be randomized to any degree. This produces "object fields" that can be arbitrarily distorted, skewed, slanted, "faded out," or "magnetized" like iron particles in a magnetic field. ** To create a clone pattern, simply select something, set the number of rows and columns, and click Create. You can then change some parameters in the dialog and click Create again; this will remove any existing tiled clones of the selected object and recreate the pattern anew. Or, you can just remove the old pattern by clicking Remove. To protect a pattern from deletion by this dialog, group it or move it to another layer. ** Initially, a pattern is created based on the bounding box of the selected object. For symmetries that involve rotation to an angle other than 180 degrees, the rotation point is usually in the middle of the right-hand side of the bbox. After the pattern is created, resizing the original tile does not move the clones away, so you can make the tiles overlap. Also, when the pattern is created, the current bbox of the original tile is remembered; later, if the "Use saved tile bbox" checkbox is on, the same bbox will be used when you click Create again, which means you can vary the pattern parameters without losing the overlapping of the tiles. ** It's best to use a group as the original object for tiling, because you can then enter this group (right-click, "Enter group") and draw inside it. Any changes or new objects added to the group will show in the pattern immediately.

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re [11]:
by Elnora Chapman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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wireframe preview?
by volvoguy 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

If there's a way to view a wireframe version of a complex graphic, I haven't found it yet in Inkscape. This seems to me a very common feature in vector graphics editors. If it's not possible now, is the bugzilla the best place to make feature requests? :o) Thanks! -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton

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Extensis AutoReply
by Extensis Support 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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Re: your blog for the gimp gradient editor
by Ted Gould 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:15 -0500, seval wrote: > the gradient editor for gimp gradients. fails to show actually > how gradients are imported. just import does not seem to work. just > wanted to let you know, and, if I could please know. this seems like > an amazing feature that I would like to make use of very soon. thanks. Well, one of the issues is that the importer doesn't 'show' you anything. Actually the gradient gets imported, but there isn't an object with that gradient on it. If you go to the fill & stroke dialog, you can add it to a shape by clicking on the gradient for the fill or stroke of any object on your canvas. Bulia and I have been talking about ways to make this more obvious -- hopefully it will be more user friendly in the next Inkscape release. --Ted

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RPM build errors
by Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Hi, I've tried to build an RPM of Inkscape 0.40 on FC3, but I keep getting an error: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.a /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.la /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.so.0.0.0 Anyone know what that means? Also, if and when I build it, who should I send it to so that they can upload it on SourceForge? Cheers -- Regards, Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] Get Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

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Firefox 1.0 Linux on Gentoo has SVG plugin installed by default!!!!!!!!
by Jon Phillips 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello all, I just opened an svg file by accident in Firefox 1.0 just to find that it displayed properly in my browser!!! Upon closer inspection I thought that I had setup svg to display in inkview, but no, I looked in the MozillaFirefox plugin folder and found these: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5632 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1368 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8536 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.so Thus, could you all check to see if the Mozilla SVG is provided with your Firefox 1.0 install? I am ecstatic with joy if this is installed by default on all Firefox 1.0 browsers, because that means we now have penetration into the world with SVG. I have just ruled out that I built my Gentoo install of Firefox with SVG, as it is not an option. Thus, the gentoo ebuild builds the SVG plugin by default. Hmmm...if you all could report if you have the SVG plugin on your install, it would be great to know to promote via our website. In the end, we have to consider that our app's usefulness will scale dramatically if SVG is adopted by more user's. As of now we are using more as a meta-format not much unlike Illustrator using AI as a default format for creating illustrations. With viewing of SVG files on the web, so much more will be possible. Jon -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 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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Extensis AutoReply
by Extensis Support 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

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Article: Introducing Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049 Also, we got picked up on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/ And Footnotes: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062 Bryce

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Undoing insensitive
by Jozsef Mak 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

If you make an object in inkscape insensitive how do you make it back into sensitive again? I am unable to figure this out. jozsefmak

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