February 2004 - Inkscape Users

Re: [Inkscape-user] new features proposal
by bulia byak 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

> > It works like this: > > any object (bitmap, shape, group) should be masked in simple shape. > > If it would depend on mask-shape fill (white=transparent), it is the > > best. We already have SVG masking support. It's probably buggy because it's not used, and it's not used because there's no UI for it. It's in our plans. > > And what about text frames with aligning? This is also being worked on. We're likely to have floating text in arbitrary shapes some time into the future. > > ps. I can't get a cvs access to build dev inkscape with kerning > > features. Doesn't anon CVS work these days? Or you have some errors when building? In the first case, wait a day, then take the snapshot on the site (I believe it's made daily). _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Printing on Fedora and Windows
by George Farris 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hello list, I have 0.37 installed on both Fedora Core 1 and Windows 2k. I have attempted to print the keycode file (under Help) but both platforms only print partial pages. Trying to print the tutorial also fails with the page split vertically and only one page. I can attach some screen shots if that would help but it seems printing does not work under 0.37. Anyone else experience this? Thanks -- George Farris farrisg@...30... Malaspina University-College - Cowichan Campus

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Re: [Inkscape-user] horny user
by bulia byak 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi, I've been a heavy Xara user until recently. Now I do about half of my design work in Inkscape. It cannot yet do everything that Xara can, but what it can do, it does in a much more usable and flexible way. One example is the complete and precise (pixel-by-pixel) keyboard control for scaling, rotating, and now kerning and letterspacing. I feel pain now when I use Xara and have to constatntly switch from keys to mouse and back. And as for Illustrator, oh, that's much worse in usability department than even Xara. > : In XaraX you can add bevels and shadows to vector objects while the > : objects remain fully editable, it's a very nice extra that no one else >seems > : to have going out there including Illustrator, Canvas or CorelDraw!! We will eventually have a much more complete support for this kind of features when we implement SVG filters. For example, Xara can only do monochrome shadows that are bound to the parent object (if you separate it, the shadow becomes a bitmap). We will have a gaussian blur of arbitrary object, which is a superset of Xara's shadow and never downgrades to a bitmap. > : bevel types total in XaraX). The ability to use a vector to slice or >cut a > : bitmap shape, That's easy to do with our new boolean ops. Hopefully the slice command will be ready for the next version. > : I think it might be worth a look at to maybe glean some ideas for >future > : implementation to make Inkscape really stand out from the rest of the > : Linux/Win based vector/SVG apps. Don't worry, I will never forget Xara even when I leave it for good :) Many of the stuff I added to Inkscape was inspired by Xara, but I always tried to do it better than Xara instead of just copying it. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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horny user
by Michal Zeravik 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi to all, I've been monitoring Inkscape since I know it. I tried to use sodipodi, but inkscape has boolean ops sooner and have nicer enviroment like panel within work window. I have a few questions: Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects? And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible. Michalz

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Screen coruption.
by Dan Brow 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

This is what my rulers look like. I don't know if it's ATI's Linux drivers or not. Any one else having this problem? Dan.

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New Tutorial
by Daniel Taylor 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hey everyone! Just thought I'd mention I've finished another tutorial on my site; this time it's on Bezier Curve Modeling. While I'm not promoting it as anything spectacular, I think it could help people new to vector graphics in general. It doesn't go into all the specifics, but it shows people where the important tools are and gives an example of how to use them. It can be found with my other tutorials, here: http://programmer-art.org/?page=inkscape -- Daniel G. Taylor Jabber: dan@...23... This email was sent from a machine running Gentoo Linux. (http://www.gentoo.org) ** Support Free Software! **

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import vectors other then SVG
by Michal Zeravik 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi to all, is it possible to import any other vector format into artwork? Michalz

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0.37 doesn't compile with gcc-3.3.3
by Sebastian Stein 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Hi folks, I tried to compile inkscape with gcc-3.3.3 under Slackware (current). During compile I get the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/inkscape-0.37/src/libnr' if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../../src -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/lib/sigc++-1.2/include -I/usr/local/include/sigc++-1.2 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT nr-types.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/nr-types.Tpo" \ -c -o nr-types.o `test -f 'nr-types.cpp' || echo './'`nr-types.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/nr-types.Tpo" ".deps/nr-types.Po"; \ else rm -f ".deps/nr-types.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi In file included from /usr/include/pthread.h:655, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/i486-slackware-linux/bits/gthr-default.h:37, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/i486-slackware-linux/bits/gthr.h:98, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/i486-slackware-linux/bits/c++io.h:37, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/bits/fpos.h:44, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/bits/char_traits.h:46, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/string:47, from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/stdexcept:45, from ../libnr/nr-types.h:19, from nr-types.cpp:1: /usr/include/bits/sigthread.h:32: error: Fehler beim Parsen before `*' token Means in English: Error while parsing in front of '*' token make[1]: *** [nr-types.o] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/inkscape-0.37/src/libnr' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Is this an inkscape problem or a gcc issue? Steinchen PS: Please cc me, I'm not subscribed! -- http://www.hpfsc.de/ - die Seite rund um: Assembler, Bundeswehr, TFT LCDs, Halle/Saale, Fahrradtouren, Neuseeland, Wanderstaat Mauma, Raumschiff USS Nathan, Enemy Room, MLCAD Tutorial

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New User - Questions
by Landon Blake 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Inkscape Users, I just downloaded Inkscape today. It looks like a really slick program, but I had a couple of questions. (1) How do I snap the vertex of one line to the vertex of another line? (2) Do you set the color of a line in the fill/strokes dialog? (I seem to create a polygon when I try to add color to a line, and can only use black and white with the linear or radial gradient fills.) (3) How do you snap a vertex to a grid? (4) Is Inkscape programmed in Java, or another language? Thanks for any tips or suggestions. Thanks, The Sunburned Surveyor

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Public domain ribbon
by Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

(sorry about that other mail, a slightly mispressed key) Here is the ribbon with public domain tags inside. -- This line is left blank intentionally.

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