February 2004 - Inkscape Users

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by Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

-- I will reveal my weak points based on your wepon of choice

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Announcing Inkscape 0.37 Release
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

A new version of Inkscape is now available for use. Inkscape 0.37 includes many major new features, numerous bug fixes, and extensive codebase cleanup. Briefly ======= * New functionality: boolean operations on paths, dynamic and linked offsets, path outlining, standalone SVG viewer, drag-and-drop, letter-spacing. * More convenient editing: top panel, new color widget, 256x zoom, snapped rotation with Ctrl everywhere, selecting within groups, lots of new shortcuts, and more. * Interface and usability: saving view with the document, zoom history, fullscreen, hide/show all open dialogs, smarter export dialog, helpful statusbar, and much more. * Inkscape internals: built with C++, brand new classes for points, rects, matrices, and URIs, massive cleanups. * Last but not least: tutorial for new users, keys and mouse reference, Inkscape User mailing list, hassle-free Windows builds. More Detailed Info ================== Release Notes http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes037 Screenshots http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php Download From ============= http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 RPM, Debian, Windows, and source versions are available. Please visit http://www.inkscape.org to learn more, join our User Mailing List, chat with the developers, and submit your ideas for making Inkscape the leading SVG-compliant vector graphics tool.

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Icon Tutorial
by Daniel Taylor 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hello, Bryce said I should post this here, so here goes: I've created an icon tutorial for Inkscape 0.37 on my site, at http://programmer-art.org/?page=inkscape It should be useful for anyone wanting to learn the basics of Inkscape and how to use it to make icons. Although only two tutorials are finished, I plan on doing more (taking screenshots and cutting them up and such takes quite a bit of time, you know!). Let me know what you think :) If there are any specific requests I could look into that as well! Before I forget: I'm hosting myself on a DSL line, so the pages may/will load slowly; please be patient (and don't slashdot me!) -- 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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Call For Clipartists
by Bryce Harrington 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

With Myrk's nifty ribbon.svg submission and Simarilius' SVG Signs contribution this morning, we're now officially ready to receive SVG clipart collections for Inkscape. Clipart is extremely important for users of vector art programs, because it can save a lot of time when making certain kinds of drawings, and to provide examples users can start with when making their own creations. I think it'd be most effective (and fun) to leave this process fairly open ended and flexible, since that's how we like to do things in this project. What we plan to do is treat each clipart "collection" as it's own discrete package, that is welcome to set its own rules and conventions as its contributors see fit. We'll distribute a few with Inkscape itself, others can be provided as separate add-ins. So, if you want you can establish your own collection of just your own work, or can collaborate with other users for a group effort. You can set up some organization and standards for quality control or to maintain a theme, or leave it freeform. Whatever works best for you. Let's collect info and ideas about Clipart Collections on this wiki page, to document HOWTO's, ideas, questions, guidelines, etc.: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ClipartContribution If you want to start working on a clipart collection, please feel free to add a link to the appropriate page(s) there. Bryce

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Mascot of GNOME Germany
by Sven Herzberg, GNOME Deutschland 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi, we're currntly looking for someone to create some cool digital version of our maskot Gnobble [1]. It would be really cool of someone with experience in digital imaging could do this for us. [1] http://www.gnome-de.org/gnobble.tar.gz Kind regards, Sven -- Sven Herzberg <herzi@...18...> · Jabber: herzi@...19... GNOME Deutschland · http://www.gnome-de.org/

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Clipart ribbon
by Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

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Re: Inkscape drawing program
by Ted Gould 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Christoff, I'm glad that you like Inkscape, it is great to see that it is useful for people. Unfortunately, the arrowheads (we call them markers) are incomplete at this time so they are not shown in the GUI. Hopefully, they'll be ready very shortly as they are a useful feature for many people. If you want to see a preview, there is a screenshot of them on the webpage. Also, we've created the Inkscape User list which I've CC'd. This is a good place for you to ask questions, and also share stuff that you've learned about Inkscape. Thanks for your interest, Ted On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:19, christoff pale wrote: > Hi, > I have been using inkscape for some time now and I > think it is the best graphics program out there. > I have one problem I hope you can help me with: > I am unable to figure out how to draw lines with > arrows on them. > > I would appreciate it if you can tell me step by step > as to how I would go about make a simple (straight or > curved) arrow, > > Many Thanks > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html >

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Upcoming 0.37 Release
by bulia byak 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

>The release notes can be found here: > > http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Actually, the release notes for 0.37 are now here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes037 And at this address, a new release notes document for 0.38 has just been started: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes which already has one item. Watch that address for the news on Inkscape CVS improvements that will make it to 0.38. (And if you are a developer, please don't forget to add newsworthy items to that document as soon as they are in CVS.) _________________________________________________________________ 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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Upcoming 0.37 Release
by Bryce Harrington 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Heya folks, Just wanted to give y'all a heads up that we've completed work on the 0.37 release, and are building packages right now. We plan to announce it within a couple days, but if you keep an eye on our download page on SourceForge, the packages should start appearing there today. The release notes can be found here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] character encoding
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

>I have installed Gimp 1.2.5 and no problems with Czech fonts in this >program. >Gimp 2.0 unstable not work (error during startup). Czech fonts in Dia works >fine! >Screenshot of editing text window in attachment. The screenshot looks like either your Arial only contains Latin-1 (West European) charset, or Inkscape is only able to see this charset in the font. The second is more likely. I will file a bug and hopefully we'll be able to fix this soon. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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