June 2004 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Exporting question
by Daniel Klein 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I am not a visual person. I am not a designer, not a drawer, not a painter, not a photographer. I'm a man of words, really, if I need to be creative, it's words. Having said that, can I sue you for the time I've lost playing with Inkscape? No? Goddamnit. It's wonderful. Intuitive. The 'everything should be keyboard accessible' philosophy rocks. It has everything. Yesterday I tried, to amuse myself, making a mockup panelling for a comic that I'm working on with a visual artist (you guessed it - I mostly do the words :P).. it's incredible how painful proper layout with CSS can be. As these things go, 'to amuse myself' turned into a holy crusade and I would not rest until I could churn out professional layout mockups by the dozen. So I got Inkscape. The next 2 hours were spent rotating and resizing stars and occasionally saying 'wow'. I shake my angry fist at you all. Now I don't ONLY write here to stroke all of your egos. I have a little problem. Actually I feel ashamed to ask, because I'm sure newbies have stumbled over this a hundred times, but I could find nothing in either the archives nor the Wiki, so I'll ask here and add it to the archives: When exporting my wonderful drawing, I get a certain problem: First couple of attempts, all was black in the png. Now, after making a somewhat more complex .svg, PART of it shows up in the export. Please refer to http://ubermutant.de/~bringa/page1.svg (16k). In this mockup, only the mocked magazine cover on the right hand side shows up in an export. (I needn't mention that you shouldn't look at the content.. this is a mock-up only :P). If anyone could clear this up for me, that'd be great. One could also have some sort of Usage-related FAQ in the Wiki, and this would be a good first item to start with, I think. Daniel

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some ideas...
by Florent 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all, I think that it could be a good idea to have a "pot of painting" tool. (I would say a tool to create a new object compared to the layouts which surrounds it) I think that the booleans operation should be able to apply on a group of object. And a really thanks to the Inkscape's team to make possible this great SVG editor (and sorry about my wrong english :-) ) A sensitive-all option About the "Gradient Editor", sometime, when I modifie a parameter, it's directly apply to my gradation, and sometime not... Florent http://www.florentgabriel.ouvaton.org/GalerieSVG/Galerie.html

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bezier tool settings
by Albert 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all Is there any way to adjust Bezier curve helper points so that they remain aligned, i.e. they remain on a straigth line that runs over the central point? In this way, curves don't make sharp turns unless helper points are over the central point. If this is not implemented, I could help with it if someone could point me to the file. I have already done this in a java plugin for ImageJ. Albert

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Sizing :)
by Milen Dzhumerov 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello people :) I have made a logo of a project and now want to use it. But I want it to be 90x90 px and the borders to be a square. The logo now is very big and the size of the document is very big. Is there a way to automatically reduce the size to 90x90 or something near this and to place the object in the center vertically and horizontally.

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compiling Inkscape in MACOSX : success!
by Albert 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

This is my story on compiling and running Inkscape in macosx 10.2.8 with XDarwin and a gnome installation. Thank you to Colin in this mailing list for sharing his experience on similar compiling problems in Solaris. Albert ============= OS: macosx 10.2.8 Need a gnome installation. May get that through fink. Install xml-parser-pm560 in finkcommander (the xml perl parser) Set a few environmental variables: setenv CPATH "/sw/include" setenv LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/X11R6/lib:/sw/lib" setenv LIBS "-L/sw/lib -lintl " Error: No package 'sigc++-1.2' found ---------> Install libsigc++-shlibs in finkcommander Same error: installed libsigc is version 1.0.4 ---------> Installing libsigc 1.2.5 from source, from sourceforge. Same error. setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" (where the sigc++-1.2.pc file is) ok output: ======= Configuration: Source code location: . Compiler: g++ CPPFLAGS: CXXFLAGS: -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 LDFLAGS: Use POPT argument parser: yes Use Xft font database: yes Use gnome-print: no Use openoffice files: yes Use MMX optimizations: no make ==== Fails at: nr-type-directory.cpp: In function `bool ink_strstr(const char*, const char*)': nr-type-directory.cpp:302: `strcasestr' undeclared (first use this function) nr-type-directory.cpp:302: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) Colin from inkscape-users mailing list suggested commenting out the #ifndef WIN32 ... #else .. #endif, so that a strcasestr function is provided by the nr-type-directry.cpp file itself. WORKS Now fails at: In file included from /usr/include/dirent.h:64, from init.cpp:15: /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:73: 'u_int32_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:74: 'u_int16_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:75: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:76: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. On the web I've found dirent.h needs the declarations from types.h rigth before it, or won't compile. Let's try. In file ./src/extension/init.cpp ... #include <types.h> -----> FAILS #include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" ----> WORKS Developers could introduce a #ifdef darwin #include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" #endif COMPILED ! Now, ./inkscape in src folder works, but prints many critical problems. It all has to do with hard-wired links to /usr/local/share/... folders, non-existant when not installed. make install WORKS without printing errors. Good.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] rounded stars fun
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Whoa, that's extremely cool bulia... http://www.bryceharrington.com/round_stars.png Bryce On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, bulia byak wrote: > Today I was in a mood to do something funny... > > * A wild variety of central-symmetric curvilinear shapes, including > softly rounded stars and polygons, can be created using the new > Roundedness control on the options panel for the Star tool. > > The value is a ratio of the length of Bezier control handle to the > length of the corresponding polygon side. Values of 0.2 to 0.3 give > normal smooth rounded corners. Most other values (negatives are > permitted too) deliver tons of sheer excitement. > > Enjoy! > > P.S. Following which I'm going to be absent for a few days, as I have > an urgent paid job to do. If you need me for something, please try to > not forget what you need me for until I'm back :) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >

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Menu font size
by Maur 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

I was wondering how I can could the menu fonts in Inkspace; it displays display significantly larger than other GTK applications. I found that by modifying the gtkrc files in \Inkscape\etc\gtk-2.0\, I could get the size I wanted by replacing this line: # gtk-font-name="tahoma 12" with this one: gtk-font-name="verdana 6.5"

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Inkscape is spectacular -- feature requests?
by Eric Jonas 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello! Inkscape is really spectacular, and may once and for all rid me of my chronic dependence on Illustrator. The 0.39 sources compiled on my debian box with minimal hassle, and I'm quite happily using clones right now. But what I'd really like : ) would be some way of storing the original source for a clone in a file. I use Illustrator / will use inkscrape almost exclusively to diagram the internal guts of digital systems, with lots of symbols for flip-flops and the like. Thus it would be great to have a system-wide "register.svg" file that I could use as a base for the clone objects. I'm somewhat familiar with SVG and XML, and realize that this might not be possible. Has anyone else wanted this sort of feature, and if so, has there been any thought as to how to implement it? I'd be willing to try and hack on it (I've got some gtkmm background) if I wouldn't be stepping on anyones' toes ,and someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks again for making such a spectacular piece of free software! ...Eric Jonas

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Sensitive an object ?
by Florent 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Hi all, My object is unsensitive...so now, I can't select it So, how to sensitive an object ? Sorry, i really don't find it... Florent

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Re: [Inkscape-user] terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

>I'm sorry to come nagging right now, but i started sodipodi recently, and >discovered, that i like the zoom tool options floating around all the time. >woul�d >it be a big conceptual problem, for all this toolbars to be individualy >dispacheble? Generally leaving a tool options panel on when the tool is not active would be a problem. But most zoom panel buttons are not really tool specific, they're global verbs, and they're in that panel simply because we did not have another. When I add a Commands panel at the top we can move some of the most commonly used zoom buttons to it. Which ones you use the most? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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