October 2005 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape for windows
by Leopold Palomo Avellaneda 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Dear people, first off all I have to say that I'M NOT A WINDOWS USER. After, my boss, that is a windows user, would like to use inkscape. We have tried to install it and basically we didn't have any problem. The question is that we would like to know which dependencies needs inkscape to run in windows, because we cannot use any import feature. So, we cannot open any ps, eps, etc file. We have tried to install python and perl, (without any success, or the import feature doesn't work four us), but I have to say that I don't know very much the windows platform (I'm very happy with the apt-get ;-) So, please, could you tell me which software is necessary/recommend to run a full inkscape in the Win platform? Somethink like to build it: x, y, z: To run it, xa, yb, etc. Best regards, Leo -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia

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document boundaries
by Jiri Barton 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hi everyone, I created a document a la inkscape tutorial in inkscape (you can find the links below). I used File | New | no_borders. The problem is this document displays right only in inkscape, at least on my computer. What is wrong? In all the other viewers/editors on my installation, there is only like a small section of the document; this includes inkview (!), scribus, and ksvg (konqueror). When I export the svg to PDF (which was my intention) or PS, the result is the same - only the same old section from the first sixth by the first half of the document. Now, get this. When I view the inkscape tutorial (just any) by inkview, it shows okay. However, it does not show well in scribus or ksvg, nor is the resulting PDF or PS nice at all (missing some images and texts). My questions are, what should I do to make my document view ok in inkview, like the tutorial does? What page, format, or is there another trick? Is there a good paved road to converting an inkscape's document to PDF, so I can show it to other people (on Windows, for example)? Thank you very much in advance. Jiri http://www.hosting4u.cz/jbar/videostop2.svg http://www.hosting4u.cz/jbar/videostop2.pdf P.S. Kubuntu 5.10 Linux on AMD64 Inkscape 0.42 or CVS (2005-10-30) - makes no difference

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text style
by Karol Krenski 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello list, Would it make sens to include text scale information via Edit->Paste Style? I am talking about XML editor attribute: transform scale(X,Y) I understand that most objects shouldn't have scale information contained in their style information (so that it doesn't automatically scale the objects that will have this style applied), but isn't text different? How else can I have my text look like other text in the document? Isn't this what most people would need/expect? Karol

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Re: Inkscape-user digest, Vol 1 #761 - 6 msgs
by unknown＠example.com 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> >Switch to Node tool (F2) for editing a path. Thanks and yeah I know about the node tool, but if I'm not missing something obvious it doesn't let me draw in changes to the line. It just lets me click and add points and drag in the points, which is at least for me a very very slow work-flow. Do you understand what I'm trying to do? (maybe I'm just missing something obvious in that tool?) Regards Emil

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Inkscape 0.43pre1
by Ted Gould 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

The second prerelease of Inkscape 0.43 has been released. It now includes the whiteboard files and other fixes. Getting closer, does it still work for you? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… MD5 Sums: 079bc5edd4825700563c99a1f9614209 inkscape-0.42+0.43pre1.tar.bz2 e3388ad06db510e28e7a1f50d8b78c34 inkscape-0.42+0.43pre1.tar.bz2.sig 6f3ddb62c151483c6e283c9e71373095 inkscape-0.42+0.43pre1.tar.gz 25fd3cfa6982fb22ba8abad0b2d12dd9 inkscape-0.42+0.43pre1.tar.gz.sig --Ted

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Mac OS X package installation with Xorg or XFree86 from Fink
by John L. Clark 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm using Xorg installed through Fink on OS X (10.3.9), and for a while I was unable to get the Inkscape 0.42.2 package for OS X to run appropriately. I was finally able to get it to work flawlessly, and I wanted to pass along that information in case others run into similar problems. I would be happy to put this into the Wiki if someone wants to tell me where it should go. (Does it belong at <http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SupportedOperatingSystems>?) I started out with a shiny new install of the Xorg package from Fink after wiping out a previous attempt at installing X11 (part Apple X11, part XFree86 Frankenstein monster that was broken). I then downloaded and "installed" the Inkscape 0.42.2 package, and when I launched it it tried to run X11, which failed. At this point, I started digging around in the .app directory, and discovered the `script` script. After commenting out line 16 of the `script` file, I finally able to get Inkscape to spit out an error at me, which was that it requires Apple's X11 distribution. This seemed a little odd to me, as I would think that it would be able to run with whatever X server is available. It was clear that Fink wanted the open-x11 script, though, so after a bit more research, I discovered the `applex11tools` package provided by Fink, which essentially fills the gap between Xorg (or XFree86) and Apple's X11. In order to install *that* package, you need to download and mount the X11User.dmg file from <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html> if you don't already have it sitting around. Now, when you launch Inkscape, it is able to correctly launch X11 along with it. You might also want to add "exec /sw/bin/quartz-wm" to the end of your .xinitrc, to get the nice quartz window manager. I say "might" because it depends on your .xinitrc setup. In my case, I had copied the system .xinitrc from /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and it simply launched twm, a few xterms, and a clock, which was not really what I wanted. In summary, it would appear that you can use either Xorg or XFree86 as your X Server for Inkscape 0.42.2, as long as you also install the `applex11tools` package in Fink. Thanks to the Inkscape team for such a great tool and toy, and thanks to ACSpike for keeping me company and tossing around ideas with me. Take care, John L. Clark

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drag, drop and copy-paste
by Trond Husø 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi, I don't know if this is a bug or nor, or related to gnome or inkscape, but the other day I tried to copy a drawing from one document to another. I copied the element in one document, changed focus to the other element, but when pasting I didn't get the expected result. What happened was that I pasted the latest copied element in the other document. I've also tried to drag the drawing, but that didn't work either, as that wasn't possible. Again: I am not sure if this is related to inkscape. Environment: I am using Fedora Core 4 on a laptop.

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OOo and SVG
by Karol Krenski 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

OpenOffice.org is finally on its way to allow importing of SVG. The RFE for this feature has been no. 1 (most votes) for long time. I tested the plugin and it's not stable yet, but it's great news that the work has finally started. http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hauma/svg-import/ Karol

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greek letters
by António Rodrigues Tomé 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi, anyone knows how to include a greek letter within a roman text line using inkscape? best regards -- António Rodrigues Tomé artome@...1249... <---official e-mail address artome@...155... <---alternative security e-mail address http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt/~artome http://www.cgul.ul.pt/curric/cgul_tome.htm

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Openclipart.org
by Michael Moore 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Does anyone know when openclipart.org will be working again? Thanks -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.com

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