February 2005 - Inkscape Users

icon theming
by Jakub Steiner 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hi folks, I tried to start tweaking inkscape icons so it's less of a blur but stumbled on some obstacles. As per some discussion on the #inkscape channel I was convinced I could use ~/.inkscape/icons/ to store PNG icons with filenames corresponding to the icons.svg object ids or the old XPM icon set. However this doesn't appear to have any effect. Failing that, I tried doing them in vector. While ~/.inkscape/icons/icons.svg does seem to override the global icons, I'm puzzled about the size. The icons in the toolbar, nor the icons in the menus seem to match the 1:1 zoom of icons.svg thus any effort trying to position elements to the raster grid are useless. My 16x16px icon got scaled down to about 10px in the toolbar. What's the magic here? I'm still convinced that for small resolutions such as the toolbar and definitely menu icons, bitmap icons will take less effort to draw. Even if you do them in vector, you still need to make sure the objects align well to the grid to render sharp. That means either having menu and toolbar render at the same size or doing every icon twice anyway. [1] I see the usefulness of SVG icons, phasing them in gnome icon theme, but for tiny resolutions they don't work without pixel-perfect positioning. [1] - More on this here: http://primates.ximian.com/~jimmac/blog/Artwork/SVG-NG/ cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...446...> Novell, Inc.

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FlowText line height and justify
by Martin Ždila 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi friends Is there a way to set line spacing (line height) between lines of flowed text? line-height in flowPara element doesn't work. And for text justification / alignment text-align doesn't work too. Thanks in advance Martin Zdila

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Use a font or draw it myself?
by JR 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

I've never used inkscape before. I would like to design a logo for the band almost identical to this http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008WJBF.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg But with a curve in the middle. Should I scour the web for a font or is it feasible to draw this myself? Thanks for any advice, Jarlath

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Several questions
by M G Berberich 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hallo, Is there a way to switch off the antialiasing of the canvas? Why I want to do so? My 450 MHz PIII gets very slow on complex drawing. Setting the magnification to »1:1« does not give the natural size, even though the X-Server has the correct dpi set (86dpi in my case). So where does inkscape take the dpi from? Can I change it? MfG bmg -- "Des is völlig wurscht, was heut beschlos- | M G Berberich sen wird: I bin sowieso dagegn!" | berberic@...505... (SPD-Stadtrat Kurt Schindler; Regensburg) | www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~berberic

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Survey data? Can this be done at present?
by Erik 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Can Inkscape plot survey data at present? What I mean is: Can we lay down a line A to B with a distance in say metres and a bearing relative to North vertical and plotted clockwise? And then a line B to C etcetera. The sort of data it would be valuable to plot are: Point Point Distance (metres or scaled) Bearing (angle clockwise in degrees from vertical) A B 12.5 25 B C 4.3 328 C D 16.7 85 D E 8.6 45.2 To do this we need lines to be drawn in terms of distance and angle rather than what appears to be the current X and Y positions of the point. Maybe this can be set at present. If so I cannot find it- Another use of this would be to obtain distance and bearing between two points from a map scan. Again a very useful result which may already be possible. Any help here? I seem to remember that at some very early stage in Inkscape this was possible.......sort of....but I cannot find it now. I'll put it in as a request but thought I'd ask first. Erik

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RE: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts
by Landon Blake 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

This is something I might be able to work on.....I've just begun learning C and GTK GUI programming, so that I can contribute to Inkscape development. Any idea how I might get started? The Sunburned Surveyor -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of mental@...32... Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:42 PM To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts Quoting Landon Blake <lblake@...24...>: > Does Inkscape support SVG Fonts embedded within SVG documents? Not yet. We'd like to do it in principle, but nobody's gotten around to doing it yet, and we're still working out a lot of issues with non-SVG fonts anyway. -mental ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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SVG Fonts
by Landon Blake 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Does Inkscape support SVG Fonts embedded within SVG documents? Has anyone created SVG Fonts with Inkscape? Is there any interest in an opens source SVG Font Library? Just Curious......... The Sunburned Surveyor

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GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Here is something that an Inkscape user might find of interest: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2168 Also, Gnoppix needs some graphics: http://www.gnoppix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page So this could be a way for an IS artist to become famous! Bob

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web site proposals
by bulia byak 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. Volunteers are welcome: 1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news. 2 Create a new header graphic to replace the boring white "Inkscape" on blue. As a graphic app, we are starting to deserve something more sophisticated. The web site itself is OK, I don't think we need to drastically change the entire design (although suggestions are welcome), but the top panel is decidedly dull and pathetic. Show off your graphic talent! Send your submissions to the devel list for people to discuss. The best one (if the winner is not obvious, we may need to do a voting) will make it to the site. One technical note: the banner cannot be fixed width, because our site is not fixed width - so it must be either one piece for the top left corner or two pieces for two corners, with some flat color fill between them. The minimum screen resolution is 800x600.

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Inkscape.app for Mac OS X
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I have succesfully built Inkscape 0.40-1 via Fink under Mac OS X 10.3 After I have moved to "~/Desktop/Inkscape.app/Contents" following the way explained for the Gimp.app The application lauches itself with a double-click and it is available there http://niwaconcept.free.fr//x11/Inkscape.zip But if it can be stored there that would be better. The file is 60 Mb do dwnload, and then 280 Mb for the software itself. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX ____________________ PowerMac G4 400 Mhz 1 Gb RAM Mac OS X 10.3.6 Ubuntu Linux PPC 4.10

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