February 2005 - Inkscape Users

import/edit non-svg ?
by stu seven 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ? This would be a scanned drawing... nothing complicated, but what I want, of course, is to be able to edit it, or add color, etc, via Inkscape... is this possible with any format other than SVG and Inkscape ? thanks

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Getting arrowheads into pdf
by Steffen Glückselig 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello, Since I use arrows in some of my diagrams and batik won't render them into the resulting pdf I am hoping that one of you fine guys could help me with a solution to this. Any ideas on manipulating arrows in a way that makes batik render them? best regards Steffen

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NEW: on-canvas gradient editing
by bulia byak 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Now in CVS: Gradient editing on canvas is now available, much more convenient and powerful than the old way of dragging gradient knots in the Fill&Stroke dialog. o Any number of selected objects can simultaneously display handles and direction lines for their linear and radial gradients (in the objects' fills or strokes). You can drag these handles directly in the drawing, to interactively adjust gradient positions. o Gradient handles can be enabled in the Node tool, shape tools, Text tool, and Dropper tool (on by default), as well as in Selector and Zoom tools (off by default). Use the Inkscape Preferences dialog to change this. o Any gradient handle, if dragged close to a handle of another gradient, will merge with that handle (drag with Shift to prevent merging). Dragging such a merged handle will adjust any number of gradients attached to it. To separate merged handles, drag them away one by one with Shift. o Radial gradients display handles in the center and at the ends of two radii, which allows you to move, rotate, squeeze, or stretch the gradient to form an arbitrary ellipse. Also, you can independently adjust the focus of the gradient; drag the central handle with Shift to separate the focus handle. o When dragged, handles will snap to the edges and the central axes of the bounding boxes of all selected objects (drag with Shift to prevent snapping). o Dragging with Ctrl will snap the angle of the linear or radial gradient to the user-settable angle increments (default is 15 degrees). The center of a radial gradient, dragged with Ctrl, will be constrained to horizontal and vertical movement relative to its previous position. When dragged with Ctrl+Alt, a handle moves along the gradient direction or its perpendiculars, allowing you e.g. to stretch or squeeze a linear gradient without disturbing its angle. Overall, this is a major usability milestone, something I dreamed to do since Sodipodi times. Gradients are one of the most widely used features in Inkscape, and now they are finally made usable (well, almost - see below). The old gradient position widget in Fill&stroke remains for now (and still works), but I plan to remove it as soon as the new on-canvas editing is sufficiently tested. I would welcome any feedback on the new feature. Next in my plans: A Gradient tool, which will allow you to actually create new gradients by dragging (at the moment you still need to open Fill&stroke to switch an object to gradient) as well as adjust most gradient settings in its controls bar at the top of the window. In that tool, the selected gradient handle will be moveable by arrow keys (with all the usual modifiers), and setting any color via Fill&stroke, palette, dropper, or Paste style will be applied to the selected handle's gradient stop (instead of the entire selected object).

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Setting SVG background via CSS
by Trent Buck 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

This isn't an inkscape question, merely SVG. I'm embedding SVG images created by GraphViz in an XHTML page. With CSS I have a black-on-white color scheme and a white-on-black. For the latter I have g[class="node"] > * { fill: none; stroke: white; } /* nodes */ g[class="edge"] path { fill: none; stroke: white; } /* edge line */ g[class="edge"] polygon { fill: white; stroke: none; } /* edge arrow */ to set the lines to white. However, mozilla defaults to a white background for the embedded SVG element. I've tried things like svg { fill: black; background: black; background-color: black; } but I haven't been able to guess the correct attribute. I couldn't find the appropriate part of the SVG spec, but I've never been good with W3C specs. Can anyone help me out here? References: http://twb.ath.cx/wiki/SandBox.xhtml http://twb.ath.cx/share/core-light.css http://twb.ath.cx/share/core-dark.css http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/doc/wikisrc/SandBox http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/src/misc/emacs-wiki-graph.el -- -trent How much to buy this book? This is a library, not a bookstore. Alright, what happens if I lose it? You have to pay for it. Alright, I'd like to borrow this book. Oh! Where did it go?

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Inkscape version for Suse 8.2 ?
by stu seven 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Inkscape was not originally included with my SuSE 8.2... I wonder if anyone is using Inkscape with their suse 8.2... which version would work ? RPM somewhere, or from source ? thanks

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Extemsion problems Ink 0.41
by Robert C. Smith 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

I developed problems loading any version of Inkscape on Windows XP. Suspecting a trojan issue, I rebuilt the entire system. Inkscape 0.40 now loads correctly but not 0.41. The error message reads: "One or more extensions failed to load: The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at: C:\Documents and Settings\Robert C. Smith\Application Data\Inkscape\extension-errors.log" This is typical of the messages in the extension-log: "Extension "GIMP Gradients" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: plugin location: path string: gimpgrad" Currently I am just running SP1, but the previous problem was with SP2. I am hoping to have Mandrake 10.2 running by tomorrow under a dual boot, but the problem stands. I presume it is a Windows issue. Help! Robert

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Inkscape status 2005-02-15
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Project Status Tuesday, Feb 15, 2005 Today at work after our all-hands meeting, one of the marketing guys named Carl grabbed me. He'd just upgraded to SuSE 9.2 but knew that we'd just released 0.41, and SuSE only had 0.39. We downloaded and installed the Autopackage version. I gave him a quick tour of the new features. When we got to the color trace function he slapped me on the shoulder, "My god, that's _exactly_ what I've needed!!" He loaded up one of the OSDL member logos and vectorized it with the color trace tool. We get these logos in every format known to mankind, and scaling them can be a real challenge sometimes. This week I've been showing off all sorts of things to people... The new inkscape.deviantart.com. I showed daj's "Rockin' in the Free World" to a professional musician. ScislaC's 'Gaze' astounds _everyone_ who sees it; this is without a doubt the most advanced piece of art ever done with Inkscape/Sodipodi/Gill (we have *got* to encourage Scislac to teach us all the tricks for how he was able to *do* that!) I also of course have to brag about the KDE 3.4 SVG Wallpaper contest, and that of the top 4, half are known to have been done with Inkscape (including the winner). The thing I point out to people at work is that despite how great Linux is technically, there are many, many people who "judge a book by its cover" and consider only how the thing looks. Like buying a car based on its paint job and leather upholstry instead of its engine. But graphical tools like Inkscape are enabling artists to give Linux that beauty, to make it visually as well as technically attractive. In the stats below, the most obvious thing is the sudden jump in linecount. No surprise there - this is all the new code such as gtkmm that finally got greenlighted to go into the codebase. Hopefully over the next few months we'll see the linecount reduced as this new code replaces the gobs of repetitive old code currently in there. The mailing list numbers show that we've gained a number of new members. (Welcome aboard!) Of course, anyone on Jabber or IRC recently will have already noticed the nice jump in activity, both with usage questions and with development work. Things seem to be going quite well! Statistics Jan 1 Jan 15 Feb 1 Feb 15 ========== ===== ====== ===== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 598 570 569 569 (95.8%) (96.0%) (96.0%) (96.04%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 45 59 * * (99.8%) (99.6%) * * Total SF Page Views 2,213,324 2,283,160 2,296,458 2,296,458 Total SF Downloads 110,182 114,695 115,645 115,645 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,291 14,634 15,108 16,448 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 149 151 156 169 Lines of Code in src/: 321,883 323,251 323,324 333,139 Code lines 227,114 227,965 227,872 234,651 Comment line 56,048 56,308 56,438 58,239 Blank 45,398 45,664 45,624 46,859 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,901 17,918 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,234 9,328 9,486 9,776 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 21,030 20,931 23,576 24,925 Bugs open/total: 135/829 145/858 148/917 155/972 Features open/total: 340/514 353/530 352/556 370/579 Patches open/total: 5/145 6/148 7/154 5/167 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,450 9,625 9,975 10,312 Inkscape-devel membership: 132 131 143 151 Inkscape-announce membership: 147 155 166 169 Inkscape-user membership: 172 177 181 193 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 43.7 42.0 44.7 47.8 * - Statistics unavailable

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Any MD5 codes?
by Tim Almond 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

I was planning on downloading from a sourceforge mirror, but there's no MD5 codes on the site. Any chance we could have some?

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Snap to grid no longer working?
by Steffen Glückselig 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hello, I've just downloaded the latest windows-build and found that 'snap to grid/guide' no longer works for me. I've enabled all the settings necessary with no success. Did something change in the last versions? best Steffen

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Snap to grid no longer working?
by Batista, Facundo 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

[Aewyn] #- Dear Bulia, #- #- I think you (as developer) try to think instead of the user. #- What can be a little dangerous ;) My god. Three decades cost us to put in the developers head that they're no developing for developers, that they are developing for users. The Bulia's attitude is perfect. He (sorry, she?) should, and MUST think as a final user, specially (but not only) in the UI. And what Bulia says ("Doing anything unexpected is bad UI") is a basic rule for UI design. He's right. #- It is absolut necessary to snap to grid without see any grid. #- 1., With complex graphics it is very embarrassing to see grids, #- (grid points is bad, bad gridlines worst (btw is there any way to use #- points instead of gridlines?)) I (personally) that doing complex graphics with grids is a bad choice. You can do it (you can also do an enterprise class management system in assembler) but I think that are better ways. For example, you want this line to start where the other line ends, or at the center of that circle. Is a reallity that this kind of semantics are missing in Inkscape. I hope someday they'll be available (for better reference about this, see AutoCAD 12, where I learned them). . Facundo Bitácora De Vuelo: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog PyAr - Python Argentina: http://pyar.decode.com.ar/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADVERTENCIA. La información contenida en este mensaje y cualquier archivo anexo al mismo, son para uso exclusivo del destinatario y pueden contener información confidencial o propietaria, cuya divulgación es sancionada por la ley. Si Ud. No es uno de los destinatarios consignados o la persona responsable de hacer llegar este mensaje a los destinatarios consignados, no está autorizado a divulgar, copiar, distribuir o retener información (o parte de ella) contenida en este mensaje. Por favor notifíquenos respondiendo al remitente, borre el mensaje original y borre las copias (impresas o grabadas en cualquier medio magnético) que pueda haber realizado del mismo. Todas las opiniones contenidas en este mail son propias del autor del mensaje y no necesariamente coinciden con las de Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. o alguna empresa asociada. Los mensajes electrónicos pueden ser alterados, motivo por el cual Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. no aceptará ninguna obligación cualquiera sea el resultante de este mensaje. Muchas Gracias.

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