April 2005 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS]
by George V. Reilly 11 May '05

11 May '05

bulia byak wrote: >On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote: >>George Reilly wrote: >>>I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. >>>Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill >>>is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and >>>Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS >>>convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, >>>so I suspect the latter.) >>> >>It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version >>we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript. > >This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in >particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work >on text until you convert it to path). I downloaded the 4/23 build from http://www.inkscape.org/win32-snap/ (the 4/26 zipfile is corrupt) and regenerated the EPS. The EPS file size went from 34K with 0.41 to 57K. The text (outline or fill) doesn't show up at all in Word 2003. There's just a blank area in the Picture object. The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I assume Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop. I've attached a zip of the SVG source. (Had to be renamed to get past SourceForge's filters.) -- Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle. -- Alexander Pope (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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Inkscape CVS package error: more information
by Christopher B. Wright 05 May '05

05 May '05

OK, so I downlaoded the latest inkscape .cvs package and tried to install it. This is the message I get in the install window: Installing executables... Installing manual pages for section 1... Installing icons... Installing menu items... Copying files to /usr/share Copying files to /usr/lib Error: Package Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor could not be installed I don't know if that's particularly useful, but there it is. Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Gradient fills in EPS
by George Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

bulia writes: > On 4/28/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote: > > When I bring up Fill & Stroke with the latest binary, I see a blank > > canvas in the Fill > Linear Gradient dialog. Just Edit, Add, and Repeat > > buttons. No checkerboard, no handles. Ditto when I look at Fill > > > Linear Gradient for other objects. Or Radial Gradient. > > It's all replaced by Gradient tool, see > http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Ah! I wish I had known about the release notes before. You really ought to link to them from /win32-snap and /download.php I converted the transparent stop to an opaque white stop. The gradient now shows up in Photoshop CS and GSview 4.6/GS 8.14. However, as you noted yesterday, the repeating nature of the gradient is lost, so I just get purple and a lot of white instead of purple, white, purple. The text still fails to show up in Word 2003 and Publisher 2003. Obviously a bug in Office's EPS import. Perhaps it doesn't handle PostScript Level 3. This is annoying, since I need to use the logo in Word and Publisher documents. [Later] I had the bright idea of finding an external tool to convert EPS to WMF (Windows Metafile). ImageMagick can read WMFs, but can't write them. PsToEdit converted the EPS to WMF. A more-or-less correct preview of the WMF shows up in the File Open dialog launched by Word's Insert > Picture > From File, but the entire picture renders as a blank white rectangle. Aaargh! [Later Still] I played further with pstoedit after I discovered the EMF format (Windows Enhanced Metafiles). "pstoedit -f wemfc" kind of works. It generates an image that Publisher can display. Plus, it scales up when you zoom in, unlike imported EPS. However, the gradient is gone, leaving me with a black outlines around white text. Worse still, the colors in the drawing are inverted. Royal blue has become pale green; lavender -> pale blue; pink -> mid blue. Other tools show the EMF exactly the same way, so this is some funkiness of pstoedit. /George

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Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial
by George V. Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

[This bounced twice yesterday. Third time's the charm.] I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.) Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable. I'm running on Windows XP SP2. -- Never let lack of preparation hinder the implementation of a change. (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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problem with the text tool and the font size after importing a svg document
by gijs 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi, I have a weird problem, which might be a bug actually, but I am not sure. Maybe anybody can help me. The problem: When I load document curves.svg (which you can download from my pc, sorry, but it kind of the only example I have). do a wget to get it: wget http://volition.wustl.edu/curves.svg Then, load it and try to draw some text anywhere. If you use the text tool and type, the letters will be larger than anything on the canvas. As you can see, no matter where you try to type text, the letters will be absurdly big. So I have to scale down these supersize letters into something around .03 pt. That is the size of the letters that I managed to create (the "200 ms") for example. The document curves.svg was made with pstoedit to transform a postscript file into svg. That transformation worked fine! How come that the font size of letters becomes so unusual after I import the file curves.svg? How can I solve this? Is this a bug, or an error in the loaded file curves.svg. Thank you very much. Gijs

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Inkscape and Inkview for presentations
by Richard Kowalczyk 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I have been thinking about using Inkscape and Inkview as a replacement for powerpoint (one of the few reasons to reboot to Windows). I decided to give it a try recently, and it is great in some respects, and lacking in others. I thought I would describe my process, and some of the issues I am running into, and see if anyone has any suggestions. The process: (1) I create one, or multiple template slides (in Inkscape), that have placeholders for the title, substitle, and content (although this could easily be generalized). (2) I create a text file (called the outline file) which describes the slides, including titles, content, and the template file to use for each slide. (3) I have a python script which uses the template files and the outline file to create svg files for each slide. (3a) The title and subtitle are easy - they are just inserted into the proper placeholder in the template svg. (3b) The content, which includes equations, is more complicated. It is run through LaTex, and converted to svg, then inserted into the template svg. The conversion process is LaTex -> dvips -> pstoedit -> skconvert, which provides an svg file that I can process to get the text part, and insert into the template svg. (4) I can edit each slide svg file in Inkscape to make any changes necessary. (5) View slides with Inkview. My questions: (a) Is there a better way to do this? I could do everything in LaTex, but I then I lose the ability to tweak the result, such as moving pictures around, or changing font sizes, etc., like I have in powerpoint, or Inkscape. (b) Is anyone else using Inkscape for presentations? Interested in using it? (c) Step 3b is pretty poor right now - I am still working on it, but the conversion process basically creates a seperate text element for every letter. I can do some processing to improve on this, but it is very inelegant. Anyone have a better idea? (d) Also in step 3b, I am losing some greek letters (but not all) in the conversion from LaTex to svg. I have not tracked the cause of this down yet.

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make fails on cvs-install
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

I'm trying to install inkscape from CVS on my debian (sarge) machine. I installed all the necessary packages so that the configure-script doesn't complain anymore. But running make always fails. After a while it makes my computer hang for some minutes and ends with the following lines: mkdir .libs g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -o inkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a trace/libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widgets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/libvarot.a ui/libui.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a extension/libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/internal/libinternal.a extension/script/libscript.a xml/libspxml.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a /usr/lib/libxslt.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so -lpng /usr/lib/libpopt.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libXft.so /usr/lib/libXrender.so -lX11 -lfontconfig /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libgc.so collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[2]: *** [inkscape] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Any suggestions? Fehler means Error. Thanks, Wen -- +++ Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Tutorial conversion
by jeffrey steve borbon sanabria 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Well, the spanish translation of basic tutorial is made, I already am looking for bugs an mistakes, well, let me ask something, when I want to create the HTML and SVG files, I translate the .XML, Waht tool do you sugeer to me to make this files I a little lost and what I have to do to upload the files in the inkscape CVS, who give me access not like an anonimous user... Thanks "Por la libertad del hombre pensante, usemos software libre" _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com

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[buliabyak@...155...: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial]
by Bryce Harrington 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

----- Forwarded message from bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> ----- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:42:00 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> Reply-To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote: > > I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. > > Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill > > is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and > > Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS > > convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, > > so I suspect the latter.) > > It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version > we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript. This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work on text until you convert it to path). (Bryce, please forward this to the list, because it looks like I can't post, again.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: Fwd: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates]
by Jogchum Reitsma 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

bulia byak schreef: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> >Date: Apr 25, 2005 4:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates] >To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >On 4/25/05, Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@...226...> wrote: > > >>In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I >>can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in >>the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit >>(100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? >> >> > >This was a bug, now fixed in CVS > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org > > > > Hmm, ldconfig did the trick. Users are not developers, I proved again... greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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