August 2005 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

a bug...I think
by Elwin Estle 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

I have noticed several times that when I have an object selected and open the fill and stroke dialog (usually with the icon on the toolbar at the top of the screen), that when I use the little arrows to the right of the number box in the stroke style tab to raise/lower the width of the stroke, that BOTH arrows act to raise the value! The only way I can get a lesser value is to just input the number. Even this sometimes does weird things. I will put in a number and then it will change to a higher value by itself. I went to the sourceforge bug tracker thingy to try to put in a report...but could not for the life of me figure out how to do it, so I figured I'd post it here. As a side note, twice now when I have combined two objects into one with the boolean union function, then converted them to a path so as to remove some unwanted details by selecting the unnecessary nodes and clicking the little "minus" icon to remove them; the program locks up. I have also been zoomed quite a bit to distinguish between the nodes. I realize this is not a very in depth report, I am just wondering if anybody else has had anything like this happen. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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HELP ! no text in IE6
by julio miro 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

I am just starting with inkscape 0.42 ... it looks very promissing: but from the 7th or 8th use of it ... I see the text and page backgound color in the Inkscape window, but not when I open the .svg in IE6 (lines and shapes yes, but text no) . Someone can help ? I first use Adobe viewer 3.03, then change to v.6, and then again to v.3.03... can this be related with the problem ? wich version you recomend ? thank you very munch. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Cloned objects and stroke
by Karol Kreński 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I cloned A into B. Now when scaling B the stroke on B scales too - no matter that Scale-stroke-width-button is off. I believe I am doing something wrong. Thanks in advance, Karol

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inkscape:
by Elwin Estle 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

In case anybody is interested...here is a little something I whipped up last night. Took me maybe three hours, plus another hour exporting to Gimp and resizing/converting to JPEG (three times). It isn't the first thing I made, but it is the first I have posted anywhere. Now the whole thing about this is: I can't draw worth a crap, but I am not too bad at sculpting, with Inkscape, I was able to "sculpt" this drawing in two dimensions. This is a very cool program, in some ways more useful than the Gimp. I haven't messed with paths in Gimp too much, because I kept getting results that weren't what I wanted. Paths in Inkscape, to me, seem much easier. http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=… ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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moving an object with a gradient
by wayne 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

How does one move an object while preserving its gradient fill? Seems like when I move the object, the fill remains stationary while the object moves away. Thanks, Wayne inkscape 0.42

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Complex Shapes, Flowing Text and Justification
by Ralph Bolton 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie to Inkscape, but so far am really impressed. It's one hell of a product, even though it's not v1.0 yet. As with all such projects, it's sometimes hard for us newbies to get to grips with things because of a lack of examples and documentation. Since I've been struggling for a couple of days, I thought I'd write up how to create complex shapes, flow text into shapes and get text to be justified. Clearly, for most users this isn't rocket science, but it might save another new user a bit of time. All the fun is at http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape (including, importantly, an SVG example). If the Inkscape community wants to use my example for anything, then by all means do so. Obviously, correct any mistakes or make improvements along the way! Cheers, ...Ralph Bolton _______________________________________________________________ Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a> Unlimited Email Storage POP3 Calendar SMS Translator Much More!

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justified text
by Michal Žeravík 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi all, I have prepared a poster in Inkscape, amazing work with great editor. But I desperately need to justify text on both sides. Is there any hack how to do that? Thank you very much. Michal

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Gradients and scaling
by Xavier PITEL 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hello, I am new to this forum and to Inkscape, and first I want to thank all the developers and volunteers who make this software (and open source as a whole) possible. Then, I have a question regarding gradients and scaling. I have made a picture using several gradients ( http://www.xp-internet.com/GradientsAndScaling.htm), but when I select all objects and try to scale up or down the whole image, the start and end point of gradients move when I keep the button mouse down, but seem to turn back to where they were before when I release the mouse button. So all the effects are lost and I have to manually adjust all gradients to have the original image back. Am I missing something, is there a way to move the start and end point of gradients while moving or scaling an image, or not? I have tried to make the image a plain svg, but its just the same. But at the same time, scaling it on the above html page with the Adobe viewer works, without damaging the image. ??? Thank you for your help. Xavier

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Getting text to scale down
by M Fitzgerald 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've just started with inkscape. I have a document that I'm building in scribus which I want to illustrate with several SVGs. I've generated the SVGs and they look fantastic. However, for use in the scribus document they have to be scaled down. This messes up the text, which doesn't seem to want to scale down. What's the practical solution? malcolm ---------------------------------------------------- Catholic Financial Services Send and Receive all online Payments and Donations No Merchant Account Required! https://www.catholicfs.org/

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Re: details
by unknown＠example.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

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