How do I do 2 point perspective using inkscape?
by Paul Elliott
How do I do 2 point perspective using inkscape?
I could not find it in the documentation.
You know parallel lines meet at a point on the horizon?
I would like to draw something as a flat surface, and
then put it on the ground and have inkscape figure
out how to do the distortion.
--
Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096
pelliott@...2026... PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J
http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117
16 years, 7 months
Book updated for Inkscape 0.44
by Tavmjong Bah
Hello,
I have uploaded a new version of the book "A Guide to Inkscape".
The book has been updated for Inkscape 0.44. It covers all the new
features such as: Clipping & Masks, Layers Dialog, Style Indicator, and
Docked Color Palette. The version for Inkscape 0.43 is still available
for those who haven't upgraded.
See:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/
As always, comment are welcome.
Enjoy,
Tav
16 years, 7 months
Blur tips
by bulia byak
Some tips for using blur in Inkscape SVN:
0. Use the Blur slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog. You can blur
anything - paths, shapes, strokes, calligraphy, bitmaps, text, clones,
groups.
1. Currently, the maximum blur radius is 10% of the object size. Any
larger blur will reveal the clear-cut margins - the blurred object
cannot (currently) spread wider than the 10%. However it's easy to
work around this limitation: group the object that you want to blur
with some large fully-transparent object, thus making the group larger
than the object, and blur the group.
2. Objects that store their transformation matrices (texts, groups,
shapes, but not paths - unless you set "Store transforms" to
"Preserved"), when scaled, scale also the blur applied to them. This
means you can squeeze an object and its blur will be bigger in one
dimension than the other. (It's also possible to do that by setting
different blur radii for X and Y, but we don't yet have UI for that,
though it works if you set it manually.)
3. You can combine blurring with gradients. For example, an ellipse
with elliptic opacity gradient will look much softer and more natural
when blurred. An object with a horizontal linear opacity gradient,
when blurred, will look like it is more blurred on its transparent
side than on its opaque side.
4. Masks and clipping are applied AFTER blur. That is, if you clip an
object and then blur it (or blur it first and then clip - it makes no
difference), the clipped edges will remain crisp. Often, this is what
you want. If, however, you want to blur the clipped/masked edges too
(possibly with a different radius), you can use grouping: group the
clipped object with some other object (which you can then delete from
the group) and blur the group.
5. A recipe for an autoupdating black drop shadow for object of any
color: create object; unset its fill (it becomes black); create two
clones of it; put one clone on top and paint any color; put the other
color at bottom, blur it and shift sideways. Now you can edit the
unset-fill original (use Alt+click to select it) and everything will
update. Obviously, if you want a drop shadow of the same color as the
object itself, just one clone for the shadow will suffice.
6. If an object has a fill that you don't want to blur (e.g. pattern,
or if it's a bitmap), but you want to feather its edges, use blurred
transparency mask: copy the object; paint it white; blur it as needed;
scale the blurred copy down so its blur margins are entirely within
the original object; select both the original and the blurred mask; do
Object > Mask > Set.
7. You can use the Tile Clones dialog to create patterns of variously
blurred clones - either with smooth variation of the blur per
row/column, or/and with randomized blurring.
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
16 years, 7 months
Posts filtered?
by John Culleton
Recently none of my posts have made it to the list. I signed on using a
different email addy (see above) but they still didn't make it.
Sugestions?
John Culleton
16 years, 7 months
Error with recompiled 44.1
by John Culleton
When I downloaded and compiled 44.1 I get this error:
inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol:
g_intern_static_string
I use slackware 10.2. I have tried two different Gnome add-ons. Currently I am
using Freerock (latest stable version).
John Culleton
16 years, 7 months
Posts not getting through.
by John R. Culleton
I keep asking this question but never see it on the list. will try once
again.
I compiled 44.1 clean but I get this error on execution:
inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol:
g_intern_static_string
--
John Culleton
Able Indexing and Typesetting
Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
http://wexfordpress.com
16 years, 7 months
Palettes and swatches questions
by Judy Wilson
I don't see a color palette on my window. Is it still there? (I'm
studying tavmong's online manual-I love it).
How do I make a customized color swatch?
I use Kubuntu/Ubunut. I've looked on the web and in manuals and can't
find what I'm looking for.
Thank you!
Judy Wilson
Belize
16 years, 7 months
problem export pdf (images) 0.44/Mac OS10.4.8
by Stephane Mottelet
Hi all,
With 0.44 version on Mac OS 10.4.8 (PowerPC), when I export
to pdf some drawings with images (png, jpg), the images do no
appear in the pdf. Where is the problem ?
Thanks for help,
S.
16 years, 7 months
Windows build crash?
by Arnout Standaert
Hi people,
I'm experiencing a problem with the 0610072339 build, available from
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. I'm running it on a Windows 2000
system, but it also happens on a WinXP system at home.
Recipe:
- open Inkscape
- choose Text tool, click canvas, type text
- choose Arrow tool
Result: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now.
Automatic backups ..." and so on.
I did a backtrace and included it below (hope I did it correctly, let me
know if not). I hope it helps to isolate the problem...
Regards,
Arnout
*** backtrace ***
$ gdb inkscape.exe
GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/inkscape.exe
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libatkmm-1.6-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libsigc-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/KERNEL32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/msvcrt.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libatk-1.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libglib-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/iconv.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/intl.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ADVAPI32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/rpcrt4.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/OLE32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/GDI32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/USER32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/SHELL32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/shlwapi.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/comctl32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ws2_32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ws2help.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgobject-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libglibmm-2.4-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libcairo-2.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpng13.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/zlib1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/inkscape/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpango-1.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/inkscape/libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/inkscape/libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/imm32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangomm-1.4-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/liblcms-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libfontconfig-1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/xmlparse.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/freetype6.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/popt1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libintl-2.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/COMDLG32.DLL
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libxml2.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/wsock32.dll
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x627014d5 in _libuser32_a_iname ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x627014d5 in _libuser32_a_iname ()
#1 0x77fcb63e in ?? ()
#2 0x025a0000 in ?? ()
#3 0x40000060 in ?? ()
#4 0x02ab4028 in ?? ()
#5 0x0022e998 in ?? ()
#6 0x62701555 in _libuser32_a_iname ()
#7 0x00000000 in ?? ()
16 years, 7 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Basic problem with font substutition
by Ian
Thanks for the suggestion Lars. This worked. I upgraded to 0.44.1 for another reason and found the PDF creation to be much better than 0.42.2. With the new version I don't have to convert to paths.
Regards
Fog_Watch
1 My Inkscape document uses a custome
> > asked a thousand times. Any pointers for how to prevent such font
> > substitution?
>
> If you want to be sure that the fonts look the same on every
> machine/platform, convert them to paths when exporting to pdf.
>
> Cheerz Lars
>
> > Slackware 10.2
> Slackware current :-)
16 years, 7 months
