December 2006 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape 0.45 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

The contest begins today and the deadline is December 31st. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART. You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/11071733/ Good Luck! -Josh

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I may have found a bug...
by Phil Hendry 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

...But I'm not sure - it may just be me not understanding how the package works. I can create new layers (apparently - at least the dialog appears and I can type a new layer name in it), move stuff to other layers and that sort of thing, but I can't open up the layers dialog - CTRL- SHIFT-L does nothing at all as far as I can see. Also, is there any way to lock the contents of a layer? If I go to Global Inkscape Preferences, I can check the 'Select only within current layer' box, but even if I then go to the layers menu and select 'Switch to layer above', the objects on the layer I've just moved from are still selectable. Phil

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Apropos letter spacing
by Michèle Garoche 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Could the alt modifier key not be hardcoded for that function, i.e. customizable as already done for some other functions? Reason: the alt key is used for accented characters on a Mac, hence not usable as a modifier for people with native languages using those accented characters. This leads to impossibility to use the letter spacing function.

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letter spacing
by Hago Ziegler 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi, I need letter-spacing a lot. How do you do that in inkscape? For the moment I always have to use other programs for that. Regards, Hago

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please test the proposed perspective extension
by bulia byak 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

We have a new Perspective extension in our patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600298&group_id=9… It's very useful potentially, but for some reason, I can't make it work properly, although it reportedly works for the author and another user. I would appreciate if more people could try it out and report their results. Note that to use it, you will need to install Numeric Python: http://numpy.scipy.org (in addition to regular Python). To install the extension, place the inx and py file from perspective_v0.3.tgz into your extensions directory. Please share your experience - thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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THANK YOU to Inkscape developers!
by John Beale 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Dear Inkscape Developers, THANK YOU so much for creating this amazing program! For a long time I have wanted to have the capabilities of something like Adobe Illustrator but I could never justify the cost for an occasional use. I just discovered Inkscape and within a few hours I was able to do useful work with it (well- creating holiday greeting cards, if that's useful!) I'm running on Windows XP, generating a PS output file and converting that to PDF with Ghostscript for laser and inkjet print. It looks great. All the built-in features I've tried work smoothly and I was particularly impressed by the ease of use, and output quality of the built-in bitmap-to-vector converter. Great stuff- thank you all! season's greetings, John

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yet another stupid animation question
by ilya y. rostovtsev 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

On 12/18/06, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Inkscape is an SVG-based 2D illustration (and maybe, in the future, animation) package. I've been using Inkscape for animation for quite some time already. I'm psyched about that whole "path morphing" thing, because that really (and I mean REALLY) expands my abilities in the department. However, I'd love to see some "bones" that could alter the paths composing a character... Does anyone know of any FREE software package that would do the trick of providing easy path-modification animation? I haven't had much luck finding much else, though Inkscape is better suited for such than what most give it credit for, especially since varying opacity on full objects is so easily tweakable (multiple frames can be referenced without any pain whatsoever). [If anyone has any "non-Free" packages to recommend, I'd like to know about them, though I can't really promise I'll be able to follow up on each recommendation due to conflict of ideology. :) ] -ilya.

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Qs re Save As - eps, pdf, odg
by Phil Rhoades 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

People, Saving as: - eps - produces usable but not great output - odg - does not seem to work? - pdf - produces very rough output? I would like to output directly to PDF or to consolidate pages in Open Office and then export to PDF - is there improvements to these output formats? Thanks for nice software! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Inkscape.org down?
by Alberto Simões 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hi For some days I can't access inkscape.org. Any problem with my network or is the server down? Cheers -- Alberto Simões

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NURBS
by Esben Stien 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

SVGs' are not really scalable. Are there any plans to implement NURBS curves and surfaces?. -- Esben Stien is b0ef@...2066... s a http://www. s t n m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@ n n

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