April 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Feature request.. preview lines or something like that.
by drag sidious 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

I don't know what it is called.. Maybe inkscape already has this feature? I am currently using the inkscape version provided by Debian Unstable. Inkscape 0.43, I beleive.. and that while I realy like the product and appreaciate it's development I find that it is realy to very slow to be much use at the moment. I mean it's making it 3 or 4 times more difficult/longer to make fairly simple shapes then it should.. And this is due totally to how slow it is. Otherwise it's the easiest thing I've ever used as far as vector-based drawing tools go.. and I am very serious about that. What I would like to see is that while editing shapes and such while using the 'edit path nodes or control panels' tool that while your actually working and moving lines around that it doesn't try to render things realtime.. That is while your moving nodes around it will not try to update the image. Instead I'd like to see a sort of very simple line that represents were that paticular line will go or show how the shape is modified. Something that is simple and quick... Then after you drop the node or unclick it or hold the pointer stationary for a few moments that it will update the scene. That way the human-interactive part can be very quick and yet you can do the render part very exact and it won't matter so much how fast the scene is able to refresh or whatnot. Right now I have problems because I need to hold the mouse and wait for the screen to update. Also after I release the button and move the mouse quickly then the item that I am holding onto will sometimes 'follow' the pointer a bit and screw up the changes I just made.. which then I'd have to undo and redo it. But I figure if you use a quick sort of preview line and leave the heavy rendering stuff to wait until after I release the mouse then that will solve this problem almost completely and make the application much more usable. This sort of behavior is what I find in other vector-based applications such as XaraLX. Somebody created Debian packages for it and made mention of it at the XaraLX development list... http://www.xaraxtreme.org/maillists/archive/dev/msg00117.html So using that you can see what I mean incase my description is to horrible for you to follow. Maybe you can borrow some of the code they use for doing that? The other thing that I noticed is that while your zoomed it very far simply moving the mouse around will eat up 100% of the cpu. This is not while dragging anything or adjusting any nodes or anything like that, but simply moving it around will cause this. I noticed this a bit with the Gimp, but the effect is much more pronounced in Inkscape. So maybe it's a GTK issue? Thank you very much for making this application aviable, btw. Aside from the issues I pointed out it seems very top-notch to me. I don't want to give the impression that I don't like it or anything or I don't appreaciate the work you guys are doing, because I do.

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05 Apr '06

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05 Apr '06

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How to set text color?
by Yajun Liu 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I try to design a logo and what to use different color for different colors. I could not find a way to change the color from default black color. Thanks. --Andrew

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Re: approved
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04 Apr '06

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04 Apr '06

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04 Apr '06

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Black Mask (drafting experiment)
by Brandon Blackmoor 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I spent the last couple of weeks working on this drawing of "Black Mask", a vehicle used in a role-playing game I play. If anyone uses Inkscape for drafting, I'd be interested in your suggestions for improving it (or anyone's suggestions, really). http://www.blackgate.net/blog/index.php/black-mask (Note: this is how one shares files on a mailing list. I will probably be setting the list to "no delivery" soon. I am tired of scrolling through several pages of computer code to find the real posts.) -- Brandon Blackmoor bblackmoor@...477... 2006-03-30

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Command line options in Win32 platform
by Gilles Foucault 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

I would like to export svg files via the command line on Win32 platform of Inkscape : "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe" --export-eps=out.eps in.svg But nothing happens, there is no error messages, and inkscape quit immediately. Could you help me with the command line usage in Win32 platform ? Thanks in advance, Best regards Gilles

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Removing unused gradients
by Michael Grosberg 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

I'm drawing a set of icons, all on the same canvas but on different layers, with most layers off at any given time. Now, I don't remember which gradients are used by a single icon, and which I used for more than one, etc. So what I did was just to be sure I duplicated a lot of gradients so I don't accidentaly change anything in another icon. And now I have a long long list of similar gradients and I would like to get rid of anything I don't use anynore. Any way to do this? Michael

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