April 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

red spiral
by Gijsbert Stoet 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi there, I am extremely curious to know how to resolve a challenge posted in Tavjongs Inkscape book: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch19s01.html I really love his book, it is my (the?) ultimate guide to Inkscape. I still don't know how to recreate the spiral, though, and I can't wait anymore, I *have* to know it *now*, right now :) BTW, there is an inkscape unrelated issue with this list, namely that there is a lot of spam in the inkscape-user list. I am sure I am not the first one commenting on this, so forgive me. What is the best way of dealing with it? Thanks. Gilberto

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easy way to transform svg to ps and to pdf
by Gijsbert Stoet 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

We all know that you currently cannot "save" a pdf or ps file with transparency/gradients, but we know that you can 'print' transparency/gradients by selecting the print as bitmap. The resulting PS/PDF is obviously not vector oriented anymore, but from a pragmatic point of view that doesn't matter. I use this 'trick' from the command line inkscape options to quickly transform multiple svg files into pdf files. Just take the following lines and put them in a file. Make them executable (chmod 755, at least for linux/unix platforms). And then call it svg2pdf . It works fine and I find it very useful. If you use one argument, it will create a file tmp.ps, which you can easily transform in a pdf file using ps2pdf. If you use 2 arguments, the first one is DPI and the second the svg file. Maybe somebody finds this useful, that is why I post it here: #!/bin/bash DPI=90 if [ $# == 0 ] then echo "Need svg file!" exit fi if [ $# == 1 ] then FILE=$1 fi if [ $# == 2 ] then DPI=$1 FILE=$2 fi inkscape -d $DPI -e tmp.png $FILE > /dev/null 2>&1 WIDTH=`grep "width=" $FILE |head -n1` HEIGHT=`grep "height=" $FILE |head -n1` echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>' > tmp.svg echo '' >> tmp.svg echo '<svg' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"' >> tmp.svg echo ' version="1.0"' >> tmp.svg echo $WIDTH >> tmp.svg echo $HEIGHT >> tmp.svg echo ' id="svg1343">' >> tmp.svg echo ' <defs' >> tmp.svg echo ' id="defs1345" />' >> tmp.svg echo ' <g' >> tmp.svg echo ' id="layer1">' >> tmp.svg echo ' <image' >> tmp.svg echo ' xlink:href="tmp.png"' >> tmp.svg echo ' x="0"' >> tmp.svg echo ' y="0"' >> tmp.svg echo $WIDTH >> tmp.svg echo $HEIGHT >> tmp.svg echo ' id="image1371" />' >> tmp.svg echo ' </g>' >> tmp.svg echo '</svg>' >> tmp.svg inkscape --print='>tmp.ps' tmp.svg rm -f tmp.svg

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stem
by Maggie Hutchins 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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behave preclude
by Clement Hebert 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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individual
by Mercy Shannon 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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hi
by unknown＠example.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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when drunk
by Gloria Thomas 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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excel document
by unknown＠example.com 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

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How to translate Inkscape
by ＠ntoine 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Hi, i'm an adobe illustrator user but interessed in inkscape for months. I'd like to update inkscape's french translation to make it a little bit more professionnal (some expressions are quite childish in my opinion). Is there any easy way, i'm an illustrator not a developper ;) , to modify/create inkscape.mo efficiently ? Thanks. Nice week end for all. Yudeo

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Re: PHAkpkRMACY
by Abner Castiglia 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

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