May 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Tablet use.
by Thetargos 24 May '06

24 May '06

Ok, first of all, sorry if I flooded the list with my other "issue" about text-on-path (I'm still learning and since I'm not contaminated with any other drawing tool [CorelDraw or Illustrator] I'm quite new to vector graphics, but I'm loving it!). Anyway, I have noticed that Inkscape can take advantage of extended input devices such as tablets. I have a tablet (Wacom Graphire 4) which works just fine with The GIMP, but I have been having trouble working with it in Inkscape. Either I don't fully understand how it is supposed to work with Inkscape or it simply does not work correctly with Inkscape. When I enable the stylus device in the extended input device configuration window in Inkscape, everything seems to work just fine, however there are some quirks: Using the tools feels odd, as it would seem as if the tools won't be reacting to the usual commands, for instance, when drawing a shape, by taping on the tablet with the stylus and trying to drag that shape, won't have any effect, but doing so with the eraser (not configured in Inkscape) does, as Inkscape would register the tap as a left-mouse-click event. Another example of this is node editing: when pressing F2 to edit the nodes a drawn line, I don't seem able to move the nodes with the stiletto-like pointer, however taping anywhere on the stroke I can move that section of the stroke, and the nodes become anchors. Again by tap-dragging with the eraser, which is not configured, I can drag the nodes just as if I were using the mouse. I noticed a keys section with 32 total keys which can be configured... How exactly do they work? What are they useful for? I'm sorry if my questions seem rather n00b'ish, but I'm still learning trying my best to master this wonderful program Inkscape is!

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Re: arrows not found
by roberto 24 May '06

24 May '06

On 5/24/06, roberto <roberto03@...155...> wrote: > Hi > i am currently trying to draw some line with arrows on top but i did > not find anywhere something to do this, neither in inkscape nor in its > help > > can you please point me to some way of solving this issue? > > thank you > -- thank you... i already solved this issue now bye -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge

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Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized
by Black Fire 23 May '06

23 May '06

And, also, for specifying the script for Perl/whatever? Something like: <command>perl $EXTENSIONSDIR/test_output.pl</command> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Black Fire" <blackfire_x@...1911...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:16:18 -0600 > > > Does Inkscape provide a means for specifying a location relative to > the Inkscape extensions folder? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Black Fire" <blackfire_x@...1911...> > > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized > > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:52:20 -0600 > > > > > > I see. So it needs a location attribute. Thanks. > > > > Any suggestion how I can get Inkscape to generate the log files > > others have mentioned on this list? -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized
by Black Fire 23 May '06

23 May '06

Does Inkscape provide a means for specifying a location relative to the Inkscape extensions folder? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Black Fire" <blackfire_x@...1911...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:52:20 -0600 > > > I see. So it needs a location attribute. Thanks. > > Any suggestion how I can get Inkscape to generate the log files > others have mentioned on this list? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Aaron Spike" <aaron@...476...> > > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized > > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:35:19 -0500 > > > > > > Black Fire wrote: > > > Any idea why this isn't even appearing? Or at least how I can get > > > usable error messages to help me find out? > > > > It isn't appearing because the dependencies you specified were not met. > > > > <inkscape-extension> > > <name>Extension Test Output</name> > > <id>org.inkscape.output.test</id> > > <dependency > > type="extension">org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</dependency> > > <dependency type="executable" location="path">perl.exe</dependency> > > <output> > > <extension>.test</extension> > > <mimetype>text/x.test</mimetype> > > <filetypename>Extension Test(*.test)</filetypename> > > <filetypetooltip>Extension Test</filetypetooltip> > > <dataloss>FALSE</dataloss> > > </output> > > <script> > > <command>perl -e "print join(' ',@ARGV)"</command> > > <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</helper_extension> > > </script> > > </inkscape-extension> > > > > > > Aaron Spike > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! > > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in > > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > > Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as… > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid7521&bid$8729&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized
by Black Fire 23 May '06

23 May '06

I see. So it needs a location attribute. Thanks. Any suggestion how I can get Inkscape to generate the log files others have mentioned on this list? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aaron Spike" <aaron@...476...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] output filter not recognized > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:35:19 -0500 > > > Black Fire wrote: > > Any idea why this isn't even appearing? Or at least how I can get > > usable error messages to help me find out? > > It isn't appearing because the dependencies you specified were not met. > > <inkscape-extension> > <name>Extension Test Output</name> > <id>org.inkscape.output.test</id> > <dependency > type="extension">org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</dependency> > <dependency type="executable" location="path">perl.exe</dependency> > <output> > <extension>.test</extension> > <mimetype>text/x.test</mimetype> > <filetypename>Extension Test(*.test)</filetypename> > <filetypetooltip>Extension Test</filetypetooltip> > <dataloss>FALSE</dataloss> > </output> > <script> > <command>perl -e "print join(' ',@ARGV)"</command> > <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</helper_extension> > </script> > </inkscape-extension> > > > Aaron Spike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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output filter not recognized
by Black Fire 23 May '06

23 May '06

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[Fwd: SourceForge.net mailing list service upgrade (Mailman)]
by Bryce Harrington 23 May '06

23 May '06

Good news is we're finally seeing an upgrade to the mailing list software. Bad news is that they're not supporting the customized templates, which may impact the language-specific inkscape user lists, unless they include non-English versions of the mailman pages. Would someone mind checking into this? We should raise this issue with SourceForge if it's the case. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from "SourceForge.net Team" <noreply@...1910...> ----- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 05:50:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "SourceForge.net Team" <noreply@...1910...> To: bryce@...69... Subject: SourceForge.net mailing list service upgrade (Mailman) Greetings, You are receiving this mail because you are listed as an administrator of a SourceForge.net project that has active mailing lists. As a continued measure to improve our service offering, we are migrating all existing mailing lists to Mailman 2.1.8 (latest stable release). This is the first major upgrade to the Mailman software used for mailing list service in more than four years. We expect this upgrade to both improve security and performance, and to provide a number of features not available in our existing Mailman service offering. We have been testing the new mailing list infrastructure for several weeks with the assistance of a few select projects. Our general migration of all mailing lists to this new infrastructure will begin 2006-05-23. Migration is being handled in several one-day segments and minimal downtime for list service is expected. Before the migration begins in earnest, we wanted to provide you this notice of some specific service changes: 1. Our new Mailman install will no longer permit the editing of HTML page templates and existing customizations to these templates will not be migrated. We made this decision to ensure consistency of the UI among all projects, allow future upgrades without worry about the compatibility of customized templates, eliminate issues related to broken or corrupt templates. In lieu of template modification, we encourage projects to provide list details and instructions via the "introductory description" list configuration option. This option supports basic HTML, so should be powerful enough for conveying intended information, while adhering to common look and feel. 2. List archival is implicitly enabled. It is not possible to opt-out of mailing list archival. As per our Mailing List site documentation (http://sf.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=12983&group_id=1#mlarchives), list archival is mandatory. In reviewing data to be migrated, we have discovered a small number of older lists which had archiving turned off. The ability to disable archival is no longer supported, and archives will be maintained for all lists. If you currently run lists without archival, we encourage you to revisit the perceived need for unarchived lists (for example, we have found unarchived lists that were used for the distribution of centralized team passwords, and upon review by the project, it was clear that this was a practice which should be changed). Control over access to your mailing list archives is established on a per-list basis from the mailing list administration page for your project on the SourceForge.net site. Lists in a 'deleted' status will not have web-visible archives. Individual mailing list posts may be excluded from view by project administrators from the mailing list archive pages. Additional details on data visibility may be found at: http://sf.net/docs/G03#mailing_lists Questions or concerns regarding the mailing list service upgrade may be raised at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Thank you, The SourceForge.net team . ----- End forwarded message -----

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enlarge window text size
by Adamsown 23 May '06

23 May '06

My apologies to the list members, I have asked this before: On updating my version, my Inkscape window's menu bar and dialogue boxes text is tiny, how do I change it to a readable size? I don't want to change screen resolution. Many thanks. Adam

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Inkscape Book question
by Tavmjong Bah 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, There is a publisher who is interested in the book that I have written (http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php) but needs to be convinced that there is a real market for the book. In the proposal I have already quoted the growth in downloads from SourceForge and the inclusion of Inkscape in most major Linux distribution. Can people on this list think of other ways to document Inkscape's growing popularity? I believe I am up against poor performance of previous books on Open Source drawing programs (which may account for the fact that there are over 1000 Photoshop books versus about a dozen on Gimp, all but one published four or more years ago. Thanks, Tav

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Re: Autosave and "lost connection to X server"
by Phil Endecott 22 May '06

22 May '06

> Look for an SVG file in your home directory. None found. So I conclude that Inkscape doesn't autosave when it loses its connection to the X server. Is this right? Can this be changed? --Phil.

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