June 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

autopackage upgrade
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I have installed the autopackage distribution of Inkscape .44pre2 on Ubuntu 6.06. It works great - I enjoy the new icons, cloning, and the export to .xcf with layers and there looks like there is much more I could use with some more exploration. After the summer of code comes back with their projects for Gimp, I should be able to do more advanced design on Linux than on my Mac. And not long after that we will have Xara 1.0. I will have a hard time deciding whether to do more with Xara or Inkscape. Excellent progress. Anyway, how do I upgrade the autopackage when the final .44 comes out? Do I need to uninstall the old one and then reinstall the new one or do I just install the new package?

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universal mac binary
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

When will Inkscape be a Universal (PowerPC/Intel) Mac binary?

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0.44pre2 on OS X: no more icon for SVG file type?
by Artemiy Pavlov 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello all! I am using Inkscape on Mac OS 10.4.6 / Intel. Just installed 0.44pre2 over 0.44pre0 and saw that the SVG file icon is now set to the blank one, but Inkscape is still set as a default application for the SVG files. With all Inkscape versions it displayed Inkscape logo on the icon. I tried re-assigning Inkscape as a default application for SVG files, but that didn't help. Reverted to pre0, no luck, then to pre2, all the same. I tried assigning GIMP as a default app for SVG - now all SVG files have the GIMP logo. But reverting to Inkscape as a default app makes the icon blank again. Perhaps some icon is missing in the .app bundle. I also filed it in Bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1500596&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Thanks, Artemiy.

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Connector: Arrow outside
by Bernhard Walle 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, is it possible to draw diagrams with the connector tool where the arrow is not centered but outside the rectangle. Following picture should explain what I mean: http://www.bwalle.de/temp/connector.svg Regards, Bernhard -- Unser Zeitalter ist stolz auf Maschinen die denken und mißtrauisch gegen Menschen, die es versuchen. -- (unbekannt)

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Can't get autpackage of .44
by Abrolag 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

When I try to download the latest autopackage build, instead of starting up the download manager it tries to load into the browser window. This happens with both FireFox 1.5 and Opera 8.54. What am I doing wrong? -- No Sig

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crappy image scaling
by none none 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Is it a bug or a feature that inkscape can't upsample an embedded raster image? also if an image is rotated it doesn't get done very well (do the same rotation in the gimp and it will be nice and smooth) FYI batik handles upsampling and rotation nicely, although the build I'm using doesn't seem to antialias the edges of images :( Any idea when this will be implemented in inkscape? should i file a bug? Thanks, Alex

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Inkscape window too big under Linux
by Fibonacci Prower 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, I've been using Inkscape on Windows for some time, and everything worked fine. Now that I've switched to Linux, I've noticed that the Inkscape window is bigger than my screen! Resizing doesn't help - it lets me expand the window all I want, but not compress it beyond the default size. Maximising doesn't help either - the window remains at exactly the same size. I'm working at an 800×600 resolution, both in Windows and in Linux. When switching to 1024×768 the problem vanishes. But I can't always work at that resolution - my poor little screen was not designed for such abuse, so I can't distinguish any details at 1024×768. What can I do about this problem? Thanks in advance, -Fibo -- Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea see It plane lee marques four my revue miss steaks aye can knot sea Eye ran this poem threw it - your shore reel glad two no Its vary polished in it's weigh, my chequer tolled me sew.

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Trace Bitmap
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi list, I was testing the trace bitmap and got really impressed. Of course it isn't a Corel Trace, but is the beginning. My congratulations to the dev team. Here is a simple test I did: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=157359067&size=o The first is a gif (and quite small) image. The second is svg. ;-) Sincerely ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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NEEDED: Win32 User for testing
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi all, If you are on Windows and and have a little extra time this week, you can help Inkscape out considerably. There are several _bad_ bugs that are going to afflict Windows users of our new Inkscape release, that we may have a decent chance to eliminate. However, unfortunately our developers don't have access to Win32 machines, so cannot easily test their fixes to make sure they've fixed the issues. If you are on Win32, and are comfortable installing and running extremely cutting edge stuff (including running gdb), you can help. We need someone who for the next week or two can install the latest code and test out a few bugs we're working on. This is a great way to contribute to Inkscape and to directly make it better for Windows users, so if you've wanted to do that but felt that your technical skills were a bit light, this may be a perfect opportunity. Email me if you're interested in helping, or contact Jon Cruz by email or IRC, to get started. Bryce

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trace bitmap problem
by Hago Ziegler 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi, I have Inkscape 0.44 and Inkscape 0.43 installed. ( winXP ) With 0.43 Trace Bitmap works very well, as expected. With 0.44 I never was able to trace a bitmap with the settings Multiple Scanning > Color, or > Monochrome. It seems to work, but never brings a result. Regards, Hago

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