July 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Cropped pdf files as output
by Paul Smith 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Dear All Is there some way of having Inkscape outputting a pdf file already cropped? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Add xml-stylesheet processing instruction
by Dennis Benzinger 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hi! Can you add an xml-stylesheet processing instruction to Inkscape SVG files in a way that this processing instruction is preserved if you edit the file in Inkscape? Dennis

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Coordinates all different
by Fred Labrosse 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

All, I just created a document using inkscape to layout objects of which I known the position in real space. Because some of these positions are negative, I specified an offset in the origin of the grid so that the grid point (0,0) is not the bottom left corner of the document. So far so good. Once the whole layout has been created, I now would like to know the position of other objects on there (middle points and such). This position is given by the rulers although at the precision of the reading of the ruler. However, the other ways of getting positions (little box at the bottom right of the application window or boxes in one of the toolbars) give the position in the document's references ((0,0) at bottom left), not in the grid's. Did I miss anything or is that a bug (or a feature that could possibly be configurable to offer alternatives)? Cheers, Fred

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Using Text in Inkscape
by Hyperion 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

when i use the text tool it opens the box where im supposed to type what i want, but i can't type??? anybody know what might be wrong??? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-Text-in-Inkscape-tf1921824.html#a5261955 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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problem with PUA characters
by Daniel Hulme 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

I'm having a bizarre problem in 0.44 with text objects containing characters from the PUA -- specifically, Klingon glyphs -- and I thought I'd check here to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid before submitting a bug report. I have a sequence of Klingon characters, in the range f8d0 to f8ff, and they aren't displaying. The font I'm using (clearlyU; it is in Debian) has glyphs for these characters. I know this because they show up in Vim with guifont set appropriately, and also in gucharmap. I know that Inkscape has the right characters in the text object, because when I look at the 'text' tab of the 'text and font' dialogue box, it shows the right numbers. I know the object should be visible, because when I type normal characters in they show up. Despite all this, the Klingon characters don't show up in the font preview area in the 'text and font' dialogue box, nor in the document itself. Any hints? Has this been seen before? If it is a bug, what information (beyond the usual) would you like to see on the report? -- Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the King's horses and all the King's men | http://surreal.istic.org/ Couldn't put Humpty together again. | powered by cat and ^d Perhaps they shouldn't have given the horses the first go.

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Missing german tutorials?
by Thomas Zastrow 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hi there, I compiled and installed Inkscape 0.44 from source. The User-interface is perfect in german-language, but under Help/Tutorials there are some files missing: /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-shapes.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-advanced.svg (is present, but not in a german version) /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-calligraphy.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-elements.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-tips.de.svg Am I right that there are no translations of that files into german? If so: 1.) Should I translate them? 2.) In the meantime, wouldn't it a good idea to link to the english ones instead of producing an error? Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------

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Is there a way to build an Inkscape "sandbox" environment?
by Christopher B. Wright 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Is there a way to set up the latest version of Inkscape with all the libraries it needs on a distribution that doesn't yet support Cairo without upgrading to Cairo system-wide? Xandros 4 doesn't support Cairo, and you can't install Cairo without nuking all the Xandros-specific stuff. I'm running Inkscape just fine on my Kubuntu machine but would like to run it on my Xandros machine as well... ... so does anyone know if it's possible to set up an environment *with* Cairo that Inkscape can use without nuking the standard environment that doesn't know what to do with it? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Inkscape performance issues
by Hans Nieser 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hello, I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on. Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance, in my example file [1], I have just a few content boxes and a single button with a small icon on it, yet certain basic actions like creating a new shape, hiding/unhiding/moving layers or shape adjustments are starting to take a lot of time. On my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, hiding the "Buttons" layer causes Inkscape to use 100% CPU and become unresponsive for a good 8 seconds. Considering that I need many more buttons and boxes and thus vastly increasing the amount of linked offsets, I am wondering wether there are other ways of creating buttons and boxes like these without linked offsets while retaining the same kind of flexibility or if there is some other way I can work like this but with better performance. Any suggestions (even alternatives to Inkscape that may be better suited for this) are welcome. [1] http://www.aphax.nl/images/inkscape/webdev.svg

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inkscape "binary" /or/ executable for LINUX ?
by stuseven 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

+ I use debian Sarge... it comes with Inkscape .41... .44 wont load with what I have, and most of the new dependencies aren't on my CD set... so... how to proceed ? Is there, for instance, a way to get all the required libraries together for an Inkscape .44 upgrade ? I guess it would be easy enough to just download all the separate dependency files... the debian site has links to all of them... but, can I just install these newer packages side by side with the older ones I have ? Thought I'd ask before I broke something :) Thanks to debian users who have done this already maybe ! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inkscape-%22binary%22--or--executable-for-LINUX---tf1… Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Possible Forum Setup.
by Cory Pollard 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

Hi everyone. I've had a thought that others may be interested in. I would like to start a forum dedicated to inkscape. A place where we can have different headings/subheadings, tutorials, screenshots, WIP, and general discussions. I wanted to see if others would be interested in making use of such a site. I would probably register under inkscapeforums.com or simmilar. I can pay for domain registration and some hosting too. But, does anyone know the overall cost for running forums per annum? Also, I don't want to tread on the feet of the Devs and everyone who started inkscape, would you guys be cool with the idea? So, give some feedback and see if we can get this thing started. Cory -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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