August 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

python scripting API docs...
by Terry Brown 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

I have looked, but I haven't been able to find these (or whatever source should be used). Any pointers? Thanks much.

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How to fix/align a text to a circle
by thomas Armstrong 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi. I'd like to fix a text to a circle shape. I mean, I'd like to create letters like "FC BAYERN" and "MUNCHEN" in this logo: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/af/Fc_bayern_munchen.gif or "1.FSV" and "MAINZ 05" in this another one: http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/FSV_Mainz_05.png Letters following a rounding shape. Is this possible? Thank you very much.

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Screen capture and deckle edge.
by John R. Culleton 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Two questions: Is there an easy way to create a deckle edge border around a graphic? Is there a built in screen capture function? - John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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NEW: interruptible display for better interactivity
by bulia byak 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Just committed: * Interruptible display: Previously, Inkscape could not do anything until it finishes the current screen redraw. Now the redraw is made interruptible, so that Inkscape responds to mouse and keyboard input and can abort the current redraw and start over if you do some screen-changing operation. As a result, Inkscape now feels much snappier and more interactive. So, while redraw is not really any faster now, it _feels_ much faster, especially for things like zooming, scrolling, etc. Enjoy. I fixed a couple bugs that were exposed by this change, but there may be more. In particular I suspect there might be a crash when you quit Inkscape while it's redrawing. I got this crash a couple times but it's very hard to nail it down. If you can cause it reproducibly please let me know. Other than that, it's working perfectly for me in the last few days. Thanks to Mental who suggested this change :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Forums
by corstar 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hello everyone, I have set up a dedicated inkscape forum site at inkscapeforums.com Feel free to join and enter our first contest "Paradise" There are plenty of issues to cover with Inkscape, let us know what you love or hate about it (there is nothing to hate in my opinion) Anyway, hope to see more discussion over there soon. Cory www.inkscapeforums.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-Forums-tf2051528.html#a5651505 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Special characters and other issues
by Nick Tolentino 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Greetings! I'm extensively using Inkscape - Windows version 0.44 by arranging scanned sections map back together. I find the program much better than MS Visio Professional 2003 that I was using before. It a faster screen rendering than Visio using the same hardware. Thank you for making Inkscape! I hope that with this comment I could help make Inkscape much better. I notice the following quirks that I hope anybody can answer: 1. Whenever I resize the bitmap figure (the scanned section of a map I am trying to recreate), while pressing the Ctrl<key> and moving the corner section of the figure to resize it properly, it keeps going in all directions making an imperfect resizing. Any thoughts on why this is happening and the fix for this? By the way, the figures are all in jpg format and normally about 1 MB or less. There are times that the inkscape svg file I am assembling can have about 21 figures, meaning a total of 21 MB. 2. When using the text tool, I would like to add special character such as "ñ" using the Alt <key> -164, it won't show the said character. Why could this be and how can I go about it? That's all for now. Again, thanks for making Inkscape! 8-) --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out.

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[OT] SVG in MS Office 2003
by Wolfgang 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi, first I want to apologise for this off topic post! Does anybody know if there is a svg-plugin for MS Office 2003 available? Thanks Wolfgang

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"Fit page to selection", maintaining grid?
by Eric Jonas 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello! Is it possible to have the new "Fit Page To Selection" feature maintain the relative grid placement of the objects? I use inkscape exclusively for technical illustration and proper grid placement is really important for my diagrams. At the moment (0.44) the grid seems to be anchored in the lower-left-hand corner of the page, and "fit page to selection" appears to move the bounding box of the selected items such that the bounding-box lower right corner is coincident with the page lower-right-corner, and then crop the excess page. If there's some simple way of getting around this, I'd love to hear it. I've now made over 300 diagrams in inkscape, and it's just been a wonderful experience. Thanks! ...Eric

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Display problems in Firefox and conversion problems in Acrobat
by Wolfgang 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi, I've some problems with a inkscape graphics. I've running 0.44 on winXP. Inkscape displays the graphic as I want. Firefox crashes on the svg completely ("The memory could not be read"). I've also exported that graphic as pdf but but Acrobat reader 7.0 crashes as well ( a number value is out of range). Here are both files: https://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0049353/svg/map.svg https://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0049353/svg/map.pdf I hope anyone can me to find out whats going wrong! Thanks Wolfgang

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inkscape .44 paths problems
by stuseven 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

+ several new features in the Inkscape .44 seem not to be working for me ? The two I was experimenting with were in the new paths submenu... ...one of these "flatten bezier"... the other one was "add nodes"... both of these seem to be asking for an object converted to a path. So, I used Object to Path for a bezier curve, and a straight line... now, supposedly, I have two paths to work with... but I cannot flatten the bezier... and cannot add nodes to the straight line... not by clicking on them... not by selecting them, and clicking the function... after a while, I gave up :-) How does one work with these new functions ? Possibly, they are just on the menu, but not working yet ? Thanks to anyone who has used these... first time with .44 for me. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inkscape-.44--paths-problems-tf1977909.html#a5426759 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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