January 2007 - Inkscape Users

cloned copy fill/stroke
by Jakub Steiner 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Howdy fellow artists! I've been unsuccessful in something I'd imagine being very common case. I'd like to be able to create editable text with a dropshadow, that would be easily editable. Clones seem an ideal solution for the task. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to change colors of the clone independently from the original. Either I have to keep the original object black (unset property). This works in most cases, as the shadow indeed needs to be black. But I'm unsure if it's safe to depend on 'unset' looking black in other renderers. Cornelius suggested to use the linked offset instead, but that appears to shift the size by default and it's hard to tweak as text usually tends to create very complex paths for interactive scaling. Is there a smarter way way to achieve this? -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...469...>

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Alt key in tutorial
by Albert Wagner 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

I have just installed 0.44 and am progressing through the Help->tutorials. I notice that all references to the Alt key actually require Ctrl+Alt to have the desired effect. e.g. Alt+drag doesn't work, but Ctrl+Alt+drag does. Is this a change in 0.44 that the tutorial has not yet reflected? Or is there some tuning that I have yet to do?

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About Screen for 0.45 - Results
by Joshua A. Andler 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

We have a winner for the About Screen contest! Congratulations to Molumen for his winning entry: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45360907/ The SVG can be obtained here: http://www.lumenstudio.net/if/inkscapeabout045.zip Developers, are there any requests as to changes that you would like made? The sooner we get moving, the better. :) I'm now off to post the results on DeviantART. -Josh

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Inkscape in Proposal Submission Presenters/Exhibitors in SIGGraph
by ValessioBrito 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Who could submit a proposal Inkscape to participate it of SIGGRAPH 2007? http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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tutorials cleanup: help needed
by bulia byak 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

We have tutorial-calligraphy.pt_BR.svg in share/tutorials, but no corresponding xml file in the doc-docbook module in SVN. Please _everyone_ who has ever translated the tutorials, upload the docbook xml sources to that module, or send them to someone with SVN commit rights asking him to upload it for you. Without that, we can't for example fix the tutorial-calligraphy.pt_BR.svg file which is badly broken. Also, we have much more tutorial translations in SVG than we have HTML tutorials here: http://inkscape.org/doc/index.php. Please remember that if you submit a new translation, you need to generate not only SVG but also HTML (use the make-html script) to be put up on the web site and linked from that page. (Again, if you don't have commit rights for the web site, ask someone to do it for you.) Volunteers are welcome and encouraged to help us sync this all up for the release. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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creating a pdf slideshow (with incremental slides) using inkscape
by Gijsbert Stoet 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Dear fellow Inkscape friends, I like Inkscape and prefer to draw my slides using Inkscape. I coded a script for easily creating a PDF file out of a set of SVG files that can be used for presentations (each page being a slide). It allows you to create incremental slides, using the xml ID tages of SVG. Using shift+ctrl+o you can easily change these tags. Acrobat reader or evince work great in full screen, and acrobat is available on nearly every computer. I have made everything (programs and manpage) available on a webpage: http://volition.wustl.edu/slides I just finished it, and it works fine for me; however, there might still be some errors in it. There is also a short PDF tutorial/example (both in one!) on the webpage. Gijsbert This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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Runtime error
by Hago Ziegler 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi, a moment ago I downloaded Inkscape0701101629.7z 10-Jan-2007 22:34 20M from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D when I try to open the preferences-dialog I get the attached message and Inkscape shuts down. (WinXP) Regards, Hago

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SVG not displaying correctly in inkscape
by Sujesh Babu N 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hi All, I tried to open a small SVG file in inkscape , but it is not displaying correctly .The file is attached here with . The svg is viewing correctly in adobe svg viewer and other editors. Any idea , why the svg graphic is not displaying correctly in Inkscape? Any help will be appreciated . Thanks Sujesh *COntents of the SVG FIle* ** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1 Tiny//EN" " http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11-tiny.dtd"> <svg baseProfile="tiny" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="348" height="40" viewBox="0 0 348 40"> <switch> <foreignObject requiredExtensions=" http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/" x="0" y="0" width="1" height="1" content="structured text"/> <g> <g> <path fill-opacity="0.62" stroke-opacity="0.62" fill="url(#_x33__x5F_vaaleampi_2_)" d="M348,37c0,1.656-1.343,3-3,3H3 c-1.656,0-3-1.344-3-3V3c0-1.656,1.344-3,3-3h342c1.657,0,3,1.344,3,3V37z"/> <defs> <linearGradient id="_x33__x5F_vaaleampi_2_" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="0" y1="20" x2="348" y2="20"> <stop offset="0" style="stop-color:#227BD4"/> <stop offset="1" style="stop-color:#D9EFFF"/> </linearGradient> </defs> </g> </g> </switch> </svg>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Remaining critical bugs for 0.45
by Adib Taraben 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

All, On Win32 when I use a daily snapshot all menus are not localized. The remain in plain English. (except some buttons from standard dialogs) When I use a previous 0.44 menus gets localized perfectly. So I guess it is not settings related. I mentioned this some times in the chat to get a confirmation or negative response but there was no feedback. Thats why I did not post a defect for this. If this is confirmed to be a bug this is also a must-fix. pls win32-developer or tester give some feedback. Adib. --- Bryce Harrington schrieb: > With the bug hunt out of the way, the last bit of bug fixing work is to > attend any MustFix bugs. These are extremely serious bugs such as ones > that cause frequent crashes, or that risk bad data loss. > > I've gone through the current (as of 1/8/07) bug list and separated out > the ones that a) we don't have enough info to debug, b) are out of our > hands anyway, or c) don't cause crashes or data loss. > > Please review this list and identify any you can show to be must fix > bugs. > > For a bug to be nominated to be a MUST FIX bug, it must also include a > willing owner who can work on it right now, and some form of a plan for > what to do about it. (Otherwise, blocking on it may prove > unproductive.) > > > > > CRASHES OR DATA LOSS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1515192 make check failure > 1630485 Inkview don't support blur / crashes > 1630101 crash inkscape click in connectors network aling > 1575829 Metadata are truncated at 4 chars and add a char 18 hexa > 1464771 whiteboard: cannot connect to jabber server then crashses > > > REQUIRES UPSTREAM ACTION > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 969321 "Dialogs on top" does not work on Windows > > > REQUIRES MORE INFORMATION OR CONFIRMATION > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1627110 Assertion hit in inkscape_get_repr when getting prefs > 1612057 memory limit at 1GB > 1538282 crash when switching to selection tool > 1519462 OpenBSD: Inkscape hangs/segfaults > 1418122 Conf corruption when opening files with non-UTF encoded > 1507967 [INFO NEEDED] Cannot open svgz > 1516476 build problems on Solaris > 1395505 0.43 crash at startup on Win98se > 1614820 Crash when moving nodes in XML Editor after duplicate. > 1603579 Crash open file dialog start directory with > 1513877 autopackage libcairo.so.2 dependency problem > 1508157 GDKpixbufInput files to Init on SuSE 10.1 with 0.44pre4 > 1503564 win2003 SP1: crash on start > 1467137 Shrinking a pattern causes lock-up > 1624076 Crash after changing canvas size fields by click > 1499971 detect and warn about installed libsmooth > 1496718 Text paragraph display problem on OS X > > > MISBEHAVIOR BUT NO CRASH OR DATA LOSS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1469554 fixed length toolbars prevent working on narrow screens > 1494967 Text toolbar: too difficult to close fonts drop-down > 1495039 whiteboard backtrace reveals sensitive information > 1448618 Fonts weight variants selection > 1441003 flowRoot error with inkscape's svg > 937347 symbol fonts not supported? > 1586421 Mandarin TEXT RENDERING problem > 1584935 blur not exported to pdf > 1519730 Linked offset performance issues > 1513484 icc compile error > 1441767 OpenType fonts with postscript outlines not supported. > 1370904 isnan issue, sun Solaris 8 gcc > 1143821 COPY/PASTE doesn't work with system clipboard > 1505549 drag and delete line crash Inkscape 0.45devel (crash fixed) > > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Creating gears
by Claus Cyrny 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi, I would like to know if there is a tutorial on how to create gears in Inkscape (I am still using 0.42, but would like to update as soon as I have the new Ubuntu release installed). At the Inkscape web site I only found several links to Youtube videos, but none of those was what I was looking for. TIA, Claus -- Home Page: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (Photographs) Photo gallery @ depo consulting: http://www.depoconsulting.com/gallery/clauscyrny.htm "Djangology" (my Django Reinhardt site; in German): http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/djangology/

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