October 2007 - Inkscape Users

Script to slice inkscape (for web heads)
by m h 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all- I've written a script to slice from inkscape. Details/script can be found at my blog [0]. Comments/suggestions welcome. -matt 0 - http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm

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Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

How do I configure Inkscape for Windows to see the Type1 fonts I have installed? The GIMP sees them fine (which also uses freetype), as does OpenOffice.org. The font names and corresponding pfb file names even show up in my .fonts.cache-1 file but I still can't see them in Inkscape. Thanks for any answers. Inkscape 0.45 Windows XP SP2 -- Norvell Spearman

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Inkscape and DXF files?
by Jim Ford 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

The school where I work has a laser cutter attached to a pc. The pc runs 'PC Design', outputing to the cutter. http://www.techsoftuk.co.uk/techsoft_software.htm As well as it's own propriety files, PC Design will accept dxf files to output to the cutter. I've tried importing dxf files created with Inkscape into PC Design, but they don't get rendered. Are the dxf files created by Inkscape's export non standard or otherwise 'funny'? Does anyone know of a 'workaround' for this problem, please? Jim Ford

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Drawing boxes around objects?
by Keith Trnka 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

I think I might've not been so clear on what I was looking for -- an automatic way to do it with a tool, where I'd select my text, then select some tool or script, and have the appropriate size boxes created and grouped automatically. I realize I could just do it manually, but I don't normally have the time for that. thanks, keith

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Wacom tablet and Linux.
by John R. Culleton 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Has anyone used a Wacom tablet with Inkscape and Linux? -- John Culleton

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Non-programming tasks
by Joshua A. Andler 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hey all, It seems like a good time to discuss non-programming related items given the icon conversation. I figure we can get some thoughts out on the list and work from there. Basically, let's try and free the people who program from the tasks that the rest of us can do. ;) It's common for people to say "well if I could program I'd...", well, if you can't, but want more programming done on inkscape... here's your chance! The website: Realistically, we should probably have 2 or 3 volunteers that will agree to submit at least 1 news item per month. Bryce shouldn't be the only one. ;) It seems like it should be a fairly minimal commitment. I'm willing to fill one of those spots myself. I'll throw together something before the end of the week that talks about the persistent undo history that the MIT students are working on, and link to their page. Bryce, are you even still interested? On top of that, do you have the time? Either way, it is not difficult to find a couple news worthy items per month. Any other takers? Tutorials: Ryan Lerch and myself started to do some tutorial work for this development cycle a while back. I haven't contributed to this for a couple months as it seemed like there were still a number of changes going on at that point (plus a very busy schedule on my end). Luckily, it appears things are slowing down now on both fronts, so it seems like an opportune time to pick this back up. It's good for us to have more tutorials that focus on using features of inkscape (such as the in-progress clipping/masking/patterns tutorial), rather than tutorials for doing a particular task (easter egg). Do we have any volunteers to help us with tutorial writing/updating? Current discussion and drafts can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 Also, as for tutorial localization and to attempt simplifying our files and the process for translators, I know there was discussion in the past about po2xml. Can anyone enlighten me on if this has change has been done? I've not updated my checkout of the tutorials in quite a while. If not, is this a huge task? Will there be any changes in formatting or the process for tutorial writers? Screenshots: Okay, do we think that artsy screenshots are in order yet? I have one that utilizes a number of filters, but a key piece of filter rendering is not correct (it's using turbulence). I also have an in-progress one that I'm using some filters on, but more importantly going to town with live path effects. Curve stitching is turning out to be my favorite feature in this dev cycle. :) The About screen: I just want to follow up on this. I know we're most likely not ready to go for it yet (as there are a number of filter bugs remaining). But I am just wondering if we think we're getting closer. Also, did Jon Phillips want to host this via ocal or create? Or are we going deviantART again? Just want to coordinate. Bugs & Feature Requests: Another area that generally needs attention is our bug and rfe trackers. It is always a big help if people can go through bug reports & feature requests and try to close duplicates, reproduce bugs, ask for more information where necessary, etc. Unfortunately, people submit items without searching the trackers first, so duplicates are quite common. Also, it's common that people will file a report and the issue is resolved in a development cycle, but they never come back to say that the issue has been fixed for them. Another common issue is anonymous bug reports. These get reported and never followed up on by the original poster as there is no way for us to contact them (these are fairly common to get fixed, but we don't get confirmation from those people). Anyone interested in helping with these that doesn't have access, please let us know. Thank you all for your time. -Josh P.S. Unrelated, is the 3d box tool not going to be activated for the next release?

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how to scale path nodes, not the object?
by Albert Cardona 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm used to Blender, enter edit mode and then have all the tools that apply to the entire object be available to any collection of selected vertices. So question: how can I do the same in Inkscape? What I want to do: 1 - F1 select path 2 - F2 select some nodes of the path 3 - scale/rotate those nodes relative to a specific center, or to the median point of the selected nodes. At the moment, only grouped translation is possible as far as I can see. Perhaps a python script would do? Is there a guide on how to script Inkscape with python? Thanks in advance for any tips. Albert -- Albert Cardona http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Non-programming tasks
by bulia byak 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

On 10/30/07, Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art <faceman@...2382...> wrote: > Bulia, is there any reason you'd not want me to take your new features > summaries and write these up as news articles? I think they'd be the > perfect sort of thing for eager users to read - I just don't want to > step on your toes ;) No stepping - feel free - the more people know about the new features the better :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Non-programming tasks
by Ryan Lerch 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

>> I'd say the new color modification with click-dragging is news worthy, >> the refinements to the gradient tool are news worthy, and honestly there >> is a ton of stuff that hasn't been touched on via the website. If you've >> followed development, I'm sure you have your own list going. >> >> > That was what I had planned on doing first - and you're right, I do have > a list of stuff from the dev list :) > > > if you want to, feel free to use some of those new feature screencasts that i did a little while back, they are CC licensed and on blip.tv - http://ryanlerch.blip.tv/posts?view=archive hopefully i will get a chance to do some more and update some of the ones that have had new features added (i.e the tweak tool) cheers, ryanlerch

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