October 2007 - Inkscape Users

Losing colours when copying
by greg fenton 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I am using some images from openclipart. I am trying to copy two different balloons (clipart/recreation/party/balloon-red-aj.svg and balloon-blue-aj.svg) into a single new image. I first copy -red and paste into the new image and all is good. When I copy -blue and paste into the new image, it is pasted also as red (not blue). Nothing I seem to do will copy the image over as blue. If I create a second new image and paste just the blue, it copies over as blue. If I then copy red and paste, it pastes as blue. Any suggestions as to how I can get the copy to happen? Thanks, mG.

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Using to different fonts in the same text string
by Loïc Martin 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, Since I'm typing lines that contain multiple language (Chinese+French) I need to be able to at least have the Chinese with its font (one of the arphic fonts, esp. uming.ttf), and the rest with another font (DejaVu serif or Times New Roman). How can I achieve this? I'm using the latest autopackage (dates from september I think, I haven't seen any newer ones on the site). Thanks a lot, Loic

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Which Non-Latin Scripts Do Free Software Fonts Not Cover?
by Dave Crossland 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi All, I've just started the Masters degree in Typeface Design at the University of Reading (for which Gentium was a submitted project) and we're expected to do a non-latin script complement to our font, and I'd thought I'd ask around if anyone here has any opinions about the following: Are there non-latin scripts that free software fonts do not cover at all at the moment? Which non-latin script communities are adopting free software and would benefit from more fonts? :-) -- Regards, Dave

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Wacom problems
by Alex 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

> Moreover, in this case it's highly probable that the problem is > actually not in Inkscape but in the GTK library. So it's likely that > if this problem is reported on the GTK mailing list it will get more > attention. Be prepared to state your exact version of GTK and OS and > the exact hardware and driver you use. It may very well be a known > problem for GTK devs. This is not a Wacom-only problem; I wrote about this issue in the first message posted to this list, not that long ago. The problem occurs on both, Windows and Linux; and my tablet is from Genius. Everything is ok in GIMP, so I am not sure if this is an exclusively GTK problem.

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viewBox and inkscape.svg's with other programs...
by Jason Brower 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Let me get this strait. I am developing a program to make svg's that where created in inkscape and merge them together to make an avatar. http://launchpad.net/memaker. If I am not mistaken, the viewBox is the area of which is veiwable by aplications? This may be why we have this bug... When we merge multiple images with our merging library, the images don't showup correctly in the preview screen, and when they are saved... they are in the right proportions... but not in the right viewBox area. To best explain it... I would just try the program out. Select a head and a feiw other features and you will see the changes.... then save the image and look at it in inkscape. Interesting don't you think? to download it: "bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~encompass/memaker/trunk" Thanks to everyone that gives it a try... it is a huge challenge for us that we are trying to figure out. You people seem to know a lot more information about svg's then I do so hopefully we can't figure the answer out. Jason Brower http://brower.homelinux.org

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text editing???
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello, I am using the August 30th build (as with the more recent ones I can't save as PS/EPS, it closes the program), and there is something that I think is wrong with text editing: If I have a long one-line text, and hit <enter> in the middle of it, I end up with two separate block of text, no longer one text. If I have a multi-line text (sometimes the <enter> works..), and hit <backspace>, to make it onle line again, it just deletes a whole line!! what is this? cheers carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Import/Export of bitmaps
by Peter Hillier-Brook 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Could someone offer guidance as to why a bitmap (PNG) measuring 600 x 350 px becomes 640 x 373 px after a round trip through Inkscape 0.45? I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and my objective is to add some drawing elements to a bitmap image (in their own layer(s) and within the dimensions of the bitmap). The original image was created at 96dpi, however it appears to "grow" on import to Inkscape. Inkscape preferences are also set to export at 96dpi, resulting in the over-sized new bitmap. Thanks for any pointers. Peter HB

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Selecting objects with same stroke-paint and/or same stroke-style
by Akki Nitsch 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi everyone, can anybody tell me if there is a possibility to select objects like curves and lines by their stroke-paint and/or their stroke-style? Is such a feature available or planed? The reason why I'm searching for this feature is this: I'm a technical writer and sometimes I've got to put technical drawings from CAT-systems into my documentations. I've read in the inkscape-roadmap that their is a dxf-import/export planed for version 0.51 and it would be nice to work with this files in inkscape. The lines in this documents have got different colours and different strokes that have got different meanings - in most cases i put all this colours into black for printed documentation - the meaning of the colours isn't important at most places and its easier to read than all lines are black. To still keep the information in that drawings (this is useful in some cases) i differ the width of the stroke e.g. all red lines -> 0.25mm, all green lines -> 0.21mm … In Illustrator this is possible by selecting all objects by stroke-paint and stroke-style. Well, than this feature doesn't exists I'll post this suggestion into the developer-mailinglist. It would be great than this actions would be available at the same time with the dxf-import/export. Regards Akki Nitsch ############################################ The freedom of meaning one thing and saying something different is not permitted. E.W. Dijkstra Andreas "Akki" Nitsch, Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Goethestr. 11 36329 Romrod akki@...2368... Mobile: 0171/ 54 12 63 1

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PostScript LanguageLevel
by Johan Vromans 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hi, PostScript/EPS export uses PostScript level 2 and (sometimes) level 3 operators. According to the EPS specification, a LanguageLevel comment is then mandatory. However, Inkscape does not provide one. -- Johan

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Export to .AI format?
by unknown＠example.com 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

I am a new Inkscape user, so please forgive me if this has been discussed before. I have a design I would like to export for others who use Adobe Illustrator, preferably in a way that preserves the layers. Does any such extension exist? Thanks, KT The design in question has a lot of detail and color separations: http://www.threadless.com/submission/137866/Fire_Elemental?streetteam=Keter

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