October 2007 - Inkscape Users

Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research!
by Sara Su 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi bulia, Joshua, and all: I apologize for my delay in replying to your messages. I just got back from the UIST conference, where I met many UI researchers -- and fellow Inkscape users. Thanks for your enthusiasm about the undo-saving feature! We would like to release the code for this for all the reasons you mentioned: to comply with the GPL, to get users across platforms, and ultimately to contribute to the Inkscape project. [We'd also welcome help identifying and fixing bugs. :)] What is the best way to do this? As the number of files touched is small, perhaps the fastest is to post these on our website, then work on adding the changes to the SVN trunk. Thanks for your invitation to do so. Sara > Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:52:04 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research! > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, > "Inkscape List Devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > (forwarding this to devel list as well) > > This sounds like a very nice addition. We (developers) actually were > thinking about adding something like that, as an option. Would you > consider adding your patch to the SVN trunk so it becomes part of the > official Inkscape releases? For users, persistent undo is an important > enough feature by itself, with or without helping your graphics > research :) And if you keep working on it to add more features like > selective undo, this is much better to do in the main trunk.

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Favorite Inkscape book?
by Patrick 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi Everyone I want to buy an Inkscape book to learn more about it and to use as a reference book. Does anyone have a favorite? Thanks-Patrick

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A call out to all inkscape artist!
by Jason Brower 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Greetings! My name is Jason Brower and I have come up with an idea to create an avatar making program for linux. All the artwork is done in Inkscape and I was hoping to get some help from artists to make my program amazing! A video of our project in action... http://brower.homelinux.org/nifty.ogg Our Launchpad site where our alpha release of MeMaker is kept. http://launchpad.net/memaker/ Our Standards page that is being created to give artists an understanding of what we need(still being worked on). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/memaker I would love to help anyone get started adding artwork to this project. If you saw before we have a small amount to help everyone get an idea. But the truly clean artwork await for you to complete! :D Thanks for listening! If you want to become more involved drop me a line! Jason Brower PS: I have a special interest in this guy's icons and would love to have the sources or if he would like, he can submit his own theme set himself. :D http://alischan.deviantart.com/art/Icons-41190267

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No more PHP 4
by Aaron Spike 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

Php4 has been removed from the Inkscape VM. Please report any problems with any Inkscape websites as soon as possible so that we can fix them. Thanks, Aaron Spike

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convert .svg or bitmap to .dxf
by Elwin Estle 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

I know that there is at least one utility that will convert .dxf to .svg. However, is there one that will convert going the other way, from .svg (or a bitmap) to .dxf? I am looking for something open source, if possible. I have found a couple of shareware windows only programs. The end goal is this: To be able to scan something, convert it to a .dxf file which will then be converted for a Trumpf laser cutter to cut that shape out of sheet metal. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html

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Re: [Inkscape-user] The StoryBoard Prototype
by Sara Su 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

> I can indeed see a "history"-list that I can use to undo > to a certain level, but should there also be a visual > storyboard somewhere? Hi Maarten. Thanks for trying our build. It currently includes the history-saving feature. The storyboard-drawing is work in progress, and since it's changing daily, we haven't released it yet. We're asking for your help getting a diverse sample of undo-lists so we can see where the storyboard breaks and design it to be useful to more users. > Also, the prototype version has the tendecy to crash much > more as the regular build. Has anyone else noticed this > behaviour? Can you describe the conditions under which it crashes? It would help us identify the bug if you happened to notice, for example, what tool you were using at the time. Cheers, Sara

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Where is the 3D Box Tool?!
by marc0047 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

I just downloaded Inkscape 45.1 for Mac (X11), but can't seem to find the 3D box tool... Anyone know where it is? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Where-is-the-3D-Box-Tool-%21-tf4610970.html#a13167825 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ruler, grid and dimensions
by Renato Serodio 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Hello there, I've started using Inkscape a while a go, as an Xfig replacement. I'm quite dependent on the grid and rulers, and am a bit puzzled by Inkscape's ways - unfortunately, I couldn't google anything useful out of the net. So, I was wondering whether someone would care to comment on the following points: 1. is it possible to make the vertical ruler conform to the internal coordinates, ie, I tend to use the XML editor to make corrections, and it would be useful to have the ruler conform to these. 2. can the grid also conform to these coordinates? I put a box on (0,0) using the XML editor, but the grid lines don't match the box edges 3. can it be that the ruler and grid don't match? When I pull a guide, I see that the cursor coordinates match the grid line, but not the ruler tick - say, 100 in the grid and cursor, 98 in the ruler. Looking forward to any comments, Renato

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pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
by Jeff Kowalczyk 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

I'm using a new Gentoo 2007.0 ~x86 system, and building inkscape from svn gives the following errors. What package (cairo, poppler) could be contributing to the build problem? I didn't see a config option to supress PDF features (temporarily, so I can build inkscape) In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:26: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'CairoOutputDev' with no type extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: expected ';' before '*' token extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::PdfImportDialog(PDFDoc*)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected type-specifier before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected `;' before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In destructor 'virtual Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::~PdfImportDialog()': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:301: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:302: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In member function 'void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::_setPreviewPage(int)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 Cairo and poppler are built as follows: x11-libs/cairo-1.4.10 USE="X glitz opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb" 0 kB app-text/poppler-0.6 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB app-text/poppler-bindings-0.6 USE="cairo gtk qt4 -qt3" 0 kB Thanks,

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Text vertical align based on descenders
by Alexander Bonivento 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hello everyone. I know this is not specifically inkscape related, but i thought maybe someone here may help. Please consider this simple code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg id="svg_root" width="26in" height="16in" viewBox="0 0 26 16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <line id="line_obj" x1="0" y1="8" x2="26" y2="8" stroke-width="0.1" stroke="#000000"/> <text id="text_obj" transform="translate(13,8)" style="font-size: 4; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #FF0000; stroke: none;">for</text> </svg> It simply draws a line, and a text "sitting" on it. Obviously the "f" letter, which is a descender, goes below the line. Actually the text location (13,8) determines the placement related to the baseline of the font: i'd like to place at (13,8) the REAL bottom-left corner of the font. So, simply valign to bottom instead of baseline, or move up the text item by descender's amount. I have to do this in scripting, as this is part of a PHP script which invokes inkscape to manage the SVG file. I was only able to imagine 2 solutions, but was not able to apply any of them. So here they are: 1) is there any SVG option, recognized by inkscape as well, that permits this? In SVG specs i saw the "dominant-baseline" and other baseline related params, but none seems to have effect in inkscape 2) can you think at any way to calc the descender offset via scripting? Something like a function: get_descent(fontfile,is_italic,is_bold,textline) Which , i thins case, would look like get_descent("/pathtofonts/times.ttf",1,1,"for") Hope someone can help in some way, every suggestion will be really appreciated. Alex

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