Inkscape and digitizers
by Alex
Hello everyone,
I have been using Inkscape for quite some time, and I admire this
tool. I am not a professional artist, but I often use it for small
charts or simple drawings; and to extend my capabilities, I purchased
a digitizer.
On the Windows version of Inkscape, the digitizer is detected,
everything works as expected, except one detail: I cannot use my mouse
to do anything but select a new tool or change options in the GUI. I
am unable to edit the image itself using the mouse, unless I disable
the digitizer.
For instance, if I press F1, the selector tool is becoming active, but
when I click on an object on the canvas itself - nothing happens; I
can only select objects with the digitizer's pen.
I haven't found a setting in Inkscape to alter this behaviour
(v.0.45.1, built in March 2007). Is this normal behaviour? I find it
quite counter-intuitive, because I became quite efficient with using
my laptop's touchpad to manipulate objects - and now I cannot do that
anymore. Can someone shed some light on the subject?
I am also running Inkscape on a Fedora Linux desktop; in that case the
digitizer is not detected by Inkscape (nor GIMP), although the driver
seems to be installed properly and I can see events coming from the
digitizer when I press something on it. The device in question is a
Genius MousePen 8x6, with this driver: http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xhorak28/index.php?page=WizardPen_Driver
Can someone provide any advice about this matter?
Alex
15 years, 7 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] contribute to graphics research!
by bulia byak
On 10/7/07, Joshua Blocher <verbalshadow@...155...> wrote:
> Almlost all I have to say is it looks awesome!
> Unfortunately, since i don't have Windows installed i can't test this.
> Since Inkscape is multi-platform program, is there any chance of
> getting the source posted on your web page?
Actually, as far as I understand it, GPL obliges them to post the
source for their version. But I think what we are most interested in
is not simply getting the source but getting new active contributors
to the development :)
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bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
15 years, 7 months
Problems with query on texts
by Alexander Bonivento
Hello.
I need to get the geomtery of a text element.
Please cosider the following code:
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<svg 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">
<rect id="textbbox_2_check" x="5.3733333333333" y="11.31"
width="15.773333333333" height="2.2966666666667" style="fill: none;
stroke: #000000; stroke-width: 0.01" />
<text id="text_2_check" transform="translate(0,0)" style="
text-anchor:start; font-size: 1; font-family: Arial; fill: #000000;
fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">Text Line 1</text>
</svg>
------------
As you can see, there is a simple text and a rect.
What i need to do is "fit" the text inside that rect.
To do this, i use this file (which is a temp file) to query width and
height in order to obtain values to apply the correct scale transforms
over it.
The problem is that it seems texts are not parsed correctly at all.
As far as i know, SVG user units should be 90 for 1 inch.
So, doing [query-result]/90 gives me the inches value.
Here, the list of query commands performed on both text and rect elements.
Below each command, i wrote 3 numbers:
[query-result] - [query-result]/90 - inkscape (gui) shown inches value
inkscape -I "text_2_check" -W test.svg
419.81271 - 4.6645856666666666666666666666667 - 5.042
/usr/bin/inkscape -I "text_2_check" -H test.svg
87.39 - 0.971 - 0.730
/usr/bin/inkscape -I "textbbox_2_check" -W test.svg
1420.5 - 15.783333333333333333333333333333 - 15.783
/usr/bin/inkscape -I "textbbox_2_check" -H test.svg
207.6 - 2.3066666666666666666666666666667 - 2.307
As you can see, the "textbbox_2_check" values are correct, and query/gui
values are equal.
But "text_2_check" values are completely different... Why?
Is there a way to get the correct width/height of a text element?
I really need this in order to make the correct "fitting" scaleratio,
but i'm completely lost here.
Can anyone help?
Thanx in advance.
Alex
15 years, 7 months
contribute to graphics research!
by Sara Su
Hello inkscape-users,
I am a graduate student in the Computer Graphics Group at
MIT, and we are researching ways to visualize the editing
history of graphical documents. We want to test our
software prototype (built on Inkscape) on a diverse sample
of illustrations, and we need your help! Please see our
webpage for details:
http://csail.mit.edu/~sarasu/history
If you could spare 10 minutes, we would be grateful for your
help. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions
regarding this work. We will keep you posted on cool
features (e.g. selective undo) that grow out of it.
Thanks in advance!
Sara
15 years, 7 months
Inkscape has a default theme on OS X
by jiho
Hello everyone,
As of revision 16000 (yes I like round numbers, I think I also did
commit number 15000!), development versions of Inkscape have a
default GTK theme on OS X (no more of these ugly dark grey windows!)
It is probably impossible for GTK to reproduce Aqua exactly, hence
the theme does not aim at being an Aqua clone as other themes tried
(and in my opinion, did not succeed). It rather tries to "fit"
correctly with the rest of the interface. The theme is based on
Clearlooks-Quicksilver which already features light gray colors, menu
and text highlights and a smooth 3D feel. Further improvements were
added such as:
- aqua scroll-bars
- Lucida Grande font
- highlight and scroll-bars colors that use Mac OS X Appearance
settings (aqua vs graphite, or blue vs grey vs graphite vs...).
However you need to restart Inkscape for colors to change after you
changed them in OS X preferences.
In addition, Inkscape won't override the local theme preferences you
may have in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (so if you want to see the theme in
Inkscape, temporarily move this file somewhere else).
Some screenshots:
- With OS X blue and blue highlights (OS X default)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue.png
- With OS X blue and orange highlights (subtle changes)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue_orange.png
- With OS X graphite and silver highlights (my personal favorite)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_graphite.png
- And the old look, just to compare
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_old_look.png
There is probably room for improvement: the scroll-bars tips are not
perfect, the text and background highlight colors can be
differentiated (as in OS X), the icons are still gnome defaults and
so on and so forth... but well I hope that this is at least better
than before.
NB: there is a devel build, on modevia, for you to test this out:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D
sorry, only for Intel... the direct link is
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16002-i386.dmg
Cheers,
JiHO
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http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
15 years, 7 months
Styles Panel(Like Freehand)
by seth friedman
Hey everyone,
Has there been any work to create a styles panel similar to what freehand has?
That would be so useful.
Seth
15 years, 7 months
CMS display adjustment change
by Jon A. Cruz
Hi,
I just checked in an update with icc color profiles and setting
display calibration.
Now upon startup latest SVN Inkscape will search the standard
locations for profiles
~/.color/icc
/usr/local/share/color/icc
/usr/share/color/icc
Then under the misc preferences you'll have a checkbox for enabling
display calibration, along with a drop-down combo box that allows you
to pick between all RGB display profiles found.
Give it a rundown and let me know how it's behaving.
Thanks.
15 years, 7 months
Exported gradients and Adobe Reader 8
by Stéphane Mottelet
Hi all,
Last year, I have used Inkscape to make a nice A0 poster with
gradients. I exported the original svg to pdf and sent the
file to my favorite printing shop. One year later, when
I open the pdf file, I don't see the gradients any more. Of
course when I open the svg file with Inkscape 0.45 the
gradients are here. So my question is : if I ask them
to reprint the file (I don't know what is the application
they use) will the gradients be printed ? Is there a
problem in the way that Inkscape export the gradients
which could be broken by recent versions pdf software ?
Thanks for your help
S.
15 years, 7 months
Keep Dialogs Open
by D. Jones
How do I make the dialogs always stay open so that when I close inkscape and then reopen
inkscape the same dialogs that I was using are reopen with a new instance of inkscape. I
would like to apply this to the stable and the developement version.
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15 years, 7 months
Technical drawing / snapping
by A.J. Carter
I'm really pleased to have discovered inkscape recently and it's fantastic that
it's free and open source. In the past I've used autodesk autosketch (a cut
down version of autocad) for "non-cad" scientific/technical illustrations for
publication in papers etc.
One feature which I find makes drawing easier is the ability to set snapping
constraints, like "endpoint", "midpoint", "centre", "tangent" when both drawing
an element and selecting to transform an existing element (the cursor jumps and
changes shape to indicate which snap is currently in action). I wondered if any
similar feature exists in inkscape, or whether it might be considered for the
roadmap?
Thanks
15 years, 7 months
