Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist
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
13 years, 7 months
Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman
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
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Norvell Spearman
14 years, 11 months
Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
by Rob Antonishen
Woo-Hoo
Thanks to Kurt I was able to pull together an extension. It is
ungainly slow because of the whole "calling another instance of
Inkscape" deal , but it does work. This provides an option of
restacking the selected objects in a direction (left to right, right
to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top) as well as the point of each
object to compare (top left, bottom middle, etc).
Attached are before and after samples, as well as the extension. It
registers as "Effects->Modify Path->Restack"
I am running on Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Apr 28 2007, so ymmv if
running .45
-Rob A>
15 years, 2 months
SVG Viewers
by Cedric Sagne
Thanks all for info on the SVG viewer topic. It never was the most
convenient thing about SVGs (and anyway not Inkscape's fault) so I sort
of did with it.
I added a new section in the FAQ based on the comments here - a very
constructive thread for all of us. Please bring your additional comments
on the specific viewer you use.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Viewing_SVG_files_like_an_ima...
Cédric
15 years, 2 months
Easily edit names
by Brian Vanderburg II
A lot of the names can be edited by right-clicking on an item, but some
names can't be edited so easily, and even when this works, it is tedious
when wanted to give meaningful names to many items. The XML editor
could work, but would require a complete find-replace to replace the
name. Instead it would be nice if there was a name manager that could
show all the name used in a file, what type the name is (group, pattern,
image id, etc), and even a preview of the time, and allow renaming it
from there and making sure the new name is not used by something else.
For example, the name linearGradient3313 doesn't mean much to me in a
big file with many gradients. I'd rather name it to be more meaningful
so if an item is to use the same gradient, I can more easily recognize
it, esp. if it is similar to another gradient. The same goes with other
things like patterns, etc, and it would be nice to have an easy-to-use
name/id manager for them.
p.s Not sure if this is the correct place to send this. Sorry if not.
Brian Vanderburg II
15 years, 2 months
Inkscape and DXF files?
by Jim Ford
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
15 years, 2 months
Problem with Inkscape 0.45.1 on Gentoo
by G. Clark Haynes
Since performing a recent upgrade on Gentoo (which included updating a
LOT of core libraries, as well as upgrading Inkscape from 0.43 to
0.45.1), I've had problems with fonts when importing SVG files.
An example of the output is:
http://www.msl.ri.cmu.edu/~gch/2007/inkscape-problem/
Basically, I have a workflow where I export SVGs from Matlab, then make
minor changes to the figure in Inkscape, and then export an EPS graphic
which is used for scientific publication.
Currently, it seems like the imported fonts are being very messed up,
like all text bits being centered at one point, etc. You can see it in
the figure above. The same file opens fine with Mozilla Firefox.
I realize that, given that a lot of libraries were recently updated on
my machine, this may not be an inkscape problem. What other packages
could be causing this? I do not see problems with any other programs on
my computer ...
Thanks, and I hope I can get this fixed soon! Trying to get a journal
publication out the door :-)
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Clark Haynes, gch@...2407...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gch/
Ph.D. Student, The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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15 years, 3 months
libxml2 and autopackage
by Matt Jordan
Hi folks,
I'm trying to use the perspective tool with .46 installed with
autopackage on Ubuntu Gutsy. Inkscape complains that I don't have
libxml2 but I do, so I'm guessing it doesn't know because it's an
autopackage install? If so, is there a way to convince Inkscape that I
do have libxml2 and tell it where it is?
Thanks,
Matt
15 years, 3 months
OFT fonts
by Cedric Sagne
Opentype fonts do not appear on my font list (Windoze)...
Hmmm anything I have not done properly?
The wiki is not very talkative about it, anyone has a clue?
Cédric
15 years, 3 months
