November 2007 - Inkscape Users

[ted@...10...: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project]]
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

----- Forwarded message from Ted Gould <ted@...10...> ----- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:35:26 -0800 From: Ted Gould <ted@...10...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> Subject: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project] -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@...155...> To: clipart@...400... Subject: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:32:15 +1100 Hi OpenClipArters, Forwarding along an announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation that it is facilitating a project to pay for the creation of illustrations. I (Brianna Laugher) am coordinating the project on the community side. I am thinking and hoping there may be a few cliparters who are interested in putting their SVG skills to work. The central wiki page for the project will be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project . The project is still in the gathering-requests stage and I will send out an announcement when we expect to open requests up for people to fulfil. Please let me know if anything about it is not clear. thanks, Brianna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cary Bass <cbass@...2388...> Date: 3 Nov 2007 05:32 Subject: [Foundation-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Greenspan illustration project To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...2389...>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@...2389...> The Greenspan Illustration Project What is it? The Wikimedia Foundation has received a donation from Philip Greenspun for the purpose of creating and improving illustrations on Wikimedia. The Board has decided to accept his donation of $US20,000 for this special purpose. This is the first time the Foundation has been directly involved in funded content creation, although the German chapter's experience in winning a government grant to write articles on sustainable development has helped pave the way. The Foundation wants a "hands-off" minimal administration role with the bulk of the work of organizing the project and creating the content to be completed by members of our community. Since this is the first time we've done this, we're not sure how it will go. This is a bit experimental and we ask for your patience and enthusiasm to help make it a success. Brianna Laugher (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise>) will be coordinating the project, with my help as the Foundation's Volunteer Coordinator. How will it run? Since Philip's kind donation is a lot of money and we're planning to pay around US$40 per illustration (with some lower and higher amounts, see details to follow), we want to progress the project in stages. Starting out with a small number of 50 requested illustrations, we'll look at our results and modify and improve it for successive stages. The project will flow along as follows: * Create list of requested illustrations. * Open illustration requests on issue tracking software * Users will self-assign requests, signaling his or her intent to create that illustration. * On creation and approval, the user is paid the amount as set in the original request. Things to note: * The list of requests will be approved by Brianna, in order that balance exists among "things any decent reference work needs"; "things the Wikimedia community requests"; and "things we nearly have, or have poor versions of". * Approval: a review group will be formed in order to provide assessment of submitted images. The main checks will be 1) editor's original work and acceptable license, 2) correct rendering on MediaWiki and 3) how well the image depicts the requested item. No image will be accepted that do not pass all three of these checks. * Other checks will be recommended (e.g. language-neutral version). * The payment system is not yet finalized. How you can help If you are interested in suggesting illustrations to be created, you don't have long to wait: soon there will be some pages on Meta where you can get involved. We will write to foundation-l when the pages are ready for your input. If you are interested in being part of the review group, please email Brianna as follows: brianna.laugher AT gmail DOT com The benefits This project can have two good outcomes. One, we get illustrations we wouldn't otherwise have, or wouldn't otherwise have had so quickly. Another benefit is that we can use this project as a way to encourage and launch new people into the "illustrator community". Creating high-quality SVGs is not a skill a lot of people have immediately, but may be developed fairly quickly. While many people might be vaguely interested in it but no more, a monetary incentive might be enough to push them to act, and learn, and create. Some of the image requests will be for smaller amounts (US$15) for relatively simpler illustrations???these will be specifically targeted to newcomers to encourage them to get involved. At the end of this project we might have $20,000 worth of illustrations, but the value of the content creating community will potentially be a lot higher. We expect a side benefit to this project will be the creation/finding and maintenance of good documentation for specific tasks using tools like Inkscape. More details See the project specifications at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/51/WMF_Greenspun_Illustr… -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass@...2388... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@...2389... Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ----- End forwarded message -----

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error loading inkscape
by romunov 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

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dependency problem
by romunov 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

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snapping issue
by Frank Knappe 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hello, I'm trying to switch over from Corel Draw to Inkscape. Based on the first experiences I have some questions. 1) I've set up the document properties to have a 1mm grid and also all units are set to mm. When I now create a circle or a rectangle the dimensions are not multiples of 1mm. How can I achieve this? Manual changing the dimensions works of course, but isn't very convenient. The snap options are at the default levels. I also changed all to "always snap" but that didn't made a difference for me. 2) Is there an upper limit how many elements Inkscape can "import" from the clipboard. From a design mask I copied >20000 elements into the clipboard, but when I tried paste Inkscape told me that the clipboard is empty. Copy and paste of the same data worked in Corel Draw (and even into Word). Inkscape version: 0.45.1 OS: Win XP SP2 Thanks in advance, Frank

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Text on a path... ...plus?
by Matt Jordan 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hello, I'm able to do basic text on a path stuff, but I was wondering if it's possible yet in Inkscape to do something like the treatment of the word "Amazing" in this old magazine cover: http://www.artfullyredone.com/proddetail.asp?prod=TC-CC-F-4 In case the link doesn't work, I'd like to make the bottom of my text arch upwards while the top remains more or less flat. Other than doing it manually, can this be done yet with the text to path tool or any other tools? Thanks, Matt Jordan

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Distressed look
by Mick Nelson 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Is there a tutorial on how to make distressed graphics (for shirt designs)?

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