December 2007 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape and DXF files?
by Jim Ford 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

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

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Linking objects to a path for quick and easy bending around
by username132 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Is there some way that I can link objects to a path so that I can change the path and have the objects follow it? I've made an SVG to demonstrate what I mean (in this example, I had to move the objects manually to match the path. This would be a very tedious method for my actual intention. http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg My actual intention is to construct a PCR (OE-PCR) illustration for Wikipedia. If you take a look at this, made by someone else: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg you see the DNA strands that I have in mind. I want to be able to bend them easily as though they were a single contiguous path, without having to re-adjust each object. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linking-objects-to-a-path-for-quick-and-easy-bending-… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Replacing all stamped copies of an object
by Rob Antonishen 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Say I have an object (a circle for example) that I have stamped a whole bunch of times by draging and clicking the spacebar. Is there an easy way to replace each of them with a different object stamp? Sort of an object search and replace? -Rob A.

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using inkscape to convert svg to jpeg - from a plugin
by Jayesh Salvi 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi, If you might have noticed, I posted a message about the plugin/extension I wrote to upload images to Flickr/Picasaweb. An important part of this plugin is to convert SVG to JPEG, because both of the above services don't accept SVG images. So the solution I am using in the current version of plugin is, using ImageMagick's "convert" command to do the above image format transformation. This is not an elegant approach, in my opinion. I can't get it to work on windows, etc. I know Inkscape can let you save an SVG image as jpeg. But don't know how to do this programmatically. My extension works as an "output" extension, so it is triggered by the filename extension (.web). This mechanism pretty much isolates the extension developer from having programmatic interface with inkscape functionality. So I am not sure how I can access inkscape's svg-2-jpeg functionality, if at all there is an API exposing it. It is also a possibility to fork another inkscape instance as command line and use --export-png to convert to PNG (I think flickr/picasa will accept png). But the conversion result was very poor when I tried it. When the SVG image contained some simple black lines on a white background, the resultant PNG contained only black lines and no background. Any suggestions around these ideas will help. Thanks in advance. Cheers! Jayesh

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New 'Inkscape Answers' site
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi all, As some have already noticed, we have a new website for posting usage questions about Inkscape: http://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/ This is different from the bug tracker - it's for when you have questions about how to do something in Inkscape. It's nice, in that it allows keeping track of if your question has been "Solved" or not. Developers can then easily and quickly peek in for any still open questions. If it turns out your question is really a bug or feature request, it can be easily bumped over into the bug tracker appropriately. I notice that a huge amount of the traffic here on inkscape-user@ has been usage questions; I hope Answers will give a more powerful and reliable way to gain an answer to your Inkscape usage questions, and allow the inkscape-user@ list to focus on more artistic and technique discussions. :-) Bryce

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Handling objects in stacks
by Eireson 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

i have been attempting to 'unstack' items returned from potrace. since i often have many groups stacked as a result of multiple scan passes, it can get difficult to manage them. I attempted to use 'export groups as PNG' but nothing happens. anyone have any idea how i can efficiently separate a deep stack of groups? geo. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Handling-objects-in-stacks-tp14521057p14521057.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Development packages for OS X (About screen contest)
by jiho 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hi everyone, Thanks to the help of several people, there are now recent development builds of Inkscape for PowerPC (G4-G5), as well as prebuilt python modules for all machines (ppc and intel) and all python versions currently available on OS X (2.3 - 2.5). These new builds are available on modevia as usual: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D Python packages are integrated into the application so drag Inkscape and drop it somewhere on your machine (e.g. in Applications) and everything should "just work". There are two PPC packages (dec24 and 16774) which should work on Tiger and Leopard and one i386 (Intel) package (16834) which, unfortunately, is Leopard-only. These should be still in time for the about screen contest and will provide good testing for the release. Cheers to all those involved in PPC compiling. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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PDF export stroke bug?
by Alexander Bonivento 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hello everyone, and happy Xmas! I noticed a small thing, dunno if it's a bug or not. Attached you will find: - svgsource.svg This is the svg source of this test - ink_0_44_1.pdf SVG file exported with Inkscape 0.44.1 (Sep 9 2006) - ink_0_45_devel.pdf SVG file exported with Inkscape 0.45+devel (Dec 8 2007) All the exports are made in commandline, using the following command: inkscape -z svgsource.svg --export-pdf=xxx.pdf --export-text-to-path While stroke in ink_0_44_1.pdf seems correct, there are broken points in ink_0_45_devel.pdf (for example, look the top-left corner of the "B" letter). Any thought about this? It works with a past version, what may cause this in the SVN i'm using? Thanks in advance, Alex

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shared whiteboard mode
by unknown＠example.com 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I am new to inkscape, and don't use chat much, but am very experianced with Linux overall (I've been useing linux as my desktop for over 10 years now), but I am having problems figuring out how to get the shared whiteboard to work. I got as far as getting a ejabberd server running on my laptop, and I could get two instances of inkscape to see each other enough to be able to do a chat, but I can't get something I draw on one page to show up on another. looking for info on this type of problem on the inkscape website is frustrating, there are refrences to inkboard, and then after I dig further I see that it's been integrated into inkscape for a couple of years now, but I can't find any mention of it in any documentation or tutorial. any suggestions? David Lang

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Assign URL to object?
by Claus Cyrny 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hi all, recently, I started using embedded SVGs on my web site. Now I would like to make certain objects (say, a circle) clickable by assigning URLs to them. Does Inkscape/SVG support this, and in case that it does, how is this done? I'm assuming, if at all, it would have to be by using the XML editor. TIA, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English)

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