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, 4 months
Replacing all stamped copies of an object
by Rob Antonishen
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.
15 years, 4 months
using inkscape to convert svg to jpeg - from a plugin
by Jayesh Salvi
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
15 years, 4 months
New 'Inkscape Answers' site
by Bryce Harrington
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
15 years, 4 months
Development packages for OS X (About screen contest)
by jiho
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/
15 years, 5 months
PDF export stroke bug?
by Alexander Bonivento
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
15 years, 5 months
shared whiteboard mode
by unknown＠example.com
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
15 years, 5 months
Assign URL to object?
by Claus Cyrny
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
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Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German)
Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English)
15 years, 5 months
