February 2007 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape on Mac, and WACOM Graphire 4
by Alberto Simões 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi I bought a Wacom Graphire 4 classic tablet and I can use it directly on inkscape, as expected, as a normal mouse/pointer. I noticed Inkscape has an 'Input Devices' entry on the File menu, but it says there aren't special input devices available. Is this usual? Cheers Alberto -- Alberto Simões

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Scripting the fill style
by singlecell 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi, Not sure if I should be bothering this list with this, but it may also be functionality currently missing from Inkscape (?) I'm using Inkscape to create interactive SVG drawings that allow the viewer colour in the picture, painting by numbers style (I've attached a simple test svg as an example). The (minor) problems encountered so far are: 1 - Inkscape uses the style attribute on each element to set the fill colour, and I have to manually go through each element changing them for my script code to work. Manipulating the style attribute in code would require parsing to preservation all the other style definitions. Is there any way to force inkscape to save style attributes of drawing elements as separate elements (as I have altered in the attached example)? 2 - should Inkscape treat script element as CDATA, as it currently treats it as a text node and replaces " with " etc.

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Beginner's question regarding default_mm template/absolute svg sizes
by Klaus Malorny 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi, sorry if this is FAQ, but I have searched Google and the archive and did not find a suitable answer. I have a small problem. I need to prepare some SVG files for the use with Apache's FOP. Inkscape seems to be the perfect tool for this, so I installed the latest version 0.45. However, I discovered that FOP measures a pixel as a 1/72 inch, while Inkscape measures a pixel as a 1/90 inch. Then I found out that there are default templates of various sizes, and one of them is "default_mm", which actually announces the image size in the <svg> element in absolute units. Unfortunately, whenever I resize the document size, Inkscape falls back into pixel mode when saving the file. What am I doing wrong? Is it an intended behaviour or is it a bug? I found a workaround, namely scaling the image by 72/90, however, I would prefer a clean solution. Thanks in advance for any answer. Klaus

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how to group layers
by Adam Pearson 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Sorry folks, I am sure this has been explained somewhere but I cannot find the "somewhere": I have an image that I want to scale bigger, how do I group the layers to do this so the full image and all its layers (only 4) are scaled the same? adam

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Re: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg
by momo 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Seymour, Unfortunately a paragraph text one exported is not editable, as it is rasterized (it's then just a bunch of pixels as any other object). The best alternative would be exporting the graphics to PNG and then add the text in the Gimp. Best, Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: Seymour Fine To: momo Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg Dear Molumen, Exporting a text paragraph as png from Inkscape to Gimp, can the text then be edited in Gimp? Sy On 2/20/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote: Hello, Inkscape can export PNG files that you can then import into GIMP for further work. JPG is IMO not needed (I don't even know if JPG export is planned) because PNG is much more superior: it has a lossless compression method and it supports transparency (better quality + more versatile). :) Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: Seymour Fine To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:51 AM Subject: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg In Inkcape, how does one save an svg file as a jpg file for later use in Gimp or elsewhere? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user -- With very best wishes -- Sy Seymour H. Fine, Ph.D. WEB: http://tinyurl.com/y5t4r6 syfine@...155...

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rendering intent
by Dwain Alford 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

what is the rendering intent of inkscape? is it perceptual, relative colorimetric, absolute colorimetric or saturation? thanks, dwain -- dwain alford p.o. box 145 winfield, alabama 35594 u.s.a. tele: 205.487.2570 cell: 205.495.5619

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33-hour Inkscape course.
by Denis Fernandez Cabrera 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hello, This is the first time I write in this list, so I apologize in advance if this is not the place to make these sort of public announcements. I searched the Inkscape web, but I wasn't able to find a better place to post it, and I think it may be interesting as a showcase of how Inkscape is being introduced in the graphic design community. Starting on April the 11th and until the 3rd of May, the Galizan government[1], through the Multimedia Center of Galiza[2], will be offering 33-hour courses on graphic design with Inkscape, within a series themed around the creation of multimedia content with Free Software[3]. I (Denís Fernández Cabrera, Gatonegro, [4]) will give the courses on Inkscape and GIMP, and Pedro Silva (Pedro Silva Franco, Goretoxo, [5]) will read a course on Blender. Denís. [1] http://www.xunta.es [2] http://www.cmg.xunta.es [3] https://www.cmg.xunta.es/ReservasCursos [4] http://gatonegro.ceibes.org [5] http://demares.blogaliza.org -- ########################### # Denís Fernández Cabrera # # denis@...2126... # # gatonegro.ceibes.org # ###########################

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Inkscape.45 and Vista
by Bibi Morris 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

What is the compatibility of Inkscape.45 with Windows Vista? Thanks Bibi Morris

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Errors with perspective effect
by heathenx 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hello, I am getting an error dialog on my openSUSE 10.2 desktop when trying to use the perspective effect in Inkscape v0.45. (kde) http://misc.heathenx.org/inkscape_error.png Can anyone explain why this happens? Perhaps it's user error. Thank-you, heathenx

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saving an svg file As jpg
by Seymour Fine 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

In Inkcape, how does one save an svg file as a jpg file for later use in Gimp or elsewhere?

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