February 2007 - Inkscape Users

question about eps under inkscape
by Elwin Estle 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I tried to export a graphic I created in Inkscape to eps. It worked, sort of. It seemed to trash my gradients, making them solid, and it looked like there was no anti aliasing. Does eps not support gradients? Or is support for eps incomplete in Inkscape? ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php

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Re: [Inkscape-user] I'd prefer guides per layer
by momo 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

IMO a much better improvement of the guides would be colored guides, so they could be distinguishable. Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorsten Wilms" <t_w_@...1631...> To: <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] I'd prefer guides per layer > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:05:43PM +0100, Dennis Heuer wrote: >> That's it. > > I wouldn't. That's it. > > > No seriously, what's the use case? > > I'm rather sure it's common to use guides to align > objects across layers. > > Guide layers could be a compromise. > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: > http://www.printfection.com/thorwil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [ Inkscape-user] Determining the size of selections
by D. Jones 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

After I posted the question I saw that I could size the selection to what ever I wanted. is the size of the object not shown on the object toolbar when the object is selected? spiff render1232@...12... wrote: > I know in the gimp when you use either the rectangle > or elliptical selection you are able to see what the > size of the selection. Is there a way in inkscape to > determine the size of lets say square or circle. > Because right now it seems that I am just guessing as > to the dimension even with the ruler in use. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php

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sublayers can not have same names as layers or sublayers of other layers
by Dennis Heuer 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I find this quite restricting. Please think about changing this. Dennis

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To Scale Drawing
by Brian Cochran 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I'm using inkscape for crime scene drawing. It works great and is very easy to teach. I have tried to do to scale drawings and been unable to do so. What I'm looking for is 1 inch = 60 inch type feature. I'm fairly certain there is no easy way to do that now. I was wondering if this was a feature that might in enough demand that it maybe included in future releases? If not any ideas on a work around would be great.

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Determining the size of selections
by D. Jones 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I know in the gimp when you use either the rectangle or elliptical selection you are able to see what the size of the selection. Is there a way in inkscape to determine the size of lets say square or circle. Because right now it seems that I am just guessing as to the dimension even with the ruler in use. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Raster looking hard edges and lines
by marc0047 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Is it possible to generate objects and line with hard edges? The Illustrator version would be to convert vector shapes into rasterized versions of itself. Is there a way to do that in Inkscape? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Raster-looking-hard-edges-and-lines-tf3225173.html#a8… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...155...

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...155...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] NEW: batch export and slicing
by bulia byak 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

On 2/12/07, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...> wrote: > The DPI setting in the dialog is ignored, then? The current setting in the dialog is ignored, but the export hints on objects are honored. So if you exported some of the objects previously with some resolutions, they will be remembered and reexported with the same resolitions. Otherwise, 90 dpi is used (1 px unit = 1 pixel in PNG). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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