February 2007 - Inkscape Users

the vertical ruler starts from below!?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I wanted to switch the vertical ruler to show the lowest number at top but there was no such option. For things like layouting a business letter this is the better way because the definition of a business letter begins at the top of the page. Dennis

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connecting flowtext to further shapes?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I have found out how to link shapes for flowtext. However, it seems that I have to re-connect all shapes if I want to include or append another one. Is there an easier way except the XML-editor (if that's easier at all)? Dennis

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Can't do 2 simple things
by Dave M G 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Inkscape Users, I've climbed up and down the interface, help files, and the web, and I can't find out how to do these two simple tasks: 1. Unhide objects. When one selects "Object->Properties", one can select a check box to "hide" the object. But, once hidden, the object is no longer selectable, and nowhere is there a general "unhide all" option, or any other option to get access to hidden objects. It's almost like I've deleted them, except I can't even get them visible again with "undo". How do I unhide objects? 2. Put text along a Path. Sure, I know I can go to "Text-> Put On Path", but nothing happens when I do. I select the text first, then the path. I select the path first, then the text. I put the text below the path, above the path, I group them, I ungroup them... how does one actually get the text onto the path? Thanks for any help or advice. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2

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troublesome flowtext
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hello I read in the docs that flowtext boxes can be linked so that text flows from one box into another. However, the docs do not show how that works and I couldn't find out. Could please somebody tell me how to do that? If I create an empty second text box for the text to be flowed in from the first text box, after clicking into the first text box, the second text box is gone. How can I create text boxes that stay even if the are empty. This is also important for creating templates. There seems to be no option for defining pages. A page could be just a layer that blends out all layers below it and all layers above the next page (including it). This would be a nice feature because switching from page to page wouldn't mean turning off visibility for one text layer and turning on visibility for the next layer to work with. Fiddling with the text boxes is quite annoying. One has to click exactly on the letters to get the box. Also, if there are empty lines below the text--possibly to copy in some part from somewhere else-- there is no way to directly get back to there after having clicked into another text box. Selecting some text is annoying too. The tool doesn't behave well --especially when selecting from the end upwards. However, the last line seems to be hardly recognized when selecting text. A select tool only for text (an arrow with an A at the right) would be nice to help using inkscape like a text layout tool or a word processor. This tool should always highlight all textboxes for the quick overview of the page layout and allow the user to click into a text box anywhere where text or free spaces are given. If one clicks outside the given text in the box, the cursor should find the nearest position at the text automatically. When two boxes overlap, the highest is chosen. When the text selection tool is used, inkscape interprets a text box as opaque because overlayed text boxes are of no use in text layout mode and transparent boxes would have to pass clicks through instead of the behaviour written above. Hope you can make use of this Dennis Heuer

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Fwd: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po
by ValessioBrito 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ValessioBrito <valessio@...155...> Date: 01/02/2007 14:19 Subject: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po To: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ( I'm not subscribe? ) No render simbol " º " = 90º in: 90° #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2170 msgid "Rotate 9_0° CCW" msgstr "Girar 9_0° graus" #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2171 msgid "Rotate selection 90° counter-clockwise" msgstr "Girar a seleção 90° graus no sentido anti-horário" I believe that all the languages. view attach. -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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PDF -> pstoedit -> SVG -> Inkscape scaling problem
by Phil Rhoades 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

People, I quite frequently need to convert PDFs into something convenient to edit and SVG + Inkscape is the obvious choice. I use pstoedit with either the plot-svg output or the shareware svg output but in either case the output of converting a US letter file seems to be scaled down to 80% when opened in Inkscape. Of course the page can be dragged up to the correct size again but it would be better not to have to do this. >From the pstoedit developer: "I did some investigations and it looks like this scaling issue is caused by different interpretations of the numbers in the SVG file. Somewhere I read that Inkscape has an internal factor of 0.8 "Inkscape pixels" per "Point". I have not found out yet, what pstoedit could generate so inkscape interpretes the numbers as Points (except maybe adding a pt to every coordinate - but that would blow up the SVG file a lot). Is there anyone who can shed some light on this? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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cna gradient transparency be applied to a bitmap?
by momo 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, I have a small question about the gradient tool in Inkscape: can transpency gradients be applied to bitmaps imported into Inkscape? It seems that I cannot apply gradient transparency to bitmaps. Alpha transparensy woks fine, blur too. I there such a feature in Inkcape? Thanks! Molumen

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Installing Inkscape on new Macbook
by Melissa Madison 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, I just purchased a new Macbook and have installed the Universal platform version but when I open the application I get an error message saying that I need X11 to run Inkscape. When I installed X 11 from the Apple website, I get another message saying my computer has a more recent version of this software already installed. I used Inkscape on my Dell PC and I hate to give it up now that I've switched to Mac! I'm desparate to get my Inkscape back! Any advice? Thanks!!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] extensions still don't work
by Aaron Spike 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Arthur Bueno wrote: > Thanks for your efforts Aaron. If something is really wrong I better > wait untill hopefully a working win-installer arrives. > I' don't have enough insight to be troubleshooting myself. I think you missed the important part of my reply. I've already done the troubleshooting for you. >> But I find that if I call with "c:\\" INCLUDING DOUBLE QUOTES, I am able >> to successfully export pngs to c:\. >> >> With quotes and double backslashes you might be able to work around the >> issue for now. But please file a bug in the tracker and copy in the >> relevant information from this thread. Place double quotes around the text you enter into the directory field in the groups to pngs dialog. Also where ever you would normally type a single backslash "\" type two instead "\\". This should work around the problem until a fix works its way to a release. Of course if you don't file a bug for the problem it may get overlooked. Please file a bug in Inkscape's bug tracker on SourceForge. It helps A LOT when users file bugs for problems they experience and it will make it easier for us to notify you when a fix happens. You also seem to be holding on to the idea that this problem is somehow related to the fact that you downloaded a zip archive rather than an installer. This is completely unrelated. The installer exe available on sf.net will have the same problem. Aaron Spike

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Boolean-Operation Difference
by Jeffrey Brent McBeth 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I have an SVG from Wikipedia that I am trying to simplify down to a single path. Everything has gone well until I get to the last step. The symbol is the ancient symbol of Maurya, and on the base of the statue there are some cutouts in the shape of a horse and elephant. The artist decided to model this by drawing a horse and elephant in a light color rather than cutting a hole in the base. No problem, I thought. Just select the two paths and take the difference. Unfortunately, the cutouts are relying on a black stroke of 3. So when I take the difference, it doesn't look much like what it did before. If someone can help me figure out how to take a difference so I end up with a single path that looks as good as it currently does (I'm pretty sure it was autotraced from somewhere), it would be appreciated. http://broggs.org/~mcbeth/MauryaPath.svg Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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