March 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

How do I configure Inkscape for Windows to see the Type1 fonts I have installed? The GIMP sees them fine (which also uses freetype), as does OpenOffice.org. The font names and corresponding pfb file names even show up in my .fonts.cache-1 file but I still can't see them in Inkscape. Thanks for any answers. Inkscape 0.45 Windows XP SP2 -- Norvell Spearman

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exporting to PNG is fine, exporting to EPS is ugly
by Ryan Underwood 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Is anyone able to get nice results exporting to PS or EPS from inkscape? I am using inkscape as a preview and converter in LyX, but I get the same results using the command line or exportin from the GUI. This seems to be a new problem now that I am using inkscape on Linux, when I was using inkscape on Win32, the EPS output looked nice as far as I can recall. I am using the text-to-path and bounding box options. The output seems to be monochrome instead of grayscale, so there are jaggies everywhere, and the diagram exceeds the size of the page. I just compiled the snapshot with the same results. PNG previews look great. That is what puzzles me. Is this a problem with rendering the alpha channel into the EPS which doesn't support alpha? -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@...2133...>

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Inkscape Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Just to give some visibility into some of the work bubbling away these days: Cairo renderer: Bulia has taken point on investigation of conversion to Cairo. Some tough problems have been uncovered but we're gaining a clearer picture of what needs done. Presently this looks like it will require an all at once brute force approach, rather than incremental refactoring. If so, we'll need to reach a decision on how to undertake that while minimizing disruption to SVN HEAD users. Build system: There is definitely a concensus that our current build system sucks. Options include CMAKE, Bob's buildtool, or just a cleaned up automake. We really need to have interested parties mind meld and find a single solution. Version control system: Mental has been experimenting with git and trying to get it to operate with svn. This study is still very early on, but if it works out well, one day we may begin encouraging developers to use git. Bug tracking: I have been experimenting with use of Mantis with the goal of replacing our SF bug tracker. It looks good, but the principle issue is how to migrate the bugs and their history from SF to Mantis. I'm also interested in seeing if it can be combined well with Drupal, maybe along with Pootle. Any drupalheads out there? Manual: We've got a good unofficial non-free manual/book and several [semi-]official incomplete free manuals. There is discussion about if efforts can be combined to produce a good official free manual. Anyway, I've probably missed something, but I think that covers the pending changes that are percolating. Most of these would benefit from discussion, so we can make sure there is a rough concensus favoring the change - so if you have concerns about any of these changes, now's a good chance to bring 'em up. Bryce

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getting started
by cartoons 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Can someone on this list help me get started with Inkscape. I have release 0.43. I really like the program's drawing functionalities; however, so far I have not been able to figure out how to create and use .svg files (which I understand is the program's main file type). I draw cartoons and, no matter how good the program is, it is of no use to me if I cannot figure out how to share the stuff I create and post to websites, etc. So far I have figured how to create a basic .svg file and also I've manage to import a .bmp into MS Powerpoint. I created the .bmp by 'exporting to .bmp'. But I cannot just 'copy and paste' images that I create into other programs. Why is this? Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/getting-started-tf3494507.html#a9760536 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Create favicon.ico
by Tom Smith 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

I created an SVG file in Inkscape and it looks as I would expect it to, regardless of scale. I export it to PNG so that I can then convert it to ICO using The GIMP. The problem is that the exported PNG file is very pixelated and doesn't look near as good as the SVG file. I'm new to Inkscape so I'm probably just not exporting it correctly. Can anyone offer some advise for making this work? Thanks, in advance, for your help. ~ Tom

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Installing pyXML on OS X 10.4.9
by Grey 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hello Everyone, Because of Inkscape, I started drawing an online comic. I'm now working on a bigger project with this excellent program and I need to use some of the advanced features in the effects menu. I'm running Inkscape 0.45 on OS X 10.4.9. I've followed the instruction on the Inkscape wiki <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX#pyXML> on how to install pyXML and it seems to have installed without any problems. However, when I try to use the effects menu, I still get the error: "|The inkex.py module requires PyXML. Please download the latest version from <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>.|" Is there a step that I'm missing? Thank you for any help, -Grey http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inquiry
by unknown＠example.com 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Seymour Fine wrote: > I need to unsubscribe from Inkscape for now; can you please tell me > how to do that? > Thanks a lot > > -- > With very best wishes -- > Sy > > Seymour H. Fine, Ph.D. > WEB: http://tinyurl.com/y5t4r6 would some one please send dr. fine the link again to unsubscribe from the list. since i cannot access the archives to retrieve the link some one had sent him earlier, i would really appreciate the help. dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

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please remove me from the list, Thanks
by Seymour Fine 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

please remove me from the list; please acknowledge Thanks -- With very best wishes -- Sy

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Transparency using PSTricks
by Adi Eyal 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Apologies for sending this post out again - I'm hoping that someone who has used the PSTricks export option might be able to help. Can I export using PSTricks and maintain transparency? I don't know PSTricks - but the generated code seems to use solid colours. Anyway to fix it? Regards Adi

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