March 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape at LGM 2007 Montreal
by Bryce Harrington 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

May 4-6 is the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal. Mark it on your calendars! http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ We hope to gather a huge number of Inkscape developers and users to talk face to face about Inkscape, new features, ideas, and so on. See It would be useful to know who all will be there. Can you email me off-list if you are thinking about attending? (Sponsorship will be available, so if cost is an issue let me know.) Bryce On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:30:41PM -0500, Louis Desjardins wrote: > Dear Inkscape team! > > I'd like to post a few info here for the benefits of all travellers to LGM. > > 1. I know the website of LGM is outdated. I expect things to be > straightened up in the coming days. :) > > 2. Meanwhile, the Create wiki has been updated : > > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference > > 3. Visa. Please review the VISA info as it might apply to some of you > when travelling to Canada. > > 4. Rooms. We have dealt a LGM special price on rooms at the Student > Residences of the uni hosting the LGM. All info is on the wiki. What has > guided me is to allow LGM participants and especially the devel teams to > be together most of the time (remember we only have 3 days), have > internet access and enough room to organize meetings. All that into a > calm environment. The residences are on the site of the LGM at less than > 5 minutes from the main auditorium. Arrival date : May 3 (Conference > starts on May 4). We may be able to arrange things if you want to arrive > earlier. Please let me know. > > And we also want to avoid getting people lost in the city (Montreal is a > North American city, quite extended...) and taking up most of their time > getting from their hotel to the LGM site and back. I have made a > reservation on 50 Single rooms + 5 Cosy Suites (with large bed) and > there are lots more room there if needed. On each other floor of the > residence people have access to a Salon that can hold a good 10 to 12 > people meeting and we also have access to another 3 large rooms for > meetings with more than 20 persons at a time. > > 5. Sponsorship. I am deeply concerned by sponsorship. We have to be able > to help people get to the LGM. So far, I am still waiting on > confirmation but sponsors have shown clear interest in helping us again > this year. It's a matter of time until we know for sure the exact amount > we going to get from the sponsors. Please stay tuned. I will post the > info as soon as I have something to say. > > 6. LGM speakers. I would appreciate that people interested in making a > talk at LGM show up on the Create wiki. Some people have contacted me > early by e-mail. Please fill the wiki as well. This is the only sure way > to help me put the schedule together. Also, if you know someone that > would be a good speaker, don't hesitate to propose his/her name. And > don't forget the subject suggestions as well. > > 7. LGM Brochure (see wiki for details) : we'd like to have each project > described. Cédric Gemy should be able to take care of Inkscape's > description and maybe more. At the same time, if anyone on this list has > images created with Inkscape that we could use to show what the program > can do, please contact me off list. We don't need that many images but > since we're distributed in the graphic designers magazine, the higher > the level the better the effect, imo. > > 8. If anyone has a question or comment or suggestion, please don't > hesitate to get back to me. > > Hope to see you again at LGM2 and of course meet new people! > > Louis Desjardins > LGM 2007 organizer > > -- > Louis Desjardins > Mardigrafe inc. > T 514 934 1353 > F 514 934 3698 > http://www.mardigrafe.com

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Perspective 0.45 and numpy
by Donn 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi, wondering how to get 'numpy' installed on my Kubuntu Dapper system so I can muck about with perspective tool. I installed 'python-numeric' via apt-get but that puts 'Numeric' into the system-wide Python directory, not the Inkscape one. I have not had much luck with making links from /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric either. I also remarked: self.q['y'] = docheight - self.q['y'] - self.q['height'] in summersnight.py as per Tav's suggestion. Any help? /d -- When you allow legends to rule your life, your world is based on fiction -- Segio Aragones (Groo the Wanderer Number 99)

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changing background colour
by Peter Eaton 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

HiI, I just started using inkscape. It seems very good, but I want to draw in white. How do i get the background (alpha channel) to be displayed in another colour? thanks,pete. ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Peter Eaton e-mail : petereaton@...9... _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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0.45.1pre0
by Aaron Spike 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 0.45.1pre0 is upon us! Packagers, please package. Testers, please test. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF9v+v1wsJX4VXgboRAtScAJ9HjD+Meaiai/KIOGPGJTPamfl7KQCfQHu2 P/U9hfPk3PV2uSAfSrkben4= =h1A2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Font size: Pixels vs. Points
by Jed Frechette 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I've written a simplistic Python script [1] that will change all of the font-size units in an SVG file from pixels to points. The script doesn't actually do a conversion it simply replaces the unit suffix of px with pt. If you create some text in Inkscape with size 10 and save it; font-size:10px Run the script on the file; font-size:10pt Open and edit the file in Inkscape; font-size:12.5px This is a workaround for the bug that the UI never shows the units (pixels) associated with font size numbers and it is difficult to specify sizes in units other than pixels [2]. This is the quickest hack I could put together when I realized that the text in all of the figures for my thesis was the wrong size, therefore it hasn't been tested much, so if anybody uses it you should take appropriate precautions (e.g. backup your data). Clearly this is an ugly hack, but if there is no interest in fixing the underlying issue, or it's to painful, I could put together something similar as an effect. It seems like a better solution would be to, at a minimum show, what unit font size is in. When setting the default font size in the toolbar specifying a unit results in the correct conversion, so maybe a more general fix wouldn't be to hard. Unfortunately, trying to specify a unit when changing the size of existing text or doing anything with a unit in the text dialog doesn't work. In any case, I would be interested in getting some input from others. Best, [1] http://www.unm.edu/~jdfrech/svg_font-size_px2pt.py [2] See bugs 161347, 1619753, and 1657337 P.S. Sorry about the cross-posting but this seems like a somewhat nonobvious issue that has tripped up at least a few other people before me. -- Jed Frechette http://jdfrechette.alturl.com 3203 Dead, 23,417 Wounded

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Google Summer of Code - Student applications now being accepted!
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

If you are a student that is eligible to qualify as an applicant for the Google Summer of Code, and have an interest in getting paid to contribute to Inkscape, well, this is for you. We do ask that if you are not really committed to seeing a project through to completion that you please not waste anyone's time (including your own). The link for applicants is: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-… (wow, that's a long url) Just so all applicants are aware, we do have an additional condition (above Google's) for all applicants. The condition is that two patches are contributed via our patch tracker prior to acceptance (doesn't need to be anything major). The patches can be bug fixes, filling feature requests, or even scratching some itch of your own for Inkscape. Please know that this condition is standard for our project for all new contributors to get SVN commit access, we've just extended it to the applicants this year as well. Good luck everyone and we look forward to hearing from you! -Josh

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About Installer on Windows
by Elfi Heck 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi all, I just downloaded the latest packages for GIMP on Windows. GIMP and GTK have two separate installers and GTK installs itself in the Common Files directory. Now: I was wondering if it would be possible for Inkscape to use that GTK installation. I'm not a friend of duplicate files even if they're small. Regards, Elfi

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[OT] Contest XMMS2, first $ 400 !
by ValessioBrito 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

XMMS2 Team officially announced its graphic competition today. The competitions goal is for the popular media player to gain a new look and to increase awareness of the project. The competitions will be split up in two parts: the first will be for a new logotype. The second part, which will be launched after the conclusion of the first, will aim for a new look for the wiki with reusable elements for client authors to use. First prize in both competitions is an Amazon.com gift certificate valid for $400. The prize money for this contest came from last year's Google Summer of Code program. The competition will start today and last submission date will be 2007-04-13. To compete or get more information please visit http://xmms2-contest.blogspot.com/ --- é para quem gosta de participar destes concursos... :D -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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Cannot Email Inkscape created PDFs as attachements
by tron 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello. I have successfully created PDFs of my Inscape projects and they look/work perfectly on my PC, however when I try to email them as attachements to someone else the recipient just sees a plain text batch file and code. Does anyone know what is happening to the PDF by being emailed? Thanks so much!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-Email-Inkscape-created-PDFs-as-attachements-tf… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Turning of Anti-aliasing
by Chris McCormick 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, I would like to have fonts and shapes with sharp edges in some instances. Is there a way to turn off anti-aliasing on a per-object basis? Thanks for your time. Best, Chris. ------------------- chris@...2138... http://mccormick.cx

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