March 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Draw from Scratch or Import and Trace?
by Aaron Elmquist 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

This is a newbie question. How do most people use inkscape and other illustration programs? Do they draw from scratch directly in the program, or do they create a rough sketch to scan and import to provide some guidance?

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12 Hours Left in the Open Font Library Logo Competition!
by Jon Phillips 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

That's right, there is only 12 hours left in the Open Font Library logo competition. Make sure to get your submissions in before the end of server time at 11:59 PST today on March 14. No entries are allowed after that time, so now is the time. When the deadline is hit, there will be 5 days for the 3 judges to come to a decision, so it is a great time for us all to comment/review what has been submitted, rate it, and let the judges hear loud and clear what we all think :) Note, you can still judge after the deadline... http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo/ On the heels of this competition, which I want to have us launch tomorrow, is the Create Project Logo Competition. This will be on Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/wiki/Contests One other note, it would be great to think up font competition to lead into after the OFL.o logo is selected, to help build up the community :) Cheers! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, Thank you for your answer. bulia byak wrote: > On 3/5/07, Jochen Deibele <jmdeibele@...26...> wrote: > > What I want to do: I have an irregular (so non rectangular) shaped > > object, which has points which should snap to the grid, when I move the > > group (so I can easily lay another object of another shape but same kind > > next to it and the points meet). These points are not on one of the > > center-lines and are also not the edges. Is there a way to do this? > > You cannot do this in Selector tool because it only snaps the outer > nodes of a shape (in the "snap nodes" mode), not all nodes. But you > can do this with Node tool. Just select all nodes of a shape and drag > any of them - all the shape will move, snapping by all its nodes. > > That works fine if I only have one shape. If I for example try to have a group of one rectangle and one line it doesn't work. I can't select all nodes if the objects were grouped, so I tried to combine them. Then I can select all nodes, but still I'm not able to make them snap to the grid. If I combine them and select all the nodes of only one shape (either the line or the rectangle) I can move the shape while snapping works, but not if both are selected. Jochen

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Open Font Library Logo Contest Closes March 14 + Please Review Submissions
by Jon Phillips 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

We are in the final days of the Open Font Library logo contest. If you have something to submit, now's the time! Also, please help review the current submissions, because that is having a big impact on who refines their content and uploads new content. http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo/view/contest/entries After this contest is up, then the 3 judges will have 5 days to figure out the best logo. At the close of the current contest, Open Clip Art Library has a logo competition queued up for the Create Project to get a logo/facelift: http://create.freedesktop.org Cool! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Anybody know how to add randomization to existing objects
by Tony Vigil 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Bulia, It just occurred to me that I've mixed up some terminology. When I've said "filter", I really meant "effect". Can an effect be created that would randomize rotation, size or transparency of selected objects based on the pixel color of a bitmap below each object's origin? - Tony

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Was : Wondering why Ink is running slow.
by Donn 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hello all concerned, sorry for not getting back to you on the issue of a while back -- I could not, my machine got fritzed by a spike and after almost 3 weeks I am on a totally new machine, so guess that's all over. Regards, Donn -- He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt

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color rendering intent
by Dwain Alford 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

i don't remember if i asked this question before, but what is the color rendering intent of inkscape; is it perceptual, relative colorimetric or absolute colorimetric? thanks again for the answer for the color profile inkscape uses. 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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V0.45, exporting PDF => result without images
by Holger Wiechert 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi, seems like the never ending story. After spending about a day for the drawing, I finally found out, that I can't get it to the print service just like that, because all images are not included within the created pdf. I looked up the mailing lists, googled like hell, read wikis, tried the hand made "effects-extensions" via ghostscript, used the command line option "--export-pdf". Same result: no images in the pdf. Great program, but if I only can see the result on the screen, the whole thing is questionable. However, maybe I've just missed *the* hint, that will do the job. So, the way for best results would be File => Save As... => PDF? I just need any way, to get that thing out as it looks on the screen! Any help appreciated. Cheers, Holger

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Anybody know how to add randomization to
by Tony Vigil 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

----- Original Message ---- >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 01:00:48 -0400 >From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> > >> I've just discovered the stamp tool. One thing that is missing... >> randomization of the object's attributes. It would be nice if this tool > >allowed for randomization, kind of like the Tiled Clones tool. > >Actually we don't have "stamp tool", it's just one function of the >Selector tool. But I agree that randomization with stamping might be >useful. I did submit a feature request at SourceForge a few days ago. Microsoft Expression has something along this line. You simply select your object then set the randomization parameters for size, rotation and line/fill values (including transparency) and stamp away. >> Until something like that comes to be, is this something that could be cooked up >> as a filter? Could a filter be created that randomly rotates each >> individual object in a selection within a given range of values? > >Not for rotation, but for randomizing positions we have a button in >Align and Distribute dialog. Are you saying that a filter can't be created or that one doesn't exist? >> How about this... could a filter be created that sets the rotation of the individual >> objects in a selection based on the brightness of an image's pixel value >> underneath the object's centerpoint? Any thoughts on the subject? > >That's a good idea for the Tile Clones, Trace tab. Please file a RFE >on it and I'll work on it when I have time. > Please excuse my ignorance... what does "RFE" stand for? Is this the same thing as making a feature request at SourceForge? - Tony

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Selector's scale handle modifiers
by bulia byak 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Currently, when you scale an object by its scale handles in Selector, you can use the following modifiers: Ctrl+mouse drag scale preserving aspect ratio Shift+mouse drag symmetric transformation (around center) Alt+mouse drag slow movement The "slow movement" mode with Alt simply scales the object by 1/10 of your mouse movement, the goal being increased precision. This mode is inherited unchanged all the way from Sodipodi. In my opinion, however, it is weird, counterintuitive and not at all useful. It also has no analogs in other tools. So my question is, will anyone complain if I remove the "slow movement" mode? On the other hand, one useful thing that's missing is the ability to scale the object to 2, 3, 4 and 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc of its current size. (This is possible from keyboard by Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< but not by mouse). So I'm thinking about enabling the Alt modifier to do this "quantized scaling". Among other things, this would enable the often needed transformation: flipping an object around one of its bbox edges (by Ctrl+Alt+dragging a side handle). Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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