March 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Anybody know how to add randomization to existing objects?
by Tony Vigil 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Howdy! 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. 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? 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? Thanks, - Tony

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How to copy these features from Adobe Illustrator
by Marco Shaw 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

**First time Inkscape user** I'm trying to create an SVG file for a 3rd party product. They provide instructions on how to properly create an SVG file for their app, but specify the following: "Make sure the Font Subsetting is set to "None (Use System Fonts)", Encoding is set to "ISO 8859-1 (ASCII)" and CSS Property Location is set to "Style Attributes."" I can't seem to find any comparable settings in Inkscape. How can I know if I'm "compatible"? Also, they talk about a "layer palette": "...layers palette allows you to see all grouping levels on your map. This will allow you to make sure all objects are properly grouped before exporting. [...] all dynamic objects must be grouped with a text while all static objects must remain ungrouped." I couldn't find similar functionality in Inkscape to view the layers (or at least I don't think so). Marco

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Dropper not working
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

For some reason, since I upgraded to the second Beta of 0.45 the dropper tool hasn't worked. I'm running the final version 0.45 and the issue is still present. With both "Pick Alpha" and "Set Alpha" set it always picks the RGBA value, 00000000. With "Pick Alpha" disabled I get ffffff. Selecting an average stroke colour works. It's only when attempting to pick a single pixel does it not work. For some reason, if I search long enough, I can find stray pixels that can be sampled. Not often can I get their true colour though. I can sample colours from bitmaps I use in the drawings. Any ideas how I can fix this? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dropper-not-working-tf3361246.html#a9350267 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tablet - Panning doesn't work with Pen
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I have a button on my Wacom Intuos3 tablet assigned to "middle click" with the intention of using it when I need to pan the canvas. When I hold the button and move the pen, nothing happens. If I hold it and move the mouse the panning works fine. Is there something I can do to fix this? I'm running XP SP2 with the latest Wacom driver 6.02-1. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet---Panning-doesn%27t-work-with-Pen-tf3361270.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi! Is there a way to select a node as a snap "target"? 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? I tried some combinations of snap options and searched the mailinglist archives and the net but didn't find anything about that. Thank you very much in Advance, Jochen

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unable to export bitmaps
by Sebastian Winkler 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm plain too dumb to check the right prefs: I'm unable to export bitmaps. Here is what I am trying to do. It's actually quite simple — and that's what drives me nuts: I am creating a banner. It has • a background foto • a logo with a blurred drop shadow • a slogan All three parts give me trouble — it's maddening! 1. the slogan: I had to create it in a different program and import into Inkscape because the required font doesn't appear in the font menu (see: [Inkscape-user] fonts on OS X). 2. the drop shadow of the logo doesn't appear blurred anymore after exporting to (Cairo-) PDF. 3. as a work-around for 2. I tried to a) export to PNG instead and b) create a PNG solely from the drop shadow to use instead of the blurred vector logo. Neither the bitmap background nor the blurred shape appear in the output. Making a Bitmap Copy (Alt-B) somewhat worked, but delivered a result which was cropped with the dimensions of the un-blurred shape — bummer! Anyway, I've already spend hours on something that would take me only minutes in Illustrator — if that stupid piece of software only didn't think it had to increase file size and memory usage proportionally to the dimensions of the artwork (the banner is 70cm x 210cm)! How frustrating. Sometimes I think they invented the computer (and the wheel for that matter) only to make our lives more complicated. Well, maybe I'm just too dumb to hit the right switch after all… Somebody throw me a line! Cheers, Sebastian

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Tangofied Inkscape
by Panos Laganakos 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm trying to make inkscape a bit more tango-looking. So far I've only done the vertical toolbar: http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/inkscape-tango-01.png -- Panos Laganakos

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fonts on OS X
by Sebastian Winkler 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure. Is anybody else seeing this? Anyway, it can render a program quite useless if you happen to not be able to use a requred font… -Sebastian

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0.45 crash on OS X 10.4
by Sebastian Winkler 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

After upgrading to 0.45 Inkscape always crashed on launch. Here is the crash log: Host Name: Cube Date/Time: 2007-03-02 20:27:36.429 +0000 OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L127) Report Version: 4 Command: inkscape-bin Path: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Parent: Inkscape [6968] Version: 0.45 (0.45) PID: 6969 Thread: Unknown Link (dyld) error: Symbol not found: _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table Referenced from: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ libfontconfig.1.dylib Expected in: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib I since downloaded the developer's build (2004-02-25) and it doesn't crash, so maybe the problem is already resolved. Best regards, Sebastian

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Re: [Inkscape-user] EPS Transparency support
by Nava Whiteford 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On 3/1/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Nava Whiteford <nwhiteford@...2131...> wrote: > > The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to > > convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while > > keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a > > better (and open source) solution to this problem? > > I think the best open source candidate for implementing this > functionality is Ghostscript. Maybe it even already does something > like it - try it out. > > > If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to > > inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is > > an external tool used? > > We export PS/EPS natively. And we really might benefit from adding a > flattening code for that export. However, please consider that this > code is likely to become quite complex, involving the use of boolean > ops etc. (unless of course you will do the simple approach of > rasterizing everything with transparency). Will you be able to code > this all to a good level of quality, and test and maintain it > afterwards? I've a fair amount of experience with C++ (3 years undergrad + 3 years PhD etc.). Time as always is an issue. > More importantly, is Inkscape the best place for this code? Agreed > We already export PDF with transparency which fully preserves > the intent of the source. I think it is better to use a separate tool > (Ghostscript) that specializes in "downgrading" this PDF into less > capable formats, perhaps implementing various strategies for that. I > think Ghostscript has much more expertise overall than Inkscape in > PS/PDF. I guess there are a number of places it could be implemented. Even perhaps as a standalone svg2flatsvg program? I'll get on to the Ghostscript mailing lists and see if anybody is working on this for pdf files. Thanks for your prompt reply. And if you are, or anybody else reading is, a Inkscape developer thanks for a great program! nw

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