April 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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Outline markers (arrow heads) and colour
by Donn 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hiya, Check the FAQ (hope I didn't miss it). Is there any way to colour the 'markers' on lines? They are always black - from what I can see. I want a red line and a red arrow-head on the end. /d

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] In praise of Inkscape
by Albert Cardona 21 May '07

21 May '07

Some more praise: We use Inkscape to make posters for scientific meetings. The ease with which we can create beautiful, unintrusive text boxes and flow charts is unparalleled. And of course cartoons of all sorts. I can't hardly believe we used to bring in PowerPoint for the task! those nightmarish days are over. Plus, Inkscape intergrates very well with the host OS, i.e. dragging and dropping images and text just works. In this regard, I must mention that exporting to PDF is a big deal. Figuring out the exact dimensions of the poster relative to the final print is some sort of obscure magic for us, simple mortal users. With PDFs, printers (or their drivers) have zero problems to scale on the fly and thus generate perfect maximized print outs of our gigantic posters. What surpises me, though, is that exporting to PDF seems to leave images uncompressed, resulting in 300+ Mb posters. In short: congratulations! And keep at it! We take time to tell our visitors (at the poster, during the conference) how the poster was made, since they usually comment on how beautiful it looks (no kidding). Inkscape, Blender and ImageJ are always mentioned. Albert -- Albert Cardona Molecular Cell Developmental Biology University of California Los Angeles Tel +1 310 2067376 Programming: http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/trakem2.html <http://www.pensament.net/java/> Research: http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/

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Clone across files
by Marc Eberhard 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, is it possible to clone an object/group across files? I tried using clone, but pasting into another file results in an orphaned node (apparently the reference is only valid _within_ the file with the original). Is there some other way to achieve something like this? I want to prepare a set of slides with the same background. I can of course select and copy the background from one slide to the next, but if I want to change something on it then I need to go over all files again. Is there a way to define an object/group in one inkscape file and then link to this in another inkscape file? For plain XML files it would look like below, but I don't know, if this would work for SVG files and if I can use the XML editor in inkscape to achieve an effect like this. All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Marc --- common.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <somedata>xyz</somedata> --- slide1.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide> --- slide2.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide>

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Embedding/linking bitmaps
by Bill Baxter 15 May '07

15 May '07

Is there some way to embed bitmaps in SVG? I was looking at a file I made with a bitmap in it and noticed that the absolute path to the image was hardcoded into the .svg, making this svg useless on any machine but my own. So is there some way to embed bitmap pixel data in SVG? Does the standard even allow that? Aside from that is there some way to get Inkscape to copy linked images to be side-by-side with the svg and use relative paths rather than absolute paths? Does the w3c have some sort of .jar-like standard for creating svg bundles that include both a main svg and associated bitmaps and other linked content all-in-one? That seems like it would be the ideal solution. --bb

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Group a shape with a text object
by Stranger, Stefan 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi there, I'm new to Inkscape but I want to know if it's possible to group a shape with a text object like you can do in Adobe Illustrator? In other words if you draw a square that you want to color programmatically, that square will need a text object grouped to it, e.g. 'My Square' and finally save it as SVG file. Can I do that with Inkscape and if yes how? Regards, Stefan Stranger

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PDF export seems chopped off at the top with margin at bottom
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 10 May '07

10 May '07

Folks, I am trying to get a tight bounding box around a single exclamation mark input as text at large font size, selected, converted from text to path, and saved as a PDF, from within Inkscape. I have used Path-> Object to path and File -> Document properties -> Page -> Fit page to selection and exported as PDF. There seems to be a margin beyond the object at the bottom, and the top of the object is cut off, possibly by the same amount. This is seen when viewing the exported PDF at 6400% in Acroread. The dotted box that appears in Inkscape when the object is selected appears perfect. The settings for snapping to grid/object/path have been toggled with no change in behaviour of the exported file. I can post PDFs illustrating this if told where to post them. Is this a bug, and if so, is there a workaround? Thanks. Chandra 30 Apr 07

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how to delete all the guides at once?
by Seweryn Kokot 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello, I have a problem with several guide lines which I want to remove but doing it manually is a tedious work. Is it possible to do it at once? XML editor doesn't help here since I can only select one guideline under <solidpodi:namedview id="base"> node. I thought to open the xml file in an external editor and then remove the guides while the file is open in inkscape. But then how to update the canvas and is it safe to change an xml file from outside while it is loaded in inkscape? regards, Seweryn Kokot

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Native Inkscape on OS X
by Eric Bednarz 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I wonder what the current status of a native Inkscape version for OS X (ever since the first announced good news) is (the wiki doesn't really help [me, at least]). To cut it short: * I love Inkscape * OS X is my primary development platform these days (I do have flavours of Windows and GNU/Linux available for testing and special tasks, I'd like to cut that down to testing) * I want my Intuos tablet to work properly with the calligraphy tool (did I mention that I love Inkscape?) * I'd rather pump € worth of a CS3 Illustrator (missed opportunity, as far as I'm concerned ;-) license into a worhtwhile project, if that helps (I don't drink beer anyway [0] :-) [0] Seriously, I encourage everyone thinking about the issue if you can afford it at all -- personally, I'm not exactly getting rich but wealthy enough to start thinking about it. I've gotten more out of free software (or whatever your label is) than I could ever pay back, which is not say that I shouldn't pay back at all, anywhere. Now that I could afford Adobe products, I'd rather invest into freedom (and to me, there are no 'leechers', 'undecided professionals' maybe, which is unconditionally fine :). Thanks, Eric -- ||| hexadecimal EBB o-o decimal 3771 --oOo--( )--oOo-- octal 7273 205 goodbye binary 111010111011

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