April 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Creating blood spatter.
by John R. Culleton 01 May '07

01 May '07

For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :) -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Help! (problem with OS X 10.3.9)
by Adam Lombard 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I downloaded Inkscape, dragged it to my Apps. When I try to open Inkscape, X11 opens then nothing happens. It sits there forever. Anybody out there have any ideas?? a.l.

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"Scale rounded corners" button doesn't work for clones?
by Jan Kosinski 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hi, I think the "Scale rounded corners" button doesn't work for clones. When I open the "tutorial-shapes.svg" (Inkscape: Shape tutorial) and select any rectangle with rounded corners I can turn off scaling of rounded corners by releasing the button "Scale rounded corners" (as explained in the tutorial). But when I create a clone of such a rounded rectangle, scaling of rounded corners is not turned off anymore for this cloned rectangle. Scaling is turned off again only if I unlink the clone. Is this behavior a bug? I would like to create a rectangle with rounded corners, clone it several times and rescale each cloned rectangle in different way but do not rescale rounded corners. Do you know how to solve this problem? Thank you in advance, Jan Kosinski :ms

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White overlap in glyphs
by Kyungjoon Lee 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hi, I found that with some fonts, Inkscape fills parts of letters with white, not black. (With default colour settings.) For example, using the Summersby font: http://packages.debian.org/ttf-summersby I found that the letter X has a white bit where the two lines meet. It goes away if I convert it to paths, but sometimes I'd rather not do that. ----- Most fonts don't show this behaviour, but UnFonts (one of the major free software fonts for the Korean language) do. Could this be a bug? Would it be a bug with Inkscape or the fonts? Cheers, Kyungjoon Lee

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Kochify...
by Tony Vigil 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Terrry, You can get the effect by separating your multi-point line to individual segments, then applying the pattern to path for each segment. It's not the most ideal solution, but it is a workable. I really like your idea of allowing for a single pattern along each segment. Even better... allow the user to specify the number of patterns per segment. This would definitely be a very useful option for the Pattern along Path effect! - Tony ----- Original Message ---- The new patterns along paths is way cool. But am I right in thinking that it won't do one thing that the old kochify effect did - put one copy of the 'pattern' along each internode of the path? I think it would be good if there was another mode - "one copy per internode". Not sure if it makes sense for that to come in stretched, unstretched, snake, and ribbon flavors. Cheers -Terry

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OFFTOPIC: Graphic designers computer setup?
by Jarlath 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

This is way offtopic, but I'm learning Gimp and Inkscape and planned on buying a desktop PC soon and then trying to get some work in graphic design - maybe in a printing company for starters. However, during this learning phase, I've noticed that my 750Mhz / 512MB Ram laptop is doing quite well under Ubuntu. Do any of you think it would be as practical to work on a laptop exclusively? Thanks for reading, Jarlath

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Mimicking illustrator brushes
by D. Jones 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

How would you do that with something such as this? http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/free-vector-swooshes-and-fancy-corner-desig… Is it possible to add patterns to inkscape like in the gimp or is there some other method It's not directly possible, but you can mimic some of this feature by using the "Pattern along Path" effect and/or the "Tiled Clones" tool. - Tony Is it possible to have something like illustrator brushes in Inkscape? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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graphics tablets
by dwain 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

since we are on the subject, does anyone have an answer as to why i can't make any changes to my settings for the puck and why the settings disappear when i change to the pressure stylus in 0.45.1 and unable to save the settings if i could change them? i had the save problem with the last version along with what i am describing here. wacom graphire3 (usb) with the most recent driver, pen tablet 503-3 (rc) windows xp pro -- Dwain Alford http://www.studiokdd.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Kandinsky

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Graphics Tablets for Inkscape? Recommendations Please.
by John Carter 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I'm planning on doing a rather Inkscape / Gimp intensive open source project in the next month or three and I'm contemplating buying a Graphics Tablet. Any recommendations on what to buy / not buy for use with Inkscape? For example there are cheapie Genius tablets and there are really expensive Wacom Intuous tablets. Do you really care about features like pen slant? Can Inkscape use it? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@...2193... New Zealand

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where are the fonts?
by Daniel Salgado 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello to all, this is my first message. Is here where I ask for help? I have somme problems with the fonts, simply I cant push the aply button it apears blur. thaks

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