April 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Fit page to selection bug?
by Kyungjoon Lee 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi, when I try to resize the canvas of an SVG file, sometimes the drawing shrinks as well. Example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Anatomy_of_an_amiotic_egg.svg Steps to reproduce: 1. select everything 2. open document properties 3. click on Fit page to selection Result: document gets resized, but image gets resized as well. Desired results: I want the canvas to shrink to fit the original image. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm using Inkscape 0.45.1 on Windows XP. Cheers, Kyungjun Lee

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Automatic ligatures problem
by Kyungjoon Lee 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

Hi, I'm fond of Junicode, from: http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ I tried making some SVG files: http://blacksun.ivyro.net/img/junicode.svg But Firefox and Inkscape render it differently: http://blacksun.ivyro.net/img/junicode_ligatures_resized.png I was told that SVN versions of Inkscape would solve this problem, but I had no luck with the 0704070934 version from http://inkscape.modevia.com/ My platform is Windows XP SP2, with Uniscribe version 1.420.2600.2180 and the versions I've tried are Inkscape 0.40, 0.45.1, and 0704070934. Can someone duplicate my findings? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong? Cheers, Kyungjun Lee

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follow-up
by Jon Phillips 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 02:46 +0000, jordansatow@...1263... wrote: > okay. i just started using the program Inkscape. and i had a few > questions. ive been browsing around the program and the website, and i > havent found anything that could help me. i did try the OPEN CLIPART > LIBRARY request forum, and it sent me an email saying i wasnt allowed > to send it. all i want to know are a few questions. could YOU please > help me????? You should join the mailing list for the project: http://openclipart.org/discussion And/or join the http://inkscape.org mailing list inkscape-users to discuss these things. cheers Jon > 1. On Inkscape, is there a simple "erase" button? if i made a simple > mistake, is there an "eraser" that i can use? For example, if you have > ever used PAINT on any windows computer, you would know there is an > ERASE button. is there something similar on Inkscape? now i did try > using the rectangle button and just covered it with a white box, and > it went away. but then, when i exported it, i saw the box clear as > day, and it stood out like a sore thumb... so, can you help? > > 2. I noticed on the main page (when you first open Inkscape) that > there was an outline of a piece of paper. i created a design (just > doodling) and i make something wher there are a bunch of lies going > through that piece of paper, and continued on the other side (see > attatchment). is there any way i can crop the outside of the paper? or > is there a CROP button i can use? > > thank you for the help! -- 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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New Extension, Effects - Fwd: [Inkscape Brasil] Novos Efeitos
by ValessioBrito 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

New Extension in Ruby or Bash... (pt_BR) http://www.colivre.coop.br/bin/view/Aurium/BlogadaAurium20070407063844 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aurélio A. Heckert <aurium@...155...> Date: 07/04/2007 04:58 Subject: [Inkscape Brasil] Novos Efeitos To: Comunidade Inkscape Brasil <inkscape-brasil@...2140...> Inspirado nesse procedimento: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/TextoComSuperfie3D Fiz isso: http://www.colivre.coop.br/bin/view/Aurium/Puff Outros efeitos liberados hoje, aqui: http://www.colivre.coop.br/bin/view/Aurium/BlogadaAurium20070407063844 Quem quiser fazer extensões em Ruby ou Bash, pode perguntar. ;-) Hasta! Aurium -- -===================================================- . . Aurélio A. Heckert [ GNU/Linux ] / \ http://www.aurium.cjb.net ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) `-_---" "---_-´ Web Colaborativa: `--|o` ´o|--´ http://www.TWiki.org \ ' / Projeto Software Livre - Bahia: ): :( http://psl-ba.softwarelivre.org (o_o) Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: "-" http://www.colibre.com.br ------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ( ( ( http://www.midiaindependente.org ) ) ) -===================================================- "Se conhecimento é poder, que país governado por industriais dará a verdadeira educação? Cuidado com o feedback da miséria!" Tet Ramon "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ Inkscape-Brasil mailing list Inkscape-Brasil@...2140... http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/inkscape-brasil -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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Tablet Question
by Jessica MacKay 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

I have a Summasketch II (MM1201) that appears to be working fine, except that I can't get it to actually draw. Is there some configuration in Inkscape that I missed to get it to work properly?

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nightly builds
by Tony Vigil 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Bill, Not that it really matters to me either way, but why build from source when you can get it already built for ya? Are you modifying the code to suit your needs? - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter@...155...> Didn't notice those... thanks. I'm building from source now, but my build has some issues, it seems (image loading doesn't work). I guess I can check the latest development build to see if things like that are an issue in the code or just in my build of it. So good to know they're out there. And to think, just a few days ago I was absolutely certain that Inkscape didn't even run on Windows. --bb

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Some UI questions
by Bill Baxter 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Just started trying to figure out Inkscape. Looks very nice so far. Never have really been able to get comfortable with Illustrator. Photoshop I'm ok with, but Illustrator just always seemed ... weird to me. But Inkscape feels pretty natural right from the start. Love the python scripting too. Can't wait to start tinkering with it. I have done a bit of research on manipulating drawings and have plans for more things. (http://www.cavie-x.net/doodle/) It might be nice to implement future things as Inkscape Python scripts or perhaps more full-fledged plugins. Stroke patterns seem to be limited to axis-aligned textures? Is there any way to transform the pattern applied to the stroke, at least in global coordinates? It would also be nice to be able to apply a texture in a curvilinear coordinate system relative to the stroke itself, with x being the direction tangent to the stroke, and y perpendicular to it. Being able to do curve-relative mappings opens the door to lots of possibilities. Like Hsu's "Skeletal Strokes" (which I see someone has already noted on the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Expression) Why are spirals and stars top level tools? Seems very odd to have two such niche items on the main toolbar. Are they actually used that often? Why not gears or block arrows or speech bubbles or ... etc. I'm curious about the choice of usage for Tab and Space keys. Space as select tool toggle is reasonable, since that is pretty frequently used. Still, seems to me like Photoshop's hold-toggle for canvas panning is a better option (i.e. needed more frequently), but easy access to the selection tool is also nice. But Tab as "select next" seems like a waste of prime keyboard real estate. I don't see how this is useful once you have more than a dozen or so elements in your drawing. Some kind of hide/reveal function might be good for this. Is there a way to hide everything but the current selection? Or to use outline rendering for everything but the current selection? I was playing around with editing the about.svg splash screen and with all the blurring going on rendering was very slow when zoomed in. Outline mode fixed the speed, but then it's hard to tell what the current thing I'm editing really looks like. Anyway more flexible control over the rendering quality seems like it would be useful. An intermediate between outline and full would be nice too. It would basically turn off expensive effects like blur and just do a simple color rendering. Finally seems like there's no way to customize key bindings right now? That's all for now. Thanks! --bb

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unsubscribing
by Seymour Fine 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

I am having much difficulty in unsubscribing from the Inkscape users list. Can someone please help me? S. Fine

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Inkscape Communities?
by Keifer Miller 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Besides this mailing list, is are there any central communities for inkscape, much like what the blender community has with blenderartists.org?

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3D SVG rendering in Firefox
by Donn 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Yo, posted this on the dev-list, but it's so cool you gotta go see it. Using Firefox go to: http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/index.php?/archives/15-Its-alive-Image_3D-live… Click the buttons, change the view, hit svg and then save-as and open in Ink. A-bloody-mazing. /d -- "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." -- Isaac Asimov

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