May 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Question on Taking Part of An Image
by Grey 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hello, I'm trying to draw something for my webcomic and have come across a problem. I have several images of flags and I want to just take a section of them. For example, I would like to be able to draw a shape (a circle) on top of the flag, then remove all of the flag that sticks outside of the shape so I'm left with just a circular section of the flag. Is there any way to do this? Thank you for your time, -Grey http://www.WellingtonGrey.net/

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scaling fonts
by Gijsbert Stoet 05 May '07

05 May '07

I have a problem with scaling fonts (I am using Inkscape .45 on Ubunty Feisty). 1) Imagine you write some text in fontsize 32. 2) Then you scale the text object without keeping the aspect ration the same. For example you make it smaller 3) Then you select the text object. You will see that the size is smaller, it might be, say 30.2. 4) Then you decide that the text object should be 32. Then you select the text icon on the left and select 32. 5) NOW THE PROBLEM HAPPENS: Inkscape says that the text is 32, but it still keeps the wrong aspect ratio. Of course, you might wonder why this is a problem. What happens is that I need to rescale multiple objects (in step 2, not just text objects) and then afterwards select all text objects and set them to the intended point size. Inkscape seems to keep track of the transformation scale matrix and the aspect ratio. I am sure that has a purpose. But what if I want to say that a text object which has been scaled and transformed multiple time should have a particular font size. That seems impossible right now. Can anybody help me how I could resolve this problem? Thanks for your help! This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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How can I update my Inkscape
by Daniel Salgado 05 May '07

05 May '07

Im using SUSE, I have the 0.42 version of Inkscape. When tryinig to use Yast it dosent let me install becoause it looks as if it was allready installed (but not the version I want).

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to make shadows with inkscape?
by RoSourceforge 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi peoplw, I found this old message from Hadmut and I need to reproduce his effect. I can't blur the object. I can't find any "blur" command in my italian version. Can you explain me in a more detailed way ? Many thanks, Ro. At 20.19 21/03/2006, you wrote: >Hi, > >how would I create an object with a shadow with inkscape? > >I have attached an example. It is a stripped down SVG file taken from >http://www.germane-software.com/software/SVG/SVG::Graph/ >which uses a ruby library to generate charts (including pie charts >with shadows) in SVG. > >Basically, the shadow is just a translated copy of the main object, >black, and blurred. > >Any chance to generate such a shadow in inkscape? > > >regards >Hadmut

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Inkscape runs on Max OS 10.3
by jiho 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello everybody, Thanks to the repeated efforts of John Faith, the latest version of Inkscape now seems to run on OS X 10.3 aka. Panther. Many Panther users reported some bugs and were disappointed that the new 0.45 release left them behind. These cruel days are hopefully over! A build is available in Inkscape's development builds repository: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D [pick Inkscape-20070504-10.3.dmg] This build is made from a recent SVN snapshot so it has more features (and potentially more bugs also ;) ) than the 0.45 release. The application is also larger than usual (>100Mb) because it is not stripped from debugging symbols. Currently John is still struggling to complete a compile from a fresh start. Once this is sorted out and once this first build gets some testing, we'll provide a more official build (maybe a 0.45.2 if this is ever planned to happen). Thank you for your patience and thanks again to John who made this happen. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Paint Bucket Tool
by heathenx 04 May '07

04 May '07

does inkscape .45-1 have a paint bucket tool? if so where is it? i have burned through all of the options and i cannot find it. thanks, heathenx

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Live trace?
by John R. Culleton 04 May '07

04 May '07

Is there a function in Inkscape equivalent to the "live trace" in the latest version of Illustrator? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Creating Abstract Backgrounds
by D. Jones 02 May '07

02 May '07

I was how is it possible in inkscape to change the modes of gradients and layers like in this tutorial. http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/abstract-background/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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using current stable and development version of Inkscape
by D. Jones 02 May '07

02 May '07

I was wondering how would I go about using the stable and current development version of inkscape on Windows XP SP2 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Text Dialog... apply button disabled
by Roberto Leibman 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi! I'm trying to write some text and the apply button seems to be off. Furthermore I cannot seem to select the particular font I want. The font is "Myriad Pro Semi Bold Condenesed Italic", in the dialog I only see Myriad Pro, with the various variations (that's on my Ubuntu Feisty installation). On my windows installation I don't see that font at all. Another point is that the font is an OTF file. So, what gives? Thanks! Roberto Leibman

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