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[OT] Debian Jr. contest logo in www.DebianART.org
by ValessioBrito 18 May '07

18 May '07

Debian Jr. Logo Contest The Debian Jr. needs a logo and all designers are welcome! Debian Jr. is a Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) project. Their goal is to make Debian an OS that children of all ages will want to use. Their initial focus will be on producing something for children up to age 8. Once they have accomplished this, their next target age range is 7 to 12. Read more... www.DebianART.org http://www.debianart.org/cchost/?ccm=/debianjrlogocontest PS: Sorry, off-topic. -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Re: [Inkscape-user] scanner input; save to PDF
by Tony Vigil 18 May '07

18 May '07

There is no means of scanning images directly into Inkscape. I've asked for this feature at SourceForge... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1692006&group_id=9… If all you want is a PDF version of a scanned image, then you could simply scan the image into GIMP and print to PDF (via cups-pdf or other PDF printer of your choice). - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: "anon trol" <anontrol@...155...> Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a scanner and use inkscape to "save to PDF"? ...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement. I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to do it... just give me my fix!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] question about clipart
by Jon Phillips 18 May '07

18 May '07

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:08 -0500, ritalouise2@...2242... wrote: > I created a clipart on inkscape and saved it as a png, and it saved > the selector box at the same time. I exported it. How do I get rid of > the selector box? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, as I am sure > that it is...) > Thanks. > Rita L. That is weird. I'm cc'ing the inkscape-user list to help out. That is a good list to be on for help on this type of thing: http://inkscape.org Jon -- 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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Re: [Inkscape-user] Illustrate screenshots (bitmap) with vector objects...
by Tony Vigil 16 May '07

16 May '07

After you import your bitmap, go into the "Document Properties..." dialog and select "Fit Page to Selection". After you annotate your image, you can export to PNG and it will be the same size as your original image. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: "Jean-Marc Molina" <jmmolina@...206...> I would like to use Inkscape as a screenshot illustrator (image editor). I have a bitmap, a software interface capture for example, and would like to draw some vector objects over it. However I can't find the proper zoom level to display the bitmap properly (at 100% or 200% it randomly works, it depends of the screenshot size) and more important, export it so the result is not "jagged". The zoom level, even at 100% (1:1) is never correct as Inkscape doesn't consider the canvas as a bitmap, as The GIMP does for example, but as vector. The only solution I found is to set the exported bitmap dimensions to 90 ppp but I'm not sure it works in all cases. I don't even know why 90 works, I suppose it balances the bitmap/vector ratio. I guess I'm looking for some sort of hybrid mode between bitmap and vector image editing.

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Defining a clones group as a mask
by Jean-Marc Molina 16 May '07

16 May '07

It seems a group of clones can't be defined as a mask. I drew 1 ellipse shape and cloned it 2 times. Then I grouped the 3 shapes and defined it as a mask to an other shape. It seems only the original shape is used as a mask, the others are ignored. Worst when disabling the mask, only the original shape is restored. The group is lost and all its clones. Try to define the 3 red ellipses as a mask to the black ellipse using the attached file. Am I missing something ? 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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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Diagramming with Inkscape
by Kent Tenney 15 May '07

15 May '07

Howdy, I am interested in using Inkscape for flowchart-type diagramming. Are there any libraries of symbols for this sort of thing? Thanks, Kent

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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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multiple circles aka polor grid
by Rick van der Zwet 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi all, I have been trying to make a polor grid like picture, but it's a bit hard to do it by hand every time (circle->duplicate->make smaller->duplicate->make smaller->...) http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.svg http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.png (How do you call this scape(s) in proper English by the way?) As I understand correctly [1] Inkscape doesn't have a build-in function to accomplish this, so does anyone know a workaround to speed things up a bit? [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AdobeToolMap Thanks a lot! /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl

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