May 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

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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Blood Splat
by Tony Vigil 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi! This comes a day late and possibly a dollar short, but maybe it could be useful all the same. I created this blood spat as a personal Inkscape learning exercise. http://soundnvision.homestead.com/files/blood_splat.svg Let me know if you think a tutorial worth doing. - Tony

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restoring aspect ratio of text objects after they have been scaled
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

>Hey people, Bulia, Gijsbert, > >What _I_ would like to know is: how could you _restore_ any object, >most >particulary a text-pbject, to the orignal aspect ratio (1:1) after you >scaled it without ctrl and worked with it for a while? Especially for >text it would be helpfull to be able to restore it to the original >aspect ratio, while keeping other changes (such as rotation or color or >... ) >Well, you should never use text in another aspect ratio as intended by >the font desinger,... But anyway..., >Kind regards, >Maarten Right, that is exactly my problem. If often need to scale a number of objects, including text objects. For design reasons, it is easiest to scale all objects first, then select the text tool with the same objects selected, and then setting the ORIGINAL font size in the text tool bar. And often, I need to scale the drawing as a whole in a non-aspect-ratio-keeping way. Because the original aspect ratio is not kept, it would indeed be extremely helpful to be able to restore text objects to the original aspect ratio. The way I do this now is going into the SVG file, but that is inconvenient. One of the 'dangerous' things is that right now, text objects with the same font size can be of different sizes, depending on their set aspect ration in the 'transform scale(a,b)' part of the xml text object. The way to solve it is to take the 'transform etc' part out of the xml. Maybe one could write an EFFECT for this, or write a simple shell script. I say that this is dangerous because I think it is a little bit counter intuitive that a text object with the same size can have different actual sizes. It is really easy for a user to get confused. For example, if you have two text objects that APPEAR to be the same given their font size, as shown in the tool bar, there is no way to tell which one is in the original font aspect ratio and which one is in the non 1:1 aspect ratio (unless you look at the transformation part in the xml, I guess). This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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more on text object scaling
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

On 5/8/07, Gijsbert Stoet <Gijsbert.Stoet@...2082...> wrote: > > I have recently asked how to easily scale multiple objects, including > > characters, and then later scale only to a particular font size. > > Somehow, this is difficulty to do in inkscape (but I hope there is an > > easy trick!). It is much easier to understand the problem if you see > > what I mean by example. I have put the question in an svg with an example. > > > > http://volition.uwe.ac.uk/example-font-scaling-issue.svg >I don't see any problem. For the unscaled one it shows about 41px font >size, for the scaled one about 28. I don't see a discrepancy between >toolbar and dialog either. You can select all text labels and set any >font size for them. Thanks for picking up on this. It turned out that what I described was due to the particular development version of Inkscape. After I checked the stable version 0.45 it works as you say. As you say, rescaling fonts in inkscape correctly changes the font size in the font-toolbar. What I do not understand is how you get the 'original' aspect ratio of a text object. For example, if I do the following: 1) Make text object in fontsize 32px 2) Select the text object, make it very wide, for example 3) Select it with the text tool again. Now set back the font size to 32px, and it will still not have the original aspect ratio. Is there a way to deal with this? Thanks a lot, it is fantastic to have such a helpful forum! :) (sorry for not replying correctly, I get my messages in digest and cannot reply to a single post in the digest list, I guess) This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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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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L-System, Whirl, and System Requirements
by Aaron Elmquist 08 May '07

08 May '07

First I'd like to say that I'm very impressed with the level of talent and artistry in the inkscape community. Makes a hobbyist like me feel like a definite poser. The L-System I really like this feature. I was just using it to draw the the teeth on a gear. I don't fully understand how it works though. Obviously A though F will draw a line forward the specified number of steps. G though L move the cursor without drawing. + and - designate a right and left turn respectively and | (i think it's the pipe symbol) is 180 degree turn. I am having a hard time with the "[" and "]" that designate remember point on stack and return to point on stack, what's meant by Axiom, and what happens if an X or Y is thrown into the function definition. Also, does anyone know a good page/reference for most of the famous fractals? Whirl Whirl also has me a little stumped. I would think that x,y coordinate specified in the dialog would define the axis of rotation. I've tried several times to make an object whirl around it's center of mass/symmetry without any luck. I've use the points designated by the selection dialog which didn't seem to work. I'm guessing it's one of the corners of the bounding box. The I tried putting guides through what I thought was the center and using those values. No luck there either. My System My system seems to get really bogged down when ever I have any significant amount of nodes/objects for inkscape to keep track of. I'm running Windows XP with a 2.4 GHz Celeron and 640 MB of ram. I think this is going to become a significant source of headaches for me in the near future. I want to upgrade. Thoughts about minimum requirements for working comfortably on a Mac? I was thinking of trying a Linux system, but decided against it after installing Fedora Core 6 on my PC. I ran into too many compatibility issues with modems, monitor, printers, and other input devices. But, that's a discussion for another forum. Thanks for some great software. I hope I can contribute in the project in the near future. ~Aaron

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Blood Splat
by Tony Vigil 08 May '07

08 May '07

Greetings, all! Not much was "done by hand" in this case. I used 3 very "disturbed" stars with various settings (Unioned together) to create the basic shape. The highlights and shadows are merely a matter of making offset copies of my base shape, doing a difference of an offset and the original for each effect, blurring the results, then grouping and clipping the two lighting effects. This allows me to change the base color to resemble ink or paint or even glowing toxic waste. Also, I've made some improvements to the results of my technique. The new splat is much smoother looking than my initial posting! More liquidy-looking gooeyness!!! I'll definitely put a tutorial together over the next few days. - Tony

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Comparing Inkscape to Krita
by John R. Culleton 07 May '07

07 May '07

Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time. -- 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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URW Chancery L font needed
by heathenx 07 May '07

07 May '07

does anyone know if it's possible to get the "URW Chancery L" font loaded in winxp? this font is loaded on my ubuntu 7.04, opensuse 10.1 and 10.2 systems. from what i can tell it's a ghostscript font of some kind. i don't think it's a truetype font. btw, i have ghostscript installed on windows, if that does any good. thank-you, heathenx ps. shame on me for using a non-truetype font. live and learn.

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Presentations in Brazil
by ValessioBrito 07 May '07

07 May '07

Looking at now as the presentation of our friends was made: "Ted Gould"[1] and "Bryce Harrington"[2], in LGM I would like to share the presentations[3,4] that I made here in Brazil on Inkscape, different of that he exists I I used Layers. To facilitate the presentation in layers, I made a request[5] and reported one bug[6]. Two photos of the participants if find in a notice(pt_BR)[7] published in the InkscapeBrasil, other photos are for the InterNet in flirck for example. [1] http://gould.cx/ted/presentations/lgm/ [2] http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07 [3] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/ApresentacaoInkscapeDesen… [4] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/QuemEOInkscape/PalestraFL… [5] sf.net / inkscape / request #1714270 [6] sf.net / inkscape / bug #1714277 [7] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/Noticia20070501002020 -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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