June 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

How do I configure Inkscape for Windows to see the Type1 fonts I have installed? The GIMP sees them fine (which also uses freetype), as does OpenOffice.org. The font names and corresponding pfb file names even show up in my .fonts.cache-1 file but I still can't see them in Inkscape. Thanks for any answers. Inkscape 0.45 Windows XP SP2 -- Norvell Spearman

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Safari 3 beta renders SVG
by Benjamin Huot 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

The SVG website created with Inkscape now works with Safari 3 beta - available now for Mac OS X and Windows http://www.apple.com/safari http://far.no/svg/gallery.svg

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Inkscape Tutorials
by ryan lerch 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

If you are looking for inkscape tutorials, i am building up a list of ones that i find at http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com . i have posted around 28 so far, but there are heaps more that i have in the pipeline, but not pubished yet. (i dont want to swamp the planet.inkscape.org) also, i try to keep track of the tutorials that have been translated into other languages and provide links to the translated tutorials... so if you find a tutorial and it appears that i have not posted it or if you find a translation of an exisiting tutorial send me an email... cheers, ryanlerch

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Export bitmap function stops at around 900KB, instead of exporting the entire 5MB svg graphic file onto my desktop.
by unknown＠example.com 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

Anyone know how I can keep the process from stopping when it's only about 20% done?? I have a PowerBook G4 with a 512MB RAM card (original equipment). I tried upgrading the RAM to 1GB but that didn't work any better.? I want to eventually translate my Inkscape svg file into jpeg format so I can get the thing printed at imagestation.com. Jeff ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

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A question about node positioning.
by Alexander Roalter 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hello, in the past I designed a lot of civic arms using Freehand 9 and MX, and became quite friendly with it, though I always had to run it in VMware. I was long since then on the search for a replacement, and years ago stumbled upon sodipodi and now inkscape. It fulfills almost all my needs, and far exceeds (in terms of usability w/ keystrokes, cloning/mirroring etc.) the possibilities I came to use in Freehand. One thing though remains, which I'm at a loss in making them work as I want them to. a) If I have a path, which is made up of various nodes (as happens with every shape, say a circle and a square, merged into a a b +-------------+ | | | | | | | | + c + d \_ _/ --_ _-- --+-- e shape. This later is comprised of five nodes (a..e). But if I want to place them on predefined positions, there's no possibility to do so, e.g. having Node e on (300, 0). I can either use the mouse to drag it near this point (but will never manage to do it exactly), or use the XML editor, in which I don't see the point (b/c it's such a royal pain searching through it and finding finally this point. obviously this should then be done for all five points) I can also use the grid and snap to grid functions, but I don't want to be limited to only integer numbers, sometimes I want a point to be at 0.155,10.245 (or something else), So: is there a possibility to enter the coordinates one drags the node with the mouse (this would certainly also be cool for the handles of nodes) -- cheers, Alex -- Cheers, Alex

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Using Wacom Graphire 4 in GIMP (Mac OS X/X11)
by Victor Domingos 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi! I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for Mac compatible with this feature? I also tryied in Inkscape, but it only behaves like a mouse, pointing and clicking, with no pressure signs... Anyone can help, please? Thanks, Victor Domingos http://lojamac.com/blog

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Seeking Inkscape Teacher for SVGOpen
by Doug Schepers 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Hi- We are looking for someone to teach a half-day course in using Inkscape for SVGOpen 2007. SVGOpen is an annual SVG conference, and this year, it is being held in Tokyo. The class would be the afternoon of September 4, 2007. https://www.svgopen.org/ The teacher should be very familiar with Inkscape, and would ideally have some knowledge about the SVG format. This is not intended to be a design course, but it would be nice if the teacher has a good design sense, or even training in design. If the teacher is comfortable with other design tools, such as Illustrator, that might help in answering student questions. The teacher should speak adequate English, but a Japanese translator may be available. The class should give a broad overview of the functionality of Inkscape. Beyond that, the subject matter is left to the discretion of the teacher. The teacher would receive a free pass to the whole conference. It would be a good reference on a resume, and an interesting experience. If you are interested, please contact me at inkscape@...2298... Thanks very much! Regards- -Doug -- Regards- -Doug

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(no subject)
by unknown＠example.com 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

I'm attempting to use the Effects on Mac (PowerBook G4, 10.4.10) which utilise some Python libraries what I've understood. I've followed the instructions found at : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX#Enabling_python_eff… installed PyXML and numpy and even changed the Python version to 2.4 thinking that PyXML functions with that, but still no go. The instructions found in the above link states that on OS X 10.3 the file path to the site-packages folder is different than on 10.4 which in my case isn't so. The Python packages which I have (2.4 and 2.5) are separated according by framework: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages not like this: /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/ Can the problem be laying here which in that case what is there to be done?

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A Japanese Inkscape site
by Bryce Harrington 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Nyx, thanks for pointing out your Japanese user site - I'm forwarding it to the user list for anyone who is interested. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Nyx <nyx@...2300...> ----- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:28:42 +0900 (?$BEl5~ (?$BI8=`;~)) From: Nyx <nyx@...2300...> To: bryce@...16... Subject: A Japanese site X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=EMPTY_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.0 Hello. I am a novice user of Inkscape in Japan whose handle is Nyx. Inkscape is great, but I found that there were few Japanese information source about Inkscape. So I decided to start a site for myself. Currently it has only personally written manual and FAQ translation. Hopefully I can add some more contents in future. The site address is: http://inskcape.nyx.bne.jp/ I was not sure if it was appropriate to contact you about it, but I thought it might interest you. Thank you very much for providing powerful and attractive tool. I hope my site will be some help to Japanese users. -- Nyx ----- End forwarded message -----

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