June 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-user] Seeking Inkscape Teacher for SVGOpen
by Doug Schepers 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hi- I wrote: > > The teacher would receive a free pass to the whole conference. > It would be a good reference on a resume, and an interesting > experience. I should have also mentioned... unfortunately, we don't have the budget to supply transportation or lodgings to the presenters, but the offer of free access to the conference stands. Regards- -Doug

1 0

Text over an arc for a logo.
by John R. Culleton 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

This is an interestng problem that was posed on another list. It involves text enclosed in a rectangle which is altered with a shallow arc across the base instead of a straight line. Therefore the text becomes progressively smaller toward the center and then increases in size again toward the right side. The text remains vertical. The serifs follow the arc. This url points to an example: http://www.saylesdesign.com/portfolio/corpident/project4zoom.htm Further the designer wants the two characters at each end to remain unchanged. The arc takes up 1/3 of the rectangle's width. The text has spaces in it, such as "Joe's Bar and Grill." What tools would you suggest to use in Inkscape for a problem like this? -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

4 3

Re: [Inkscape-user] Generate from path
by Neil 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Cherry Blossom wrote: > I have not been able to duplicate the > example in the Inkscape Manual, Generate from Path Chapter, the Text on > Path, single, stretched ribbon option. > > http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Effects-GenerateFromPath.html#… > > When I done all the steps, a pop up box with Python.exe comes up and > appears to be trying to turn my text object into the ribbon path, but > nothing happens. I had no problem with the Spiral and Text on Path. > > Has anyone been able to do the text on path, single stretched ribbon > option. I would appreciate a step by step tutorial!!! Hi Cherry I see you got this resolved at Inkscape Forum - www.inkscapeforum.com It was me who wrote the tutorial for you ;) Cheers Neil -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

1 0

Problems with Connector Lines
by Andreas Neumann 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hi, I have problems using the connector lines. I am editing a document with medium complexity (not too many objects) and at the beginning it worked fine, but after a while the connector lines started to behave very strange (only in this document). When I draw a new connector line, lets say from one circle to another circle and I connect it from the center of the first circle to the center of the second circle it would always snap to the top of both circles and not to the center. Also, the connector line would render on top of the two circles, not below, as it used to behave at the beginning. If I start a new document, everything is fine again. Is there a document specific setting for connector lines that I screwed up? I also checked that the two circles don't have the "inkscape:connector-avoid" attribute set to true in the SVG tree (XML editor), which is not the case. Any ideas what might be wrong in my document? Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: a.neumann@...2251..., Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland)

1 0

Book on Inkscape
by Denis Fernandez Cabrera 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hello, people. I may have missed it on the mailing list, but I don't think anyone has commented on this book, and I don't see an announcement on the website either. Since, as far as I know, this is the first Inkscape book to be published, I'd say that it should deserve a bit of publicity. So, the data: "Inkscape Starter Kit", by Emilia de Castro Guerra, published by Pearsons Education France, some 250 pages, plus CD-ROM. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-Apprenez-pratiquez-cr%C3%A9ez-1C%C3%A9d%C3%A9… I've found the book quite nice for beginners. It would be useful for people wanting to give courses on Inkscape, so that the students have some guide to follow. There are also some tricks and in-depth exploration of functionalities that can be helpful to more advanced users, if only to formalize all that things that we learned by trial-and-error and instinct. Unfortunately, the book is in French (techie and simply written, I suppose, because I don't know the language but I was able to understand most of it). It'd be interesting if they translated it into english or other languages. Denís. -- ########################### # Denís Fernández Cabrera # # denis@...2126... # # gatonegro.ceibes.org # ###########################

3 7

space betwen text-lines
by Florian Ludwig 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hi, is there a easy way to set how much space is between to lines of text? The only way i was able to figure out was to enter a blank line just with a space in it and set the font size of it to something small :) thanks in advance, Florian Ludwig

2 2

font selection performance
by Benjamin Huot 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

I used another piece of software for a project instead of Inkscape because of the long wait before I could see the font list after starting to select from the font drop down menu. Is there any way for me to improve the performance via some setting? I am using Inkscape .45.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC 1.33 GHZ with 1 GB RAM. No other problems on the system.

2 1

Effect xml: xml in string
by Terry Brown 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

I have a standalone python program that generates svg layouts for 'n-up' printing, like four postcards arranged on a page. Or 30 address labels, or whatever. Trying to package it as an Inkscape effect, I run into something like this: svg_xml_string = foo() reader = Sax2.Reader() content = reader.fromString(svg_xml_string) self.document.documentElement.appendChild(content.documentElement) dies with: xml.dom.WrongDocumentErr: Node is from a different document Well duh. :-) So how can I move svg_xml_string into the Inkscape document tree? I've RTFM'ed on PyXML, but didn't find it. Thanks, Terry

1 0

multiple png export
by Pawel Cesar Sanjuan Szklarz 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi. I use inkscape to draw icons to web pages. I use the export-dialog to create the final png files. I would like to export multi area using only ones the export-dialog, It is enough to add two new parameters to sp_export_png_file: repeat_x, repeat_y. Then in export.cpp make this loop (pseudo-code): for( i=0; i< repeat_x; i++) { for( j=0; j< repeat_y; j++) { if (!sp_export_png_file (sp_desktop_document (SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP), filename + "_x" + i + "_y" +j, x0+i*width, y0+j*height, x1+i*width, y1+j*height, width, height, xdpi, ydpi, nv->pagecolor, sp_export_progress_callback, base)) } } Another possibility is to add access to sp_export_png_file from the extension API. Thanks. Pawel Szklarz.

3 2

0.46 ?
by Carlos E. Lara 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi there im new to inkscape as well as this mailing list. any idea when is inkscape 0.46 roughly going to be released ? thanks ! -- Carlos E. Lara, MS Comp Sci Software Engineer - Computer Gaming University Of Denver

1 0