CG tutorial done + can I help with documentation?
by Valerie VK
Hello! I'm done with that tutorial I've mentioned a while ago. It's a
multi-part anime CG tutorial, so it's not exactly destined to the most
serious crowd, but ah well.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/57134905/
No Salamander sadly. Short of making the girl bald with a lizard tail, I
have no idea how to incorporate a salamander into her design. Mammals are
so much easier. :S
Anyway, it's under Creative Commons license, so go ahead and improve on it
if you want, I'll probably be too lazy to.
Now that I'm done though, I might be able to help a bit with
documentation. Anything in particular?
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16 years, 5 months
Inkscape and CMYK
by John R. Culleton
I have praised Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and some have
responded that Inkscape has a problem with CMYK. One has suggested
that CMYK items get converted to RGB on export or save.
1. are there such limitations?
2. Are there workarounds to preserve CMYK colors on save/export?
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16 years, 6 months
inkscape vs. psfrag
by David von Stetten
Hello,
I am trying to label some gnuplot-generated EPS files with inkscape, in
order to then use them in LateX in combination with psfrag. Everything
is fine, except that the psfrag anchors are destroyed upon exporting to
EPS. Here is an example:
http://mvl.chem.tu-berlin.de/people/stetten/inkscape/test_original.eps
http://mvl.chem.tu-berlin.de/people/stetten/inkscape/test_inkscape_export...
(Also, why is the image size and the (relative) size of the BBox changed
upon export?)
I realize the importance of the "export text as paths" checkbox, and
while both settings produce different EPS files, none contains the
psfrag labels. I tried with inkscape 0.44.1, 0.45.1, and 0.41 (on Debian).
I found several reports on the web that the combination of EPS and
inkscape and psfrag works perfectly well. Please help, what am I doing
wrong?!
Greetings,
David
16 years, 6 months
Debugging inkscape on Windows XP
by D. Jones
How do you use the debugging for inkscape development
versions on Windows XP SP2? I understand that I
download the .dbz package and put it into the
installation directory but what do I do after that?
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16 years, 6 months
greyscale to sepia?
by John R. Culleton
Have a background image for a book cover that is grayscale. It
resembles, and may have been taken from, an old engraving.
I imported it from a jpg file.
It would be nice to have it in sepia like an old time photo. Is there
a way to tint it in Inkscape?
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16 years, 6 months
Inkscape for Mac
by Victor Domingos
I have just tried MacPorts and I found an interesting thing.
With MacPorts, Inkscape displays correctly the Portuguese
localization. However, this version has a drawback in the fact that
it has no support to drag-and-drop. With the official Inkscape.app, I
am able to drag svg files into the inkscape icon in the Dock, and it
open the file to me...
Victor Domingos
http://lojamac.com/blog
16 years, 6 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] greyscale to sepia?
by Tony Vigil
I tried something very similar a couple weeks ago and got a very decent effect.
Here's what I did...
1) Import image
2) Create a sepia colored rectangle and move to the bottom
3) Duplicate the image and the rectangle
4) Change the new rectangle's color to white
5) Mask the white rectangle with the new image
6) Move the masked rectangle below the original image
7) Set the opacity of the original image to 75%
In most cases, it would probably be much easier to just break out the image editor and do the work there.
- Tony
----- Original Message ----
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:35:35AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
> Have a background image for a book cover that is grayscale. It
> resembles, and may have been taken from, an old engraving.
> I imported it from a jpg file.
>
> It would be nice to have it in sepia like an old time photo. Is there
> a way to tint it in Inkscape?
Create two rectangles the same size as the image. Make one sepia
coloured, put it behind the image, and then set the image as the
rectangle's mask. Then make the other rectangle black and put it behind
the first rectangle. I tested this briefly on a silhouette-against-sky
image I had handy, and it seemed to work but I wasn't very happy with
the result: it made the lights far too sepia-ish and the black too
black, but you could probably get better results by tweaking the colours
a bit.
It seems like you're using the wrong tool for the job, though. Using one
of the Gimp colour tools, or one of its scripts, would give you much
more flexibility about adapting to the contrast in the input image and
jiggling the range of colours in the output.
16 years, 6 months
The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike
PyXML died a neglectful death a ways back now. I failed to notice. And I
was too much in denial to listen to the many many kind individuals who
tried to tell me. We've been relying on PyXML for the python extensions.
Now we need to replace it. I'm sure anyone who has ever worked with
extensions will be happier when it is gone. The major requirements I can
think of are:
- Unicode support
- Excellent namespace handling
- Excellent XPath support (more than just basic support, many XPath
features are too useful to be without)
- documentation for new extension devs
- in distribution or easy to obtain
anything else?
If I was left to my own devices and I had to do something right now, I
would start with LXML. (Not a big vote of confidence that the front page
of the website is offline http://codespeak.net/lxml/ check the google
cache :-)) LXML uses the ElementTree api as much as possible, this API
is coming standard with python 2.5 so I expect people will be getting
familiar with it. It is a wrapper around libxml2 so it has a lot of
power behind the scenes (adds things like xpath and xslt support). I'm
not sure how things sit with the easy to obtain issue, but there are
binaries available for win32. Not sure about OSX. And everyone on linux
compiles everything anyway. :-)
Aaron Spike
16 years, 6 months
selection problem
by Georg P. Israel
Dear All,
it seems that I have from time to time the problem that I can't select
my drawing objects anymore!
Just for your information, I am using Inkscape Version 0.45.1 on M$
Windows XP.
I can double click on them, but nothing gets selected.
The only way to select them is by opening the XML tree viewer and
selecting the item there.
Does anybody know how to overcome this issue??
Best regards
Georg P. Israel
16 years, 6 months
