June 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

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by jose' ventura 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

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CG tutorial done + can I help with documentation?
by Valerie VK 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

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? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

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Inkscape and CMYK
by John R. Culleton 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

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? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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inkscape vs. psfrag
by David von Stetten 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

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.e… (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

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Debugging inkscape on Windows XP
by D. Jones 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

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? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/

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greyscale to sepia?
by John R. Culleton 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

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? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Inkscape for Mac
by Victor Domingos 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] greyscale to sepia?
by Tony Vigil 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

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.

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The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

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

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selection problem
by Georg P. Israel 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

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

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