June 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape 0.45 text dialogue
by Claus Cyrny 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi, after selecting some text & selecting the 'text and fonts' dialogue in the menu, my newly installed Inkscape 0.45 (autopakage; Ubuntu "Breezy"; xorg) freezes. Did anyone else experience this, and is there some kind of workaround for this? I have to admit that my PC is very slow (350 MHz). TIA, Claus -- Home Page - http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ [in English] graf-o-matic 2.0 - http://grafomatic01.twoday.net/ [in German]

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There is a forum interface to this mailing list.
by MenTaLguY 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Not to discourage all the Inkscape forums people have been starting, but since it seems to get missed a lot, there's a forum interface to this very mailing list: http://inkscape-forum.andreas-s.net/forum/8 (I posted this message using it.) -mental -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 12, Issue 62
by Tony Vigil 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Elwin, Not exactly. You can run SwishMax just fine via CrossOver (Wine) in Linux. SwishMax is only $99.00, which is quite a bit less than the $$$ price tag for Adobe's Flash. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Draw a web site using only Inkscape Yes, but isn't content creation for Flash pretty much tied to either Windows or a Mac (no linux...unless you want to jump through a buncha hoops), and the $$$ for buying Flash from Macromedia?

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Inkscape Crashing
by Aaron Elmquist 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Whenever I start working with an object that contains 500+ nodes inkscape will crash and does not perform an autosave. I also experience the same issue when I do a rapid succession of undos from the keyboard. Is this a known bug? I'm running 0.45.1 on windows xp with 660 MB of memory. Generally, don't have anything else open beside Firefox.

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Linux VM
by Benjamin Huot 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

This is a great idea to ease development of Linux applications for other platforms. It is like Java but the VM is Linux based and it is open source. http://www.openlina.com/

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Inkscape splash screen (question)
by Claus Cyrny 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hi, I just installed Inkscape 0.45 as an autopackage. Wow! Congrats!!! This is really so amazing for me, to see the development of Inkscape over the last years! One question: I would like to write a post on Inkscape 0.45 in my blog. May I post a scaled-down version of the splash screen there (of course with appropriate copyright remark)? Claus -- Home Page - http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ [in English] graf-o-matic 2.0 - http://grafomatic01.twoday.net/ [in German]

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custom extension
by Stéphane ANCELOT 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Hi , I would like to know, if it is possible to setup new custom icons in inkscape in order to call custom python extension ? and how ? Best Regards Steph

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Positioning guides in inkscape
by D. Jones 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Is there more than one way to position guides in Inkscape? I know that I can drag them and then see where their position and then move again to desired position. But I was wondering is there a way to just say position guide say 50% of horizontal or vertical without having to just keep dragging and positioning until I get it right. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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Re: On Forums
by Valerie VK 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

> Two things... > > First, it sounds that there are some strong feelings on both sides here > - for having more forums as well as for keeping things unified. While > passion can be good, please let's try to ensure discussions remain > civil and polite. I'm sure with friendly discussion, good compromises > can be found on this topic. > > Second, regarding forums, this topic comes up from time to time. Our > official position has been if someone wishes to set up and maintain an > independent forum, it's cool by us. However, we've been down this road > a few times and there's been some good observations made in this and > past threads: > > * It's better for the community as a whole to have just a few > forums, since it consolidates the knowledge to one place. > > * As a project, Inkscape is open to setting up an official > http://forums.inkscape.org site, but we'd need volunteers to be > committed to setting up and maintaining it on an ongoing basis. > We'd also be open to hosting it on the same machine as > inkscape.org, PROVIDED that the selected forum software is a) > available in Gentoo, and b) is reasonably free from security > issues. > > * Some people prefer mailing lists, others prefer forums. There are > some mailing-list-to-forum gateways that some people find adequate, > but others don't. There are a lot of different opinions on which > is the best forum software to use. Thus, obviously our choices are > to either have a lot of different forums, none of which are very > heavily used, or a small number of forums (perhaps just one) that > are heavily used but that some proportion of people dislike. > > * While open to having forums, most of the currently active Inkscape > contributors are okay with mailing lists. Thus, if we as a > community are to have an Inkscape forum beyond the mailing lists, > and if we want it to be an official central unified forum, the > effort is going to need to be driven by the larger Inkscape > community. In other words, what we need are some new folks to join > in on this challenge, get it all organized, and help maintain it > going forward. > > Bryce Now that's an answer! May I suggest changing the "Mailing-list" section name on the main page to "Mailing lists and forums" and adding at the top of the page something in the lines of the following? "You can currently access the contents of the mailing list in forum format through [insert the url of that forum interface. I forgot what it is]. We currently do not have plans for a separate "official" forum. If you have any questions on this, please read the following: [insert link to the above]." Provide an answer people can easily see and find, and maybe they'll stop asking. :) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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Inkscape and FontForge
by Jeffrey Brent McBeth 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

So, I spent last night figuring out how to make fonts using Inkscape, there have been several messages on this before, so they probably know this already. Fontforge does things in terms of sub-em units. Traditionally, TrueType fonts are 1024/2048/4096 sub-em units, and when FontForge reads SVG, it uses the pixel as one sub-em unit. Since I was creating a mono-spaced font with 4096 sub-em units, I created a canvas that was 4096 pixels high, and my fixed width wide. I placed guides at the baseline, x-height, and capital height to allow easy repeatable placement of the letters. From that point on it was easy copying from my source file, saving the individual glyph and importing it to FontForge. As far as things in Inkscape go, one thing stung me several times. I expected Center on Drawing to remove the current selected objects from consideration prior to computing the center. I can't imagine why you would want any other behavior? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hofstadter's Law states: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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