July 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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Wacom tablet and Linux.
by John R. Culleton 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Has anyone used a Wacom tablet with Inkscape and Linux? -- John Culleton

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Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi. I was wondering there is any place where I could have more information about feature support for Inkscape SVG vs plain SVG. Also, I believe SVG does not support CMYK colour space colours (as per Tavmjong Bah's brilliant userguide), and this is important for logos and even EPS export gets imported in Scribus with RGB colours.... Any news on the planned CMYK support? Cedric

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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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Aligning object centers to polygon vertices
by Benjamin Esham 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hello all, I am trying to align five paths so that the center of each is located on a vertex of a regular pentagon (or, equivalently, the point of a five-pointed star). The paths are all different sizes. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks a lot, -- Benjamin D. Esham E-mail/Jabber: bdesham@...155... | AIM bdesham128 | PGP D676BB9A "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." — Albus Dumbledore in HBP

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Transfering between layers
by unknown＠example.com 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

I am at the new and learning stage with Inkscape Layers - I am importing vector graphics that was previously was on different layers, that information has been lost in the transfer and I am now trying to re-establish the layer detail. I simply want to move items from Layer 1 to the new layers I have established, the help files don't seem to cover this. All and any suggestions most welcome. With thanks, Terry

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Colour of End Markers
by Peter Hillier-Brook 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Stupid question, for which I apologise, but can anyone tell me how to apply a coloured stroke fill to an arrowhead end marker? The line that it terminates is filled and stroked to my satisfaction and I'd assumed that end markers would follow suit, but no, they remain stubbornly black. I've searched 'Help@ and Tavmjong's splendid Inkscape Guide to no avail, so here I am with what must be an FAQ. Peter HB

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Seeking documentation of Python bindings
by Kent Tenney 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Howdy, I'm interested in scripting extensions for Inkscape with Python. I've found the example scripts. I haven't yet found; - an explanation of the xml in the .inx file - the api available to Python scripts - a discussion of how Inkscape processes the share/extensions dir Googling hasn't been very productive. Thanks, Kent

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new ways to scroll and zoom
by bulia byak 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I know adding prefs settings for individual shortcuts is evil, but since we don't yet have a UI for editing keymaps, and these features were requested A LOT, I think in this case it's justified: * You can now enable Space+mouse drag to pan canvas, as it does in Adobe Illustrator. This mode is enabled by the "Left mouse button pans when Space is pressed" checkbox in the Scrolling tab of the Inksape Preferences dialog. By default it is off and pressing the spacebar key switches you to Selector and back, as it always did in Inkscape. * By default, rotating the mouse wheel scrolls the canvas vertically and Ctrl+wheel zooms in and out. Now, if you turn on the "Mouse wheel zooms by default" checkbox in the Scrolling tab of the Inksape Preferences dialog, this behavior is reversed: mouse wheel zooms without Ctrl and scrolls with Ctrl. This new mode should be familiar for users of AutoCAD and CorelDraw. * In the Zoom tool, right mouse button always zooms out instead of calling the context menu (which is rather useless in this tool anyway). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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