July 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

Thanks all for your replies on CMYK support in Inkscape. At this point in time my only concern, far far away from theories on logo design is: Is it planned that a SVG or Inkscape SVG file can save the colours defined in the CMYK colour space can be imported in Scribus creating the corresponding CMYK colour and not RGB colour? If the impossibility to do it is based in SVG specs (which is still not a yes or no for me after so much contradictory information), is it time for Inkscape to offer a mode which will support features SVG does not support? Cedric

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[Fwd: preview problems]
by Matteo Landi 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

hi all i'm writing to you because i'm having some troubles with the previews of some icons i made with inkscape. In fact the preview is different from the real saved image, and when i re-open the image, it looks perfect! The problems appears during the saving! The previews become different! Have you any idea about a possible solution? Here a link to the incrimed icons http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/24/1108407/Desktop.zip Tnx in advance M@

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New version of Inkscape Guide
by Tavmjong Bah 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi, I've posted a new version of my guidebook to Inkscape. It can be found at the usual place: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/ This version includes many small additions and quite a few editorial changes. The astute will notice a new book cover. I've reached an agreement with Prentice Hall, aka Pearson, aka SourceForge Community Press for publishing the guide book. For the moment, it will remain as a PDF download. My agreement with the publisher includes the condition that the guide remain freely available on my website. (Except for three tutorials written especially for the new PDF book.) The agreement also allows for translations of the web version. The advantage of the new PDF book? The book has been professionally (albeit, quickly) edited. Lots of formatting problems have been corrected. And there are three new tutorials: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/NeonSign.html http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/BankNote.html http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Bottle.html The disadvantage is that the price will double and only a version formatted for Letter size paper will be available (it should print fine on A4 though). The new websites hosting the PDF version are already there but one cannot yet actually download the book. That should be changed tomorrow. Until then, the previous version of the book is available at: http://stores.lulu.com/tavmjong I would like to thank Ted Gould for getting the process started with the publisher. I would also like to thank all the people who have given me suggestions and corrections. Tav -- Tavmjong Bah Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

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Customization
by seth friedman 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi everyone, I'm new to the list. I'm an origamist (what? yes thats right). Hopefully one of you does origami as a hobby and so is familiar with names like Robert J. Lang, John Montroll, Satoshi Kamiya etc. and so also are familliar with origami diagrams. Attached is a page from one of my first full diagrams. In total its 12 pages long. It takes quite a bit of time and effort to make these with a high standard of quality, but it would certainly take less time if I was able to customize my documents, just to make things a little more convenient. I'm just gonna throw out a bunch of items. One or two of them may have been addressed already on this mailing list. Rotation snap. Inkscape seems to give many options for this. 7.5, 15, 30, 45 etc. It seems it wouldn't be too much trouble to be able to input a custom value. For me its usually 22.5. *Something like "styles" Its annoying to constantly have to input different values into the fill and stroke window. I should be able to just chose a preset style, that would for example, make the line .8 pt with a dot dash stroke. Then another style that is 1 pt, and has an arrow end marker and a solid stroke pattern etc. *Different arrow heads. I tried to find this out on the wikipage, but couldn't. How do I customize arrow heads? Different size maybe (I think they're too small) and also a different shape that I have in mind. *Something like an image palette. How can I draw little images (you can see the kind that I mean in between step 5 and 6 on the attached doc) and have them easily accessible, so I don't have to go through old documents and copy and paste, each time I re-use them (which is often). I'm sure you know the feeling that you can never remember all the problems you have, but once you encounter them you remember again. Well these are the things that I remember now. Hopefully you'all can help me out. Best, Seth Friedman

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Steve, Tracing any design would still export a SVG file with RGB colours when you save it. For the moment once the SVG is imported in Scribus, I have to reencode colours manually, remove unused colours then save as an EPS with a specially sized document and store the little fellow in a safe vault... not exactly a model of convenience. Fortunately good logos only have a handful of colours and sensible design means you create a PMS / Process colour text file as a memory aid (usually on customer requirements anyway) and supply that to your customer in the logo package. Therefore my second question : is it on the roadmap to create a specific Inkscape SVG which would support features that SVG standards do not support (even if it has to be a mode, and therefore get away from pure SVG and not be backward compatible) Cedric > perhaps you could produce your logo in an application > which does support CMYK... then... in Inkscape 0.45, > trace this. I used a higher number of color passes. > > Its not 100% inkscape, but maybe just right for logos ? > >> 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.... >>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Aligning object centers to polygon
by Roune Linus 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi there. If I understand the problem correctly then you can align the centre of your path to the star nodes by first placing a node on the centre of the path by Effects > Modify Path > Add Node and then enter a value a bit larger than half the with of the path. For instance if the line is 400px long then enter a value of 210. Then only one extra node will be added and that to the centre. Then in Document properties define the Object Snapping to 'Snap node to objects' and 'Snap to object nodes' and deselect anything else including the grid snapping option. Now use the edit path node tool and select all the nodes of the line and drag the centre node to the polygon node. If you wanted the centre of the line to snap to the centre of a polygon vertex then repeat Add Node procedure. Hope I understood the problem correctly, Linus On Jul 22, 2007, at 23:15 , inkscape-user- request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> > Date: July 22, 2007 7:06:45 PM GMT+03:00 > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape- > user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "Diederik van Lierop" > <mail@...2312...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Aligning object centers to polygon > vertices > Reply-To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape- > user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > > On 7/22/07, Benjamin Esham <bdesham@...155...> wrote: >> > Just draw a star with star tool and position your path at the >> tips. If you >> > need absolute precision, you can turn on snapping to object >> paths and snap >> > them exactly to the star tips. >> >> Thanks for the replies! My problem is that I need to align the >> *center* of >> each path to the points of the star. Since there is not >> necessarily a node >> at the exact center of each path, I don't think the snapping >> approach will >> work. > > Actually, it should snap the object's rotation center (which you can > place anywhere you want) as you drag the object. Diederik, what do you > think? I was under the impression that it already does, but looks like > it's not, so this needs to be enabled. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Newbie question: concentric circles?
by stuseven 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I think this should be simply, once you learn to draw a regular circle - which is, I believe, done by holding the CTRL key, as you drag the ellipse tool. After drawing your circles, you can size them very exactly, using the "menu bar", or otherwise. ghoyle1 wrote: > > I'm a brand-new Inkscape user, and I was wondering what's the best method > for constructing a ring of concentric circles (like a target). > > Thanks, > > Guy Hoyle > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question%3A-concentric-circles--tf4125264.html… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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problem / losing indent text lines Inkscape SVG
by stuseven 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

After working with Inkscape SVGs for a while, I've discovered another problem... this concerns the difference between (there shouldnt be one, that is) an original SVG with multiple text lines, and the saved version of this. I have an SVG with three lines of text, all produced with the text tool... .....This is line one / indented This is line two This is line three ...but... when I save this SVG, the first line loses the indented spaces LINE One now here This is line two This is line three I am thinking this has to do with all three lines being one object... in other words, Inkscape is just aligning all text to the left extreme, even though this isnt where I placed it. Anybody know how to fix this ? Is it a bug... a setting I havent used... or just normal behavior for multiple lines of text ? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem---losing-indent-text-lines-Inkscape-SVG-tf412… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Black box instead of text
by Klas Nordberg 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hi, I tested to produce a simple SVG image with Inkscape with some text and then uploaded it to Wikipedia. However, in Wikipedia the text box is just a black rectangle with no text. Inkscape version is 0.45.1 The image can be viewed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Test1.svg where also the SVG file can be found. My question: where is the problem (ie black rectangle instead of text)? In Inkscape? In Wikipedia? In my browser (IE 7)? Klas

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Monotype Corsiva - Inkscape for Windows
by LRN 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

I run OpenOffice 2.1 and Inkscape 0.45 on my Windows XP system. Monotype Corsiva, which is installed on my system, does not show up in Inkscape as it does in OpenOffice Writer. I've enclosed PDFs from each program as examples. Is there some kind of font conversion I need to do before being able to use Monotype Corsiva with Inkscape? Thanks. --- Ravi http://www.nabble.com/file/p11725454/InkscapeCorsiva.pdf.pdf InkscapeCorsiva.pdf.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p11725454/OpenOfficeCorsiva.pdf OpenOfficeCorsiva.pdf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Monotype-Corsiva---Inkscape-for-Windows-tf4122979.htm… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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