Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne
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
15 years, 10 months
[Fwd: preview problems]
by Matteo Landi
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@
15 years, 10 months
New version of Inkscape Guide
by Tavmjong Bah
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/
15 years, 10 months
Customization
by seth friedman
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
15 years, 10 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape SVG extension / CMYK support
by Cedric Sagne
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....
>>
15 years, 10 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Aligning object centers to polygon
by Roune Linus
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
15 years, 10 months
problem / losing indent text lines Inkscape SVG
by stuseven
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
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15 years, 10 months
Black box instead of text
by Klas Nordberg
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
15 years, 10 months
