July 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

SVG and CSS
by Dan H 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hello, I have a drawing that is full of rectangles which share common attributes. Inkscape puts a style="..." attribute into each rectangle's tag, but it's the same thing repeated over and over. Is it possible to replace these style attributes with class attributes that refer to some style defined in an (inline) CSS? Essentially like CSS and HTML. I don't mind inserting the CSS manually into the SVG file with a text editor; my question is: Will Inkscape support/honor the CSS, and what's the syntax to put a CSS into an SVG file? Well, I guess I could just go and try it out, but I'd like to know if there is a proper and accepted way to do it. Thanks, --D.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Coloring Nodes
by D. Jones 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

On 7/20/07,bulia byak wrote: No. The quadrilaterals of the mesh are all separate objects colored separately. They are then grouped and the group is blurred. Ok from that picture I thought it was something that could be done currently right now. Will just have to wait for gradient meshes in the future then. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Pasting between documents? (Facundo Casco)
by Tony Vigil 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

I didn't know that worked between files opened from the same instance. That's good to know! I'd still prefer copy/paste to work between any file though. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- You can copy/paste between documents now. The trick is to use the same Inkscape instance to open both. Open one document, then, from the menu choose File->Open and open the second one. I can copy paste without problems that way on Win2k. Hope it helps. Facundo

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Coloring Nodes
by D. Jones 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

This image http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-gradient-mesh-exp… suggest that inkscape gives you the ability to color nodes. How exactly do you do that? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/

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Pasting between documents?
by Tony Vigil 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Bulia, would it be possible to include the ability to copy/paste between two Inkscape docs (open at the same time? Perhaps it could be implemented as a new copy/paste menu item. This would allow us to maintain custom style template files that are used to store styles for use in any Inkscape document. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- On 7/20/07, seth friedman <inq314@...155...> wrote: > *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. Just create several objects with styles you want to reuse, place them on canvas near your drawing, and use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Shift+V to copy/paste style from them to objects in your drawing. > *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). There was some discussion about this recently. Basically we just need a universal list/table/palette widget that would be used for all markers, gradients, patterns, and just any reusable stuff that the user may want to store or share. -- bulia byak

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Adobe-SVG breaks Inkscape on debian
by stu seven 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

After producing an SVG in Adobe Illustrator, I took this file and loaded it in my debian system... Inkscape immediately broke... will no longer render simple geometrics... square / ellipse / stars... and the same bug affects several other legacy SVG capable applications. This is very serious, as reinstalling Inkscape does not fix the problem ! I wonder who else might have encountered this... what libraries might need to be replaced to get Inkscape running again ? I do not want to do an entire reinstall of debian to get Inkscape working again, but will of course, without an answer to this problem. This again is apparently, something in the Adobe SVG, which I have read have a lot of additional code in them, beyond basic SVG. This is more than a bug... it is malicious. Hope there is an easy answer. thanks _________________________________________________________________ Local listings, incredible imagery, and driving directions - all in one place! Find it! http://maps.live.com/?wip=69&FORM=MGAC01

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Vector map editor and feedback
by Aaron Digulla 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hello, After a long time, I've come back to have a look at Inkscape again. Some feedback: - Clone is Alt-D on Windows which (in Germany) opens the file (_D_atei) menu. Cloning without the keyboard shortcut is ... clumsy :-) Can you please add a tool to put any menu action into the toolbar? - After working for an hour on my drawing *without saving*, Inkscape crashed (0.45.1). The auto-safe was perfectly usable (after I found it). Well done!! - Is there an extension to draw maps for role playing games? What I would like to see is a palette to select symbols from, a tool to create a legend box (with all symbols and short explanations next to them) and a "stamp" tool to spread clones of the symbols on the "map" and a "fill area" tool for things like forests. The same palette would come in handy when working with clip art libraries. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://www.pdark.de/

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Why my Gradient always Duplicates ?
by Kishore 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hello there, I have this strange problem, when I copy(or Duplicate) an object and change the second one's gradient, the first object gradient also changes.I am using Inkscape 0.45. I don't know what am I doing wrong, because of this problem,currently I am creating every object from scratch each time. Kindly help me, Kishore.

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resizing the page moves objects vertically
by Paulo Abreu 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi all. I'm using Inkscape 0.45.1 on MacOSX 10.4.10. I noticed that the objects move vertically when I resize the page vertically. The objects keep a constant distance from the top of the page, which is the part of the page that moves, instead of the bottom of the page, which stays put. This is a big issue when I'm doing precise positioning, with all objects placed using a grid. This does not happen when I resize the page horizontally. The right limit of the page moves, but the objects are placed relative to the left, which does not move. Is this a bug, and I should report it, or a feature, and I should complain ;) ? Thanks, Paulo

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Text on Path
by Corey McGuire 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

I'd hate to be a whiny bitch, but I spent hours trying to figure this out, and I love Inkscape to death and use it fabricate all sorts of crazy<http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/506980536/> shit <http://www.coreyfro.com/heart/dscn2835.jpg>. I finally got-it(tm)<http://www.coreyfro.com/images/Critically%2520Single/24x18%2520critically%2…>but there needs to be better docs or an easier way. As intuitive as most of Inkscape is, when it comes to text on path, the software can behave very unintuatively, and the basic method just is annoying. I was obviously trying to put text on an oval. The trouble I had was positioning text on the arc. The solution is make the oval you want and create the beginning and the end points, but this isn't readily apparent. My own error is that in the past, I have put text around a circle, so before I would simply rotate the circle until I was happy with the position. I think I got this method from a tutorial. With an oval, though, this doesn't work. Still, it would be nice to be able to scoot text around on a path so one doesn't need to tweak the perfect path for the sake of positioning text. If there is a way, please let me know, and please document it. I couldn't find it for the life of me and, for the first time ever, I starting screaming profanities at inkscape -- --- ---- With Great Ideas Comes Great Responsibility ----- Coreyfro: just a maker, just like you -------- -------------- --------------------------

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