July 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Preventing patterns from shifting
by Benjamin Esham 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hello all, I started a drawing on a US Letter–sized canvas; it contains a lot of objects that use patterns as fills. To share this drawing, I want to crop a lot of whitespace from the edges. When I do that, however, the positions of the patterns within the objects all change. Is there any way to "lock" patterns so that moving the objects doesn't change their appearance? Thanks for any help, -- Benjamin D. Esham bdesham@...155... | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail "Don't you think about anyone but yourself?!" "Of course I do... I just think about myself first." — Ishka and Quark, /Deep Space Nine/

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How to export a pattern filled-shape to be imported correctly by Adobe Illustrator and Firefox
by Paul Gruzdev 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi! What is the way AI and Firefox to understand pattern fills of objects, created in Inkscape? I can't achieve this, getting no fill at all when opening in AI or Firefox. I've noticed that the image itself is not embedded inside the SVG. Is there a way to embed it inside? Maybe some Inkscape options that I didn't find?

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Strange movement during scaling
by Georg P. Israel 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Dear all, I have trouble with Inkscape while scaling objects or changing the width of lines. E.g. if I draw a polygon with the line with width=1, then I can have all the vertex of the polygon placed nicely on a grid. If I now change the line width to e.g. 0.5, then suddenly, all the nodes are off grid!! Does anybody know how to prevent Inkscape from this?? Best regards Georg P. Israel

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Inkscape Tutorials
by ryan lerch 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

If you are looking for inkscape tutorials, i am building up a list of ones that i find at http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com . i have posted around 28 so far, but there are heaps more that i have in the pipeline, but not pubished yet. (i dont want to swamp the planet.inkscape.org) also, i try to keep track of the tutorials that have been translated into other languages and provide links to the translated tutorials... so if you find a tutorial and it appears that i have not posted it or if you find a translation of an exisiting tutorial send me an email... cheers, ryanlerch

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Export bitmap function stops at around 900KB, instead of exporting the entire 5MB svg graphic file onto my desktop.
by unknown＠example.com 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

Anyone know how I can keep the process from stopping when it's only about 20% done?? I have a PowerBook G4 with a 512MB RAM card (original equipment). I tried upgrading the RAM to 1GB but that didn't work any better.? I want to eventually translate my Inkscape svg file into jpeg format so I can get the thing printed at imagestation.com. Jeff ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

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Text on Path - question
by Thomas Zastrow 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi there, I put a text on a circle. Now, I want to delete the circle because I just need the text string. But when I delete the circle, the text goes back to a linear position ..?? Thanks for any help, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de German Forum - DTP under Linux: http://www.opendtp.de ----------------------------

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A question about node positioning.
by Alexander Roalter 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hello, in the past I designed a lot of civic arms using Freehand 9 and MX, and became quite friendly with it, though I always had to run it in VMware. I was long since then on the search for a replacement, and years ago stumbled upon sodipodi and now inkscape. It fulfills almost all my needs, and far exceeds (in terms of usability w/ keystrokes, cloning/mirroring etc.) the possibilities I came to use in Freehand. One thing though remains, which I'm at a loss in making them work as I want them to. a) If I have a path, which is made up of various nodes (as happens with every shape, say a circle and a square, merged into a a b +-------------+ | | | | | | | | + c + d \_ _/ --_ _-- --+-- e shape. This later is comprised of five nodes (a..e). But if I want to place them on predefined positions, there's no possibility to do so, e.g. having Node e on (300, 0). I can either use the mouse to drag it near this point (but will never manage to do it exactly), or use the XML editor, in which I don't see the point (b/c it's such a royal pain searching through it and finding finally this point. obviously this should then be done for all five points) I can also use the grid and snap to grid functions, but I don't want to be limited to only integer numbers, sometimes I want a point to be at 0.155,10.245 (or something else), So: is there a possibility to enter the coordinates one drags the node with the mouse (this would certainly also be cool for the handles of nodes) -- cheers, Alex -- Cheers, Alex

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Using Wacom Graphire 4 in GIMP (Mac OS X/X11)
by Victor Domingos 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi! I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for Mac compatible with this feature? I also tryied in Inkscape, but it only behaves like a mouse, pointing and clicking, with no pressure signs... Anyone can help, please? Thanks, Victor Domingos http://lojamac.com/blog

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