August 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Newbie question about tiled clones
by David Gressett 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I'm trying to do what should be a simple cloning job and I don't understand the tiled clones dialogue. I need to do something similar to the twelve-stars-in-a-circle described in the Tricks subsection of the Tiling section of the user manual. I need to do the following: I have a circle. Inside the circle I draw an arrow, with the blunt end of the arrow just below the center of the circle and the pointed end of the arrow near the perimeter of the circle, so that the arrow is pointing straight down. I need to clone the arrow twice, so that the final result is three arrows radiating from the center of the circle, evenly spaced at 120 degrees.

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Inkscape is a staff pick at Apple downloads
by jiho 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hello everyone, Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_sp.html I don't remember that it was before so that's great news, given that the interface is X11 (which Mac users typically don't like), and not very pretty by default (which mac users usually care much about). However it seems to be a little lower in the most downloaded counts: it was in top 10 and is now 17. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_top.html But no doubt that the 0.46 release will bring all that up. Congratulations anyway. I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Text Anti-aliasing
by Joseph Pender 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hello! In Adobe Photoshop, you are able to adjust the text anti-aliasing level (strong, smooth, crisp, none). Useful for simulating web page designs (in which live text is not AAed). Does something like that exsist in Inkscape now or under construction in any future build? (if GIMP or other programs can do it, feel free to mention that to me) Thank you!

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Linux system for Inkscape
by John Culleton 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements? -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Ruler Preferences
by Rob Lowe 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

By default, the rulers on an Inkscape document have an origin in the lower-left hand corner. Is there a setting or pref or config line I can change to move the origin to the upper left-hand corner?

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delete several guides at the same time
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

hello all, just updated to the last build. works fine. Let me ask, is there a way to delete several guidelines at the same time? Sometime I use a lot of guides, and then I have to drag them one by one to the ruler.. Other thing, I would be really nice if in the dialog at the bottom left, where there is the color of the fill/stroke etc, we could see the grey values as they appear in the color bar. I mean if I have several objects, all in shades of grey, it helps a lot if I select one of them and see that is is filled with "20% grey" instead of "cccccc/1". thanks -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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bugs in build 19 aug
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello. using the build of 19 Aug on an Ubuntu malchine. I found that I cannot import anything. I tried with SVG and TIFF, and I always get the "inkscape encountered and internal error and will close now" Also there are times I cannot copy from one draw and paste in another. I have two inkscape windows, side by side, I copy (or cut) something from one and when I try to paste into the other draw, I get "Nothing in clipboard"... weird... Carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Looking for help with a script
by sunil joshi 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, I am using Inkscape to create some tea caddy labels. Typically, the process involves a few steps. Since the process is highly repetitive, I am wondering if it is possible to script the processes that minimizes my intervention. I am no computer wiz, and could use help from some one who is. If so, please email me, and we will work on this together. We could then document and release the script as a tutorial for others to use. So, here are the steps... 1. Open one of the three templates 2. Modify the text in the template, and save the file as new label. 3. Export file as png (check examples http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamteabaglabel.png http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamloosetealabel.png ) 4. Open new 8.5x11 document, and import png file 5. Resize png import, and place accurately using x and y values 6. Tiled Clone to create a row of three (some x & y shift values need to be changed) 7. Tiled clone to duplicate the row to 10 rows (some x & y shift values need to be changed) 8. Save as a new file. check example - http://www.jayateas.com/images/badamtamloosetealabelsheet.png 9. Print file I am not sure what all can be completely automated, but I am sure some of these could be easily automated. Any takers? Sunil www.jayateas.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by Cedric Sagne 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Hi David, I had a discussion a few months back re SVG features with Chris, who works on W3C SVG, on colour space and how these features are implemented in Inkscape. To make a long story short, it seems that CMYK colours are perfectly supported by SVG standards but that Inkscape only encodes colours as RGB. (apart from the fact that you can use a CMYK interface to input them) . Thus resulting in the following situation: Inkscape allows you to input CMYK values to pick a colour but saves the SVG file with RGB, although SVG does support CMYK colours. My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove unused colours). Fortunately for logos you should have very few colours. It is a somewhat tedious workaround but the one I picked as it is reliable. Cedric > For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. > Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and > not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai > or pdf. > Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily > redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there > seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this > effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university > tomorrow, though. >

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wish for inskscape
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi all don't know if this feature is planned or even already implemented in snv. There is one feature of CorelDraw I haven't see anywhere else. When you click an object and then you can transform it, change the width, for instance. If you hold CRTL while doing it, it will cause the object to be moved or scaled, in amounts equal to its size, so you can use it to mirror the object or to place a duplicate aligned to the original one, without the need of additional actions. the problem is that in Inkscape, if you drag the diagonal modifiers, you need to hold shift to make it changes proportionally, while this is the default action for Corel. So maybe it would need to hold two keys, or use some other key (like Alt).. don't know if I made myself clear, but it's a feature worth having. Carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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