August 2007 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Problem exporting to png
by Prasad H.L. 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Inkscape is a wonderful software. Using it to develop vector graphics is a breeze. I have prepared one inkscape SVG file which is of A3 size for the purpose of a wall poster. I wanted to get it printed. So, I was exporting it to PNG format with 600 dpi. (Please let me know of any other approach to print SVG file with good resolution) Inkscape took a lot of time for exporting it. In the process, I was getting some warning messages in the shell in which I ran inscape. The error messages were like ** (inkscape:20742): WARNING **: 249003000 bytes requested for pixel buffer, I won't try to allocate that. The SVG file has a large rectangle as background spanning almost the entire A3 size with some linear gradient. I suspected that the above warning is because of this large rectangle which turned out to be true when I saw the resulting PNG file. The large rectangle was having only the border and no gradient inside it. Kindly somebody suggest an approach to be followed exporting this SVG file. Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469

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inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by David Christian Berg 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hey everybody! While I'm regularly reading the development list, I've not been signed up for the users list so far. However, I now really got a problem, I just don't manage to solve and hope that you can help me. I created the attached knight to be part of the new logo of TIMES, a case study tournament organised by the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) -- www.times.estiem.org. Now to go on after having weeks of discussing the logo is moving towards the poster. 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. But maybe you can help me out with this? That'd be perfect. Thanks in advance! David

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Problem with swf extension
by Juho Viitasalo 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hey! I just subscribed to this list because I have a problem that I can't solve myself. I have following .inx file in extension directory swf_output.inx ------------------------------------------------------ <inkscape-extension> <name>SWF Output</name> <id>org.inkscape.output.swf</id> <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.pdf</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</dependency> <dependency type="executable">pdf2swf</dependency> <output> <extension>.swf</extension> <mimetype>application/x-shockwave-flash</mimetype> <filetypename>Flash SWF (*.swf)</filetypename> <filetypetooltip>Flash movie shape</filetypetooltip> </output> <script> <command reldir="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.pdf</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension> ----------------------------------------------------- In same directory I also have pdf2swf.cmd ----------------------------------------------------- pdf2swf %1 "%~dp1%~n1.swf" pause ----------------------------------------------------- It creates the .swf file but it's empty. I think that it's not running my cmd file or it doesn't get the input. Can anybody tell me what is the problem? pdf2swf.cmd works nicely when dragging a pdf file on it. -Juho-

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gradient dithering
by Francois du Toit 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Don't know if this has been discussed before. Gimp has options for dithering and supersampling in gradient blends which prevents banding on some displays and printers. Anything like this in inkscape?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 15, Issue 13
by Diederik van Lierop 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

JiHO wrote: > To everyone: > - is this setting really at the best location? It seems a little hard > to find there. No, it is not optimal. But at the time I didn't see a better location. Maybe we should consider adding a new tab? > - is there someone working on the previously mentioned bug currently? > It seems pretty important as it makes the geometric mode very hard to use It's been assigned to mental, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1728776&group_id=93438&atid… Georg, you might want to try a development version as JiHO suggested, because snapping has been improved a lot since v0.45.1. You can find precompiled windows versions here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. But please be aware that these will be more buggy... Regards, Diederik

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how to make inkscape precise
by Georg P. Israel 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Dear all, how can I make precise drawings in Inkscape? I have done several drawings in Inkscape, this tool really is great, but I am not able to make a precise drawing with it! The grid is activated, but still the resulting lines are not precise on the grid. This error becomes strongest if I export the drawing to a PDF. If I then view the drawing with acrobat at different zoom factors, then I see clearly that all the lines have small shifts against each other. This is really devastating. Is there a trick to make Inkscape precise?? Please let me know Best regards Georg P. Israel

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Inkscape build problem on Windows
by JonY 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Building Inkscape-r15804 using btool ends with: Make error line 178: problem compiling: src/inkjar/jar.h:41: error: 'uint8_t' do es not name a type src/inkjar/jar.h:42: error: 'uint16_t' does not name a type src/inkjar/jar.h:43: error: 'uint32_t' does not name a type src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'bool Inkjar::JarFile::read_signature()': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:131: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:131: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'guint32 Inkjar::JarFile::get_crc(guint8* , guint16)': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:158: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:158: error: expected `;' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'GByteArray* Inkjar::JarFile::get_next_fi le_contents()': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:203: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:203: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:204: error: 'ub2' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:204: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:205: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:206: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:207: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp: In member function 'bool Inkjar::JarFile::check_crc(guint32, guint32, guint16)': src/inkjar/jar.cpp:413: error: 'ub4' was not declared in this scope src/inkjar/jar.cpp:413: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'bytes' src/inkjar/jar.cpp:419: error: expected `;' before 'bytes' Adding "#define HAVE_STDINT_H" to config.h fixes it. Anybody having the same problem?

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drawing SDL diagrams using inkscape
by ali azimi 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Dear all, I would like to thank you in advance for any advice you might give me. I am currently a student at MSc level in computing. For my final project, I have to implement a program which is able to accept CIF files and display SDL-GR diagrams on the screen. I have successfully managed to produce a lexer, parser, Abstract Syntax Tree and a tree walker in java environment. I have written a java test rig which when is run, accepts input CIF text and produces AST then tree walker displays flat version of the tree. Now for the final part of the project, I need some utility that will turn the abstract syntax tree into concrete graphical syntax for SDL. I could embed some java code within tree walker and use java 2D to display the symbols and their connections. However, their coordination and some other issues seems to be a daunting task in my opinion as I do not have great experience of programming and have just one month to the deadline of my project. I have been advised that the Inkscape tool could be an option for the purpose of my project. Would you suggest the Inkscape tool? Can I draw SDL diagrams with Inkscape using command line and writing codes? If yes, would you please give me some advice? Thank you a million time. Best regards, A. Azimi --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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inkscape covered in PCWorld.com blog post
by Phil Shapiro 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

hi inkscape enthusiasts, last week i started blogging for PCWorld.com under their new Community Voices group blog. this afternoon i blogged i about why inkscape is the best thing since sliced bread. see http://tinyurl.com/25ysyy i hope this blog posting brings inkscape joy into more people's lives. phil shapiro washington dc i'll be adding a link to the digg submission at the end of the blog posting -- after someone else submits this to digg. -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness."

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[resolved] Problem saving a file in a "usable" format
by Colin Wilson 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I managed to find someone with an old version of Adobe Illustrator, and simply loaded "my" EPS file and saved as EPS again - in the process turning it from a 70k file to a 770k file... Thanks again for all the help, it was very much appreciated ! :-)

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