Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist
Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in
Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last
night without much sucess.
~Aaron
13 years, 7 months
Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman
How do I configure Inkscape for Windows to see the Type1 fonts I have
installed? The GIMP sees them fine (which also uses freetype), as
does OpenOffice.org. The font names and corresponding pfb file names
even show up in my .fonts.cache-1 file but I still can't see them in
Inkscape. Thanks for any answers.
Inkscape 0.45
Windows XP SP2
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Norvell Spearman
14 years, 11 months
Wacom tablet and Linux.
by John R. Culleton
Has anyone used a Wacom tablet with Inkscape and Linux?
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John Culleton
15 years, 4 months
convert .svg or bitmap to .dxf
by Elwin Estle
I know that there is at least one utility that will convert .dxf to .svg. However, is
there one that will convert going the other way, from .svg (or a bitmap) to .dxf? I am
looking for something open source, if possible. I have found a couple of shareware
windows only programs.
The end goal is this: To be able to scan something, convert it to a .dxf file which will
then be converted for a Trumpf laser cutter to cut that shape out of sheet metal.
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15 years, 5 months
Inkscape has a default theme on OS X
by jiho
Hello everyone,
As of revision 16000 (yes I like round numbers, I think I also did
commit number 15000!), development versions of Inkscape have a
default GTK theme on OS X (no more of these ugly dark grey windows!)
It is probably impossible for GTK to reproduce Aqua exactly, hence
the theme does not aim at being an Aqua clone as other themes tried
(and in my opinion, did not succeed). It rather tries to "fit"
correctly with the rest of the interface. The theme is based on
Clearlooks-Quicksilver which already features light gray colors, menu
and text highlights and a smooth 3D feel. Further improvements were
added such as:
- aqua scroll-bars
- Lucida Grande font
- highlight and scroll-bars colors that use Mac OS X Appearance
settings (aqua vs graphite, or blue vs grey vs graphite vs...).
However you need to restart Inkscape for colors to change after you
changed them in OS X preferences.
In addition, Inkscape won't override the local theme preferences you
may have in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (so if you want to see the theme in
Inkscape, temporarily move this file somewhere else).
Some screenshots:
- With OS X blue and blue highlights (OS X default)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue.png
- With OS X blue and orange highlights (subtle changes)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue_orange.png
- With OS X graphite and silver highlights (my personal favorite)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_graphite.png
- And the old look, just to compare
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_old_look.png
There is probably room for improvement: the scroll-bars tips are not
perfect, the text and background highlight colors can be
differentiated (as in OS X), the icons are still gnome defaults and
so on and so forth... but well I hope that this is at least better
than before.
NB: there is a devel build, on modevia, for you to test this out:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D
sorry, only for Intel... the direct link is
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16002-i386.dmg
Cheers,
JiHO
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http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
15 years, 5 months
Technical drawing / snapping
by A.J. Carter
I'm really pleased to have discovered inkscape recently and it's fantastic that
it's free and open source. In the past I've used autodesk autosketch (a cut
down version of autocad) for "non-cad" scientific/technical illustrations for
publication in papers etc.
One feature which I find makes drawing easier is the ability to set snapping
constraints, like "endpoint", "midpoint", "centre", "tangent" when both drawing
an element and selecting to transform an existing element (the cursor jumps and
changes shape to indicate which snap is currently in action). I wondered if any
similar feature exists in inkscape, or whether it might be considered for the
roadmap?
Thanks
15 years, 5 months
Idiosyncratic mouse behavior in Windows!
by Jim Ford
I've just installed Inkscape on a Windows XP machine and am having major
problems with the mouse. I've tried both the latest distro and the
stable one with no difference in behavior.
On clicking the mouse pointer on the Inkscape window, the action takes
place far to the right of the window, not under the pointer. Not only
does this make creating objects difficult, it make selecting them
impossible!
BTW, I've not found how to make the grid finer than the default 5mm one.
Can it be done (like in Xfig)?
Jim Ford
15 years, 5 months
22.5 Angle constraint
by seth friedman
A couple of months I posted about a 22.5 degree angle constraint, and
someone replied that it would easily be implemented in an upcoming
version of inkscape. Does anyone know if this has been added yet?
Best,
Seth
15 years, 5 months
