September 2007 - Inkscape Users

Help with Color Effects - Grayscale etc
by mad matt 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi All, I have installed the new version of Inkscape and am having problems using the color conversion effects. If I open a bitmap image and choose - effects - color and any one of the color effects such as grayscale, python launches and nothing happens. Any suggestions? The render effects work, just not the colors. Thanks for any info! Matt -- ------------------- READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.

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Can't get email confirmation from Inkscape Wiki
by Ben Bullock 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Can anyone help with the following? I started an account on the Inkscape wiki but it won't send me the confirmation email. I've tried four times to get the email.

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Gradient -> PDF?
by Todd A. Gibson 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hello, If I save a PDF of a gradient filled circle, the gradient looks perfect in Linux Acrobat Reader (7.x IIRC) but in a more recent version of Acrobat Reader (8.1.0) on OS X and Apple's Preview.app, the gradient is a solid color. Does this occur in Windows versions of Acrobat Reader as well? Is there any solution to this other than resorting to a different filetype (e.g. bitmap)? Thanks, -TAG Todd A. Gibson

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Bezier Connectors
by Paulo J. Matos 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi all, When I create connectors between nodes, these seem to be created as straight lines. How can I make them bezier? Cheers, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK

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Using filter effects
by D. Jones 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

I was wondering how are you supposed to use the filter effects? I mean when I try to use them nothing seems to happen all I see is add the filter and that is it. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

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Safari 3 beta renders SVG
by Benjamin Huot 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

The SVG website created with Inkscape now works with Safari 3 beta - available now for Mac OS X and Windows http://www.apple.com/safari http://far.no/svg/gallery.svg

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Using filter effects in development version
by D. Jones 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

How exactly are you supposed to use the filter effects? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow

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Compiling-Problem
by Thomas Zastrow 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi there, I tried to download and install the SVN version of Inkscape. After downloading and running autogen.sh, I started configure and got the error: ./configure: line 12242: syntax error near unexpected token `XFT,' ./configure: line 12242: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, xft, xft_ok=yes, xft_ok=no)' It's OpenSuse 10.2 Thank you very much for any hint! Best, Tom

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integrating new fonts in inkscape?
by Frank Marent 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

hi we have a great chance to use inkscape as a batch conversion tool to create eps from svg. unfortunately we use fonts in these svg's that does not seem to be supported by inkscape. is there any chance to (let) integrate new fonts in inkscape? inkscape does not seem to correctly display and use all fonts. background: we're generating thousends of svg files from an xslt process. for a proper publishing we need to add bounding box information to these svg or eps image files. inkscape seems to be the best solution we've found for a task like that. it should create eps or svg with correct bounding boxes around the images. the images contain only two lines of (very) short text. the fonts we're using are a bit exotical. any help is very appreciated. frank

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Improved performance of the object snapper
by Diederik van Lierop 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Hello, The last few days I've spent on improving the performance of the object snapper. It used to take ages (e.g about 6 seconds on my machine) to move a simple rectangle over a large text box, but I've managed to reduce this significantly (i.e. < 1 sec.!). This was with both snapping to paths and snapping to nodes turned on. For this I had to refactor the object snapper code significantly, so I might have introduced new bugs or regressions. Please be aware of this and report any suspicious behavior, so we can have both fast and robust snapping in v0.46! Please note that the performance has only increased when using the selector tool for transforming a number of points, e.g. when dragging a selection. Using the node tool to drag a single node will not benefit from this. Now for those of you interested in some technical details: Before, for _every_ point in the selection being transformed (using the selector tool), Inkscape would search for snapping candidates, build a list of nodes and paths, and finally call convertWithBackData(). Only then would it snap this single point and start all over again for the next point in the selection. Now we only do this collecting and converting stuff once, store the results, and then snap all points in the selection (using the stored data). Not having to call convertWithBackData really helps a lot! I think that in many common cases this improves the performance dramatically. However, there might also be some (rare?) cases showing a performance decrease, because the number of candidates might be higher. Before we would search for candidates within range of a single point. Now we search for candidates within range of any of the snappoints in the selection, so our list of candidates is longer which gives us more combinations to check. I do think that this will not really be an issue, as this use case is less common and there's still a performance gain at the same time. Any feedback is appreciated! Regards, Diederik

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