January 2008 - Inkscape Users

can't install inkscape .46 on ubuntu
by Benjamin Huot 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Inkscape preview .46.0 will not install on Xubuntu Linux 7.10 with Synaptic after I added the lines described on the front page of the Ubuntu website. the exact error was as follows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- inkscape: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>=1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed

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duplicate in the same Z level?
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Can I duplicate an object in Inkscape while keeping it in the same Z level as the original? I mean, without having it created in front of all other objects. cheers -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano 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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Missing module in Pattern along Path
by Mr. Shawn H. Corey 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) on a PowerBook G4. I have downloaded and compiled the current version of Inkscape, inkscape-17201 When I try Effects->Generate from Path->Pattern along Path, I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/pathalongpath.py", line 35, in ? import pathmodifier,simpletransform File "/usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/pathmodifier.py", line 31, in ? from simpletransform import * ImportError: No module named simpletransform Where can I download the module simpletransform? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn +------------\ | Shangri La \ | 40,000 km / +------------/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Can I create a color gradient in Inkscape
by D. Jones 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Jim Sabatke wrote: I have some PNG files that I want to convert into gradients for gimp. I've read that you can export SVG files from inkscape and gimp will read them. The gradients are way too complicated to use gimp's gradient editor and are color from end to end. When I try to create a gradient from a PNG file in inkscape and export to SVG, gimp picks up two black fading to transparent gradients. I think I've read all the documentation and have googled this to death over the past couple days. Can this be done, and if so, can someone please point me toward instructions on how to do it. TIA, Jim The way I create gradients so that the gimp can use them involves these steps (not really all that necessary though you could just put the svg file in the gimp user gradient directory): 1. Open or create inkscape document with the object that has the gradient you want or made. 1a. If you open document with object that has gradient you want then follow step 2 if you just created the object with gradient then just delete object and save as plain svg. 2. Copy object with gradient into a new document and delete the object save as plain svg. 3. Open svg document with text editor and delete everything betwen </def></svg> tags 4. Save as whateveryounamedit.svg 5. Place in personal gimp gradient folder 6. Open gimp and you will see in the gradients a gradient with an id from the document, duplicate and rename the gradient and it will be a .ggr which you can just drop into any document or just resuse in the gimp. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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The Southern California Linux Expo & Inkscape Sticker Contest
by Josh Andler 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce that we will be at the Southern California Linux Expo ( http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/ ) again this year, and we have a sticker mini-contest to coincide with it! The contest begins immediately and the deadline is February 10th, 2008 (sorry about the short notice). As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com/ ). You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16631247/ If you're interested in finding out more about our presence at the conference, which includes a booth, a birds of a feather session, and four one-hour classes that I will be teaching, you should read that journal entry at the URL above. If you live in the greater Los Angeles area (or elsewhere) and are able to make it, we'd love to see you there! Cheers, Josh

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Can I create a color gradient in Inkscape?
by Jim Sabatke 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

I have some PNG files that I want to convert into gradients for gimp. I've read that you can export SVG files from inkscape and gimp will read them. The gradients are way too complicated to use gimp's gradient editor and are color from end to end. When I try to create a gradient from a PNG file in inkscape and export to SVG, gimp picks up two black fading to transparent gradients. I think I've read all the documentation and have googled this to death over the past couple days. Can this be done, and if so, can someone please point me toward instructions on how to do it. TIA, Jim

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Bug: Inkscape or GIMP?
by username132 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

I followed the tutorial http://www.webschuur.com/publications/blogs/2007-01-09-fancy_rays_in_inksca… here to make a nifty radial pattern in Inkscape but when it's opened in the GIMP, some of the stripes appear dark red instead of with their gradient. http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1201457817.svg - This is a link to the SVG (you can open it in Inkscape or GIMP to see what I mean} http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1201402880.jpg- This is a link to a screenshot of the GIMP with my file open Is this a GIMP or Inkscape bug? The image displays correctly when opened in Firefox AND, interestingly, when I rotate the radial spokes around in Inkscape, save and open in GIMP, the dark part has moved as well. There's something about those particular radii. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bug%3A-Inkscape-or-GIMP--tp15118320p15118320.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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inkscape gallery update
by davide|inkscapegallery 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

I wanted to keep you update about the inkscape gallery project. Don'know why but it seems harder than we expected to find people to debug and populate the web-site, i'm doing this here in the international community and in the italian one too. We need more people to stress the web-site to be sure about it, and we need images to make it beautiful when it will be online at http://www.inkscapegallery.net. And i'd like the international community to partecipate cause i had to write so many words in english and i'm fearing that i did terrible mistakes cause i'm from italy and..you know...we're not so smart in multilanguage. I tried to handle this heavy task, i hope you will not be disgusted by my tv-serial based english :-[ I added new features to inkscape gallery, like an advanced search to search for licenses or users, now i'm working on the rss feeds and i provided personal users feed at the moment. We have another big project about inkscape gallery and i will soon entroduce to you. Please, this is a great chance for inkscape to be well known and considered as the great vector graphic software it really is, we don't want to miss this. I hope to see many of you in the test area, the address is http://test.inkscapegallery.net , cause it's ready to be populated with your inkscape made graphics and your open-source talks in the forums. In a few days we plan to be ready to move all in http://www.inkscapegallery.net. Go and spread you vector graphics around!! Da. http://nois3lab.it http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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Disable text-to-path for pdf export. (Inkscape 0.45.1)
by Aniruddha Apte 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hello, I'm using Inkscape 0.45.1 on windows. How can I disable conversion of text to path when exporting to pdf? I need to do this to keep the resultant pdf file size small. We have a homogeneous user base so the font availability problem does not exist. Thanks in advance. regards, ani

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Converting SVG to PDF: No export filename given and no filename hint
by Yang Zhang 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

I'm trying to convert svg to pdf. "inkscape -A stack.pdf stack.svg" works, but the resulting image has a lot of empty space. I tried adding -D but that gives me "WARNING **: No export filename given and no filename hint. Nothing exported." Any help? FWIW I was able to use -D successfully in the past when converting svg to png files.... Thanks, Yang

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