January 2008 - Inkscape Users

Hello I'm new ( Blending?)
by Joel Swensen 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

....and i have a question. i'm having a hard time finding a way to Blend two objects? Is this a feature that Inkscape has? I'm just so used to it being there, i hope it is. :) thank you -joel

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very small points, stars
by Terry Brown 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

I think the original thread was in the devel. forum, but just wanted to share my how to make a starry background trick. Rather than make a really small circle and clone it everywhere, just a draw messy scribbled line all over the area that needs stars, using the freehand tool. The kind of thing a toddler would give you to put on the fridge. Then set the line type to the most spaced out, smallest dashes, which are actually square (dash length = line width), so they look like little dots. Make the line white, on a black background you end up with little white points with a pleasing random distribution. Cheers -Terry

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - We have a winner!
by Josh Andler 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hey All, As the subject says, we have a winner! With a majority vote: http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-0-46-About-Screen-73478652 Congratulations needcoffee! (that's his nickname, not me trying to be funny) We do want to thank all who participated in the contest. Whether you created entries for it, voted, or just sat back and watched it all unfold, thanks for your participation! We look forward to seeing what people do next time around. Speaking of next time around... watch out for another announcement shortly. ;-) -Josh

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Version 0.46
by Claus Cyrny 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, just one short question: When is version 0.46 (especially the autopackage) supposed to be released. I'm using Ubuntu "Breezy" (will have to upgrade sometime, though ;-). Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English)

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tetris SVG
by Terry Brown 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Here's someone's tetris in SVG, although maybe it's in javascript and SVG, anyway: http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/svgtetris/svgtetris.svg

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sharing with you
by davide|inkscapegallery 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello, my name is Davide, i'm an inkscape user since i started playing with graphics, then it became a work. I started using inkscape for web-design too and then i had an idea after looking for inkscape resources on the internet. I've found many tutorials, some forums but i couldn't find what i expected for a vector graphic software: a web-site gallery, with the opportunity to publish your drawing inkscape made, so... so i did it and with my small company called nois3lab (http://www.nois3lab.it) decided to make the best we could to provide the inkscape's users community with a powerful web-site not only for self publishing of images but also to increase visibility for inkscape and for the users community too. Now we're almost ready to release it, we need someone to join us to fill the web-site with content (images for first) and to debug the web-site, making it comfortable even though we hope it already is. Actually there's a splash page on http://inkscapegallery.net to prepare users to the next release. We used drupal, cause it's open-source and cause we know it well, we tried to make it work the best it can. So, the development area is at http://test.inkscapegallery.net, if you'd like to, you can start to use it, posting your images, populating forums. We need 10 days of debugging and feedback, then we will move everything in http://www.inkscapegallery.net I know that inkscape.org already have a section called gallery, but i think that what inkscapegallery could be is quite different, we hope to give inkscape the best container for images created with it and the users the best place to submit their work. I hope that after the release we will collaborate with inkscape.org too, cause the primary goal of this web-site is to help inkscape knowledge growth, to give a place where to go to see what inkscape can do. I love inkscape.org cause it's full of documentation, resources, forums. Some of these will be in inkscapegallery to, but it is a gallery web-site for the most and we hope a great web-site gallery. I hope you will be happy to know what we are doing. As soon as the web site will be ready, i'll communicate and we will consider if and how to collaborate for the inkscape growing purpose. Thanks, Davide Ferrante nois3lab inkscape gallery

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG and the Web
by heathenx 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Question: Is it a goal of an SVG website to use SVG text file or should we avoid it since it is not selectable in a browser. I'm referring to Nicu's example: http://svg.nicubunu.ro/ My paragraph text wasn't rendering like Nicu's so I figured that I could just write some text in the html document instead. I set the z-order so that the text would be on top of my SVG file. Should I avoid this method? Is this frowned upon? http://svg.heathenx.org heathenx

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Inkscape About Screen Contest - Community voting concluded
by Josh Andler 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello all! If you're interested in finding out where things stand for the about screen contest, please visit the following journal entry on deviantART. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16414256/ The developers are now being passed the top 3 to decide which one best fits the upcoming release. I will post back in a few days with results. -Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG and the Web
by Andreas Neumann 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

I totally agree with Nicu. You inkscape users (and others of course) should start serving SVG on your webpages. Browser makers complain that there is no SVG content out there. I am sure they will more quickly develop their SVG support, once there is more SVG content out there. Wikipedia is a good example. They store their files in SVG format, but server PNG per default. They should enable SVG per default and just server PNG as a fallback. At least one third of the browsers out there can display SVG: Opera, Safari, Firefox. None of them is perfect, but more SVG content would definitely challenge them to complete their support. BTW: the Webkit people just added SVG fonts support to the developers version of Webkit/Safari. So, after Opera, the Adobe viewer and Batik, Safari will be the next browser implementing SVG fonts. So, please start using SVG on the web, and direct users to good browsers, such as Opera, Safari, Firefox 3, instead of just waiting for them to complete their SVG support. Andreas > Chicken and egg: browsers will improve at a slow page until there are no > pages made with SVG and we will not create SVG websites until the > browsers are good enough. > We can wait until the browsers improve (and hope the development will > not be derailed by other priorities) or push SVG websites and force them > to improve. > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com > Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org > my cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ > my clipart collection: http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: a.neumann@...2251..., Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland)

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Is there a place to find a Version of Inkscape that works with Winbdows ME?
by Bibi Morris 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Thanks Bibi -- Inkscapes and More by Bibi Morris All cutter files designed exclusively in Inkscape and/or KNK I now sell KNK and the original Craft Robo, machines in Texas! Find my Cutting designs at http:\\inkscapesandmore.cuttersmarket.com www.Cuttersmarket.com Private Inkscape, WB/CR/Silhouette and KNK classes available

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