January 2008 - Inkscape Users

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

15 Jan '08

A long, long time ago, Macromedia Freehand came with a plugin that exported your Freehand document to HTML. Basically, it turned all of the non-text graphics into a series of JPG's and the text was left as is in an HTML document. Here are two possible options that could make the use of SVG on the web less painful... 1)An Inkscape effect (or HTML export functionality) that generates PNG's (or separate SVG's) of all non-text graphics, then generates an HTML document that displays the graphics along with the original text. 2)An SVG-to-HTML program/script that creates separate SVG's for each non-text object in the original SVG document, then generates an HTML document that displays the new SVG graphics along with the original text. Personally, I would love to see Inkscape have the ability to export the document to a set of documents (HTML and associated PNG's and TXT's) that can be displayed as a web page. I can't help with that option, but I could try my hand at creating option 2 in Java. I haven't used my Java skills for over 2 years, so things will probably go a little slowly. If anybody has any ideas, suggestions or comments about such a program, please feel free to let me know. Heck... I might be taking the long way around for all I know. Please stop me if I'm heading in the wrong direction! - Tony

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - Voting time!
by Josh Andler 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello all! The submission period for the contest has concluded. Now it is time for the community voting. To find out more and to cast your votes, please visit the following link: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16298574/ We will count votes from the mailing list for people who do not have DA accounts, as we did last time. However, if you have a DA account or wouldn't mind signing up for one, it will make things much easier when it comes to tally time. Good luck everyone! -Josh

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Using <Object> to scale SVG file
by Gnosos 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, I'm new to Inkscape and SVG. I've just created my first Inkscape graphic and now want to include it in my web page. I've learned to use the tag to do this, and it works fine except for one thing. The graphic is too big, and Firefox is automatically generating scroll bars to view the entire image (which does not fit into the height and width specified in the object tag). Is there any way to scale an SVG image at render time, either by using options in the object tag or by some other means? I tried using the object tag's subtag to specify height and width parameters, but that didn't work. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-%3CObject%3E-to-scale-SVG-file-tp14767164p14767… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Animated SVGs
by Claus Cyrny 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi all, when searching the Web for compositing software for Linux, I stumbled upon the web site of Flame <http://www.flameproject.org/index.php/Main_Page> (/not/ the compositing program by Autodesk). The goal of the developer is to provide a software for animated SVGs. I thought this might by interesting to some people here on the list. Flame is being developed under the GPL. Cheers, 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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OSX 10.5 - XQuartz 2.1.2 release
by rygle 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

The latest update for X11 on Leopard is out - see http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz here for the release details. This is greatly improved from the version that ships with 10.5 and is a recommended install. The http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/roadmap roadmap suggests that a Tiger version will be available sometime around March 2008. See http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp here for more general information. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OSX-10.5---XQuartz-2.1.2-release-tp14782078p14782078.… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Lighting Filter Effects Help
by Rob Antonishen 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

I'm trying to get the Lighting Filter Effects (Diffuse and/or Specular) to actually do something.... Using .46 devel Dec 24/07 win32 binary. Has anyone been able to get these to do anything? -Rob A>

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PDF import in 0.46 Ubuntu build
by rygle 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Thanks to Bryce Harrington for the 0.46 dev build. No problems at all getting this running on ubuntu 7.10. My only problem is with PDF import - it just doesn't exist. The package recommends installing a whole lot of things, including pstoedit, imagemagick, python-XML and more. I installed all those. The only one I couldn't install was sketch, which protests on installation because it says a newer version of skencil is already installed. I also tried installing libcairo2-1.5.4 from the hardy package. This required a new version of libc6 from hardy, which required an uninstall and upgrade of tzdata to the hardy package, plus libpixman. Then libcairo2-1.5.4 seemed to install fine, but still no joy in Inkscape. Any thoughts. i386 live CD version of gutsy (7.10). Just trying to figure this out for a friend. Main program running well. Thanks, Rygle. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PDF-import-in-0.46-Ubuntu-build-tp14704404p14704404.h… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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SVG Viewers
by Cedric Sagne 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Thanks all for info on the SVG viewer topic. It never was the most convenient thing about SVGs (and anyway not Inkscape's fault) so I sort of did with it. I added a new section in the FAQ based on the comments here - a very constructive thread for all of us. Please bring your additional comments on the specific viewer you use. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Viewing_SVG_files_like_an_image… Cédric

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Mac users - please check install help wiki entry
by rygle 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi, While helping a friend start the install process on a Mac today, I checked out the wiki to find nothing there about the Mac process. So I wrote my own section, including the X11 installation. Problem is, I don't have a Mac of my own, and I can't verify what I've written. I won't see my friend to finish the X11 part for several days, and even then I will only do one of the three alternatives for X11. Can Mac users check it out http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp here and please make any corrections? Can I encourage others to write entries there for different platforms, including the Autopackage method? If you've installed it before on a platform that isn't well explained, then please at least have a go. What a pity if people were turned off before even getting going! Cheers, Rygle -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mac-users---please-check-install-help-wiki-entry-tp14… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's
by Benjamin Huot 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Sorry about the previous html version - somehow I had the wrong setting so when I copied and from the web page, it added html. This version should be fixed. I tried the Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's on Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't see an entry for importing or opening PDFs in the open or import menu. I see that on a recent Mac OS X PPC version though which is older.

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