January 2008 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce the About Screen contest for the upcoming release of Inkscape (0.46). The contest begins on December 22, 2007 and the deadline is January 6th, 2008. 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/16001755/ Additionally, if you have a DeviantART account, please show the news some "love" so we can hopefully get the story promoted to the front page. http://news.deviantart.com/article/39226/ Good Luck! Have fun! Draw Freely. -Josh

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Inkscape 0.46~svn Ubuntu .deb snapshot (Bryce Harrington)
by Tony Vigil 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Bryce, Thanks for the new .deb file! Unfortunately, some of the effects don't seem to work any more, specifically perspective and envelope. When I run perspective effect, I get a dialog that says the following... "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected." The dialog box also provides the following information... "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/perspective.py", line 127, in <module> e.affect() File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 153, in affect self.effect() File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/perspective.py", line 72, in effect q[query] = float(f.read()) ValueError: invalid literal for float(): Initting inputs Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input In " Is this the case on your install as well? Should I report this a bug or am I just missing a python component perhaps? - Tony

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splash screen
by gandalf the gray 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

I too want to submit a splash screen. I will do it by the end of Sunday (i.e. Jan.06 23:59, GMT +2). I was planning to do it earlier but I kept postponing this. I hope I won't be too late (I interpreted the current deadline as 00:00 Sunday, i.e. the beginning of the day, rather than the end.)

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My submission for the splash screen
by Alex 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi fellow inkscapers! My splash screen is ready, I posted it here: http://railean.net/index.php/2008/01/06/inkscape_046_splash_screen_contest Unfortunately I don't have an account on deviantart, so I am using this mailing list to make my submission. On the page above you'll find the SVG, two variations of the splash screen, as well as some comments about it. It's 4 AM here %-) I hope I am not too late... Alex

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Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's
by Benjamin Huot 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

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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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.46~svn Ubuntu .deb snapshot
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:22:38PM +0200, Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote: > I just installed this snapshot for Hardy - and there is a bug which froze > Inkscape when is to use Fill Bounded Areas. Anytime when I click with this > tool on the canvas ( on empty space OR on a shape ). > > Also this was present in a yesterday SVN compilation. I cannot reproduce this issue on gutsy - fill bounded area seems to always work correctly. > On the same system Inkscape which come from Ubuntu repositories (0.45) does > not have this bug. > > I'll put this on launchpad anyhow - I just respond on this list to see if > others can found the bug. Thanks, Bryce > Bryce Harrington wrote: >> HI all, >> For those on Ubuntu who would like to install and test the latest >> development snapshot of Inkscape, I've rolled .debs for Gutsy: >> http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/inkscape-Gutsy/ >> and for Hardy: >> http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/inkscape-Hardy/ >> Bryce >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Aligning strokes along a circle
by Claus Cyrny 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi all, I would like to align a number of cloned strokes around a circle, but wasn't able to find a howto at the Inkscape web site, or Tavmjong's online book, so I'm posting this to the list. I guess that it must be easy, but I just haven't figured it out, yet. Btw, I find the Inkscape documentation (and especially the book by Tavmjong) really great! Thanks, 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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Easily edit names
by Brian Vanderburg II 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

A lot of the names can be edited by right-clicking on an item, but some names can't be edited so easily, and even when this works, it is tedious when wanted to give meaningful names to many items. The XML editor could work, but would require a complete find-replace to replace the name. Instead it would be nice if there was a name manager that could show all the name used in a file, what type the name is (group, pattern, image id, etc), and even a preview of the time, and allow renaming it from there and making sure the new name is not used by something else. For example, the name linearGradient3313 doesn't mean much to me in a big file with many gradients. I'd rather name it to be more meaningful so if an item is to use the same gradient, I can more easily recognize it, esp. if it is similar to another gradient. The same goes with other things like patterns, etc, and it would be nice to have an easy-to-use name/id manager for them. p.s Not sure if this is the correct place to send this. Sorry if not. Brian Vanderburg II

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Inkscape and DXF files?
by Jim Ford 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

The school where I work has a laser cutter attached to a pc. The pc runs 'PC Design', outputing to the cutter. http://www.techsoftuk.co.uk/techsoft_software.htm As well as it's own propriety files, PC Design will accept dxf files to output to the cutter. I've tried importing dxf files created with Inkscape into PC Design, but they don't get rendered. Are the dxf files created by Inkscape's export non standard or otherwise 'funny'? Does anyone know of a 'workaround' for this problem, please? Jim Ford

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distort a clone
by Donn 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I suspect the answer will be "WTF! Are you mad?", but is there any way to distort (envelope/perspective) a clone? \d -- I have a low-traffic blog for basic news: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/

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