February 2008 - Inkscape Users

inkscape gallery [48 hours later...]
by davide|inkscapegallery 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

i'm here to inform you about the inkscape gallery's two days in the "official world"... I didnt' receive feedback about my previous mail, but i didn't ask for this, i was only giving news indeed. Now i would like the inkscape user's list to come back talking about inkscape gallery (i will label it just IG starting from now...). I learned so much in the few days in this list and i think the improvements we provided are mostly related to the speeches we had here and i would like to thank you again, even if i cannot do this for each user personally, this is my way to tell how precious was your help. But this is done, we're online now and we have to debate about the present and the future of IG... I would like to see many of you posting drawings, cause we're registering many visitors from all the world and we are really happy about this, but we have still a few (i'm giving a special thank to those ones...)users and drawings on the website. I mean, i know i have to be patient...nothing happens just in one day, but i'd like to involve many of you in this moment, because we have to start thinking about the future of IG and we'd like this list, and anyone interested in, to have a leading role in the development. As you may know we are a small company and i love to say that this is just one of the opensource project we are planning... but obviously, we can't do this without help, and mainly this is not a closed project, this is a work done in the inkscape and opensource software growing purpose. And more, this is done to give the best place to share knowledge, drawing skills, tricks, projects for everyone who uses inkscape. IG is just at the beginning , i keep working adding features, (see this: http://inkscapegallery.net/en/node/142 for the comment notification feature) and fixing some stuffs, trying to enhance IG knowledge and google visibility. We could imagine many improvements, now we have two test environments, and someone already made something. Patrick wrote the code for the licenses validation that is another important improvement in IG and i like to thank him in this list, 'cause he's young but really skilled and he deserves our congratulations. We bought the .com, .it and .org inkscapegallery domains too, and they will work in one or maybe two days. So, i will like you to be the leader in the inkscapegallery growing process and in its future development. My work will be the organization, maybe the supervision (i'm still trying to figure out why didn't i seriously study english...) but you will be the one in charge...if you'd like to. Thanks, Da. http://inkscapegallery.net

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Tiling objects
by Claus Cyrny 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi, I've just been able to successfully tile a circle along a path, but the circles are partially deformed <http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/images/circle_along_path.png>, and I would like to know how I can avoid this. TIA, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English) MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 (English)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 16:27 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > Hey JiHO (I am not on the user's list): yes, this is why I figured I would include you personally in the email. > Can you send me the file in question? I am very curious to know if > this is Mac only or Windows and Linux too. Did you try it out > yourself? Nick, can you do that please? Ideally you should send: - the original files where the fonts used to display fine (apparently you made a backup if I understand you correctly) - the files that show the problem - the font(s) used in those files. The fonts live in /Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts or /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts Even zipped, all this together may be big. If you have facilities to upload it somewhere and send the link it would be nice, otherwise... well make several zip files ;). Please send the attachment to Gail and me only (no attachments to the list) but keep posting follow ups to the list (as I did on this one), so that people know something is happening and the final fix can be found later. > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 08:02 , churro wrote: >>> I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file >>> and used a >>> specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working, >>> so I had >>> to download a newer build of Inkscape from >>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python >>> packages. I >>> reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I >>> opened my old >>> file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get >>> them to go >>> back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on >>> Inkscape, but >>> that did not fix the problem. >> >> Could you perform these little tests, with the document that has >> the generic font and on both version of Inkscape: >> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >> font attributes are (name, weight etc.) >> - check wether you see the font in the text and font palette (even >> if it's not used in the document)? >> - if you see it, what happens when you select the text and apply >> this font? >> >>> All my previous work with that font got >>> messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting >>> this to >>> work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again? >> >> Font got reworked between those two versions and the library that >> deals with fonts was also updated, but all that should have >> improved compatibility, not the contrary. Gail, could you look at >> that please? >> >>> 2nd part of >>> the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to >>> Inkscape running >>> on OSX? >> >> All depends on the format of the font. If you get a ttf font in a >> regular format (ttf extension) Inkscape should be able to see it. >> Inkscape has issues with fonts in the dfont format and with >> Microsoft Font Suitcases (no visible extension). If you install the >> font on your Mac the regular way (double click and click install), >> Inkscape should have acces to it. To force the refresh of the font >> library on startup, delete a file via a command in Terminal: >> rm ~/.inkscape/.fccache-new >> Inkscape will rebuild the font cache on next startup. > JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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external CSS
by Alexander Roalter 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I've done some digging, and I saw external CSS support was already planned for two consecutives 'google summer of code', though it is still not possible using them in inkscape, be it classes or even getting them to display properly. I've attached three files, one being the original file with the style attributes inline, it shows quite well in inkscape, the other two being a css file and a svg file with references to this css file. When I open the latter, only a black shield is displayed, as no style information is loaded. Additionally to getting inkscape to at least display the SVG correctly, I'm still pondering on how to implement the creation of the file in inkscape, there should be some possibility to apply a certain style (defined in a css file) to a path, so I wouldn't have to change the SVG file later to apply all styles. At the moment, it would suffice to get Inkscape to display the files correctly, as I still do some tidy-up with the resulting SVG files, so I can also replace the style commands with the correct class definitions... -- cheers, Alex

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Interested in helping on os x
by carl olsen 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I'm very interested in contributing to the project. I have intermediate programing experience, but need someone to mentor me. I pick this stuff up pretty fast so I just need to get in touch with someone who knows about developing on os x and can tell me what to work on.

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Broken dependency of 0.46-pre1 ubuntu package
by khiraly 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi! Bryce: your ubuntu build has somewhat broken dependency. In gutsy, the libpango1.0-0 version is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1, and your package requires >= 1.18.3. Can you fix this, either provide the compiled libpango1.0-0 package, or point people to the right direction. Thank you in advance, Khiraly

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inkscape gallery release on monday 11 February
by davide|inkscapegallery 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, i'm here to announce the release of inkscape gallery on day 11 of February. This is a pre-release, i will inform only the inkscape's communities about that and then, maybe day 28 (it's the nois3lab birthday..) we'll go trying to involve a bigger amount of interested or just curious users and some web magazines, large community websites etc...etc... We'd like you to share this good new everywhere you want, we also need you to spread the inkscape gallery knowledge to let it grows fast. I'm really grateful for the contributions i've received here in the inkscape's user list, i know that many of the last improvements i made were coming from suggestion and even critiques you gave to me. So i hope you will be happy and "proud" as i am, we share a beautiful attitude that is our option for opensource and free software i also hope to share with you the wish to make inkscape gallery great. Go to spread your vector graphics in inkscape gallery! Davide http://test.inkscapegallery.net http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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[ inkscape gallery ] "resume" -for all users-
by davide|inkscapegallery 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello again, i'm sorry i couldn't keep you updated about the inkscape gallery developement but the days i spent here on the list were really useful and i had a work a lot to do what these speeches suggested me to do. I would like to keep track of what happened in the days when we talked about inkscape gallery in various threads in this list that maybe caused troubles to the user who didn't want to read thousands of mail. So: when i came here for the first time inkscape gallery was a project for an inkscape made drawings gallery on the web in an advanced state but still not completely grown. There were a narrowed layout, a bunch of features but it needed content organization and a couple of improvements in both layout stuffs and features. Many of you gave impressions, suggestions even critiques and this was exactly what i needed to come back working to make inkscape gallery better. So what i did in these days? 1)When i left the list i announced the svg upload and the user picture features were added. But then i realized that we needed to work on the content organization, to decrease the scrolling need, to make lighter pages to not overload the cms and the webserver and to decrease the amount of javascripts that were going to slowdown all the site navigation. If you go now to see inkscape gallery you will see: 2)a splash page, bilingual with two main access links, giving you two ways to start using inkscape gallery; 3)"quickstart" and "enter the website". 4)You find a sort of "user guide" with many useful information (i hope...) in pdf linked in a RTFM! button. 5)You don't see the button menu in the splash page but you may show it just by clicking on the + icon in the main menu area. This feature is being used in most of the site sections, to avoid long page scrolling where we thought that the buttons menu was not necessary. 6)We have new blocks called "pop" in some sections. They are showing the most viewed images in the last days. 7)We have a list of avatars (not yet, really...but the tool is there), and we'd like to launch the website with an avatar contest too. You may add your pictures (inkscape made!) to attend to this contest. You may vote on images to make us easy to choose which to include. (we will use all of them in the first stage!). 8)If you see the artists section you have a shortened version of the user profile page. This is meant to hide empty fields and to keep the section meaningful. Please use the "who am i" description field when you create account, cause i think it's nice to have an short user description. I'm not saying that is perfect now, i have a long list of fixes and improvements still pending, i will put this online in the forum. This is the time when we'll look around for someone who'll help us in maintaining and improving the website. We are good in webdesign and we know drupal quite well, but we aren't php developers, and this is what will give us the chance to significantly improve inkscape gallery in the future. So, hope to see all of you in inkscape gallery 'cause the development is over for now, we're in production and we'll go online on monday 11 February. hope to be ready... Da. http://test.inkscapegallery.net http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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Pixel font in Inkscape 45.1
by Roune Linus 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I'm attempting to user a TrueType pixel font called SuperText which can be found at: http://www.dafont.com/supertext.font …but Inkscape is unable to display it and resorts to changing the font to BitStream Vera Sans instead. Now I've managed to get other pixel font to display nice and crispy like Pixel Arial 11( http:// www.dafont.com/pixel-arial-11.font ) and others some of which I've needed to convert with FontForge to truetype font. So the question is why does SuperText not render even though it's truetype? Thanks, Linus

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modify context menu
by PilarPP 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I would like to know if it's possible to modify the options of the context menu when there is an element selected. I would like to add a new custom option. I would like to know the way to do it. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/modify-context-menu-tp14434682p14434682.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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