February 2008 - Inkscape Users

How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash ?
by Arni Ingason 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Can anyone help me with this? How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash Regards Arni

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Maximize problem on a laptop screen (too many tools' icon)
by khiraly 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi! My laptop has a 1280x800 screen, and a regular gnome environment (regular Ubuntu 7.10 installation). I have two panel, one at the top of my screen and the other at bottom (tasklist). The problem is, that inkscape has a file menu, a global toolbar, and a tool's toolbar, and the tools' icon(the vertical one at the left). Overall, the inkscape windows is heigher as available screen (so screen_height - (top_panel+bottom+panel)). So when i want to maximize inkscape, it does not do anything. It could be wider (horizontally), but pressing the maximize button cause losing the left and right windows border (about 3-4px), and nothing else. I think that 1280x800 is fairly common resolution amongst the 15,4" laptops. Is it a known problem? Or better it is dependent of the window manager? (i will try on xp too, in the next days). The inkscape 0.45 does not suffer this, because, there was fewer tool (no 3D tool for example). If I undock the icon bar (at the left), it maximizes correctly. Tried searching on launchpad, but didnt find a bugreport about this problem, but Im remembering discussing this problem in the past (having inkscape problems on small resolution). Do somebody remember such a discussion, or bugreport? Best regards, Khiraly

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fonts disappear in OSX
by churro 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

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. 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? 2nd part of the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to Inkscape running on OSX? Thanks for your help -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fonts-disappear-in-OSX-tp15281559p15281559.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by Nick Steklov 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I also installed Blender on my mac recently... I am still trying to remember everything I did since the last time it worked. I'm going to convert my fonts when I get home tonight, but in the meanwhile I would be more than happy to do anything I can to help figure out why the fonts worked in the past and not any more. I have more files with that font, which I have not touched for at least a month. Also would it be helpful if I did a clear reinstall of Inkscape to last year's build? Is there anything else on my system besides the Inkscape.app which needs to be removed for a clean uninstall? The reason I ask is because every time I dragged and dropped Inkscape.app into the trashbin and then installed another Inkscape dmg, it seemed to remember my previous settings, such as "Open recent" would show all the recent docs I worked on. On Feb 5, 2008 2:44 PM, Gail Carmichael <gail.banaszkiewicz@...155...> wrote: > jiho wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > >> mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about it > >> etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the semester > >> and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to it. I am > >> cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the knowledge to have a > >> look. Still, we should try to determine for sure if it could be an > >> issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix that if it is. > > > > Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help > > of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the > bug. > > Ok, here's my theory: Part of the design of my work was to not show any > fonts in the UI that pango could not recognize, so if that's the case, > that's why it's not showing up at all now. This is because everything > goes through pango at some point so you ended up being able to select > fonts that weren't usable. What's really interesting is that Nick was > previously able to use these fonts even if they don't work with pango > (assuming that is truly the case). Maybe there was a roundabout path > available before that has been cut off now. Not sure if restoring that > path is really desirable, as we seem to have decided to restrict > ourselves to supporting what CSS and pango support (at least for now). > Anyone have any opinions on this? > > Gail >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 21:40 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 19:12 , churro wrote: >>>> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >>>> font >>>> attributes are (name, weight etc.) >>> these are the attributes: I'm using Culrz MT >>> font-size:98.06591034px;font-style:normal;font- >>> weight:normal;fill:#ff8080;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width: >>> 1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity: >>> 1;font-family:Curlz >>> MT >> >> This is a (Microsoft I think) Font Suitcase format, which indeed >> causes issues. The strange thing is that it worked in an earlier >> version of Inkscape. I am guessing that the difference actually >> comes from the font itself. When did you start this piece of work? >> Did you upgrade your system or MS Office in between? > > I've never even heard of these suitcase things (I assume you figured > out the format from the file itself and not the above properties). > Hopefully this means that the code I did has not adversely affected > the situation. I wrote it so that it looks for my new information > first, then falls back onto the old tried tested and true way. OK, I did a little research and there's no wonder you never heard of it: it is a mac specific thing. To get a brief overview of font management on OS X (which I've always thought to be very well designed) you can skim over this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25251 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2024.html The Font Suitcase thing is a format dating back from OS 9 (the original Macintosh system, before it was unixified). This is a weird format, in which the whole font is stored in the resource fork and nothing is stored in the data fork. As a result the file appears to be 0 bytes: $ ll Curlz\ MT -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 root admin 0 Apr 7 2004 Curlz MT nor do they have a file extension. The font information however is just regular true type. OS X (i.e. the unixified version) does not ship with these fonts now (I'm not even sure it ever shipped with some) but supports them for backward- compatibility's sake. The only app I know that ships with such fonts is.... you guessed it: MICROSOFT Office. Well you can't ask them to be good players on a platform which is competing with them, for sure. I don't expect support to appear in Pango anytime soon since the format is deprecated. Anyway, it seems perfectly safe to convert those to regular TTF, no information is lost: it just moves it from the resource fork to the data fork. It just means each user has to do it. PS: I would be curious to know which format Office 2008 uses for its font on OS X. Does someone have info on this? PPS: you may see some work on font suitcases in Pango, but this is not (AFAIK) related to this particular format. It is probably related to the new font suitcase format introduced with OS X, which has the dfont extension and is kind of the contrary: everything is in the data fork and the resource fork is empty of font information. This makes working with this format easier. But it is at the same time quite new so support is not yet perfect. These font cause the typeface bugs on Inkscape/OS X, in which some font faces are available in the menu (bold, semi bold etc) but selecting them does not do anything. >> [...] >> >> Please send this the needed info to Gail too, she's the font expert. > > > Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about > it etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the > semester and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to > it. I am cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the > knowledge to have a look. Still, we should try to determine for > sure if it could be an issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix > that if it is. Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the bug. Hope that helps. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Modifying Inkscape source code in order to modify context menu
by PilarPP 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hello, I am modifying Inkscape source code, in order to add a new option in context menu, but I have a problem because there are many classes and it's difficult to understand the whole functionality from all of them.... To the point: I've developed several extensions in python (.inx and .py files) to draw custom elements. But I would like to add the functionality to modify these elements in a easy way. Then whenever someone selects one of them and clicks the right button, shows up the contex menu with an option to modify the properties of the curernt element. So I don't know wheter there is any function to show the same dialog of the extensions with the elements properties I have selected or I must code new dialogs in c++ through gtk. Furthermore, I wonder how to get the element's attributes when I have it selected: if (sp_destop_selection(desktop)->isEmpty()) { sp_desktop_selection(desktop)->set(item); } Thanks for your help, Pilar. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Modifying-Inkscape-source-code-in-order-to-modify-con… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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plugin to publish images to Flickr and Picasaweb
by Jayesh Salvi 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi list, I recently ported the "publishr" plugin I had written for Gimp, to Inkscape. Using this plugin you can save your images to your Flickr or Picasaweb accounts right from Inkscape. Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/wiki/InkscapePublishr Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Jayesh

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Hand_Curson in subelements
by diego99 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hello Inkscape users, I am brand new in this forum, actually this is my first post. I dont know if this is the right place to ask my doubt. Well, I am developping a small app using Java & Inkscape. I am loading SVG documents made through Inkscape tool right on a JSVGCanvas. Roughly speaking, the main issue is that i would like to change the mouse cursor to the hand_cursor one, every time someone passes through a subelement defined within the SVG. To the point, is there any special attribute where to define the type of cursor you want within the SVG document. Thank u all Diego -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hand_Curson-in-subelements-tp15222860p15222860.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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effects in Ubuntu
by PilarPP 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hello, I have a problem with extensions in Ubuntu. I am compiling the source in ubuntu because I would like to do a modification. The problem is that I add my files .inx and .py in the directory /inkscape-0.45.1/share/extensions/ but when I open inkscape I can't see them. It works fine in windows, I don't know if I must do something else in order to it works out in Ubuntu. Thanks for your help. Pilar. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/effects-in-Ubuntu-tp15266066p15266066.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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SVG and the Web
by Claus Cyrny 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hi, I just finished my first web design <http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/> in Inkscape that incorporates SVG. The only problem: IE 6 doesn't support it, and I'm not sure about IE 7 (I am using Linux/Firefox). My question: Does it make sense to keep the SVG (since the web site is for clients)? I really love the look, but I'm especially very disappointed with IE (basically the old story). I would be glad if someone could give me some feedback on how my page looks (so far, only the entrance page to my site) in their browser. I would also appreciate feedback/experience by other members on the list on the use of SVG for web sites. TIA, 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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