March 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Script to slice inkscape (for web heads)
by m h 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all- I've written a script to slice from inkscape. Details/script can be found at my blog [0]. Comments/suggestions welcome. -matt 0 - http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm

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Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Call for help: Screenshots needed for 0.46
by bulia byak 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

As we're nearing the release, we need more screenshots to show off the new features in 0.46, to be published at http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en. Here's a page describing how to create good screenshots: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots. Use the information on that page and the best of the existing screenshots in our gallery as inspiration. At the very least, we need to illustrate: - 3D box tool - SVG filters - more live path effects (we only have one screenshot for path along path) - gradient tool's on-canvas mid stops - a (meaningful) illustration of the color management at work - new extensions - new grid and guide features - perhaps something with custom markers, along the lines of http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Gradients-To-Path-78650259 - any complex, stunning, impressive Inkscape art even if it does not use the new features :) See the release notes for a list of all new features: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 You can send your submissions to me for publishing on the site. Thanks in advance! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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How to upgrade to Inkscape 0.46
by Ocetalo 26 May '08

26 May '08

Greetings Sorry, I seem to be always late to everything. Had no idea ver. 0.46 was already released. Is it fully stable? Could you please explain me how to upgrade to 0.46? Do I have to uninstall 0.45 and install 0.46? I'm a Windows (Vista) user. Thanks in advance. -- Favor no cambiar el ASUNTO Please don't change SUBJECT

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Type1 Fonts on Windows XP
by Norvell Spearman 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

How do I configure Inkscape for Windows to see the Type1 fonts I have installed? The GIMP sees them fine (which also uses freetype), as does OpenOffice.org. The font names and corresponding pfb file names even show up in my .fonts.cache-1 file but I still can't see them in Inkscape. Thanks for any answers. Inkscape 0.45 Windows XP SP2 -- Norvell Spearman

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Official Inkscape 0.46 OSX package for Tiger (10.4) users
by Michael Wybrow 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello OSX Tiger users, I have posted an Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger (10.4.x) users: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.46-2.TIGER.UNIVERSAL.d… This package was built complete from a PPC 10.4.11 machine, and since I do not have access to an Intel Mac running 10.4.11 it has not been tested on Intel hardware. If you have an Intel 10.4.11 machine, could you please let me know if the package works for you? Apologies for the initial lack of Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger users. Producing packages for older OS releases is always more difficult when the Inkscape Mac developers are no longer using that OS for their normal builds, and building Universal packages, even more so! (Our CompilingMacOsX wiki page is currently out of date, but will be shortly updated to reflect the steps used to build these official packages.) Cheers, Michael

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Filters Effects
by Michael Grosberg 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Please help me understand Filer effects! I'm trying to play with the filters but I must be missing something, they have explanations of what they do in the UI but when I try them most of them only turn the shape into a black / white/ transparent rectangle that looks like a bug. The only ones I got to work are blur and color matrix. Are they supposed to work? do they only work for certain type of object? Also, I don't understand something in the UI. In the filters dialog there's this complicated looking effect/connections table which I can't seem to do anything with. Is there an explanation somewhere on how to work with all this?

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Inkscape Showcase
by Claus Cyrny 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi, if there's any demand for it, I could submit a few screenshots on how Inkscape can be useful for bitmap editing. One example: http://static.twoday.net/grafomatic01/images/before_after.jpg Greetings, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English) Blog: http://grafomatic01.twoday.net/ (basically in German) MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 (English)

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Wow it works
by Lawrence Housell 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi, I tried changing the pref to Graphite and opened Inkscape for the first time. It starts up with a dark grey screen, with what appears to be a halftone screen, upon typing the Inkscape app opens. When I close Inkscape the grey screen reappears which I have to force quit to return to the OS. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Larry H Florida Mac Pro 2.66 5GB 2TB HD Leopard Maxed out Mini PPC 10.4.11 Tiger 10.4 FCP HD Express Shake 4.01 Inkscape

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.46 description invalid
by Benjamin Huot 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

the following is *not* true for the Mac version "The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents."

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