March 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Making a poster with Inkscape
by Cedric Sagne 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Depending on the structure of the poster, in particular amount of text, use of external images, Scribus may be better suited but Inkscape could be your best tool for design of individual elements, while GIMP may also join the fray for some specific tasks. From a study of your project in the marketing design phase (what the poster will look like), you will be able to think up the best workflow, and which tools will design which part of the final output. Cedric

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Making a poster with Inkscape
by Zubin 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hello everyone, This question would and should fall under the "very general" category: I have been using Inkscape for a while - but only to make small and simple graphics (I am a PhD student and I need to create figures every now and then). I now am faced with the daunting task of creating a poster. I have never done this before. Does anyone have any tips on how to make a powerful, yet beautiful and simple poster using Inkscape? In particular, if you have made a poster using Inkscape before, could you share your experiences with me? Any input would be helpful given that I know nothing about graphic design. I apologise in advance to those of you to whom this email doesn't apply. Thanks!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Hi-res pdf printing problem ?
by Nicolai 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

----- Original Message ----- From: rygle <pittos@...2434...> > > Hi Nicolai, > > If you want to have a quicker export to PNG, then you might want to try the > 0.46pre3 build on the download page. It is much quicker. Unfortunately this > won't help you at present with PDFs, as it doesn't implement blurs in PDF > export at present. Ok, I'll try > I just did a quick try on 0.45.1 with PDF creator and got an OK result with > blurs. I think you would have to use a high dpi and turn off or limit any > image compression once it gets to the main dialogue for PDF creator. I think > those things are under options, but you also need to do a high dpi from the > first print dialogue when you first select PDF Creator (click on Advanced > and set the dpi high there too). the only feature referred to pictures resolution I've found is in options but isn't a limitations. It says only the jpg resolution. Anyway I setted this to 1200 instead of 150 dpi but I had the same postscript error message : ERROR: rangecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: string STACK: 141750 /mystring 24 64 47250 any other idea ? R.

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Announcement: dxf2svg extension
by Simon Mieth 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi all, I want to announce a dxf2svg extension as part of the Kabeja (http://sf.net/projects/kabeja) project. The project itself is target as standalone Java application/ library for parsing, processing and converting DXF. But it could be also used as dxf2svg tool. The Inkscape extension can be build as pure Java extension (needs a running Java runtime environment), native compiled extension (using gcj) or as .NET extension (needs .NET runtime environment on Windows or Mono on Linux/Unix and IKVM). Kabeja supports most of the 2D part of DXF now, but ignores at the moment the 3D part. The out-of-box running .NET extension is available as separate extension package (includes all necessary libraries): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kabeja/kabeja-inkscape-extension-0.4.zip * copy all files from the zip archive into the extension folder The Java extension is include in default binary distribution: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kabeja/kabeja-0.4.zip * copy all files from the inkscape-extension folder into your extension folder For building native extensions you will find some hints here: http://kabeja.sourceforge.net/docs/projects/inkscape.html The extensions works fine with Inkscape 0.45.1, but is broken on the Windows-Inkscape 0.46 builds: With the binary distribution you can convert DXF to SVG outside of Inkscape and just open the SVG then. At least I want to say thanks for your fine application Inkscape. Best Regards, Simon

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/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 error.
by John Culleton 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

I have Inkscape working on one Slack 12 partition and not on another. Here is the message: inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1: undefined symbol: g_regex_error_quark Both partitions have the same versions of /usr/lib/libglibmm* I ran ldconfig. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Hi-res pdf printing problem
by Guillermo Espertino 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

> In your opinion can I send it to the service ? > > Ross > (Windows Xp Sp2, Pentium P4-3Ghz, 1Gb Ram) > 1200 dpi is far too much resolution for a plotter print, imo. If you consider that 300 dpi is enough for the images that you see in offset printed magazines, you'll find that you're working in too high resolution. You can even low the resolution more if the viewer distance will be more than a meter. Usually, a 200 dpi print is more than enough for a sign that will be viewed at 2 meters. If you view the artwork at more distance you can use 150, 100, even 75 dpi. I'd recommend you to just try to print in your inkjet printer a part of the file using, for instance, 300 dpi and watch the print out at the distance that you'll watch the real stuff. If the detail is enough, then you don't need to raise the resolution that much. Usually the resolution of printers/plotters express how fine are the ink drops that the machine can achieve, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you need to create a file in that resolution. Of course I'm talking about images (bitmap images, complex artwork with effects, transparency, blending, etc.) If you need to print small text the resolution counts, although is recommended to keep small text as vectors, to prevent aliasing related artifacts. The printer will use its best resolution for vectorial data. But even in that situation, if you have to print rasterized text, more than 600 dpi is quite excessive. hth, Gez.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Saving .SVG Files As PDFs
by Guillermo Espertino 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

>> Please let me knonw, ASAP, as I need to need someone 3 PDFs soon. >> > You may get better results of you play with ps or eps from Inkscape and then > use Scribus (if you are on Gnu/Linux) to open and save to PDF. Or, if the artwork is too complex with lots of gradients, blurs and mask/clipping paths, export a high resolution PNG (300 dpi or more), then open it in Gimp and use the Separate+ plugin for creating a CMYK Tiff file, then create the PDF using Scribus importing that tiff. I send my files to the print shop regularly using that method and the results are very good. You can always use a mixed method: rasterize and separate the part that has effects, and save the pure vectors in other file, then put them together using Scribus (additionally you can assign CMYK values and spot colors to imported SVG elements, wich is useful if you need pure black or grays on the K channel only, or spot colors like Pantone inks). Of couse these methods will require some planning and work of your part, and they aren't precisely straight-forward. Unfortunately there isn't a better solution for complex artwork with effects (yet). It would be nice that print shops accept SVG files but it's not very likely to happen. You can always send a RGB PNG file to the print shop, but it's not a good idea in most of the cases. It depends on how good/new is the print shop equipment and how much the guy that makes the pre-press work knows. A new CtP wouldn't have too much problems managing RGB files. In my country is always a bad idea to send RGB files because they use old technology and pre-press operators aren't too qualified. hth, Gez.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Saving .SVG Files As PDFs
by Guillermo Espertino 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

>> Please let me knonw, ASAP, as I need to need someone 3 PDFs soon. >> > You may get better results of you play with ps or eps from Inkscape and then > use Scribus (if you are on Gnu/Linux) to open and save to PDF. Or, if the artwork is too complex with lots of gradients, blurs and mask/clipping paths, export a high resolution PNG (300 dpi or more), then open it in Gimp and use the Separate+ plugin for creating a CMYK Tiff file and create the PDF using Scribus. I send my files to the print shop regularly using that method and the results are very good. You can always use a mixed method: rasterize and separate the part that has effects, and save the pure vectors in other file, then put them together using Scribus (additionally you can assign CMYK values and spot colors to imported SVG elements, wich is useful if you need pure black or grays on the K channel only, or spot colors like Pantone inks). Of couse these methods will require some planning and work of your part, and they aren't precisely straight-forward. Unfortunately there isn't a better solution for complex artwork with effects (yet). It would be nice that print shops accept SVG files but it's not very likely to happen. You can always send a RGB PNG file to the print shop, but it's not a good idea in most of the cases. It depends on how good/new is the print shop equipment and how much the guy that makes the pre-press work knows. A new CtP wouldn't have too much problems managing RGB files. In my country is always a bad idea to send RGB files because they use old technology and pre-press operators aren't too qualified. hth, Gez.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Saving .SVG Files As PDFs
by kralec1＠...660... 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Dear SourceForge, Having created 3 .SVG files in InkScape and saved them as PDF Output files, I've opened the PDFs in InkScape and they appear and display just fine. However, when opening those same PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader 8, I see that the graphics I created now show I disjointed and out of position. How is this so? What happened on my saving each file as PDF Output to cause those effects? How will this situation be resolved so that all my vector graphics all display in Acrobat EXACTLY as I had designed? Please let me knonw, ASAP, as I need to need someone 3 PDFs soon. Regards, Dean Clarke

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Please consider this idea, screen shot plus small demo
by Anthony Walter 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Here is a feature I think would make inkscape MUCH more streamlined, eliminating a LOT of wasted screen real estate (especially in the fill/stroke screen). This is a diagram of my request: http://codebot.org/popslide.jpg Also, a demo of the concept for windows is available here: http://codebot.org/popslide.zip

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