March 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

CNET uses Inkscape for NCAA tournament brackets
by Bryce Harrington 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

"Inkscape is an easy program to use; the only big problem I encountered involved aligning copied brackets." "Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, which means that images and objects can scale easily, so team names and brackets can be resized as you like. The SVG file is included in a downloadable ZIP file on the template product page. Inkscape also exports PDF files, so I created a printable version of the bracket if you want a down-and-dirty printout for brainstorming upset picks or tracking winners. The PDF file is also included in the downloadable ZIP." http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9897368-12.html

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Hi-res pdf printing problem ?
by Nicolai 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, I don't know if I need to make a pdf document with 1200dpi, but I've got a problem working with Inkscape 0.45.1 (march 2007) and some virtual pdf printers (PdfCreator, Bullzip, pdf995 and primopdf). I made a work (a cover for a price-book, greather then the A3 page format) with a gradient in background, images used as pattern (in circle shapes), text as curves, a lettering and it's blurred copy. (here a low-res : http://i26.tinypic.com/b3wpeb.jpg) Planning for a plotter output printing I made a page with 3 copies of work and sent the file to the service. Usually I send a pdf file made with PdfCreator, with the default 600 dpi resolution. All right the pdf printer made the usual good job, except for a little noise on the blur effect and on the gradient, a little bit pixelized (concentric shapes) but not so evident. The problem went trying to do a 1200Dpi pdf output and a B1 format page. I think that with a 1200 Dpi pdf I can obtain a better gredient, instead I had got a lot of problems and errors with the 1200Dpi resolution. 1) 25 min. spooling with a 6Gb file 2) a Pdf with two blank pages: fist portrait and second landscape, with the message text : ERROR: rangecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: string STACK: 100200 /mystring 24 64 33400 3) Sometimes, after spooling, there is no output in file, printing task simply disappears :-) I tried with different pdf printers too and with different page formats and with simplified objects, but with large documents it's always the same result. Of course I tried too with other graphic programs (an old copy of corel draw ver. 9, and of freehand ver. 10) with the same elements (gradients and so on) and b1 page but without any problem. At the end, I exported the work in a png file at 1200Dpi. 5 hours of computing but really a wonderful 130 Mb picture (47244 X 33402 pixel), with a perfect gradient and a perfect blur. In your opinion can I send it to the service ? Ross (Windows Xp Sp2, Pentium P4-3Ghz, 1Gb Ram)

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HP-GL
by Markus Bergholz 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi Whats about supporting cutting machines in Inkscape? Most understand the HP-GL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPGL Whats about include this in inkscape? Greetings Markus Bergholz

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Case of Success - Graphical in Brazil
by ValessioBrito 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Case of Success! http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=mzhaz2ghzyn&thumb=6 Inkscape this being used for many " graphical populares" here in Brazil. Production of Adhesives, posters and other printed matters offset. Thanks to Software Livre and Inkscape, now people are if joining and being able to open its company without paying nonsense for the software of design. An user who sent its story for list of the community Inkscape Brazil with link for the photo and excellent commentaries on the Inkscape. http://listas.softwarelivre.org/pipermail/inkscape-brasil/2008-March/002022… -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Updated Filter Effects chapter for 0.46
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi, The draft Filter Effects chapter for my book has been updated to match the 0.46 released. You can take a look at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters_0.46.html You can compare the figures against the rendering of your favorite browser by going to: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/images/FILTERS/index.xml Tav

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adding nodes segments intersection point
by Khaldoon Sinjab 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

i have two crossed segments. i need to add a node to each segments at the intersection point. then delete each half of the two segments to make a corner. is there a way to add these nodes exactly at the intersection point automatically? this is how to do that in Illustrator http://www.typophile.com/node/29981 can this be done in inkscape?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Using Inkscape to prepare presentations
by Valerie 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

That's amazing! Great work! Animation is on the list of Inkscape to-do's, and you seem to have already come up with the start of a solution! It's not full animation yet, but frame-by-frame transitions in anything other than a .gif (or flash format) is thoroughly missing, so this is very welcome. Instead of navigating with the directional keys, is it possible to make the flipping through the frames by clicking? (though it wouldn't allow moving back). Clicking is more convenient when including the picture within a webpage though. With a "click to start", you not only have the means to a presentation slide, but the start of the means to basic animation. > Dear all: > > I have used Inkscape for a while now, and the more I use it, the more > I like it. Congratulations to the whole community and thanks a lot > for your work! Among other things, I use Inkscape to edit > illustrations for my presentations. One thing that I don't like about > the process, is that I create the images, then export them to PDF and > afterwards import them into Keynote. It's not very convenient and > that got me thinking about a way to improve the process. > > After looking at different approaches for web slide shows (based on > HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript in various combinations), I plugged > together a small JavaScript programme that turns an Inkscape image > into a slide show. Every layer of the image becomes one slide. The > beauty of the approach is that the set-up and the definition of the > transitions can be done from within Inkscape and everything is > contained in the SVG image file. To view the presentation the SVG > image can be loaded into any browser with JavaScript and SVG support. > So far, I tested it successfully in Firefox and Safari on OSX and in > Firefox on WindowsXP. > > There is lots more that could still be done to improve the code and > to integrate it better with Inkscape, but I wanted to see what people > think about it before I continue to work on improvements. You can > download the image (presentation) from the link below. I hope you'll > have fun playing around with it. Feedback and pointers to other > approaches for solving the same problem are always appreciated. > > http://hochreiner.net/projects/jessy/jessy.svg > > The image above uses the DejaVu fonts. If you don't have them on your > system, other fonts will be used and the results will look slightly > different. > > Cheers, > Hannes ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Input needed for snapping related matter
by Diederik van Lierop 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

Hi All, If you care about snapping, then please have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174046 We could use some input here because we're about to make some design choices affecting the usability. To understand the discussion you only have to read the messages from March onwards. Thanks, Diederik -------- Original Message -------- On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...2312...> wrote: > Bulia, another consideration: suppose a user is again using visual > bboxes in the selector tool, and that has created a path of which the > nodes are snapped and aligned to a grid. Next, when translating the > path's nodes will snap to the grid again. But when he tries to scale it, > the nodes won't snap. We cannot expect that any user would immediately > realize that he needs to switch to geometrical bboxes, or can we? So the question is, do people really need node snapping when scaling. I'm really not sure of that. Even with ellipse center - scaling an ellipse to snap its center is imho a very contorted way to act, I would assume most people would first move it to snap the center and then scale it around the center, which is much more natural. So I would vote for disabling node snapping for scaling, perhaps adding a checkbox to snapping option s, under Snap ndodes, "Snap nodes even when scaling in Selector" if people want to override that at the expense of not keeping the origin (as should be explained in the tooltip). However, I'm not a heavy user of snapping, so perhaps we need more input before committing to this. -- Rectangles do not snap accurately to grid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174046 You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.

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Announcement: Inkscape Website Redesign Contest
by Josh Andler 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce a contest to redesign our website! The contest begins today and the deadline for Phase 1 is April 10th, 2008... Phase 1? Yes, you read that right. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being held on DeviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com/ ). You can find out more about it (and the even more community collaborative approach we're taking) at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/17274523/ We looking forward to seeing what people will come up with! As always... Good Luck! Have fun! Draw Freely. Cheers, Josh (aka ScislaC)

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Inkscape 0.46pre3
by Ted Gould 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hello Inkscapers, We've put out another pre-release of Inkscape. As we're getting very close to releasing 0.46 on platforms other than Windows testing is critical. On Windows, there are some release blocking bugs that could use developer attention. If you're a Windows developer please come help. If not, but you know one, time to buy him/her their favorite pizza and beer then tie them to a chair :) [1] --- All bugs should be submitted to --- http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ --- Release --- https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… --- MD5Sums --- 0daed93fbf24da295499d844b54be621 inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.tar.bz2 d486eb8b02641b90cb7750afd8477efc inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.tar.bz2.sig 39a5d9451120cf953a811d6dde92adfe inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.tar.gz 635ed77f488d2bf18b2c2be19cf900bc inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.tar.gz.sig 427584d96ef0f07d5b78c74e96414a6b inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.zip 190ca9ee4f96e180ce851bcb7bdd99f1 inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3.zip.sig Thank you everyone for continuing to use and help out with Inkscape. --Ted [1] Neither Ted nor the Inkscape project encourage violence towards Windows developers. They're all future Linux developers ;)

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