April 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

0.46 on MacOS.X(Leopard) in Japanese
by unknown＠example.com 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

I'm using Inkscape 0.46 on Leopard in Japanese. But, original dmg package shows English in UI. And User fonts wasn't shown in fonts list. So, I modified following 2 files for Japanese. /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/fonts.conf file named "inkscape" had change as following. 1. Comment out form 60 to 62 by using '#'. 2. Add line 63 [export LANG="`defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleLocale`.UT F-8"] because, original command works as [export LANG=sjis.UTF-8] and gets no result . file named "fonts.conf" had change as following. 1. Add [<dir>~/Library/Fonts</dir>] in 'Font directory list' section. Then, Inkscape 0.46 works great! But, I'm not expert for this kind things. Please, let me know, if there are some other better way. Best regards. Shinobu Kimura

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0.46 autopackage
by Andriy Kopets 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Dear All, Just wondering whether anyone knows how is the autopackage for 0.46 doing? I actually tried to compile it, but there are so many libraries needed, I added like half of them, but its wicked tough to straighten it out. Some libraries it doesnt see. Anyways. The 0.45 autopackage was awesome. I am running ubuntu and both installation and removal were a breeze. Thank you for input, Andrew

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SVG Open conference, looking for a Inkscape presentation and course
by Andreas Neumann 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hello Inkscape Developers and Users, The SVG Open 2008 will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from August 26 to 29. We would appreciate if we could have one or more presentations and a course on Inkscape. We could also have a Inkscape presentation as a keynote at the conference. See http://www.svgopen.org/2008/index.php?section=participate_presenters for more information. We are also still looking for course instructors: courses will be 150 minutes in length, course instructors will receive a free conference pass. See http://www.svgopen.org/2008/index.php?section=participate_workshops for more information. Please contact me if you have questions and submit your paper abstracts and course proposals at http://www.svgopen.org/ Official Call for Papers: ------------------------- Call for Papers, SVG Open 2008 http://www.svgopen.org/ The 6th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take place from August 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Southern Germany. At this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, a technical exhibition, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group. The SVG Open 2008 organizing committee is looking for contributors presenting a paper or teaching a course. Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by April 18, 2008. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before May 15, 2008. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 1, 2008, according to instructions that will be sent to you. Accepted abstracts, papers and presentations will be published on the conference hand-outs and web proceedings. Paper Abstracts can be submitted at http://www.svgopen.org/ until April 18. Following is a list of potential presentation topics: * Mobile (handheld, in-car) Solutions * SVG Authoring Tools * Publishing and Printing with SVG * SVG Text and Internationalization * Accessibility of SVG * Location-based Services * Business Cases and Case Studies * Workflow for Creating and Using SVG * SVG and Digital Television * Graphic Design with SVG * SVG for Webmapping and Online GIS/GML * SVG for Multimedia Presentations * Server-side SVG Generators and Manipulators * SVG Authoring Techniques * Making Graphics Acessible * Interactivity and Scripting * GUI Frameworks for Web Applications * File Format Conversion * Case Studies Course Instructors are asked to submit a course outline by April 18, 2008. The outlines are reviewed by a reviewing committee and instructors will be informed about acceptance on or before April 29, 2008. Accepted course instructors will receive a free conference pass and may participate at the come together event for free. Accepted course outlines will be published as course descriptions in the program. Therefore they should be directed at those who might register for the course rather than the reviewers. Courses are 150 minutes in length, scheduled for the morning and afternoon of August 29, 2008. We are interested in proposals for both beginner courses and advanced courses, to cater to the diverse interests of all conference attendees. Here is a list of topics of potential interest for courses. Feel free to either volunteer for one of these or propose your own topic. * Introduction to SVG * SVG Authoring Techniques * Creating Mobile SVG content * UI Design * Using SVG Tools * CSS * XSLT * SMIL Animation * ECMAScript and the DOM * Graphic Design * SVG Filter Effects * Rendering Algorithms * Generating SVG from Database Content Thank you for considering a paper or course abstract submission. Hope to see many of you in Nuremberg! The SVG Open 2008 organizing committee. ------------ Thanks, Andreas -- -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6 CH-8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) Switzerland Phone: ++41-44-2736668 Email: a.neumann@...2251... Web: http://www.carto.net/neumann/ SVG Examples: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/

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Windows: printing using the command line
by Hauke Kruppa 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi, I tried everything to print a svg using the command line in windows. I am getting nowhere. I use inkscapec.exe to get the output/error message, but it doesn't help. "lpr" not recognized, no way to get it done. All I tried failed. Is it possible? And if yes, how? What is the correct syntax? According to http://inkscape.modevia.com/inkscape-man.html#examples The Syntax is: inkscape filename.svg -p '| lpr' I am getting: C:\Programme\Inkscape>inkscapec d:\example.svg -p '| lpr' Der Befehl "lpr'" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. Meaning that lpr is not recognized. So I tried the printer name (with and without quotes): C:\Programme\Inkscape>inkscapec d:\example.svg -p '| "Brother MFC-9420CN BR-Script3"' Der Befehl ""Brother MFC-9420CN BR-Script3"'" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. Meaning it believes that the printer name was a command. I tied it without the '' and without the pipe, I specified printer, rpr, I tried everything I can think of. Is it possible to do it? After 12 hrs of searching and trying using both inkscape and inkscapec, I need your help. As the files are to be created under windows, the batch that prints should work under windows also, so setting up a linux vm is not an option. Thank you for your help. Hauke

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Change stroke color with a simple click
by Lorenz Köhl 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

I wonder if it is possible to change the behavior of the color palette as to change the stroke color (as opposed to the fill color) with a simple click. I mainly write text+outlines, using the freehand tool and a wacom tablet and occasionally have to switch colors. It's inconvienent to reach for the keyboard and press SHIFT+Color click to do this, especially because my wacom's extra keys are bound to more important stuff than shift. I hope this isn't a FAQ, but I didn't find it in there. And, if it's possible by editing some source code I'm willing to do so, but need a pointer. Greetings, Lorenz Köhl

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Select + move
by Fabrice Triboix 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hi, Inkscape is really a great piece of software. There's a "feature" that is quite irritating though. When I select an object, if it happens that there are other objects above or below, if I click & drag to move the selected object, then sometimes another object is selected and dragged (and sometimes not)... That's really annoying... Is there a way to force inkscape to understand that the object I want to move is the object that is currently selected and not anything else? Thanks a lot for any help! Fabrice

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0.46 feedback: Blur and performance
by Joshua Boyd 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

I really like a lot of the changes I see in 0.46, like dialogs opening to the right instead of floating. And is the layers dialog new? If not I must have over looked it. I definitely like the new tweak brush. But here is something that is really bugging me. In part I just made a stupid mistake, but also this is a really stupid behavior in inkscape. I spent the last hour working on a drawing (and here is the really stupid part for me) without saving. Then I turned up the blur a little. Well, I meant to turn it up a little. But I twitched, and apparently turned it up a lot. And now I see three things I would really like. First, inkscape is pegging one of my CPUs (core 2 duo, 2 gigs of ram). And it has been pegging this CPU for more then 10 minutes now. Meanwhile, the display isn't updating at all. Not just the canvas, but the dialogs, the drawing tools, the menus, none of them are redrawing. Third, there doesn't seem to be anyway to cancel the operation without quitting (which I obviously don't want to do because I stupidly didn't save). Actually, in another instance of inkscape, I see that the blur slider only goes to a hundred, and at 100 it is perfectly snappy with two strokes. The drawing that is pegging the machine only has a few dozen strokes, so it seems that complexity here is rather non-linear. So, here are somethings I think should be added: First, perhaps it would be possible for Inkscape to auto-save to /tmp or someplace when the user hasn't explicitely saved anywhere yet. Second, perhaps there should be some bound for render time. Third, the rest of the GUI should at least redraw, even if the canvas doesn't, and it should at least respond to some commands. Undo or save would be commands I might consider trying to execute during a long render. Fourth, would it be possible to thread this? Perhaps one thread for the GUI and one for rendering as a starting point? It would be great to thread rendering, but I can see how that wouldn't be so straight forward. Fifth, is there any chance of using something to accelerate certain drawing operations, like blurs? Possibly with C code (which could then have a generic version and compile time select between that or a SSE version or an Altivec version)? Or something like Pyscho, pyrex, or pypy? Sixth, this is probably more of a personal taste request, but perhaps the blur slider could be logarithmic? Creatively, the difference between 60 and 62 is pretty small, but the differences at the low end are big.

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dashed line type printing problem
by Fred McDavid 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hi, Anyone know what I'm running into here and, ideally, what a good workaround might be (that lets me use vector printing to pdf)? I make a new document, draw a zig-zag with the line tool, set the line type to dashed and turn the thickness up a bit, then I draw a shaded circle, and, although it looks fine on the screen, the segments of the zig-zag line have "grown" in the print preview (or even when I actually print...which is how I found it) such that a "V" shape becomes a backward "Y" where the left line of the "V" extends to the lower page bound and the right line of the "V" extends to the top page bound. If I delete the circle or switch from vector to raster on the rendering tab of the print dialog, the printing issue goes away. This is with 0.46 on ubuntu gutsy. Regards, Fred -- ========================================================== Fred R. McDavid, III 540-248-2419 frm@...2479... ==========================================================

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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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0.46 for linux
by Sridhar M.A. 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

I would like to congratulate the developers for putting out a wonderful program. I have been using inkscape pre-releases downloaded from http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?M=D. Presently I am using the inkscape20080328rev18054AOCV.package. After the release, I checked out the above site for the autopackage as well as http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438, but could not find a pre-built version for linux. We find versions for MAC and Windows, but not for linux. I know, we can wait for the distros to release the program, but I have not found that in debian sid till date. Is there a place from where I can get the inkscape 0.46 for debian sid/lenny? Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 Quack! Quack!! Quack!!

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