May 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Problem with paper size...
by David Gittins 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, Having some trouble with printing from Inkscape. My document is A1, and it's set to A1 paper size in Inkscape. My guy with the A1 printer wants a pdf file. I can print to pdf using CutePDF. However, although the document is A1 according to Inkscape, and every printer setting I can find is set to A1 as well, the resulting pdf is an A4 page showing only the upper-left corner of the A1 document. Using CutePDF I printed from powerpoint to A0 with no trouble, and generated an A0 pdf. This leads me to think it's something to do with inkscape... so I don't understand why this is happening. Can anyone help? Dave

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for inkscape .. in my dreams
by Albert Cardona 24 May '08

24 May '08

Would be great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_oyUEOHK8 "As rigid as possible shape manipulation", even with multiple input devices to make cute and dead-simple animations. Yeah yeah day-dreaming. Something to look forward to. Albert -- Albert Cardona http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona

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Change the start marker of a line
by Máté Salát 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi, If I make a start marker to a segment in the Option > Fill and Stroke > Stroke style panel, I get an 'arrow' object. How can I modify the size of the start marker independently of the width of the segment? Thanks, Máté

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Using SVG and Javascript for in-browser animation and graphic controls
by Richard Querin 23 May '08

23 May '08

Perhaps not of specific interest to the majority of inkscape users, but I was listening to a recent podcast (Floss Weekly - http://www.twit.tv/floss29) and the interviewee described some experimental work ongoing with javascript and SVG support in the browser to do some neat things. The page is at: http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/ if anyone's interested in checking it out. Note that it will only work in the newer betas of FF3 and in Safari3 I think due to better native SVG support in those browsers.

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Hybrid Inkscape/Blender/Gimp creation
by Elwin Estle 23 May '08

23 May '08

Someone on the IndyMogul video production forum was after this particular effect for some video titles. Just for the heck of it, I wanted to see if I could create the effect using only open source software. I made the text in Inkscape, then dropped a rectangle in behind the text. Converted the text to a path and used the path to cut the text shape out of the rectangle. Saved the .svg. The .svg was then imported into Blender and extruded very slightly, the material was set to dead black. A haloed spotlight was then animated behind the text and aimed toward the camera. The resulting frames of animation were then imported into Gimp and made into an animated .gif file with GAP (Gimp Animation Package) Below is the result. 1 meg .gif file. http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4851/halotextvx4.gif

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Poster printed from inkscape
by Terry Brown 21 May '08

21 May '08

http://www.greygreen.org/tmp/dsc_8069.jpg is a not very good photograph of a poster I worked on recently that was printed by a commercial printer. It's 85x200 cm (33.5 x 78.7 inches). It was printed from a 50MB pdf sent to a commercial printer. The printing of the vector elements (text etc.) is sharp - that's not obvious in this snapshot. I used Inkscape 0.46 and a reasonably recent cairo. I had to manually convert blurs to bitmaps, and clipping didn't seem to work in cairo pdf output, so I had to actually crop the images or use PNG transparency (all Gimp work). These were relatively minor irritations, I assume cairo will get these things sorted eventually. The printer didn't report any issues with the PDF, the printout is exactly how it appeared in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Hardware wise it's a plastic material that rolls up into the silver base like a roller-blind. The pole that supports it from behind folds in three like a tent-pole and also stores in the base. I'd assume it's moisture resistant, but not good in windy areas. Working with the shadows made me think an extension which creates a layer of shadows for all the objects in the current layer would be nice. Cheers -Terry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] translate Attribute stored in SVG Graphic
by Diederik van Lierop 21 May '08

21 May '08

Op Do, 3 april, 2008 08:46, schreef Rottgardt, Jens (K-SIB-2/3): Hi Jens, That would indeed be possible, but we haven't implemented it like that (yet) for circles. Storing a separate transformation, like we do now, is needed for example when stretching or skewing the circle. How does your application store such a transformation? Storing a separate transformation, like Inkscape does, allows for any affine transformation (see wikipedia) to be applied to an object. Modifying the center position and radius, like your application does, only allows for translations and symmetrical scaling. That's why we prefer the former, although we could also have both methods (if only someone would take the time to write the code for that). Just out of curiosity: what application are you using? Diederik > Hi, > > I don't know if I understood your answer to my 2nd question right. But > when moving an object in Inkscape this move is nothing I want to store > into the objects properties at least I want to place the circle to a > special position. The problem is if I use the SVG graphic in my > application I want to move the circle from left to right from the position > where I have placed the circle in Inkscape. But what happens is that the > circle first is moved to the very first position where I have placed the > circle in Inkscape and then moved from that position. > > In Inkscape > > 1) place the circle to position 50,50 > > 2) move the circle to position 100, 100 (this move is stored in the > transform translate (why???) ) > > 3) save > > In my application > > 1) The circle is placed to position 100,100 > > 2) my appliction is moving the circle from left to right and the following > steps happens > a) the circle is placed back to position 50,50 > b) the circle is moved from left to right > > To avoid this I have manually to remove the transform translate attribute > in Inkscape and set the cx, cy attributes to the position I want to place > the circle. > > To keep it short and simple. I want to have the same behaivor for placing > a circle like for rectangles ! > > > __________________ > Jens Rottgardt > Buildmanagement > ITP Fahrzeugherstellung, K-SIB 2 > > Postadresse: > Volkswagen AG > Brieffach 1839 > 38436 Wolfsburg > > Besucheradresse: > Volkswagen AG > Hermann-Münch-Straße 1 (MobileLife Campus) > 38442 Wolfsburg > >>Telefon +49 -5361-896-3276 > Telefax +49 (0) 5361-896-3296 > mailto:jens.rottgardt@...2472... > <http://www.volkswagen.de> > >>VOLKSWAGEN AG >>Sitz/Domicile: Wolfsburg >>Registergericht/Court of Registry: Amtsgericht Braunschweig >>HRB Nr./. Commercial Register No.: 100484 >>Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: >> Ferdinand Piëch >>Vorstand/Board of Management: Martin Winterkorn (Vorsitzender/Chairman), >> Francisco J. Garcia Sanz, Jochem Heizmann, Horst Neumann, Hans Dieter >> Pötsch >> >>Wichtiger Hinweis: Die vorgenannten Angaben werden jeder E-Mail >> automatisch hinzugefügt und lassen keine Rückschlüsse auf den >> Rechtscharakter der E-Mail zu. >>Important Notice: The above information is automatically added to this >> e-mail. This addition does not constitute a representation that the >> content of this e-mail is legally relevant and/or is intended to be >> legally binding upon VOLKSWAGEN AG. >> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag von bulia > byak > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 20:33 > An: Inkscape User Community > Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-user] translate Attribute stored in SVG Graphic > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Rottgardt, Jens (K-SIB-2/3) > <jens.rottgardt@...2472...> wrote: >> 1. Why does Inkscape uses the path tag for circles instead of the >> existing >> circle tag? > > Because otherwise you wouldn't be able to put markers on it, or use > text on path with it, or use live path effects. > >> 2. When painting a circle in Inkscape and moving it the move is stored >> in >> the transform translate tag. Can anyone tell me why ? > > Because you cannot, in general, embed an arbitrary transform into the > circle's parameters (center and radii). Actually a move only could be > embedded into cx/cy, but since other transforms cannot, we didn't > special-case translation (although this is possible, and is done e.g. > for rectangles - so if you desperately need that, you can submit a > patch). > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. 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inter-file cloning?
by Adam Megacz 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to do something similar to the clone feature, but between files. I have several Inkscape files that all share a common "symbol" -- it's a pretty complex symbol, and I'd like changes I make to it to show up in all of the files. This is very similar to the problem that Edit->Clone solves, except that in my case it "spans" multiple files. Is there any way to accomplish this? Thanks! - a

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Problem with running program
by Faxitnow 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello, I recently installed Inkscape 0.46 and in trying to run the program for the 1st time, am getting this error message: -------- the libcairo-2.dll file is linked to missing export gdi32.dll:GetFontUnicodeRanges -------- Can anyone help? My PC is run under a Windows Millenium platform. Thank you.

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Changing the font of LaTeX rendered formulas
by Paul Smith 18 May '08

18 May '08

Dear All, Is it possible to change the font of LaTeX rendered formulas (Effect --> Render --> LaTeX formula)? Thanks in advance, Paul

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