inkscape shortcuts on non-qwerty keyboard
by unknown＠example.com
I searched the archives for some solution to my problem, but couldn't
find any, so if I overlooked it, please point me to the appropriate thread.
I'm using inkscape on KDE with a qwertz (german) keyboard layout.
Some shortcuts, like "#" to toggle the grid, don't work, as the
corresponding key differs from the US qwerty layout.
As the default.xml contains the right bindings (didn't change anything
there), I think it's gtk that doesn't get tha mapping right. Is there
some viable way to adapt the gtk settings to my keyboard layout?
Of course I could learn the US layout for the shortcuts or alter the
keybindings in the default.xml, but both workarounds seem to be a bit of
an overkill just to use the default shortcuts.
And I'm not quite fond of installing a whole Gnome just to have a
Control Center where I can change the keyboard layout.
thanks in advance
14 years, 11 months
Clipped bitmap --> closed path filled with patterh
by Hedley Finger
I have been producing a series of diagrams illustrating the effect of
the various rendering intents. I found an SVG of the CIE 1930
chromaticity diagram and dismantled it to provide a background for my
purposes.
The familiar (closed) horseshoe shape is clipped from a rectangular
bitmap of the radial colours of the visual spectrum: going around the
outside border anti-clockwise, the rays from the white point (centre) to
the border are R, Y, G, C, B, M and back to R (i.e. RGB and CMY
interleaved).
Trouble is this doesn't translate to PDF via the Cairo processor, or to
PS and PDF via Ghostscript. The clipping of the bitmap is lost and the
the border path just appears as an object on top of the full rectangular
bitmap. The text labels are aliased in a very ugly way when I try to
output to PNG.
So I thought to convert the bitmap to a pattern, then fill the horseshoe
path with the pattern. No joy. The bitmap turns into a slightly
smaller rectangular pattern that is divided into four unequal quadrants,
that is, it is tiled.
It looks nothing like the demonstration on page 190 (204 of 341) of
//Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program//. This shows a picture
of a 1920s couple getting into an early MG sports car, then the same
picture used as a fill in a circular object, then the pattern translated
to change the details included in the fill.
If that pic was mine, after changing to a pattern, the pattern would be
smaller than the pixmap, and part of the RH and Bottom sides of the
pixmap would appear as thin bands extending the LH and Top sides of the
pixmap, i.e. the couple and sports car cut up in a way where it would be
impossible to show the full graphic as a pattern fill in any object.
What I really wanted was the bitmap to turn into a single tile pattern,
i.e. a repetition of 1 both vertically and horizontally. Then I could
fill the horseshoe border with the radial colours. It didn't look
anything like the pattern on page 189 top.
So what should I have done?
Regards,
Hedley
Windows XP SP2; Inkscape 0.46; //Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing
Program//, Tavmjong Bah, ed. 0.13 (documenting Inkscape 0.45.1)
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14 years, 11 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] convert pdf to svg from command line
by Matei Stroila
Thanks a lot bulia! This is exactly what I was looking for.
Matei
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> wrote:
> Are there any command line options for the inkscape executable to convert PDF to SVG?
I just fixed it in SVN (rev 18892) so now this will work:
inkscape file.pdf --export-plain-svg=file.svg
It will take the first page of the PDF and all the default import
options. Before, it crashed because it tried to open the PDF import
preferences dialog and could not do it in the command line mode.
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14 years, 11 months
PDF open: problem with one musical font.
by marce
Hi! First post in this forum, but long time inkscape user now, even for basic
things.
I have a problem. Im printing from a musical score program to pdf. I want to
open that PDF in Inkscape (0.46, last version), but even the preview of the
document is fine in the import dialog, when Inkscape open it, the font is
not showed properly. The font is called "SToccata" and is in the
windows\fonts folder properly installed, but Inkscape dont show it in the
fonts menu. I tried the workaround of the faq for issues with fonts (even it
says that .46 solved the problem). Beyond that, the font is embedded in the
pdf.
Below are some pics to ilustrate what i say, and the PDF itself
http://stashbox.org/136375/Dia-de-la-bandera-Interludio-Violin-Piano-02.pdf
I tryed with other musical fonts installed in my system, and same issue.
Here is the preview Inkscape shows me when i will import the PDF, all is
fine with that preview:
[img]http://stashbox.org/136368/Inkscape-pdf-01.jpg[/img]
But when i press ok, i get this mumble-rumble:
http://stashbox.org/136370/Inkscape-pdf-02.jpg
Here is how is it supposed to be displayed:
http://stashbox.org/134579/Distribution2.jpg
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14 years, 11 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9
by James Smith
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the tip. Making the directory worked. Thanks!
-James
On 11-Jun-08, at 1:41 PM, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net
wrote:
> -----------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:55 +1000
> From: Michael Wybrow <michael.wybrow@...131...>
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Startup problem in OS X
> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID:
> <20737E93-E9C0-475A-9D62-AF5099B720A3@...131...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On 09/06/2008, at 11:01 PM, James Smith wrote:
>>
>> I've upgraded my computer and reinstalled Inkscape but it doesn't
>> seem
>> to run. I haven't installed the OS X developer kit, but X11 was
>> installed when I setup Matlab. I have installed the latest version
>> of
>> XQuartz (v2.1.4).
>
> FWIW, the latest is actually 2.2.1.
>
>
>> When I click on the Inkscape icon I get the "While Inkscape is open,
>> its windows can be displayed... The first time this version of
>> Inkscape is run it may take several minutes before the main window
>> is
>> displayed while font caches are built." After I click "OK" nothing
>> happens. I've waited, rebooted and started again and there has been
>> no display of the main window.
>
> If you are on Leopard and you see this font message each time you
> start Inkscape, then do the following:
> 1. Open Terminal.app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the
> following
>
> 2. mkdir ~/.fontconfig
>
> 3. Close Terminal, and restart Inkscape. It should work.
>
> If you don't see the font caches message anymore, but the Inkscape
> window never appears, can you please run Console.app, start Inkscape
> and then reply here with the relevant error messages output by
> Inkscape to the Console app.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
14 years, 11 months
Kern, baby kern
by Cole Henley
Hi
First greetings all - am new to the list but avid Inkscape (ab)user
and advocate for a few years now using it in most of my graphic and
web design work.
Had a question someone on list might be able to help me with.
I'm aware of kerning individual letters in Inkscape, but is there a
way of applying global kerning to a block of text (so that each letter
in the group undergoes the same amount of kerning?)
Diolch in advance,
Cole
PS posted this also on the Inkscape forums so apols for cross-posting
if you hang out there too
14 years, 11 months
Effects->Render->Latex
by Adrian Lupascu
Posted by Adrian Lupascu (adi) on 11.06.2008 10:33
Hi everybody,
I just installed Inkscape 0.46.
I would like to use the Latex utility (searching on the web, I believe
it should be in Effects->Render->Latex). I do not see any entry "Latex"
under "Render". I use Windows XP (French version).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Adi
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14 years, 11 months
calling bbox on every SVG element
by M dtm
Hey,
I'm trying to read in all the elements in an SVG file and call the
bbox method on each
shape. Is there a simple way to do this?
Thanks
--Marguerite
14 years, 11 months
Filter effects
by Brian Vanderburg II
Are there any examples on using filter effects that use Background
Color/Background Alpha/Fill Paint/Stroke Paint? I've tried to use these
in my filters but they don't seem to do what the SVG specs says they
should but maybe I'm just using them incorrectly.
Brian Vanderburg II
14 years, 11 months
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