Export EPS with transparent background
by Jeff Kowalczyk
Using Inkscape trunk: I have a logo I maintain in a master SVG file
with document properties backgrount white #FFFFFFFF. For a transparent
copy, I manually save with the document-properties background transparent
#FFFFFF00.
For the transparent version, PNG export works fine, but Encapsulated
Poststscript EPS always renders a white background when pasted into
OpenOffice-2.3.
OpenOffice-2.3 does not seem to support SVG 'insert Picture'. How do I
create an OpenOffice-compatible vector format with transparency?
Thanks.
14 years, 11 months
Startup problem in OS X
by James Smith
Hi,
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).
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.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can fix this?
Thanks!
James
14 years, 11 months
Drawing streets
by Claus Cyrny
Hi,
I'm currently drawing a map, and I'm stuck with on how to
draw the streets properly. The streets should consist of
parallel lines with a defined fill color and a somewhat darker
stroke color. I already read what Tavmjong wrote in his book:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Be...
Basically, I understand the approach and got it to work drawing
one comparatively simple stroke, but how do I get the lines
being exactly parallel and smooth? I only manage to get it right
with a lot of tweaking, but this way too time-consuming when I
want to draw an entire map. Can anybody help?
TIA,
Claus
14 years, 11 months
gimpgallery 0.8 ...now's the time
by davide|inkscapegallery
I'm proud to present the last gimpgallery release, 0.8.
You find it at http://test.gimpgallery.net
As you may already know gimpgallery is a project of a gimp website
especially meant to host and show images and to share xcf sources too.
It is the first attempt to create a community of gimp artists, giving
them a suitable space for their works, projects and ideas.
Gimpgallery is made with drupal, the well known opensource cms and we
started developing it from inkscapegallery (http://inkscapegallery.net).
It was already a good social network software, with most of the features
you're getting used to but we worked a lot to make it even better.
This new release presents many improvements since the last announce and
a better cross browsing. We're supporting firefox 2, opera 9x, ie7 and
ie6 (there are a couple of disclaimer for ie users). There's an issue
with konqueror, instead, due to a javascript not supporting it.
We fixed a lot of issues with internet explorer, as you may see on the
"random gallery" at http://test.gimpgallery.net/slideshow
If you're a gimp user try it out, every gimp artist now has its own
profile, gallery and slideshow
We made a new home page (http://test.gimpgallery/home) and we are
trying to make things work like we wish to.
gimpgallery is an image gallery website, it doesn't produce news or
tutorials, so we took some rss feeds from the best internet resources
about gimp and we placed in the home page, giving infos and links.
Indeed, we're trying to build a network of gimp websites, everyone with
its own attitude, so we will link gimptutorials.net for didactics,
gimp.org and gimpusers.com for the news and we would like them to link
us when a user will look for images.
In the home page you see an arrangement for a new feature, an
interview with a gimp artist that we might change every week or
something like that, it is called "a few words with..."
There's a fully customized submission and registration skin, that is
quite new in the drupal world. We must test it so we hope you to help us
registering and posting many contents. We have the forum where to inform
us about bugs or software's bad behaviors .
I don't want to annoy you with a long description (even because there
would be too much to say :-) i just ask you to spend ten minutes of
your time to browse it and i ask you to do this deeply, because there's
a lot to see.
Don't mind the images actually, 'cause we have only a few images really
coming from gimp artists, some others come from inkscapegallery and they
stand only for test.
I hope you to like it as it is, but we still have the chance to make
some changes it the layout, we focused on features actually and we hope
them to really meet the requirements.
As soon as we have enough images we will bring it online at its own
address: http://gimpgallery.net and i think it will be funny :-)
Greetings,
Da.
http://test.gimpgallery.net
http://inkscapegallery.net
14 years, 11 months
SVG opening problem
by Máté Salát
Hello,
I use Inkscape Apr 1 2008 on Windows XP. I also use the program Geogebra, and I want to export my works to SVG and then edit them in Inkscape. But any exported SVG file I get can not be opened by Inkscape, it says "Failed to load the requested file". But on the other hand my Firefox displays them well. A simple example file can be found at http://zaradek.hu/SVG/2.svg.
Thanks, Máté
14 years, 12 months
Inkscape guide updated for v0.46 (Draft)
by Tavmjong Bah
Hi,
A draft of the 0.46 update for my guide can be found at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14Draft/html/
The update covers all the new Inkscape features including Filters, Live
Path Effects (LPE), and the new 3D-Box, Tweak, and Bucket tools.
The updated guide will be available in PDF as soon as the technical and
editing reviews are finished. Please let me know if you find any
inaccuracies!
Enjoy,
Tav
14 years, 12 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape guide updated for v0.46 (Draft)
by Quentin Hartman
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...10...> wrote:
> That sounds like a really cool project. Have you written it up
> anywhere? I'd love to know more about it.
Well, there's not a whole lot to tell. A teacher at the school came to
me (I was the technology coordinator for the district at the time) and
she said that the kids wanted to have a yearbook class like the one
present at the standard high school. Of course there was no funding
for it. I set them up with Inkscape (running both on Windows on the
few standard PC's they had and the Linux thin clients that drove the
primary computer lab) and Tav's book, gave them a couple into
lessons, and off they went. A semester later they published a
yearbook, I believe the first one the alternative HS had ever done. It
was small, maybe 20 pages. In my opinion though it looked just as
good, if not better than, the one turned out by the students at the
standard HS, without all the templates and support provided by the
yearbook publisher! All because of Inkscape and Tav's book.
--
-Regards-
-Quentin Hartman-
14 years, 12 months
newbie question
by Stéphane ANCELOT
Hi,
I am able to make some nice drawing.Great!
I have 2 grouped objects I want to superpose, but without the transparence.
I want to overlap it (like a normal ms paint program would) . However I
tried using paths ... with these grouped objects and do not manage to do it.
What is the way to accomplish this ?
Best Regards
Steph
14 years, 12 months
Imported PNG file, appears blurred
by Panos Laganakos
All of a sudden, images I import in PNG/JPEG, appear really blurry. I
can't seem to figure out why
Any ideas?
--
Panos Laganakos
14 years, 12 months
Eraser "Polar bear in a snowstorm" fixed
by Jon A. Cruz
Just a quick FYI...
I fixed the "polar bear in a snowstorm" problem with the eraser tool,
in which it was always using the last style used and would be hard to
see.
The preferences are now in the UI, and the defaults should be set up
nicer.
14 years, 12 months
