June 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Export EPS with transparent background
by Jeff Kowalczyk 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

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.

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Startup problem in OS X
by James Smith 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

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

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Drawing streets
by Claus Cyrny 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

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-Bezi… 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

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gimpgallery 0.8 ...now's the time
by davide|inkscapegallery 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

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

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SVG opening problem
by Máté Salát 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

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

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Inkscape guide updated for v0.46 (Draft)
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape guide updated for v0.46 (Draft)
by Quentin Hartman 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

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-

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newbie question
by Stéphane ANCELOT 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

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

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Imported PNG file, appears blurred
by Panos Laganakos 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

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

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Eraser "Polar bear in a snowstorm" fixed
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

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.

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