July 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Script to slice inkscape (for web heads)
by m h 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all- I've written a script to slice from inkscape. Details/script can be found at my blog [0]. Comments/suggestions welcome. -matt 0 - http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm

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Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last night without much sucess. ~Aaron

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Call for help: Screenshots needed for 0.46
by bulia byak 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

As we're nearing the release, we need more screenshots to show off the new features in 0.46, to be published at http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en. Here's a page describing how to create good screenshots: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots. Use the information on that page and the best of the existing screenshots in our gallery as inspiration. At the very least, we need to illustrate: - 3D box tool - SVG filters - more live path effects (we only have one screenshot for path along path) - gradient tool's on-canvas mid stops - a (meaningful) illustration of the color management at work - new extensions - new grid and guide features - perhaps something with custom markers, along the lines of http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Gradients-To-Path-78650259 - any complex, stunning, impressive Inkscape art even if it does not use the new features :) See the release notes for a list of all new features: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 You can send your submissions to me for publishing on the site. Thanks in advance! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Problem with fonts in 0.46
by Ocetalo 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Saludos I've got this issue: in the pull down font menu, I can't pick any fonts. The fonts are highlighted, but they're not applied and the pull down menu is not closed, jus as if I've not clicked. Please help. -- Favor no cambiar el ASUNTO Please don't change SUBJECT

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Python binding documentation for effects
by Daniel Hornung 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Hello, afaics, python is the recommended language for writing one's own extensions and effects. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial gives a nice little overview, and http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonModules provides a little bit more information. My question is: Is there a more comprehensive documentation somewhere about the several modules, classes and their methods and attributes? Or at least a brief summary how to iterate over objects, layers, nodes, etc and how to modify them? Thanks, Daniel -- Psssst! Schon das coole Video vom GMX MultiMessenger gesehen? Der Eine für Alle: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/messenger03

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Snap to grid when pasting
by Vincent Hennebert 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi, Apologies if the issue is already known, but I haven't found anything by making a Google search. When I recently switched to Inkscape 0.46, I discovered that objects are no longer snapped to the grid when pasted from the clipboard. It used to work before and I was finding that quite handy. In the "Snap" tab of the Document Properties dialog box I ticked the "Enable snapping" and "Nodes" options. The release notes for 0.46 say that grids have undergone big changes. Did that behaviour get lost during the refactoring? Is that a new option that I missed? Many thanks for this wonderful software, Vincent

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inkscape and skencil ?
by Helmut Jarausch 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi, on my Gentoo system, the inkscape ebuild requires the existence of skencil in case of postscript support. Unfortunately, I cannot build skencil anymore after switching to Tcl/Tk-8.5.3 Does Inkscape (SVN) really need skencil for anything (like export to postscript)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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alt key on OS X
by Panos Laganakos 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

The alt key doesn't seem to be usable on XQuartz. I am trying to alt+click to select an object below a current one. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work, is there any way to overcome this? OS X: 10.5.4 X11: 2.3.0 Inkscape: 0.46 X11 Settings -> Input: Follow System Keyboard Layout: True Enable Key Equivalents Under X11: True -- Panos Laganakos

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Request: A Proper Layer/Object Tree
by Anthony Walter 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hey all, Is anyone working on something like this, or has it been considered before... Adding a visual tree control to Inkscape which displays the following: your layers, groups, and vector shapes ... with names, thumbnails, blending, and toggles object/group/layer locked/visible states, as well as drag groups (1,2,3,4,none ect). This tree control would also have a setting to define the thumbnail size, and would allow for two way object selecting (i.e. select the obejcts in the tree, and they are selected in the drawing/select them in the drawing and they show as bold selected in the tree). A mock up is here: http://imagebot.org/snapshots/CF9400B2FB51AFBA269FF9F7FA373CBC.jpg This would be useful in finding hidden/locked objects, or objects which are obscured below fully opaque objects, and also allow you to drag the object in to treee to relayer/regroup objects. I know Inkscape has an xml editor, but this idea is so much than that that. What do you guys think?

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need help installing software for reading .ps files
by Julie 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

I need to open a .ps file. I've installed pstoedit onto my computer. I see from the readme file that I also need to install ghostscript, but each time I try to do this a pop-up window appears telling me I need to install it using win-zip and that this will cost me money. I'm confused. Is ghostscript not open source as well, or am I just clicking on the wrong download? Thanks.

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