August 2008 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Slicing and selecting
by Donn 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi, Found myself trying to slice-up a page and realised that I can't select the rects that are 'invisible'. I make them alpha 0% so they won't show, but then I can't select them. I followed HeathenX's tut on youtube, doing everything the same way, but he selects the hidden rects click-click no problem, I can't do that on my end. Is there some trick to this? \d

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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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state of SMIL? + SVG animation workaround suggestion
by Patrick 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

I have been trying to learn more about SMIL recently. The concept sounds great but I am very concerned about the progress of this technology. Some of the SMIL links on the W3C site are dead and many of them are from the late 90'S. Is SMIL just about dead? On a more positive note, I had an idea that I hope will be helpful. Regardless of what technology we use to generate an animated SVG, the animation is unlikely to be available to the masses with IE sucking as it does. I really am not qualified to offer tips to anyone here but on the off chance that no one has thought of it, perhaps we could generate an SVG animation locally, use a screencasting application and then save it as whatever-common-video-format. With a browser identification we could then load the animated SVG to the browser that supports it and the whatever-common-video-format to the others. -Patrick

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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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trouble selecting text
by Julie 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hello, I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting existing text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick, but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a new separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the manual or tutorials. Any advice? Julie

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Minimum Hardware requirements to make inkscape useful.
by Aaron Elmquist 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Here's my system. Windows XP Celeron 2.40 GHz 640 MB of RAM I'm running inkscape and it seems to render smoothly until I get in the neighborhood of 300 nodes. Then things start grinding to a halt. I'm looking at upgrading my system which is now 5 years old. Any suggestions on what configuration I would need to make using inkscape enjoyable? It would be really great if I could handle 1000+ nodes without too much hassle. Any tips to increase render speed, ie working in outline mode, locking layers, using clones, keeping groups of nodes small, etc. Thanks! -- I'm not a communist. I can have a potato chip. --Ben Stein

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Snap to grid when pasting
by Diederik van Lierop 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Rock Star wrote: > >> Given an object with lots of nodes, which node should snap to the grid? > > The one which is the closest to the mouse pointer. At least this is > what I would expect. Or that this can be turned ON/OFF somewhere. > Because right now it is really hard to use snapping with the paths > that have many nodes close to each other. True, and that's why this is also on my TODO list. But I don't think this will be very useful specifically when pasting, or is it? Diederik

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