September 2008 - Inkscape Users

Tiled clone to create radial symmetry
by Dave M G 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Inkscape Users, I am relatively new to Inkscape, and I'm trying to learn how to use Inkscape's tiled clone feature. What I would like to do is take an upside down triangle that is tall and skinny, and rotate it around it's bottom point so as to create a radial pattern. Sort of like the rising sun flag of old Japan. So far I have figured out that I can set the number of columns to 15 and rotate them 22.5 degrees to get a total of 16 copies, including the original. That produces the right number of copies at the right angle. But, I can not get them positioned right. The settings of the "Shift" tab completely elude me. I thought if I experimented enough I would eventually figure out what they are doing and dial in on the right settings. No such luck. Each experimental setting scatters the triangles all over the screen in what might as well be random dispersals for all I can tell. How do I get each triangle to have it's bottom point stay at the centre of the radial pattern? Thank you for any advice. -- Dave M G

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Inkscape labrat
by Steren 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, I recently started a new blog featuring the latest Inkscape features currently in the development version. It's just for people who are curious to see what will be in the next release and who don't want to compile or try it by themselves using automatic builds. Check it here : http://inkscapelabrat.wordpress.com/ Of course, this blog is open, if you want to post on it, contact me. Steren

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ABLEConf this weekend in AZ (and a request for images)
by Josh Andler 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hey all, This Saturday, September 20, 2008 in Tempe, AZ (USA) the first ever ABLEConf will be taking place. I will be doing a presentation as well as Q&A session on Inkscape there (in addition to the many other speakers that will be there that day). If you are in AZ I'd recommend coming if possible. Additionally, if you are in AZ and not in the Metro Phoenix area, people from around the state are trying to arrange ride shares to reduce the cost for everyone making a trip. To find out more about the conference, the location, and the ride sharing go to http://www.ableconf.com/ Additionally, I was asked to put together a gallery of images created with FLOSS tools. So far I have mostly gathered illustration and some design work from some Inkscape users via deviantart, however a lot of people have not responded to messages (a lot of people don't log in as much as they used to). So... that leads to the following request: If you have any images created/edited/composited with any FLOSS tools such as Inkscape, The GIMP, Krita, Karbon14, Blender, Scribus, or your other favorite open source apps please get in contact with me directly. We'd love to display your work and credit you appropriately (it's a great way to get free advertising if you're looking for contract work). Note that were looking for Illustrations, Design (web, logos, marketing materials, etc), diagrams, blueprints, photography (obviously color corrected, manipulated, etc), industrial or trade related images, and the list could go on. A focus of the conference and this image gallery is to show the small businesses how versatile and powerful the tools available are. Oh, and if you want to pass on the word too that would be more than welcome! :) Cheers, Josh

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JPG-Import
by Hago Ziegler 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi, I mostly use the newest builds from inkscape.modevia.com/win32/ For some time now I'm not able to import JPGs bigger than 30 kb into Inkscape. I first have to save them as PNGs, then I can import the images. The last build with which the JPG-import worked normally, was 19770 from august 30. Is this a known thing, or is it a misbehaviour just on my machine? Regards, Hago

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".eps problem"
by LaMark Lee 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hello, I've tried to load vector images format .eps and Inkscape would not allow me. Any suggetions. Contact me whenever you get a chance. Thanks!

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OT? SMIL seems dead, alternatives?
by Patrick 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

I registered with smil@...2562... I was notified of my acceptance but my questions but they were never posted. There is no SMIL player in the Ubuntu repositories. I don't really want to manually compile one, or use a windows based one, or pay for one. SMIL just seems unsupported. From what I have read, streaming video has made SMIL less desirable. I don't have any real experience with it but it looks like a great idea. I would love to be able to use this to animate my SVGs and to control the audio. I could convert the video after to another format for mass viewing. Is there another alternative to SMIL?, something that can be used to dictate the timing of individual images and audio files? Sorry if this is off topic-Patrick

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Anyone up for testing in Canada?
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

http://svg.org/story/2008/9/12/13254/9530 "An SVG Tiny 1.2 test fest will be held Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2008 in Ottawa, Canada." People in the W3C SVG groups have asked if we might have anyone in the area who could attend the "Test Fest". So, do we have anyone who might be able to make that?

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Windows printing problem
by Docsonic 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Some time shortly after the Devlibs update, the windows printing went wierd again. To test I drew a simple rectangular object of 1/2 a page or so and saved it. Then I printed it to a pdf pseudo printer to generate a pdf, first using vector printing, then bitmap. The svg is fine, the bitmap pdf is fine, but the vector pdf comes out scaled down to approx 40% of the original. I tried this with the latest svn to make sure it wasn't fixed and the problem is still there. Please see the attached files for clarification but note that none of the pdfs were generated by Inkscape, they are all 'print' output. http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_vector.pdf Print+test_vector.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_bitmap.pdf Print+test_bitmap.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/print%2Btest.svg print+test.svg Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Windows-printing-problem-tp19415057p19415057.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Extension Create Separation CYMK (Valessio S Brito)
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

> Aurium make a extension created separation CYMK: > view: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeCMYKSeparator > > very util to Silk-screen.. > > -- > .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info That's great Valessio! I tried to install that extension in inkscape 0.47svn but it refuses to work. Apparently the .inx formatting changed and the extension hasn't a valid code for the new inkscape. Could you please ask the autor of the script to fix it? I'd really like to test it since CMYK output is one of the things that are keeping me from adopting inkscape as my main (and only) vector illustration application for print. I'd love to see this extension as part of inkscape. A separated CMYK tiff exporter using the output of this script would be terrific. I'd also like to know if the CMS code is taken in account to do the separations. If not, maybe the separate+ GIMP plugin would be a good place to start.

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SVG web kick start?
by Patrick 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

This might be a really dumb idea but here goes....... I wrote a script in Python using urllib2 to retrieve data I need for my business. I wonder if we could create a scraperbot(and I would need help) that would read the text component of SVG only sites. Perhaps we could then mirror all this data somewhere else so that the search engines would index it? I bet this would not count as duplicate content as the first SVG site was not indexed anyways. In effect I guess what I am proposing is a mini-me-google bot, if the search engines won't index it we could do this for them. -Patrick

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