October 2009 - Inkscape Users

Third Edition of: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
by Tavmjong Bah 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi, I am pleased to announce that the 3rd edition of my book "Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program" is available at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php This edition is also available as a book(!) and as a PDF download. The PDF version is available as of today at: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013706134X The book version is scheduled to be available November 6th. It can be ordered at: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137051735 or from many on-line bookstores including some based in the US, Europe, and Japan. Note that the book version is printed in black and white.* A color addendum is available as a free PDF download from the book's website. The new 3rd edition covers all the new features in Inkscape version 0.47 including the updated Pen and Pencil tools, the new Eraser Tool, and the new Snap Bar. Also covered are all the new extensions and the new "Preset" filters. I would like to thank all the people who have sent me comments and corrections to previous versions of the book as well as all the Inkscape developers past and present. I would also like to thank everybody who has supported the guide through purchasing the PDF version (which helps to keep my wife off my back!). Tav * Due to the limited volume expected for this book, printing in color is prohibitively expensive. -- Tavmjong Bah Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

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PDF export does not produce any file
by Jef Driesen 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, I just tried the latest Inkscape-0.47pre4-1.win32.7z, and when I try to export my drawing to pdf nothing happens. No pdf is created and no error message appears. Any idea what is going wrong? Jef

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Third Edition of: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
by unknown＠example.com 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Tav, Thanks for your hard work. I had a silly question the other day and just a quick glance at your online manual sorted it. Your manual is the top reference to use Inkscape, I need a hard copy to be able to study it in depth, and will order one as soon as possible. Cedric Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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speedwanted
by Hago Ziegler 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi, I'm using inkscape on 2 PCs with dual core processors. Sometimes, when the work is getting huge and complex, the CPU has to work a lot. Unfortunately inkscape uses always only one of the 2 'cores', so the whole CPU works only with 52-55 %. Things are becoming very slow this way. Is there a possibility to change this? Regards, Hago

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Scripted tilling and pdf export of 10000 svgs
by Albert Vilella 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi all, I am trying to build a humongous pdf for a poster made up of about 10000 svg files of same width but varying height. I would like to be able to automatically tile the different svg and pdf (or ps) export the file to print in a plotter. How can I do that? Albert.

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Barcode problem solved.
by John Culleton 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

On an earlier version of IS 47 on Xubuntu the numbers at the bottom of an ISBN barcode were scrambled. On my current Slackware 13 install of IS 47 pre 4 this problem is solved. It would help if the numbers were displayed above the barcode in OCRB typeface but I can handle that as a separate step. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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lxml and stuff.
by John Culleton 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Compiled pre4 successfully . Some things like perfect bound cover and bar code don't work. Messages reference lxml in each case. So I iinstalled lxml. Still no joy. I started a recompile. I note on ./configure that I get the message "Internal Python skipped" Is this the root of the problem? I do have Python on my system. Slackware 13. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] 0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 17:08 +1100, Chris Morgan wrote: > Thanks Ted. > > Issues: > * I missed a couple of very minor things in InkscapePortable.nsi > (neither are important, just warnings about an unused variable > and a constant in the language file which is never used, but > if it were it'd be missing, so I put it in anyway), and > decided to fix them because I can (if an NSIS installer can > avoid all warnings it simplifies the job of the compiler). > I've attached the updated InkscapePortable.nsi. Committed. > * I missed a small bit in > packaging/win32/portable/readme.packaging.txt; the "inkscape" > build directory contains gdb.exe which also shouldn't be > included. Updated instructions for committing are in the > attached readme.packaging.txt. Committed. Will be working on the next couple... Cheers, Josh

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Suppressing anti-aliasing
by Antonio Roberts 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

I'm trying to make some pixel art using Inkscape but there's no way to suppress anti-aliasing. Is there a way to do this in Inkscape or are there any other programs that can do this? Ant

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Pixel Perfect Inkscape
by Alan Gutierrez 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I'm using Inkscape 4.7 Pre 3 on OS X Leopard. I'm designing for the web, so for the most part, I'd like to have integer X and Y values for my shapes. Editing each point every time I drop a shape is frustrating. I've found that I can set the grid to 1px with major lines at 5px and Inkscape will tend to to the right thing when drawing rectangles or using the pen tool, but not always. There are still times when I have to edit X and Y by entering it into the spinner. Also, if I group objects and clone them. Not all of the objects retain an integer X/Y. They are off by a little bit. Are there any other ways to tell Inkscape to round to the nearest pixel? Alan Gutierrez

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