October 2009 - Inkscape Users

how can i write arabic in inkscape
by Kareem Abd-Elmageed 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

i wanna to know how can i write from write to left like in (Aabic-Hebrew) . i'am using Mandriva and installed Pango .

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Still waiting on 47
by John Culleton 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I note that there is a prerelease 4 for Inkscape 47. Will this be passed over to the Debian repositories as inkscape-dev? I know that inkscape-dev yields some edition of 47 but I am not sure what. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Ted Gould 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hello all, Another milestone release. Hopefully the last. Let's get this release out! I want to put a special thanks to MIT for the 5MB/s upload :) https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre4/ --Ted == MD5 Sums == c27b2c4f74a94c9cc6ae0f341d3b00ed inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 a5076ffe4636eda5ab623d5ad8e85d48 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 5cce22cbe97780f47de1d385bd2bed3b inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz b927fc4caadac9c0269ec1cc5f84c176 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 9f9f4400fe0400b0021523eaa394d7fc inkscape-0.47pre4.zip 6192f8f7d653ed2168df1f222944a981 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 02210ee6eeda65517284c01a3f9d069443affbfe inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 da4c5b963ee9b2636101157822b99d0dedc3db76 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 0340f33315a93b5ec001c62c2790726547e4dc2a inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz 456aa3c99686057648d70c7cb9eb9f246c9a3e02 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 5c00b71555059c2aa455e4e11e9404461c1f6c28 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip d5fc92e15271929576ea515cd86423aa27cf4c99 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc

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Resolution
by David Knecht ATT 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

I am new to Inkscape and trying it out as a way of labeling images for publication. First, is there a way to search the archives for answers? Second, is there a way to get Inkscape to display the resolution of an image in dpi or ppi? Also, where do you adjust the ruler settings? Dave Dr. David Knecht Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Co-head Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Facility U-3125 91 N. Eagleville Rd. University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 860-486-2200 860-486-4331 (fax)

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Price Code Barcode generator.
by John Culleton 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

The current inkscape-devel (Ubuntu) has a barcode facility. But it doesn't provide for the 5 digit price code often used on books next to the ISBN EAN code. Scribus does provide it as does the bookland.py online or local barcode generator. This should be easy to fix. Also, on the latest inkscape-devel the numbers at the bottom of the EAN-13 barcode are jumbled. This could be a font problem. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Round single corner in a square
by Mr.SpOOn 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, I want to round a single corner of a square, but I can't obtain what I want. Inside the square there is a circle and I'd like to have the corner with the same roundness of the circle. What I did till now is: 1) converting the square to a path 2) creating two new nodes in the middle of each side of the corner 3) move handles of the corner to round it This doesn't work very well, so I tried to duplicate the circle and cut the corner dividing paths. Maybe this is a better solution but I can't exactly align the cutting circle with the first one (I have to align them diagonally). Is there an easier way to do this? Or a tutorial or something about rounding single corners? Thank you, Carlo

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Inkscape 0.47 on the horizon (Call for help)
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hey All, I forgot to post to the user and translator lists because I was too excited. :) I think we closed out the last of the blocker bugs today! So, will people please help ensure that the release notes are up to date? I'm headed there in just a minute to document my latest changes. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47 Regarding PR, I am going to continue with what was started here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning047 If you are an inkscape user who wants to contribute, even if you can't program, this is the perfect way to give back to the community. Please help us flesh this out and refine it. Packagers, please package up Pre3 if you have not already done so as a practice run... and honestly, I think it would be safe to plan a release for next week (between Monday the 5th and Friday the 9th), provided packages are available and no new issues arise. Any objections to this proposed plan? Any thoughts on if releasing on a specific day of the week will get more notice? Oh, and translators... please get any updates submitted asap. Thanks! Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.47pre3
by Ted Gould 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hello Inkscapers, I'm happy to be announcing the next pre-release of Inkscape 0.47. It's a pretty cool job to do. We're hoping that this is the FINAL pre-release of Inkscape, so make sure it doesn't crash for you as the final version is likely to be VERY SIMILAR to this one. There's a great set of patches from a variety of contributors, make sure to check them out! I couldn't figure out how to get Sourceforge to make a new releases anymore, and they took away the ability to make directories from SFTP; so I put things up at Launchpad. If someone can figure out Sourceforge, we can put them there as well. http://launchpad.net/inkscape/main/0.47pre3 == MD5 Sums == eaf529011bb4bc8879ff669a4c7f000d inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2 c42ded78f6b58d0f141dca97c5026a6f inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2.asc 283deaf2ace016736eb5e64e38075c17 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz f3f1f5c9e41a7e8e90b9c4542e1a9bf6 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz.asc e5be30c7b2f2f541839d5caee5207346 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip c68cb7c856ba31f1eed098b8c6bcd8ad inkscape-0.47pre3.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 0512e235bcb3391adf44aa4bacbd75c25ac507ec inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2 d7d98787742c6d166f07a518bced4400cb9ca28f inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.bz2.asc 6111f18301b50062c51292c8c9c2ec2896feb071 inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz db315c4c353e3315b4830014d3454b9950c8385d inkscape-0.47pre3.tar.gz.asc b2ec4000f2c758fbe47d9e90b4f3f89463081d47 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip 1fd56b7a29901a822c84f473ed5b8444e2160b58 inkscape-0.47pre3.zip.asc * A few more bits if you REALLY don't trust your ISP --Ted

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SVG Color 1.2
by Jon A. Cruz 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Finally!!!! SVG 1.2 color stuff is out in the wild. (Well, specs at least) "...The implication of this is that it is possible to use a fully colormanaged workflow (using SVG 1.0 onwards) that supports a full CMYK pipeline via the use of ICC profiles." "...SVG Color introduces the ability to use so-called 'named' or 'spot' colors. Named colors are used in many print applications and are supported in SVG Print through the use of ICC named color profiles." http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColorPrimer12-20091001/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVGColor12-20091001/

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Good, bad, worse.
by John Culleton 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu. So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique? Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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