December 2009 - Inkscape Users

Photo retouching in Inkscape (2)
by Claus Cyrny 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Another example of photo retouching using Inkscape 0.46: http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/4228702109/ I really love this more & more. ;-) (And I just cannot imagine that this can be as easily achieved using, say Gimp (or even Photoshop). Claus -- - Me on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/> - Me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/claus_01/>

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Animation in Inkscape
by Sanat Ganu 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hello I am a newbie to Inkscape and scripting in general. I am trying to build an animation extension with Inkscape for doing simple animations as a project in my multimedia course. For that I need to add a timeline in Inkscape and write the timing data for a particular object manipulated by the user into my animation file. Is this possible with Inkscape extensions? Could anyone guide me in finding a resource who could help me with this? Regards Sanat

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Python
by Elwin Estle 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

I have tried a couple of times to learn Python, but I am an old fogy and keep coming up against a wall whenever I try to get my head around the whole object oriented programming thing (yes, I know, Python can do procedural just fine...but it seems like OOP is a sort of central concept to a lot of what python is capable of..) Anybody got any good recommendations for books for learning Python? Especially ones that actually give a clear explanation of the the whole OOP thing in a Python context? I've found stuff that kind of explains things for other languages, but that doesn't help with understanding things from a Python specific point of view. I've gotten a Python for Dummies book...but...it seems I am too dumb even for that. I'd really like to get a handle on this, since Python scripts both Gimp and Blender as well as Inkscape. I've been tinkering with computers for over 20 years, but my programming experience, what there is of it, is pretty much in procedural. Some Pascal (back in the 80's), various flavors of BASIC, mostly on old Atari 8-bit machines, some on Commodor64, Action --think of a cross between C and Pascal, it ran on the Atari--, and lately, Tcl/Tk (Not explicitly OOP, but it is supposedly capable of it), on Win and Linux.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Animation in Inkscape
by Matt Jordan 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

> > Hello > I am a newbie to Inkscape and scripting in general. I am trying to build an > animation extension with Inkscape for doing simple animations as a project > in my multimedia course. For that I need to add a timeline in Inkscape and > write the timing data for a particular object manipulated by the user into > my animation file. Is this possible with Inkscape extensions? Could anyone > guide me in finding a resource who could help me with this? > > Regards > Sanat If you just want to use Inkscape's great drawing tools in an open source animation pipeline and you don't have to build an extension as some sort of class requirement or other, then the easy route would be to use Pencil to work out your timing, export an image sequence, then use Inkscape to ink and paint. It's how I'm doing most of the scenes for an animated book trailer I'm working on. Some example clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg8JBKLOY3Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRlqoKE7Y40 Pencil is at: http://www.pencil-animation.org/ Cheers, Matt Jordan

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Status of dbus capability
by Kent Tenney 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Howdy, I just built inkscape from bzr and ran import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/desktop_0') doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") im = doc1.image(100 ,100, '/home/ktenney/Firefox_wallpaper.png') Which worked on a dbus branch a while back. Now it starts inkscape, but d - was the dbus code merged? - if so, how do I enable/use it? - if not, where is dbus capable code? Thanks, Kent

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graphic tablet problem
by Joanne Rancourt 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

I am having problems with my wacom intuos 3 tablet. It works on all the tools and when I go to add it, it appears to be there but I can't change any of the settings. It works in other programs like PSP ok and I have the latest driver installed. I am using inkscape .46 and .47 and can't get it to work in either. But strangely (no idea why I tried this) the erasor seems to work ! No idea why. Can someone help me here please ? cheers, Jo

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"Hybrid" techniques
by Claus Cyrny 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Hi all, as an addition to my post on photo retouching in Inkscape, I am posting the following link to works at the Behance web site: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/A-joint-venture-with___/54500 For this kind of approach, it would be great to have available what Donn was talking about: the ability to embed a bitmap editor into Inkscape, and vice versa. Claus -- - Me on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/> - Me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/claus_01/>

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Vector art
by Claus Cyrny 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi all, please, take a look at this: http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/56920/projects/54500/569201199960944.j… Claus -- - Me on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/> - Me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/claus_01/>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Photo retouching in Inkscape
by Guillermo Espertino 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I fail to understand why are you using inkscape and don't do that directly in GIMP, which is the proper tool for photoretouching. Using vectors for something that should be pixels is too problematic (mostly for printing). According to my experience, I'd reccomend you to only use vectors if you need them, and do all the photo stuff with pixels, at the right resolution. Vector graphics are great for type and things that need to be enlarged, but they can give you some problems when it comes to interaction with bitmap images and printing. I'm not saying you can't use them, but keep that in mind. Mostly if you're using Linux, where you don't have reliable export filters for mixed vectors and bitmaps: PDF export in Inkscape isn't ready for production, SVG import in Scribus has lots of limitations (that you'll find in Adobe products too), PDFs from Scribus aren't interpreted correctly by Adobe software, and (you already found it out) GIMP doesn't have a good vectors support.

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Inkscape2Tikz traceback
by Wolfgang Keller 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Hello, when I try to export anything from Inkscape 0.47 (on Windows) to Tikz using the export script from http://code.google.com/p/inkscape2tikz/, all I get is a traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "F:\Wolfgang\Inkscape\share\extensions\tikz_export.py", line 1389, in <module> main_inkscape() File "F:\Wolfgang\Inkscape\share\extensions\tikz_export.py", line 1379, in main_inkscape effect.affect() File "F:\Wolfgang\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 207, in affect self.effect() File "F:\Wolfgang\Inkscape\share\extensions\tikz_export.py", line 1294, in effect graphics_state = GraphicsState(none) NameError: global name 'none' is not defined This is a "minimum" Inkscape file as an example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 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id="path9089" /> </g> </g> </svg> TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

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