February 2009 - Inkscape Users

installing inkscape on a gentoo webserver... help !
by David Mourvillier 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hi everybody, I'm a french user, writing in english like i can, sorry by advance :) I'm trying since many days to install inkscape on my gentoo webserver, but i was not sure it was possible. Today i found this doc : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingGentoo describing how to install inkscape-0.44 on gentoo like i want, and i try, but result is : !!! Couldn't download 'baselayout-1.12.10.tar.bz2'. Abor * Fetch failed for 'sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5' * Messages for package sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5: * Fetch failed for 'sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5' I had this problem 3 days ago, but after many manipulations and the emergements of depedencies, and the ./configure installation of 0.46 version via a tar.gz file, this had finished to happen. My problem of yesterday, about what i have post in the inkscape forum, was : """ I am not sure but it seems that inkscape can be installed on a remote web server, mine is a gentoo linux kernel 2.6.27.10-grs (OVH release 2). I just want to be able to use the inkscape --export-... command lines on my webserver, cause it is the better svg to pdf (print quality) converter i found. Isn't it ? I am trying : emerge inkscape (wouhou !... oho...) it needs a lot of other things, emerge, emerge, or install from tar.gz, and all seems ok now, except for a package : No package 'giomm-2.4' found i don't found it with emerge, i found many occurences of the files contents of 'giomm-2.4', and, reading, i understood it is a part of glibmm-2.15 and of newer versions of glibmm (if i understood) here : http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2 ... -gio-in-c/ <http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2008/01/28/giomm-gio-in-c/> But my glibmm is : (emerge --search glibmm ) Latest version available: 2.14.2 Latest version installed: 2.14.2 oho... On this web server, i have apache 2, php, mysql running for my clients, i am a little afraid to modify its config. Before trying to install inkscape, i had verified if i can, and how install inkscape on my web server in guides and forums. I don't know a lot of things about linux, and about webservers... i know a little, and i learn a lot. So can you tell me if what i try is possible, or if not, if you know another (free) way to convert svg to pdf (with embedded free fonts) on my webserver ? """ Now i ask me "Need I really giomm-2.4" to use only inkscape command lines, and is it possible to install inkscape without it ?? Please, help me, or tell me who can perhaps help me, Thanks a lot, regards David Mourvillier

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Open-source graphics gig [Fwd: [yellowdog-announce] Job posting -- Graphic Designer]
by Ted Gould 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hey, This came across my desk, I have no affiliation with Terra Soft other than I used Yellowdog a while back. It'd be cool if an Inkscaper got this position though :) --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Announce List for all Terra Soft products (moderated) <yellowdog-announce@...2599...> Reply-to: "Announce List for all Terra Soft products \(moderated\)" <yellowdog-announce@...2599...> To: FSS Announce <yellowdog-announce@...2599...> Subject: [yellowdog-announce] Job posting -- Graphic Designer Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:27:03 -0700 Yellow Dog Enthusiasts, We are pleased to announce a job posting for a "Graphic Designer". This is a contract, part-time position with need to be near the Loveland, Colorado offices. Job description and form: http://us.fixstars.com/jobs/graphic-designer.shtml --FSS Team _______________________________________________ yellowdog-announce mailing list yellowdog-announce@...2599... http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-announce

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Shortcuts Show/Hide
by Plácido Sousa 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Hi all, Let's say I use the "Ctrl+Shift+F" shortcut to show the Fill and Stroke Dialog. Wouldn't it make sence that if I press it again the dialog would disappear? -- > Plácido André Sousa http://sites.google.com/site/chezplacide/Home http://chezplacide.blogspot.com placidoaps@...155... .-. /v\ L I N U X // \\ >Phear the Penguin< /( )\ ^^-^^

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new to Inkscape
by Roeland Huys 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi, I have been using Inkscape the last 2 years for my professional work. I use it mainly for scientific illustrations. So first of all I'd like to congratulate the Inkscape team for their great and important role in the open source community. Inkscape is for my type of work the best -and only- alternative for expensive software like CordelDraw. I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and GNOME. I'm using inkscape mostly for schematical purposes: flow charts, electrical or scientific diagrams, etc... Since I'm new to this group, I don't really know the etiquette, but I'll start with my whishlist. Sorry about the length of the list... (Please feel free to comment) * Multiple pages. * Printing: I have issues with it. I cannot set the type of paper for my printer, and the result is often a bad layout. * GRID snapping is a little nightmare for my kind of work. Right now, Inkscape has "snap nodes" and "snap bounding boxes". Both of them are not suitable for me. Suppose you draw an object with irregular shapes (e.g. a group of polygons and text). There should be a modus: "move by reference point". The reference is snapped on the grid, and when moving, the destination of the object is by snapping the reference point ONLY. If you move the object on a grid of say 10px, the object should ONLY move in steps of 10px without exception! As it is now, objects snap on any of the irregular shapes inside it (e.g. text, irregular polygons, etc..) and when you draw schematics, you don't want that. Furthermore, there should be a way to do "Snap to bounding boxes" with snapping to the CENTER of a thick line, NOT to the OUTSIDE of the thick line! Example: enable "snap nodes" and "snap bounding boxes". Draw a circle. The vertices will nicely align on the grid, that's how I want it. Now scale the circle by dragging the handles. Now, the circle will be completely off-grid. * Symbols: being able to make template symbols and insert them in your drawing. The symbols should have a reference point (see snapping), and parameterizable text would be great. The instances should be LINKS to the symbols, so if you edit a symbol, it should change all references. Associated features if you right-click on an instance: "edit template", "edit as new template", "make group object copy" * Being able to use objects from another .svg with a link. This way, we can make libraries of symbols. * Arrows: arrow heads should change color by changing the color of the arrow. * Swap arrows: a button to swap the beginning/end arrows. Would be very useful! * Styles: a custom list of styles Fill+Outline+Text font you can click on to set an object style. Also, double click on a style to set it as 'default'. Today, I have to click around in that dialog too often. * Fill and Outline paint swatches: list of default colors. Standard color lists, like web colors, pantone, etc... * Bug in the software today: exchanging objects across files via the clipboard does not work. * Dialog boxes: you should be able to save their layout! Now I have to open and position them every time I open a file * Dialog boxes: share dialog boxes for different files. I use the program in the same way as we use "GIMP": different open files, and floating dialogs. However, if I click on a dialog box, Inkscape immediately selects another open file, because the dialogs seems to be 'linked' with the document windows. * Text dialog: it seems to be different (not dockable) than the other dialog boxes. I wonder why... That's all for now... Please let me know if this kind of input is useful, and if anybody of the developers is reading this (otherwise, I would not bother typing it next time) Happy new year, Roeland Huys

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Tango icons as default set
by worms invasion 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hello, I'm a user of Inkscape, mainly on Windows and very (very) rarely on Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I checked in SVN for the SVG Tango icons and found the file, which I studied carefully. N.B.: I'll give here my "user" point of view, which reflects my taste and my rationale. Please, forgive me if this message isn't always "nice"... it's not meant to be aggressive, it's just that tastes in icons/applications is a passionate thing - so I'm allowed to tell my mind with passion on the matter :-) Well, re. the proposed Tango icon set for Inkscape... I do NOT want to be "forced" to test the Tango icons - let alone to be forced to use them. I hate the Tango icons. :-) The main reasons are: - they are unreadable, "undecodable". I do not need to use a magnifying glass to "decode" the current (non Tango) icon set, the icons are "sharp" and "clear". Compared to them, the Tango icons are... "wtf?... which icon is that...?" I do not want to lose time wondering each time I need to click on an icon (and it happens quite a lot in Inkscape, because I don't use the shortcuts or F-keys). Honestly, I hardly *see* the Tango icons. - they belong to the Linux world. I know they are supposed to be suitable to multi-platform applications, but in the real reality, this isn't the case, and they say "Linux", they say GTK or KDE. As I said before, I use Inkscape on Windows. Why would I need "Linux-like" icons which clash so badly with any Windows (or, I guess, Mac) theme and which I cannot decode anyway? - I do not use any other "free" software which uses the Tango icon set, such as The Gimp or..., so I don't care about "being used" to seeing such or such icons. - I believe each application can have its own style, its own icons. I hate the "applications on a platform must all look alike" concept, it's sterile, it's boring, it's dull. So, my user opinion is: if the Linux users are masochists and want to have Tango style icons for Inkscape, fine, give them a GUI to switch to Tango icons. Me, as a user of Inkscape on Windows, I just want clear, sharp, and decodable icons - just like the current icons! I pray you, Inkscape developers, please, keep the current default set as the default! Thanks! (and again... no personal attack here :-)

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I need Inkscape success stories from everywhere
by Ocetalo 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi there! I want to introduce Inkscape to the SENA <http://www.sena.edu.co/portal>office here in Cartagena de Indias <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariedoucet/sets/72157611795508388/>. The SENA is the national service for training people in several trades. The goal is to convince them to try Inkscape and use it as the program of choice for graphic design courses. I have got technical info and examples, now I need all your Inkscape success stories from everywhere -specially on developing countries and Latin America- about Inkscape achievements and use in working, running business and being involved in big events or campaigns. By the way, a database of succes stories should be built.

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sUbScRiPtS iN InKsCaPe?
by Henry W. Peters 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Apologize if there is an all too obvious solution at hand... In trying to use Inkscape to draw (say) chemical formula/s... I cannot find a way to make text into subscripts... usually found in the text menu of (say), (ahem) Adobe Illustrator... am I missing something here? Thanks much. Henry

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performance when working with many nodes
by Sam Mason 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Hi, I've been using Inkscape to trace bitmaps and noticed that performance is somewhat erratic when working with a path containing thousands of nodes. When initially selecting the path with the node editing tool it draws all the nodes with their appropriate little icon, this takes an age. The other time seems to be when you select a large number of nodes, it draws all the nodes in their selected colour. When I zoom or otherwise force a redraw performance is much better. I'm not sure how the code is structured, but it seems to be optimized for small numbers of nodes being worked with at one time. Would it be possible to only redraw individual node icons when this will take less time than it would take to redraw the whole window. Of course, knowing apriori which is going to be quicker is difficult so maybe a simple test of (say) 100 nodes changing state. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/

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Silvana Marques diz: Sala eu tenho, só me falta o sofá! (2) - Vakinha.com.br
by Silvana Marques 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

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