installing inkscape on a gentoo webserver... help !
by David Mourvillier
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
14 years, 3 months
Open-source graphics gig [Fwd: [yellowdog-announce] Job posting -- Graphic Designer]
by Ted Gould
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
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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
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14 years, 3 months
new to Inkscape
by Roeland Huys
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
14 years, 3 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Tango icons as default set
by worms invasion
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 :-)
14 years, 3 months
I need Inkscape success stories from everywhere
by Ocetalo
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.
14 years, 3 months
sUbScRiPtS iN InKsCaPe?
by Henry W. Peters
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
14 years, 3 months
performance when working with many nodes
by Sam Mason
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/
14 years, 3 months
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