Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist
Does anyone know how to creat the red spiral with the continuous gradient in
Tavmjong Bah's "A Guide to Inkscape" I took a couple cracks at it last
night without much sucess.
~Aaron
14 years, 3 months
Dashed path in inkscape
by Bibi Morris
I am in need of a way to do a dashed path in inkscape. When I use the
stroke to path it shows up on my SVG as a dashed path, but when it
import that to my cutting machine it will cut as a regular path, not one
that has holes in it. What I need is a single line with little pieces
missing on the line. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this in
inkscape?
Bibi
14 years, 6 months
Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded
by Jon Phillips
March 31, 2009 - Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library
(http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable
vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000
artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this
accomplishment, since OCAL���s last release happened in 2005, and March
being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL
community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics.
The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo
who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for
uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who
have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.
The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art
upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system.
All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site���s
registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make
this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions
to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative
Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library
files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate
compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip
art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a
link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.
For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting
2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a
goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time,
release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site���s software
to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable
with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three
critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to
ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.
Highlight
* An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts
* Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18.
* 10,000th upload by Boobaloo:
http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895
* Refocused Development around three critical tasks
* Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring
* Call for Participation towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
** http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
Downloads
* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2
* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz
* http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip
Press Kit
* Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about
* All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art
About Open Clip Art Library
Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip
Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of
user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted
to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative
Commons Public Domain Declaration.
Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing
list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions:
http://openclipart.org/discussion
For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.
14 years, 8 months
[Fwd: Re: Logo for SVG Open 2009]
by Andreas Neumann
Here is one quite nice entry to the discussion - from Lucas Franco
(Argentina) - thank you Lucas!
* I personally like the upper version better
* I like the rays around the SVG sun
* the Beziér handles are too much for my taste and reduces readability?
I don't know ...
Andreas
14 years, 8 months
Release of JessyInk 1.0.0!
by Hannes Hochreiner
Dear all,
after some time in beta, heavy testing and a lot of very helpful
feedback from the community, I am glad to be able to release version
1.0 of JessyInk today. I consider this to be the first feature
complete and stable release and I hope you'll have fun playing with
it. It is available for download either from launchpad (https://
launchpad.net/jessyink) or from GoogleCode (http://code.google.com/p/
jessyink/).
JessyInk is a JavaScript that can be integrated into an Inkscape SVG
image. When loading the image in a browser, JessyInk turns every
layer of the image into a slide of a presentation. Using the JessyInk
extensions, different transitions, effects and auto-texts (such as
slide numbers) can be assigned. Other features of JessyInk include an
index sheet mode and support for a master slide.
Special thanks go to Marcel Rouweler and heathenx for their feedback
and testing efforts as well as Ted Gould for integrating a patch
required by JessyInk into Inkscape.
Cheers,
Hannes
14 years, 8 months
Logo for SVG Open 2009
by Jon A. Cruz
Hello all,
I just wanted to put out that SVG Open 2009 is looking for header
graphics for their new website... which is about to go live.
SVG Open 2008 had a subtle header with outlines of the castles in
Nuremberg, so is probably not good for this year's conference in
California.
If anyone is interested, this is a great opportunity to showcase both
SVG and Inkscape. I believe that the site will be able to serve SVG
directly for browsers that support it.
14 years, 8 months
How to make a mask?
by Paul Bolger
I've been trying to work out how to produce a mask, to be used for
compositing an image with ImageMagick by a CMS.
What I need is a white background and a rounded border (with a stroke
of one or two pixels), then with the middle punched out so an image on
the layer below shows through the hole. I've tried making three
layers, one solid white, one with a rounded rectangle with rounded
corners with a transparent fill, and a copy of the previous with no
stroke but with a solid fill, and tried various combinations of 'mask'
and 'clip' but I can't seem to find it.
Can someone help me before I resort to chucking it into Photoshop and cheating?
Paul Bolger
14 years, 8 months
