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Color Community of Pallete Inkscape
by Valessio Brito 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

make your pallete colors and share! http://www.colourlovers.com/group/Inkscape -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Continue with the bridge version of the logo
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

> Any volunteers to do the cleanup? I did some changes, but I found some problems too. Different browsers render text differently, and not all systems have the freesans font used. A solution would be to convert every text to paths, wich increases the size of the file but renders correctly. Opera (for linux at least, what I tested) has problems with gradients to alpha, apparently. Here are my adjustments. Maybe some of them will have to be rolled back to the previous version (the title part) if we'll stick with the text not converted to curves. -Tweaked the bridge. A lot. Joined paths, corrected some shapes, removed strokes, cleanup. -Joined the semi-transparent white outline of the bridge. cleanup -Removed the clip from the sun. cleanup and cut to keep only the visible part. -Joined the outline of the text (looks fine in inkscape, not in browsers... maybe it has to be undone) -Joined the land in one single path. -Joined the clouds (were groups of circles) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4.png (PNG - Size optimized for IE) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4.svg (inkscape SVG - Layers) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4-plain.svg (plain SVG) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4-plain-notext.svg (plain SVG - text converted to paths) The big problem here is the text part. As far as I could see, every browser seems to render it diferently. The one that has the text part converted to paths renders fine in browsers, but is quite large. Maybe some guy with better knowledge than me about SVG can do a manual cleanup of the result and reduce the size (inkscape uses to leave some unnecesary style definitions) ideas? Regards, Gez.

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Inkscape mini-conference?
by Niall Mansfield 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I'm a long-time Inkscape user, and we use it in the production of many of our books. The UKUUG (the UK's Unix and open systems User Group) runs two technical conferences a year. This summer, the group wants to get as many different free software projects involved as possible. The venue is already booked and most of the arrangements are made, so adding extra tracks or mini-confs is easy. Possible Inkscape-related ideas: - an Inkscape developers summit. We can provide a dedicated meeting room. - a separate "mini-conf" running alongside the UKUUG conference. - an InkScape track within the main conference. - a "Getting started with Inkscape" tutorial for newbies, or an advanced tutorial? If you've any ideas, or would just like to bounce ideas around, give me a shout. More info: Conference wiki: http://summer2009.ukuug.net/ (very basic so far) A5-sized call for participation: http://summer2009.ukuug.net/download/summer-cfp-a5.pdf Venue: The Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, B3 3HG Dates: Friday-Sunday 7-9 August 2009 If you're interested, subscribe to the Summer Conference mailing list: http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/summerconf -- Niall Mansfield UIT Cambridge Ltd. England

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Continue with the bridge version of the logo
by Andreas Neumann 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi SVG Open organizers and Inkscape users, As per the voting on doodle (http://doodle.com/g6q8szftsz3cnrg5) it seems like most people prefer the Golden gate theme. I personally prefered the "Mountain/Sun" scheme, but I think the bridge theme is nice as well and we should now continue to improve it. Thank you all of the involved Inkscape and SVG Open people for your contributions and congratulations to Jozef for winning the voting. The latest version (with some minor improvements, thanks Frank!) can be found at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v3b.svg Things that should be changed: * The text on the bottom/right should be changed to "Mountain View CA, USA, Oct. 2-4 2009" - not that it is "Mountain View" (two words) and we should more clearly indicate that it is located in the US. If we use an abbreviation for October than it should still fit * Export into plain SVG * Cleanup of the code (size reduction) * Test if the text/fonts render correctly in all systems and browsers * Make sure it renders correctly in all browsers (currently the hills render as black in my Opera on Linux for some reason? Gradient or filter problem?) * potentially add some SMIL (e.g. moving clouds) for smil-enabled browsers (please do it subtile) * Make a PNG version for IE Any volunteers to do the cleanup? Jeff - you already did it last time? Thanks and all the best, Andreas

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