May 2009 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Script to slice inkscape (for web heads)
by m h 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all- I've written a script to slice from inkscape. Details/script can be found at my blog [0]. Comments/suggestions welcome. -matt 0 - http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm

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Red Spiral Challenge
by Aaron Elmquist 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

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

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color print
by H.Lekin 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi, I started using Inkscape 6 weeks ago. I went to a print shop to get a color drawing - exported as PNG - printed. On this print, a blue gradient fill turned into a blue to dirty-green fill. Do you have to transform color space afore? How do you usually do this? Convert PNG to TIF, transform RGB to CMYK with embedded profile? Make a PDF/X-3 via Scribus? If via SVG import, how do you handle tranparency? What standard color profile do you use, if you don't know exactly on which machine you are going to print? Or was this color shift just caused by a misconfiguration of Photoshop in the print shop? Thanks in advance for your help. HL

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Calligraphic pens and paths
by Benct Philip Jonsson 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Is there any hope that Inkscape will ever allow to apply calligraphic pens to paths the way Illustrator does? Is it hard to implement? Are the Adobe guys sitting on some patent there? Is it only I who want it? It would create a dedicated Linux user as it would remove my last incentive to ever use Windows... /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)

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Landscape printing
by Abrolag 29 May '09

29 May '09

I'm a bit out of the loop here lately. Did the problems of landscape printing get resolved? Currently (with V 0.46) I have to save the file as a PDF via cairo then load this into evince and print from there. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk

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[OS X] X11 clipboard vs. OS X pasteboard
by ~suv 29 May '09

29 May '09

X11 (Xquartz) v.2.3.x has several preferences to sync between OS X Pasteboard and X11 CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY buffers. While testing 0.46+devel rev21339 I noticed that in Inkscape copying/pasting to/from the clipboard always resulted in bitmaps with all vector information lost (no Paste Style, Paste Size possible) - restoring default Inkscape preferences didn't help. It seems that the X11 preference 'Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes' somehow prevents Inkscape from keeping vector information in the clipboard even when ^C/^V objects/shapes in one drawing or between 2 windows. Unchecking said option in X11 disables clipboard xfer from Inkscape to native OS X applications and restores full Inkscape functionality. Can someone verify on a updated system (10.5.6 with X11 2.3.2 or 10.5.7 with X11 2.3.3) if the 'out-of-the-box' installation disables Inkscapes native clipboard functions? I could not find related infos in Inkscape Wiki or launchpad answers/bugs.

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Openclipart.org import defaults to png
by Richard Querin 29 May '09

29 May '09

Why is it that when an entry on openclipart.org has both png and svg versions, Inkscape imports the png? Shouldn't it import the svg by default if there is more than one choice? RQ

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Presidential candidate poster - chance to advertise Inkscape
by Ocetalo 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi there! I've got news. Gustavo Petro <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Petro> is a candidate running for presidential elections in Colombia. His campaign is preparing a different, innovative, ludic, alternative campaign. An artist is in charge of his campaign advertising but they've called volunteers to design the official poster. Please check this draft version<http://www.colombiasinguerra.com/profiles/blogs/con-gustavo-petro-acordemos…>someone here made and give opinions. I think it is raw tracing, something better could be done. It would be great to have it designed in Inkscape but I'm not that skilled. I'm summoning your skills!

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... nodes on the path to 0.47
by Donna Benjamin 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi everyone! Time for a bit of an update on where things are at with the upcoming release! Here's some quick points... others may have more to add in reply. 1. We've made a start on the release announcement... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning047 But could do with some help getting it finished off! The release notes show what's new and different http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 So the major new features and improvements need to be summarised and added to the release, and we need to get the translations started too! 2. We are gathering user stories to help show the world how we use Inkscape and why we love it! This will help us bring life to the press release announcements... much more interesting to read what real people thinkm rather than some dull press release! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserStories047 Add your story now! :) You can also help out by blogging about Inkscape and using twitter and identi.ca to spread the word! Perhaps add a line to your email signature like I have. (see the bottom of the this email) Perhaps someone could make some 0.47 is coming badges for people to add to their websites and blog posts? 3. The about screen contest has produced some amazing work! http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/24582792/ Congratulations to everyone who has submitted such fantastic contributions - I'm blown away by everyone's creativity and talent! And soon we can all join in with the voting! 4. regular .deb snapshots are available here http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/jaunty-cafuego/inkscape/ [find me on #inkscape if you want a new snapshot and it's been over a week since one was posted] 5. We should have regular windows builds coming online for testing next week. cheers Donna -- Donna Benjamin - http://kattekrab.net Inkscape: Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics 0.47 is coming... http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47 About Screen Contest - Voting Time
by Josh Andler 26 May '09

26 May '09

Log in to deviantart, reply to the "voting" journal entry by stating the number of the entry you would like to vote for. Sent from g1 On May 26, 2009 3:25 PM, "Joe Ward" <bluegrass_joe@...12...> wrote: I can't figure out how to vote. -Joe Ward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Cre...

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