December 2010 - Inkscape Users

inkscape 0.48 not responding (windows)
by Dr. Johannes Zellner 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Hi, inkscape 0.48 is not responding for about a minute - after startup - when saving to a new file name (Save As ...) After the minute, everything works as espected. any ideas? -- Johannes

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Placement of Toolbars
by Shawn H Corey 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Is there anyway to change the placement of the toolbars? I would like them all to be on the left. Also, is there anyway to re-attach a toolbar? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.

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Inkscape/Synfig animation team-up example
by unknown＠example.com 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

> For a contest entry, I used Inkscape in conjunction with > Synfig to make a > 30-second animated commercial (of sorts). Very nice actually, congratulations

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Wide carriage HP755CM install on Windows Vista
by Susan Spencer 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

I found an old HP 755CM 36" wide format designjet for $75 at our local Technology Recycling Center. HP officially doesn't have a driver for this designjet anymore. But the HP driver file - '*HP Designjet HP-GL/2 driver for Windows and AutoCAD 2000 - AutoCAD 2005'*-- *pl532en.exe - * for Windows Server 2000, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, will work for Vista and Windows 7. To set it up: Connect the printer to your ethernet network. If your internet router is set up as a DNS server, it will get an IP immediately. If you don't have DNS on your internal router, then you may need to download HP's Jetdirect control software to access it and assign it an IP address. Once an IP is assigned, execute the *pl532en.exe *file to a directory you make just for this driver. Run 'Add printer', select network printer, search for new printer, and the IP address of the new printer should show up. Cancel, then run 'Add printer' again but select *local* printer and use the IP address as the name, and the printer port will auto-create. When asked for the driver, browse to your directory so it can find the .inf file. The 755CM will be listed. I saw posts which stated that this file worked with Windows 7, and I read other posts that there's a 64bit version of this file which will work with 64bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well. This designjet will print on clear film, coated bond, heavy coated bond, adhesive vinyl, and others. Will also print on 8.5" x 11" in landscape orientation. I'll let you know when I get it hooked up with Linux. - Susan

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Bamboo Fun tablet for Ubuntu
by Susan Spencer 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

For those of you who want to install a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet on Ubuntu, upgrade to Maverick. If you have a different Ubuntu version, and this workaround works, please post. l had web searched for info, found some advice, but nothing yielded results. Then checked the bug listings for Ubuntu. Ubuntu guru *Stefan Bader* determined that the current simple workaround is to install input backport modules using the Ubuntu Software Centre. Select '*Backported input drivers for generic kernel image'* --> name of the file is “*linux-backports-modules-input-maverick-generic*“. Install, then reboot. Wacom’s *MyPaint* (also installed through the Ubuntu Software Centre) listed devices as ‘disabled, screen, window’,which is a bit confusing but I made no changes. The tablet worked perfectly. *Gimp 2.6* Edit/Preferences/InputDevices/ConfigureExtendedInputDevices listed The Wacom Bamboo Finger Pad, Finger Touch, Pen eraser, Pen stylusd but they were marked as disabled. Again I made no changes, and the tablet worked perfectly. Last test – opened* Inkscape 0.48*, selected ‘Draw Free Hand Lines’ – tablet worked fine. - Susan

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Template Editor
by unkown UN 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Actually there as a guy named Thomas that emailed me a link to this extension: http://wiki.colivre.net/Aurium/InkscapeGenerator I haven't tried it yet, but CSV datasource is extrememly workable. Thanks! BTW: For use case info... I design my resume in Inkscape. -Steven

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Inkscape/Synfig animation team-up example
by Matt Jordan 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi folks! For a contest entry, I used Inkscape in conjunction with Synfig to make a 30-second animated commercial (of sorts). I did it in two days, just before the deadline, so it isn't exactly perfect, but it turned out reasonably okay. Synfig imports svg files pretty well now, so I was able to create all of my elements in Inkscape (and thus take advantage of its really nice drawing and painting abilities), then take them into Synfig for rapid (though in this case limited) animation. Here's the finished product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4rx7CzaDY (If you'd like to help me win the contest, please feel free to hit the "Like" button. :D ) I used Audacity for the sound recording and Blender's Video Sequence Editor to edit everything together. Plus, it was all done on Ubuntu, so it was a complete open source project. If there are any coders on the list who are just dying for more stuff to do (it could happen!), Synfig could really use some help as it doesn't yet have anything close to the user base that Inkscape enjoys. I hope, though, that this little contest entry shows the potential that Synfig has and, especially, what a great combo Synfig and Inkscape can be. Cheers! Matt Jordan

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Extensions slow / crashing Inkscape
by Jon 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

I have produced the O-scape extensions to enable the creation of Orienteering maps using Inkscape. I am producing a map of an urban area, which is larger than A3 paper size at 1:4,000. The SVG file is currently 2,126KB with over 3,200 objects (and counting) and has three linked (not embedded) image files; two maps and aerial imagery from Google Maps. Most of the map has been produced using standard Inkscape functionality for lines and shapes. Now, though, when I want to convert a line to a special line type (such as a tagged line representing a fence), the extension runs very slowly and sometimes crashes Inkscape. Sometimes Inkscape 'loses' the aerial imagery, instead displaying a low res image saying 'Linked image not found' at which point I can save and exit normally. Other times, Inkscape crashes with the following message - 'GLib-Error **:gmem.c:175: Failed to allocate 134217728 bytes aborting...'. I've tried running other extensions, not just my O-scape ones, with the same results. I'm running Inkscape in Windows Vista Home Premium on an Intel Core2 6600 @ 2.40GHz computer and have recently increased the available RAM from 2GB to 4GB. Am I reaching the limit of Inkscape? Is there some way that I can alter my set-up to a) make extensions fun faster, and b) stop the extensions losing the linked files or crashing Inkscape? Jon

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Release of JessyInk development snapshot
by Hannes Hochreiner 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Dear all: For those interested in having a say in the future development of JessyInk, you can download an alpha of version 2.0.0 from the project website: http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/downloads/detail?name=JessyInk_2_0_0_alph… Below you can find the release announcement: JessyInk 2.0.0 alpha 1 released! This is a development snapshot of version 2 of JessyInk. The main purpose of this release is to give the community an opportunity to provide feedback on the new design of JessyInk. This version is a re-implementation of the code in a highly modular way. The user interface is now based on graphical objects that can be copied and grouped for installation of the scripts and assignment of effects and views. So far only very basic functionality is provided. However, further features will be added in future versions leading up to version 2.0.0. Although this version of JessyInk is functional, it is not recommended for production use. I am looking forward to receiving your feed-back. Cheers, Hannes

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Getting Inkscape to work as a template editor
by unkown UN 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

I have a design that is created in Inkscape, its a poster that has visual, and informational elements to it. The information bits are subject to change. Is there a way that I can get Inkscape to pull the data from a datasource [i.e. XML]? Is a tr [preprocessing] the only way to go with this? The task I am attempting to accomplish is to create a shell script that'll accept a specific dataset to pass onto the template, use inkscape to transform the inkscape resulting file into a PDF. etc -Steven

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