February 2010 - Inkscape Users

Inkscape 0.48 Chill (the winter is heavy everywhere!)
by Joshua A. Andler 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hey all, This is where 0.48 as a "release" begins! This email will be a little redundant for developers, but will let users know what the current plan is. The next stage (Frost) kicks into gear at the beginning of March in case you were wondering. For right now: *New feature development will focus on wrapping up. *We will identify "make check" issues (we need to make sure things are "friendly" for packaging). *We will run an About Screen contest on DeviantART (which I will announce within the next 24 hours and post all info to both lists). *Ensure that the Release Notes are at First Draft stage. This is primarily a developer task, however, if you are a user and follow development closely and have something to contribute in this area which we may have overlooked, such as fixed bugs, changes in functionality, etc. please contribute. *Update tutorials and other docs (we could use volunteers). Not joking, if you are an Inkscape user and have the misconception that the only way you can contribute is by code, you are missing out on one of the most important things for our users... documentation. If you have time to spare and some tips for others that you're willing to share, please let us know. --- boring developer junk --- I do want to request from developers... most "big" new stuff be committed by March 1st if possible (or shortly thereafter). JonCruz: The swatch previews for "auto" swatches are starting to worry me given that they have not been working for quite a while now (since 0.47 dev cycle). The same goes for the method of editing color (gradient editor rather than F&S dialog). If you will not have time to address these before Freeze, please expect that I will request the feature is disabled again for this release at that time... I will also request that in 0.49 that you not re-enable it until you are looking to actively work on it. Krzysztof: The new Node Tool is fantastic. I know you're actively working on it, but I do just want to make sure that you will be able to set aside a few hours here and there for bugfixing as there are still a number of bugs and features missing from previous releases. Arcadie/Michael: The Connector Tool really is not consistent with the behavior of other tools. If it is not likely to be sorted out by Freeze, I will request that at least the tool controls button for "add connection point" be disabled, as it is not user friendly at this point. Please know that I am not targeting people or criticizing their work. This is a schedule issue and our date of release was horribly far behind schedule for the past couple releases. We will just be sticking to release schedules much more strictly than we have previously, and if features aren't "bug-free"/complete enough to release on time... there's always next release! :) Besides, we're going to be in the trenches w/ 0.49 for a bit by what has been discussed so far. Cheers, Josh

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SVG support now embeddable in Firefox 3.6
by Linda Walsh 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I don't know about anyone else, but I just found out you can embed SVG instructions right alongside HTML in a web document in FF3.6. But to get it to work, you have to flip on the 'html5.enabled=true' in about:config. You can embed SVG images right inside your html now. Also, the Firebug extension, apparently added support for SVG's namespace to allow tinkering /debugging / seeing how SVG works directly in the browser. An example of intermixed svg is at: http://burningbird.net/svg/example4.html. If you have it enabled, you see a turquoise shaded panel on either side of the text, otherwise, its white. You don't have to restart the browser to toggle it. I have the about:config open in a separate window and searched on 'html5'. Brought up brought up 1 result. Double clicking on it toggles the value. the code has <p>...</p></div><svg preserveAspectRatio='none" viewBox=0 0 400 250" version=1.1" .. </svg> </body> </html> doctype at top (no mention of svg -- it's just part of the XHTML). <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head>.... So no more hybrid docs or embedded objects... Trés cool! Only works in Firefox 3.6, but other browsers expected to follow suit... so in case you wanted an easy test bed for your SVG outside of inkscape... :-) It's coming!... -linda (some other links..on HTML5 support.) http://m.alistapart.com/comments/using-svg-for-flexible-scalable-and-fun-ba… https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML5_support_in_Mozilla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%28HTML5%29

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help!
by Michaela Baulderstone 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, I have been learning Inkscape for the past few weeks and finally getting comfortable with this excellent program. My problem began when I downloaded Inkscape 4.7. Where previously 4.6 worked OK with my Wacom intuos 3, now it does not work in the document screen. I have googled extensively and the couple of solutions I found did not help (different ways of resetting pen settings). Looks like this is a bug...I am a newbie and need all the help I can get! Many thanks PinkDino

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NEW: LaTeX export for PDF/EPS/PS
by unknown＠example.com 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hello all, For all who use LaTeX, please read the text below from the Release Notes 0.48. Or read http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/SVG_in_LaTeX.pdf . (the new feature will be available in development test builds from this evening on) ===New LaTeX export for PDF/EPS/PS=== Similar to GNUPlot's `epslatex' output terminal, Inkscape can now export graphics to PDF with an accompanying LaTeX file that overlays the text over the PDF when inputted in LaTeX. The image's text is typeset by LaTeX, so for example mathematical expressions are rendered correctly, and all text will be in the font and style of the LaTeX document (even when changing the document's font afterwards). ''(the following description assumes export to PDF, but will work the same for EPS and PS)'' Two files will be created: a PDF file containing all graphics, without text; and a LaTeX file with the same name, containing all text, and code to include the PDF and overlay the text. To include the exported image in LaTeX, one writes \begin{figure} \centering \def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional \input{image.tex} \end{figure} A more thorough description of how to use the new feature (and automate the exporting/inclusion of the image in LaTeX) is given in this PDF: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/SVG_in_LaTeX.pdf ====From the GUI==== When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from Inkscape's GUI, the usual dialog pops up after selecting to which PDF/EPS/PS file to export to. In this dialog, you can find the PDF/EPS/PS+LaTeX option. ====Command line option==== When exporting to PDF/EPS/PS from the command line, adding --export-latex will turn the LaTeX export on. For example inkscape image.svg -z -D --export-pdf=image.pdf --export-latex Cheers! Johan Engelen

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SVG path, convert to absolute?
by Paul Reilly 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hello, I need to convert SVG vector images with bezier paths from relative to absolute coordinates. So it uses big "C" instead of little "c" id="path3" d="M 47,200 C 47,200 27,140 47,120 I can do this using the GUI, but I'd like to do it via the command line. I'm using: inkscape -l drawing.sgv drawing.svg but there doesn't seem to be a command line option to specify relative or absolute paths coords? Any ideas how I might do this via the command line? Thanks Paul

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Beginner question: How do I get rid of pie segment in ellipse
by John Culleton 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

I have two objects, a circle and an ellipse, which together make a cartoonish human eye. But there is a black line from the center to the edge for both objects. I understand that this is a pie segment in the circle/ellipse. No matter how I move the little circles on the edge I can't get rid of this line. If I move too far the entire shape disappears. Move back a tiny increment and there is the line again. To put it another way, how do I create either shape without having any pie slice at all? Just a pure circle or ellipse. I have three books on Inkscape but none of them seem to cover this problem. Inkscape 47 on Slackware 13 Liinux. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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bug?
by Elwin Estle 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard. I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path. How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path. What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?

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Open EPS with Gradient
by Tobias Schulz 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi, i have problems with opening EPS files with gradient. The file isnt rendered correctly. AI-Files are working right. I tried to convert the eps file with Ghostscript directly (to png and pdf). This works too, so it should be a problem with inkscape. Inscape 0.47 Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003 Ghostscript 8.70 and 8.71 Thanks for your help Tobias -- Tobias Schulz>>> In der Kirchtanne 27>>> 64297 Darmstadt-Eberstadt PropperDX@...961...>>> http://www.propperdx.de ____________________________________________________________________________ Diese Nachricht ist mit einer elektronischen Signatur versehen

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Re: [Inkscape-user] bug?
by Elwin Estle 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Still more update. I opened a new file. Used the box tool to make a box. Copied and pasted it. ...and got a nice .png file on my desktop again. And the copy pasted in Inkscape was an image. --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote: From: Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> Subject: Re: bug? To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:52 AM Further update. I just discovered that all the "pastes" I have done in an attempt to figure out what is going on, have created .png image files on my desktop. This is NOT something I was attempting to do at all. How did they get there? Very weird. --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote: From: Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> Subject: bug? To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:38 AM I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard. I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path. How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path. What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] bug?
by Elwin Estle 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Further update. I just discovered that all the "pastes" I have done in an attempt to figure out what is going on, have created .png image files on my desktop. This is NOT something I was attempting to do at all. How did they get there? Very weird. --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote: From: Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> Subject: bug? To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:38 AM I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard. I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path. How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path. What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?

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