March 2010 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

0.48 About Screen Contest is a go!
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hey All, We do have recent builds for Windows & OSX now, so, it's now time to begin the contest. Find out more at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/30919607/ Cheers, Josh

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Progress on 0.48 snapshot for MacOSX?
by John LeMasney 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hey, all. I'm very excited to play and report bugs for 0.48, though the only compiled binaries I've seen have been for Windows. I'm wondering if a) someone knows of a nightly 0.48 snapshots directory for Mac OS, or if b) someone could tell me what to do to try to compile my own. I want to help. I want to contribute. I want to squash bugs. I want Inkscape to continue to be the best open source illustration application in existence. I'm most familiar with compiling in Linux, e.g. ./configure&&make&&make install&&make clean What do I need to do to get the sources and compile in Mac OS 10.5.8? I've been more of a user than a developer there. Anyone know of a good quick overview that is applicable to Inkscape's sources? I'll RTFM if you tell me where it is. Thanks in advance! John. -- John LeMasney LeMasney Consulting and Design | lemasney@...155... | 6095539498 wishlist: http://is.gd/4KiSd cv: http://johnwlemasney.wordpress.com networks: http://profiles.google.com/lemasney Zemanta <http://www.zemanta.com> helped me add links & pictures to this email. It can do it for you too. <http://www.zemanta.com/>

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Export as PDF with embedded bitmap: resoltion of export in dpi not used, JPEG exported a PNG?
by Martin Bretschneider 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi, I want to use some bitmaps (PNG or JPEG file) in Inkscape. If I export the file as PDF and set a resolution in DPI it is ignored. I can change it to 2 dpi and the image still look the same and the file size also does not change. If I use a JPEG file as import bitmap the file size rises. It seem that it is saved as PNG in the exported PDF file. Can you help me with a proper pdf export that reuses the imported file type and the resolution in the export file dialogue. TIA Martin

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Need upgrade
by Krappies 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Good morning. I have had Inkscape for 2 years now. And would like to get the latest version. To download will take ten hours in South Africa. Is it possible to buy like I got it in the first place that you mailed me the cd as a package of cd earth. I realy love the program and now are running windows 7 and lost Inkscape in the upgrade. Kind regards. Krappies.

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Reducing the pdf in size.
by John Culleton 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb. Can anyone suggest a way to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step I will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport, and see what happens. -- 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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Perfect Bound Cover Template.
by John Culleton 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

The Perfect bound template is found under Extensions==>Render. One of the parameters is for cover thickness. Do I enter the thickness for one side or for both? For example 360 Digital Books asks for a cover thickness allowance of .038 inch. It is clear from the context that this is for both front and back covers. In Inkscape should I enter .038 in or .019 in? -- 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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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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Meshfill or gradientfill?
by Axel Richter 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi Inkscapeuser, i wrote for a long time to bugdatabase, but any ideas whats happen with the meshfill like corel or gradientfill adobe? you know that was an easyway take a color on the right position on a vektor. How can i write to a dev to push such a funktion? thanks for answer Axel

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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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Node Tool/Settings in current svn
by Alexander Roalter 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

I'm not sure when this change appeared, but lastly I read something about preserving the shape when deleting a node and how this was used in old versions, but disabled for a moment for the new node tool, and then inserted back. Now I'm wondering why this isn't working as expected anymore: when deleting a node between two cusp nodes, currently it is also trying to maintain shape: if I have a square, convert it to a path and then delete one corner, I don't get a triangle anymore, but a triangle with a rounded hypotenuse. Another is more of a question: I have a tablet (Graphire4), and previously was able to insert a node in a path by simply double-clicking on it. This is still possible with the mouse, but not with the tablet, and I suspect that's because I'm not able to push on exactly the same spot and therefore it is not recognized as a double click... Is there any possibility to set the threshold for the clicking radius in order to have a click recognized as double click? -- cheers, Alex

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