June 2010 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

UniConvertor 1.1.5 release
by Igor Novikov 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hi all! sK1 Team are proud announcing UniConvertor 1.1.5 release. I think you remember UniConvertor is used by Inkscape as external set of import/export filters (like for CorelDRAW files, WMF etc.) A year of hard work, the masses of improvements and innovations, some multi platform feature in new version - detailed description you can find an excellent review of Alexandre Prokoudine: http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=20 UniConvertor 1.1.5 for win32 is prepared as a standalone application bundle with some interesting feature. It includes small script which integrates external UniConvertor into Inkscape 0.47/0.48pre1 installation. So right now Inkscape win32 users can upgrade Inkscape import/export features without waiting for a new Inkscape version! Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org

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Importing eps image.
by John Culleton 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

I want to import an eps image that is 15in wide x 12 in high. Even if I preset the page size to those numbers the import reverts to 8.5 x 11. Inkscape 0.48 rev 1. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Inkscape 0.48pre1
by Ted Gould 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello, I pleased to announce the tarballs representing the 0.48pre1 release of Inkscape. This is one of the final stops on the rapid road to release. Please look at this release to see if there are any show stopper issues for the 0.48 release. == Download == https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48pre1/ bzr get lp:inkscape -r tag:INKSCAPE_0_48_PRE1 [1] == SHA1 Sums == 8e4eb561ae5fd8bfbc9c7149f3c0ef3115454cb5 inkscape-0.48pre1.tar.bz2 353b2e1dbc12773a0444b97c6bab1fd7dd632c04 inkscape-0.48pre1.tar.gz 5f64dfe8e9c01e600b52f5b3c33b9325a5cd42f7 inkscape-0.48pre1.zip --Ted [1] Is the Bazaar tag useful? I threw it in there because I thought that might be easier for some folks, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?

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language problem
by Hago Ziegler 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi, if I put the cursor over one of inkscapes tool-icons, a line pops up, that describes the function of the tool. I would like to know, how this sort of pop-up-line is called in english. In only one of this pop-up-lines I found also the keyboard shortcut for the tool (shift-F2). I would like to ask the devellopers to put the keyboard-shortcut in the pop-up-line of every tool. It would help a lot to all the people who don't use inkscape every day. Thanks, Hago

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0.48 alpha report
by John Culleton 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Downloaded the 0.48 alpha package and started to play with it. My first interest was the capability to use CMYK colors. Before 0.48 the doctrine was that you could use three out of four CMYK colors but not 4 out of 4. With 0.48 as you move one CMYK slider one of the others tends to jump back to zero but not always. By fiddling some I was able to establish rich black at 60,40,40,100. Given that internally Inkscape is still using the RGB color model I wonder if this is a color that will actually be used for output. There are several swatch bars available but none seem to be expressed in CMYK terms. If in fact all possible CMYK colors can be expressed in RGB terms then it should be possible to use pseudo CMYK colors on the Inkscape color bar and pass these shades on to e.g., Scribus in RGB format. I would be interested in comments from the developers on this. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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problem (bug?) while importing LilyPond pdf in inkscape 0.47 / osx 10.6.2
by josé henrique padovani 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi, I'm trying to import some pages of pdf files generated with LilyPond. I need to import the scores as pdf, ps or eps because there are built-in postscript drawings that could not be generated by LilyPon's svg backend. I have made a copy of LilyPond OTF fonts into /Library/Fonts (have also tried ~/.fonts and ~/Library/Fonts)... (the files are: CenturySchL-Roma.otf CenturySchL-Bold.otf CenturySchL-BoldItal.otf CenturySchL-Ital.otf emmentaler-11.otf emmentaler-13.otf emmentaler-14.otf emmentaler-16.otf emmentaler-18.otf emmentaler-20.otf emmentaler-23.otf emmentaler-26.otf emmentaler-brace.otf) I can use these fonts if I start a new document in InkScape, but it fails to find the fonts if I try to open or import a pdf page. It seems to be an "import" issue, because I can open these files in Illustrator (I don't want to use it) and the fonts are recognized by the inkscape if I try to create new texts... Could it be a Inkscape/import bug? Does anyone have any suggestion about how to load the ps/pdf/eps lilypond documents? thanks, josé -- http://zepadovani.info

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Further requests for assistance with Python extensions
by Jon 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I'm now in the process of optimising and documenting my Inkscape extensions that implement the International Orienteering Federation mapping standards. There are some areas of the extensions that I would like to improve to make them more universal / intuitive. 1) Currently, a number of my routines apply formatting and patterns of tags or dots to paths (strokes). I would like to extend the routines to also be compatible with rectangles and arcs / ellipses. I assume that the routines to do most of what I want already exist in one or other of the 'helper' files like cubicsuperpath, pathmodifier and simpletransform, but as yet I've not worked out how to make them work for me. I need to understand how to implement the following from within a Python extension: a) Convert a rectangle to a path. Will rectToPath in pathmodifier do this and, if so, what do I need to provide for self amd node? b) Convert an arc/ellipse to a path. Will ArcToPath in cubicsuperpath do this and, if so, what do I need to provide for p1 and params? 2) I also need to understand how to apply a transform to a path (i.e. embed the transformation into the path so the transform is not required) so that effects applied to a heavil transformed path (as can happen when using ellipses / arcs) are applied correctly. Will one of the routines in simpletransform do what I want and, if so, which one and what would I need to supply to it? 3) I still need to provide the capability via an extension to convert a line into two lines of a given line width and a set distance apart. This will need to work with curved paths, both open and closed. The way that I would do this manually in Inkscape would be to create a stroke, duplicate it, set the widths of the two strokes such that the lower is the width of the two lines plus the gap and the upper is the width of the gap, convert both strokes to paths using Path - Stroke to Path and then to use the Path - Difference function to leave two lines of the required width and separation. How could I go about recreating this from within a extension? Is there an easier method to do this, given that the two lines should not be joined at the ends? Still outstanding from a previous request are a couple of unanswered questions (rephrased): 4) Ho would I go about detecting whether a point lies within the bounds of a closed shape passed to a Python extension? Is there an existing routine in one of the Python extension 'helper' files that can do this? 5) How would I go about implementing a method to detect collision / distance between dots from within an extension? I'd like to implement something similar to the 'Remove Overlaps' capability available within the 'Align and Distribute' dialog as part of the routine generating the dots, but with a single (polar - sqrt(x^2 * y^2)) variable related to the user-selected dot density determining how close the dots can be placed to each other. I can see that this could get complex when the area, and hence the number of dots, gets large. With regard to these last two, I believe there may be something possible using py2geom, but where do I find details of this? What are its capabilities and are they documented anywhere? ----- Jon

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Inkscape 48
by John Culleton 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I have Inkscape 47 installed on my Slackware Linux 13 system. Is Inkscape 48 stable? If so how do I download the source? If it is not stable what is the address for the svn version of Inkscape? I update Scribus nightly so I might as well do the same for Inkscape. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Unexpected behavior in Inkscape 0.47
by Steve Litt 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hi all, I ran into some unexpected behavior in Inkscape 0.47, running on Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit. When you duplicate and move diagram connectors, they don't move as expected. This happens on diagrams whose page size and/or orientation has been changed, and doesn't happen when the page size and orientation have never been changed. SYMPTOM REPRODUCTION * Open a new diagram * Create a diagram connector * Click the "select and transform objects" button * File->Document_properties->Page_orientation, change to landscape * Select the diagram connector * Ctrl+D to duplicate * Shift->Right The Shift->right moves the new connector down instead of right. From my perspective this is unexpected behavior and indeed when the page size is left at default, shift->right moves the connector right as expected. MECHANISM OF THE ANOMALY When you change the paper orientation, it puts a "transform="translate(0,-308.2677)" attribute within the <g> node of the Inkscape XML. If you remove that attribute, the anomaly goes away. If you put the attribute back, the anomaly returns. WORKAROUND When starting a new document, do any paper size and orientation settings immediately on the blank diagram, then remove all transform=translate attributes and save. Diagram connectors will then work normally on the drawing as long as the paper size and orientation aren't changed. I have no idea what side-effects this workaround would create, but I haven't observed any. WHAT I'VE DONE This looks to me to be something like bug number 479553, "Moving shape with connectors, connectors go wild", so I appended my findings to that bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/479553). MY QUESTIONS: * Is this a known problem? * Is anyone working on it? * Is this fixed in later versions than 0.47? * Is this considered a bug? * What side effects occur when deleting transform=translate attributes? * Can anyone else reproduce this behavior? * Is the problem that the transform=translate shouldn't be there, or is the problem that connectors don't properly respond to the transform=translate? * Is there anything I can do to help get this behavior fixed? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

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Justification of text on an arc?
by Jim Ford 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi If I draw an arc and some text, select them both and then Text->Put on Path, I get the text 'left' justified on the arc. I would like the text _centre_ justified. How do I go about it, please? Jim

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