Inkscape pays no attention to my swatch file
by Mike McNally
I'm using Ubuntu Lucid, Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Apr 4 2010)
I've got a file in my ~/.inkscape/palettes directory that has in the recent
past worked fine in Inkscape as a swatch file. (It's a simple GIMP format
file.) However, the file isn't working for me on a new Ubuntu installation,
and I can't figure out what it is I need to do to get the program to use the
file. There don't seem to be any configuration options or preferences about
the swatch file, and from everything I've read it just looks at anything in
that "palettes" subdirectory. I've checked permissions and ownership of the
directories and the file, and everything looks fine to me (all files owned
by me and readable).
Is there some trick to getting this working?
--
Turtle, turtle, on the ground,
Pink and shiny, turn around.
12 years, 6 months
import ai/pdf file to inkscape only gives a blank page
by Kabeer Nasir
Hey!
I have an .ai file with a logo in it that looks something like this
(scanned from a t-shirt):
http://cafeabel.no/banner.jpg
Problem is that when I try to import it in inkscape, it gives me a
blank file. I've viewed it in gedit so I know there's something in
there, but have no clue how to get it out. I've tried opening it with
GIMP and adobe PDF reader, but no go, I get the same blank page. Am I
doing something wrong or is the file completely useless?
Here's a link to the file:
http://cafeabel.no/cafeabel.ai
Any help would be greatly appreciated
-Kabeer
12 years, 6 months
Font Problem: SVG File Exported Illustrator
by Cuong Tham
I am working with a SVG file exported by Illustrator. I am on a
Ubuntu 9.10 box. When I open the SVG file in Inkscape 4.8, and view
the XML source, I see the font names appended by "-83pv-RKSJ-H". Due
to this, Inkscape doesn't render the text correctly. Is any way to
solve this problem? What is "-83pv-RKSJ-H"?
Here's a sample XML of the SVG exported by Illustrator:
<text
transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 644.9629 495.7021)"
id="text9636"><tspan
x="0"
y="0"
font-family="'FutoGoB101Pro-Bold-83pv-RKSJ-H'"
font-size="10"
id="tspan9638">あらゆ</tspan><tspan
x="255.75"
y="0"
font-family="'FutoGoB101Pro-Bold-83pv-RKSJ-H'"
font-size="10"
id="tspan9640">る</tspan></text>
Any advise would be apprei
12 years, 6 months
Font Problem: SVG File Exported Illustrator
by Cuong Tham
I am working with a SVG file exported by Illustrator. I am on a
Ubuntu 9.10 box. When I open the SVG file in Inkscape 4.8, and view
the XML source, I see the font names appended by "-83pv-RKSJ-H". Due
to this, Inkscape doesn't render the text correctly. Is any way to
solve this problem? What is "-83pv-RKSJ-H"?
Here's a sample XML of the SVG exported by Illustrator:
<text
transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 644.9629 495.7021)"
id="text9636"><tspan
x="0"
y="0"
font-family="'FutoGoB101Pro-Bold-83pv-RKSJ-H'"
font-size="10"
id="tspan9638">あらゆ</tspan><tspan
x="255.75"
y="0"
font-family="'FutoGoB101Pro-Bold-83pv-RKSJ-H'"
font-size="10"
id="tspan9640">る</tspan></text>
Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks.
12 years, 6 months
Text from imprted pdf not split
by Sebastian Busch
Dear list,
I would like to open
http://www.thamnos.de/l2.ps
in inkscape. Therefore, I use epstopdf to produce
http://www.thamnos.de/l2.pdf
which I can open.
However, the text at the x- and y-axes (0, 0.25, 0.5, ...) is one big
object each instead of an object per number. This would be my preferred
behaviour as a subsequent save as pdf with PDF+LaTeX will now end up in
a messed up LaTeX part:
http://www.thamnos.de/l2.pdf_tex
So I tried to split the numbers using the Split Text extension,
splitting words at the x-axis. This fails though with
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "split.py", line 215, in <module>
b.affect()
File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 215, in affect
self.effect()
File "split.py", line 202, in effect
nodes = self.split_words(node)
File "split.py", line 115, in split_words
x = float(line.get("x"))
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 0 40.54911213 47.89159253
84.76972857 92.11220897 128.98994884 136.33242924 173.21016911
180.55264951 217.43078555 224.77326595
I tried to add some print statements in split.py but it is not printed
to stdout... Can someone here please help?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian.
12 years, 6 months
Perfect book cover.
by John Culleton
I have three books on Inkscape, the third edition of "Inkscape Guide
to a Vector Drawing Program", "The Book of Inkscape" and the smaller
"Inkscape for Vector Graphics". None of the three mention the Render
tool "Perfect Book Template" which I am reasonably certain came in
with version 47 or perhaps earlier. With version 48 the barcode
generator choices include two that are useful for book covers, EAN 13
and EAN 5. With these enhancements Inkscape is not yet a complete
stand alone book cover tool (no CMYK, no PDF X/1-a) but it is getting
close. With a little help from other free software such as Scribus
the potential is exciting.
I suggest that as these three books are republished the potential for
creating book covers be acknowledged and the "Perfect Book Template"
be at least mentioned. It more or less replaces my effort shown here:
http://wexfordpress.net/template.html
While my program only generates the dimensions and the guide positions
as numeric output Inkscape actually creates a true template which can
be saved as a pdf and used in other programs like Scribus (or even
Gimp.)
The workload can be split between Inkscape and Scribus in various
ways. At one extreme only the template is taken from Inkscape,
imported into Scribus, and the external page dimensions fitted to the
imported pdf or png file. At the other extreme all of the creative work
can be done in Inkscape and the finished cover imported into Scribus
for conversion to CMYK and saving as PDF X/1-a where that is required
or desirable.
I am only beginning to experiment with these combinations. As my
experience grows I'll share the results. The next edition of my e-
book listed below will have both Inkscape and Scribus in the title.
Stay tuned!
--
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
12 years, 6 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] ui improvements
by Jasper van de Gronde
On 2010-09-03 11:48, Aleksandar Kovac wrote:
> ...
>
> So, one really simple solution for the 'user awareness' of the loaded
> color would be to put the color indicator directly on the tool cursor.
> even a small patch not bigger than 4*4px would give enough visual
> feedback and get rid of a much bigger piece of screen somewhere else.
> For example, when you take the rectangle tool, the cursor icon on the
> lower right changes to indicate this tool choice, right? Why it wouldn't
> indicate the color, too? So that you can see: a red circle, or a green
> rectangle... It would be OK semantically, since the purpose of that
> little icon by the cursor is 'reference'.
> ...
I actually liked this idea, as I've always been slightly surprised by
the initial result whenever I start drawing something in Inkscape, and
this would make that absolutely clear. So I've made an initial patch
that implements this (if I missed a tool, it's easy to add one, just
needs a small change to TOOL-context.cpp and some recoloring of
cursor-TOOL.xpm).
I'm interested in people's experiences, so I've attached a patch and
uploaded a Windows build to:
http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape-color-cursor.zip
(just inkscape.exe, so backup your current inkscape.exe, extract the zip
and your good to go)
One of the main glitches it currently has is that the "preview" doesn't
change if you select a different color (you have to reselect the tool).
Any ideas on fixing that would be appreciated (just reply to the devel
list only).
12 years, 6 months
