September 2010 - Inkscape Users

Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape pays no attention to my swatch file
by Guillermo Espertino 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi Mike: The configuration files are placed in ~/.config/inkscape/ (since version 0.47 iirc). hth, Gez.

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Inkscape pays no attention to my swatch file
by Mike McNally 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

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.

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Inkscape Keyboard Layout v.047 - color coded
by vwanweb 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hello, Below is a link to an Inkscape Keyboard Layout for release v.047 - color coded http://www.openclipart.org/detail/81331 http://www.openclipart.org/detail/81331 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Inkscape-Keyboard-Layout-v.047---color-coded-tp297884… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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import ai/pdf file to inkscape only gives a blank page
by Kabeer Nasir 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

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

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Font Problem: SVG File Exported Illustrator
by Cuong Tham 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

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

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Font Problem: SVG File Exported Illustrator
by Cuong Tham 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

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.

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Text from imprted pdf not split
by Sebastian Busch 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

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.

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Perfect book cover.
by John Culleton 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

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

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Paerfect book cover template.
by John Culleton 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

The template shows guides. Is there a handy way to convert those guides to line segments for export? -- 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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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] ui improvements
by Jasper van de Gronde 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

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).

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