Right-to-left Urdu text editing
by nal sanj
Hello everyone,
my os is ubuntu karmic.
im facing problems in using Inkscape for texting in Urdu. The specific
problem im facing is that some alphabets are becoming distorted for example
the dots of ت are shifting from the top to the bottom in some cases and also
sometimes shifting to the end of the word. similar problems might be faced
by users in Farsi or Arabic.
any clues how to fix this?
12 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] ui improvements
by JimmyVolatile
To me, this is an excellent idea! Lots of little, nifty things like this is
in my experience what helps newcomers instantly start liking Inkscape. The
color boxes at the top right of the Inkscape window only opens my
preferences dialog, though. I would have expected the color dialog to
appear.
Cheers, Jimmy Volatile.
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)
12 years, 9 months
Elegant work - thank you
by Carl Symons
Yesterday, I led an orientation for a small group of beginners from an
Native American community in the US. They all wanted Inkscape loaded
on their new computers. It is a wonder-full, wonderful application.
This Native American nation's (Coastal Salish) heritage and culture is
loaded with arts, in particular totem-like images where Inkscape
excels. These students were already making exceptional images after
just a few hours. One girl did a piece with one star, Ctrl-D-ing,
tweaking and arranging the copies. She was gone into the timelessness
of creativity.
>From the mailing list today came my discovery of F11 and F12 toggles.
Simple, but functions I didn't know about or even realize I wanted. I
am amazed at the quality and thoughtfulness of Inkscape.
So this is a note of thanks to everyone who contributes to Inkscape.
You touch lives in unimaginable ways.
Carl
12 years, 9 months
3D figures.
by John Culleton
I like the availablity 3d polyhedrons. But can the aspect of these
figures be changed? The truncated tetrahedron for example yields a top
view. Can I get an angle view or even a side view of this 3d figure?
Or is it just a 2d representation of a 3d figure?
--
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, 9 months
SVG 2.0: Update want list
by Tavmjong Bah
Hi,
Thanks for all the replies. We're getting quite a list. Here is the
latest version:
1. Markers that can inherit parent attributes (e.g. marker fill takes
parent stroke color so arrow heads are same color as path).
2. New gradients:
A. Conical (special case of mesh?)
B. Mesh: (should match PDF types)
C. Diffusion curves.
3. Vector effects (see:
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVectorEffectsPrimer... )
4. Multipage SVG's.
5. Multiline text entry.
6. Perspective transforms.
7. Paths constructed of sub-paths with different attributes. Objects
that share paths. (Maybe included as part of vector effects.)
8. Control over stroke positioning (amount inside/outside path).
9. Vector fills.
10. Pattern filter: Variable pattern fills (e.g. size/density of dots as
function of color/alpha).
11. Embedded fonts.
--
Tavmjong Bah
Inkscape, Guide to Vector Drawing Program
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/
12 years, 9 months
small screen
by unknown＠example.com
My laptop has a small screen, and as a result it fits in my briefcase
and I can take it just about anywhere.
Usually that's a feature, but not whan I use Inkscape.
When I use inkscape (or the Gimp for that matter) there's very little
effective drawing area because most of the screen seems to fill up with
icons to do various things to my drawing. Is there any way to reduce
the clutter, and to see them only when I need them? Or to usually see
only the ones I use often?
-- hendrik
12 years, 9 months
Still struggling.
by John Culleton
Whether I work from the 0.48 source download or from the bazaar
download my compiles blow up at the same point:
-------------------------------
libinkscape.a(nr-filter-gaussian.o): In function
`_ZN8Inkscape7FiltersL12filter2D_FIRIhLj4EEEvPT_iiPKS2_iiiiPKNS_4Util10FixedPointIjLj16EEEii.omp_fn.5':
/usr/local/inkscape/src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp:371: undefined
reference to `void Inkscape::Filters::filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,
4u>(unsigned char*, int, int, unsigned char const*, int, int, int,
int, Inkscape::Util::FixedPoint<unsigned int, 16u> const*, int,
int)::C.639'
libinkscape.a(nr-filter-gaussian.o): In function
`_ZN8Inkscape7FiltersL12filter2D_FIRIhLj3EEEvPT_iiPKS2_iiiiPKNS_4Util10FixedPointIjLj16EEEii.omp_fn.4':
/usr/local/inkscape/src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp:371: undefined
reference to `void Inkscape::Filters::filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,
3u>(unsigned char*, int, int, unsigned char const*, int, int, int,
int, Inkscape::Util::FixedPoint<unsigned int, 16u> const*, int,
int)::C.622'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [inkscape] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
------------------------------------------
Obviously there is something screwed up on my system that ./configure
fails to catch. Can anyone suggest where this screw up might be? I
have no problem with downloading and installing another or newer
library but which one has the Gaussian filter stuff?
--
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, 9 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Tear off toolbars
by Paul Bolger
I'm running .48 on Ubuntu and I'm a bit puzzled by the interface
behaviour. some of the toolbars have moved from the top to the side of
the window. Grabbing them and tearing them off works, but I can't get
them to dock again. So I end up with a whole lot of free floating
toolbars cluttering up the screen until I do a restart.
It must be something simple - put me out of my misery please!
12 years, 9 months
