September 2010 - Inkscape Users

Right-to-left Urdu text editing
by nal sanj 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

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?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] ui improvements
by JimmyVolatile 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

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)

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Elegant work - thank you
by Carl Symons 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

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

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3D figures.
by John Culleton 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

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

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SVG 2.0: Update want list
by Tavmjong Bah 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

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.h… ) 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/

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small screen
by unknown＠example.com 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Google indexes SVG
by Nicu Buculei 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

On 09/01/2010 03:04 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 06:29 -0500, Aaron Spike wrote: > >> Hey, we win! Google now indexes SVG. > > It's a good start, but they don't seem to be indexed as images. (see > google image search) And they still don't follow the links inside the SVG, so you can't have a site made entirely in SVG for now. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com

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Still struggling.
by John Culleton 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Tear off toolbars
by Paul Bolger 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

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!

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Google indexes SVG
by Aaron Spike 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hey, we win! Google now indexes SVG. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-now-indexes-svg.h… Aaron Spike

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