October 2011 - Inkscape Users

Single SVG file to multi-page PDF
by donn 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Anyone know how I could layout/hack a single Inkscape SVG file so that I can get a multi-page PDF out the other end? Inkscape -> layout tricks (maybe layers?) -> some process (maybe command line) -> PDF file with pages. At the moment I am laying-out logos and designs on a single 'page' which can be as tall as 9000 pixels. Is there a way to 'chop' a single PDF page like that into smaller chunks? \d

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fill&stroke, alignment don't work
by Carl Symons 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 running on Kubuntu 11.10 none of ctrl-shift-f, right-click fill&stroke, tool bar icon, (menu)object fill&stroke do anything same (lack of) behavior with align and distribute I've reinstalled Inkscape and installed inkscape-trunk. Nothing. Any ideas?

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Scaling in SVG
by Tavmjong Bah 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hi, I've been tasked by the SVG Working group to summarize scaling issues in SVG. What I mean by scaling issues, is things that one perhaps doesn't want scaled when zooming in or out on a drawing. An example would be a non-scaling line width for technical drawings (this has already been accepted for inclusion into SVG 2.0). Inkscape doesn't have any zoom independent features (except for outline mode) but it does include options for when objects are scaled or moved: 1. Scaling stroke width when scaling an object. 2. Scaling rectangle corners with scaling rectangles. 3. Scaling/moving gradients when objects with gradients are moved. 4. Scaling/moving patterns when objects with patters are moved. These would be candidates for non-scaling while zooming. Are there any other cases where non-scaling would while zooming would be of interest? Thanks, Tav

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Inkscape presentation flashing object effect (Jessyink / Sozi ...)
by Johnny 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Dear list, I am looking to create a presentation using an(y) inkscape plugin, so far I have tried Jessyink and just found Sozi. What I am looking for in particular is to be able to create a /flashing/ effect on appearance, so that when the object first appears, it should flash X times in Y seconds after which it just stays. This is to draw attention to the newly appeared object on a large image. How does one create such a flashing effect on appearance, can this be done with any of the plugins mentioned or others, or maybe it can be directly done in inkscape? Thanks! -- Johnny

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image import
by Gary Hawkins 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

HI is there a way to limit, or set, the size a image imports into inkscape (both 0.48 & 0.47)? if a image is created in a graphics program at 300dpi and a size of 6" X 6" it seems to import into inkscape around the 22" X 22" size is there a way to import at the 6" X 6" is was saved as? of course the size will change but is there a way to import at the size it was saved at or set a size to import to Thanks Gaz

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Inkscape closes when opening Layers dialog
by steve 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help. Im running Ubuntu 11.10 64bit and Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 (Jul 11 2011). When I open inkscape and try to open the layers dialog, either using the keyboard shortcut (Shift + Ctrl + L) or going to the menu and clicking Layer -> Layers inkscape immediately closes. Running inkscape from the terminal gives the following error: inkscape: symbol lookup error: inkscape: undefined symbol: _ZN3Gtk14TreeViewColumn14get_first_cellEv Could anyone point me in the right direction to solve this please? Thanks, Steve

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Still playing with/working on web apps.
by john Culleton 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

I like what I see in JessyInk. What I would like to do is attach a short sound tag to each level. I would like something that would play and then exit. I could go to an html page and have it exit after a certain period of seconds but that seems kind of kludgy. I did google on audio and Inkscape but the link I found was no longer operational. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Cannot log in the wiki
by Masato Hashimoto 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi, I cannot log in the wiki.inkscape.org. After entering username/password and click Log in button, Log in page appears again without any messages. My account is "hashimo", it was available as of 30 Sep. and I don't touch my account settings. Any idea? -- HASHIMOTO, Masato

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OSS Research Help needed -- enter drawing for tablet computer ($500.00 gift certificate) as a thank you for participating
by Lila Holt 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Hello! We are asking you for some help from the Open Source communities. As researchers at the University of Tennessee we are interested in discovering more about learning and interactions of members of the open source forums. This research is conducted through the University of Tennessee and is in no way associated with any forum organization. To further our research we would like input from forum members. The responses are very important to us so we can better understand what tools help forum members learn and have a productive experience in participation. To help: Take a survey about the tools you use in the forum. We are requesting approximately 15 minutes of your time to participate in our survey. Survey link: http://survey.utk.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=FORUMLEARN *As a thank you, upon exiting the survey you will be given an opportunity to submit information to be entered in a drawing for a tablet computer ($500.00 Gift Card). * Please be assured that your answers will be confidential. No individual’s answers will ever be identified in any report. Should you have any questions about the project or our interest in using the results, we encourage you to contact Lila Holt, at lholt@...2911...) or Vandana Singh at vandana@...2916...... Contact information you provide for the drawing is completely separate from your survey answers and there will be no way to identify participants in the actual survey responses. Nor will contact information be used for any other purpose. The odds of being selected will depend on the number of respondents to this survey.

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Automatically create book covers from Inkscape templates?
by Tuukka Hastrup 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi all, We at FLOSS Manuals would like to use Inkscape to automatically create PDF images for use as book covers by manipulating a template SVG file. The question is if Inkscape has the needed features and if we know how to use them. Here's an example of what a final book cover would ideally look like: http://tuukka.iki.fi/tmp/example-cover.png The ideal work flow would include an artist downloading an initial template made by a programmer who understands how Inkscape handles layers, flowed text etc. in the SVG level. The artist could modify the template in Inkscape and add it to a template collection. When a book is published, the user would choose a template from the collection and a script would fill in the book name, author, book logo and convert the SVG to PDF. In addition, the script would need to modify the width of the spine (the middle part in the example image) based on the number of pages in the book. Has anyone done anything like this before? Would it be feasible? One specific question would be if it's possible to somehow scale the font size of the book name to meet the specified page width. I had an initial discussion on the #inkscape IRC channel and got the following link as an example of simple search-and-replace: http://wiki.colivre.net/Aurium/InkscapeGenerator One issue would seem to be the inclusion of nested SVG images within the SVG document, but this could be worked around by including images as PNGs exported with appropriate DPI: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user/14208 Could someone on this list perhaps help us by creating a simple template which a search-and-replace process could then customise by substituting the book info texts, image filenames and the spine width? Regards, Tuukka

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