Inkscape on Windows 7 pro 64 bit - very slow, unusable.
by donn
Hello,
I am posting on behalf of a friend who is stuck on Win7 pro (64 bit I
think). He installed the latest Inkscape (as of about Jan 2011) and he
cannot use it at all. His laptop is pretty powerful with min 2gigs of
RAM; hell, it makes my desktop look like a block of wood!
It's very slow to draw, to drag around or zoom. There are no advanced
filters, or anything complex, being used - even a blank file with a
single line in it cannot be edited.
I am asking if there are any windows "tips" for using Inkscape? Is there
some kind of "XP mode" or some advice re 64bit/32bit or maybe some
graphic driver tips? Perhaps there are known clashes with other fancy
windows software - like a colour enhancer (he has some kind of thing
that makes his colours brighter on his laptop).
Anyone have a clue what I could suggest to him?
Thanks,
\d
12 years, 7 months
Convert to eps in command line without embed or link prompt
by Adin Ramirez Rivera
Hi all,
I'm wondering if is there any command or parameter that I can set on
Inkscape to perform a conversion automatically.
For example, if you do *inkscape -E image.eps image.jpg*, then a window
appears and ask you if you want to embed or link the image.
However, I need to do this conversion for a batch of images; and I need an
automatic way of setting the option: embed or link.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
adin
12 years, 7 months
Can't start on Win7
by Jonathan Mitchem
I was using an older version of Inkscape (not sure which one), and couldn't
start it: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)."
I upgraded to latest version (0.48.0) after an uninstall. I deleted all
user preferences too. I am getting the same error.
I checked in my AppData/Roaming/inkscape, and all I have in there are empty
folders.
What do I need to do to get this working?
12 years, 7 months
Importing paths from OneNote to Inkscape via clipboard
by Alex
Hi,
I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes with my tablet, sometimes I need
to modify the sketches - and there's no better tool than Inkscape for
that.
Simply selecting the paths in OneNote and pasting them into Inkscape
works as expected. The problem is that the resulting objects have a
great number of nodes, so it becomes very difficult to apply any
further transformations. Even on a reasonably fast machine, scaling an
object takes a while.
I made a short video, to illustrate what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcE7C4_NN8
The workarounds I found are:
- press Ctrl+L multiple times to simplify the paths (Inkscape will
freeze, but if you're patient - it comes back eventually). Don't be
too greedy, if you Simplify multiple times without waiting for
Inkscape to update the rendered image - it will crash.
- save OneNote's image to a bitmap, then trace the bitmap with
Inkscape. This produces objects that have a relatively sane number
of nodes, but this operation takes more time and involves the use of
other tools- it is not as convenient as copy/pasting.
Taking notes directly in Inkscape does not produce good results. There
is a delay between the stroke of the pen and the appearance of the
stroke on the screen - so I don't see what I'm writing. Apparently,
this short-timed lack of feedback is sufficient to make me hate my own
handwriting.
So, this boils down to 2 questions:
1. can someone suggest a better approach to migrating sketches from
OneNote to Inkscape?
2. is there something I can change in my Inkscape habits in order to
be able to take notes directly in Inkscape?
Alex
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12 years, 7 months
divots in bevels
by Steven Parkes
In trying to do a minimal amount of glitz for a button with the beveling filter, it comes out with a bit of a divot. The result is at
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11615635/lump.png
Something to do with the house/home shape?
Any way to cajole it into not doing that?
12 years, 7 months
cutting a sharp hole through a blurred object
by Steven Parkes
I haven't been able to figure out a way to do this, but my inkscape skills aren't too strong.
I have a drawing that at the lowest level has an irregular glow. It's a freehand path-based polygon with a heavy blur on it. The blur is all alpha. On top of this is path-based, alpha=1 object; nothing special.
I need to knockout an interior region of this to an alpha of zero. It's easy to knockout the alpha=1 object with path difference. However, I can't figure out how to cut a hole in the underlying glow-producing path. It's easy enough to do the path difference, but this actually cuts a hole in the glow-producing path which then blurs into the interior, the part I want to be alpha=0.
What I'd like to do is kinda multiply the alpha channel of two paths/groups.
The (incorrect) approximation of this is to take the png that I produce at the end and map a particular color to the alpha channel. This doesn't handle the anti-aliased edges correctly.
Any suggestions?
12 years, 7 months
I'm find advertising with SVG. mobile, web or others...
by Valessio S Brito
Hi all,
I'm looking for work performed in SVG for advertising. May be work for
internet or mobile devices, interactive or not.
please, share links/yours jobs.
I'm doing research for my course in advertising. I would like to
demonstrate the use of SVG in advertising.
Thank you.
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mobile: +55 71 VALESSIO
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