February 2011 - Inkscape Users

PCWorld blog post about Inkscape
by Phil Shapiro 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi Inkscape fans, I had fun writing this PCWorld blog post about the use of Inkscape by thousands of students in the Los Altos, California, schools. see http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, thanks for sharing: Los Altos Students Delight in Using Inkscape (PCWorld) http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh #inkscape #FOSS #creativity #design phil shapiro -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by gespertino＠...155... 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Gaz: That sounds like a lot of fonts. I'd use a font manager to create groups (based on style, typology, etc.) and load and unload them when necessary. Having so many fonts active will only make difficult to choose, will make applications start slower and won't help much. For linux you can use FontyPython or Font Manager

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Where to find SVG artists/designers?
by Philip Rhoades 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

People, I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this proposal? Any suggestions? The site to be revamped is: http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Where to find SVG artists/designers?
by xm 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

>> People, >> >> I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in >> SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it >> occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much >> more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style >> sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get >> a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a >> competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - >> how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this >> proposal? Any suggestions? Hi Phil, maybe the contest is nice idea. The problem is that in this kind of issues the difficulty of decide which design is the 'best'. One possibility is to organize the contest where the prize's selection system is decided crowdly by votations between an open community of designers. If you need this selection and you dont have the device to do it, one choice is build it on your own. Maybe is a nice idea to select material or styles in order to choose your collaborators. salut xà! -- GDT >> http://noconventions.mobi/graficantsDtrisseny/ dAAX! >> http://noconventions.mobi/x! tAZ >> http://noconventions.mobi/nvisible.taz/ HTDj! >> http://hackthedj.wordpress.com/ :::..::.......:.. : .. .. .:: . ..:.. .. . .. . .:.. ....... rm -rf / i ens ho carreguem tot.... >> The site to be revamped is: >> >> http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org >> >> For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: >> >> phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org >> >> (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil. >> -- >> Philip Rhoades >> >> GPO Box 3411 >> Sydney NSW 2001 >> Australia >> E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

> I have over 1000 fonts and not the room to store them all > on the home drive Use a font management software, I explore fonts before doing designs... typically I even send screenshots of preselected fonts for sample text so that I don't have to install the fonts to do that. C

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Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by Gary Hawkins 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

HI I have over 1000 fonts and not the room to store them all on the home drive I use a mac running OSX (snow leopard) so I moved some fonts to an external drive. Now what is the best way to use these fonts with inkscape - currently have 0.48 but use 0.47 now & then with my black cat cougar electronic die cutter A short term solution is I drag the font I want to my fonts folder but it would be nice if I could access the external drive fonts from within inkscape as I don't always know what font I want until I am part way into the design. Can I do this or am I just going to have to either bog down the system with the fonts or drag them over as I need them and re-start inkscape every time? Thanks Gaz

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Printing fails with error message printed to paper.
by Manuel Reimer 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hello, as my printer works in all other applications, I don't really thing, that the problem is in my printer setup or the printer driver. If I try to print from Inkscape (0.48), then anything, I get, is a paper with this line on it: **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. I tried with GIMP (seems to have the same printing dialog) and there printing works well. To get something printed from Inkscape, I have to print to PDF first, then open this PDF in okular and print it from there to my printer. Pretty silly workaround. Would be nice if someone could help me to resolve this issue... Yours Manuel

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 57, Issue 1
by Carl Symons 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:02:04 +1100 > From: Philip Rhoades <phil@...2067...> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Where to find SVG artists/designers? > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > People, > > I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in > SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it > occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much > more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style > sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get > a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a > competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - > how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this > proposal? Any suggestions? > > The site to be revamped is: > > http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org > > For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: > > phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org > > (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) > > Thanks, > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > GPO Box 3411 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > E-mail: phil@...2067... > Hello Philip, It's great that you are looking to the Inkscape artist community for what they can provide. This kind of approach is one of the things that makes the open source community work well. Unfortunately, contests have gotten a bad reputation. They are a way to get a bunch of people to contribute free art with no assurance that anyone will actually be compensated. Further, the really good artists won't participate because they work for pay. It would probably be best to have people submit proposals and samples of existing work, and then select someone whose work you prefer. I am not a professional artist; more oriented towards business and writing. I use Inkscape (it's my favorite application) to create quilt mockups and other rough images. So I won't be proposing. But I think that you and the Inkscape community might be happier with something other than a contest. Thank you again for supporting the open source community. Carl

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Selecting area to print
by Jon 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

I have an image in Inkscape that is larger than the paper size for my printer. I do not want to rescale the image. I would like to be able to move the page frame and select the portion of the image to be printed. Is this possible? Is there a way to change the origin for the picture? Jon

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Inkscape Not Starting
by Ole Ersoy 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi, I'm trying to run Inkscape with Gnome on Fedora 14 and when I try to start it I get the following: Failed to execute child process "GTK_IM_MODULE=gtk-im-context-simple" (No such file or directory) Any ideas? TIA, - Ole

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