March 2011 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

outset confusion
by unknown＠example.com 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I am missing something simple I have the first image, gear.ps, that I want to cut out with a 0.125 endmill So I set outset in inkscape preferences to 5.625, select all nodes and path->outset and I get the second image, gear.svg Where am I going wrong Richard

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Inkscape, Fedora, and SXSW
by Máirín Duffy 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi Inkscape folks! Fedora is going to be promoting Inkscape at the South by Southwest expo in Austin, Texas next week. We've got a booth and we're running a contest where each of the four days we're featuring a specific free & open source application, and one of the days we are highlighting Inkscape. You can see the Inkscape logo stamps we made and the postcards where folks will be getting their cards stamped to enter a contest here: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/christmas-in-march/ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/preparing-for-fedoras-sxsw-debut/ We also highlighted Lorain Baird's Inkscape-created winning poster design entry into the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation contest on one of the flyers we'll be distributing: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/flyers-about-free-open-source-softwa… (second flyer, upper left) We also have beautiful tri-fold brochures, one for graphic designers, which also highlights Inkscape: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/designteam/?p=28 We're going to be talking up Inkscape and really trying to build up awareness of it and to encourage the very creative and tech savvy folks at SXSW to give it a try and even contribute back to it. If any Inkscape users or developers are going to be at SXSW, we'd like to invite you to drop by our booth and say hi (you can even get your photo taken with Tux at our booth! :) ) It's booth #344 in the expo hall. In Fedora we absolutely love (I'd go so far as to say worship!) Inkscape and we're hoping our enthusiasm shows through at the show in getting folks to give it a try :) Cheers! ~m -- Máirín Duffy Fedora Design Team Leader

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Command line confusion - Inkscape 0.48.1
by donn 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, On the matter of exporting pages to PDF, I have been trying to use the cli without much luck. I have observed that if you fit the canvas/page to the selection and then save as a pdf (and tick to use the page) then the PDF output works. Any other way and it does not -- for example, if you give an object an ID and then try to save as PDF only that ID, it's blank. I have many objects --rectangles as pages, with content in each grouped to the rectangle. So, I thought to try the command line for: select an object by ID, fit the page to it and then save a pdf. Something like this: inkscape --select=bozo --verb=FitCanvasToSelection -C -A out.pdf mysvg.svg But that gives a blank PDF. The same actions in the gui work fine. My plan was to then loop that in bash and get a bunch of pageXX.pdf files which I could then join in some way, yet to be grokked. Anyone have a clue? \d

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Inkscape Website Progress...
by Ian Caldwell 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello, here's an update on the website. We have made some nice progress and it is defiantly coming along. It's going to be launched in phases. Phase #1 will be the main site with all the content and Phase 2 will consist of various things for the user allowing them to be able to post their own tutorials and plugins etc. However in order to do that we need help! We need the following: 1. content writers to go through the site and improve on the existing write ups. 1. Additional old news needs to be ported over. We ported over all of 2010 and 2011 but we need all news ported over 2. Django developers to finish up the last few features After all that 3. we need translators to translate the various parts of the website You can follow the project here: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin/inkscape-web/inkscape-web Also the site is visible at http://dev.inkscape.org please feel free to drop by on irc.freenode.net and join #inkscape-web Thanks, Ian Caldwell

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redocking toolbar
by Sébastien Lanteigne 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, I'm not sure if it's just me who can't figure this out. I have undocked the right side toolbar in 0.48.1 to put it back on top where I had it in 0.47 but now I can't redock it on top or elsewhere. Inkscape 0.48.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Seb.

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Inkscape 0.48.1 is out!
by Josh Andler 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hey All, After 6 months of development and delays out of our control, Inkscape 0.48.1 is out. This bug-fix release of the SVG-based vector graphics editor contains over 80 bug fixes as well as improves stability and performance on all platforms. Please visit inkscape.org for more information and to get your copy. As a side note, if you're a member of the following sites, showing the news some love is always welcome. reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/fxg78/inkscape_0481_bugfix_releas… slashdot - http://slashdot.org/submission/1489758/Inkscape-0481-released deviantART - http://fav.me/n145112 Cheers, Josh

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map units
by Sébastien Barthélémy 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hello, I'd like to draw the map of a building using inkscape, and overlay my drawings with satellite views. A batch program would then modify the map to adjust the position of some points. Then I would like to import the svg file into sketchup and use it as a basis for quick 3d renderings. And now the question: which units should I use for the canvas? The building size is 50x15 meters. My first idea was to use this size as the canvas, but for some reason, in such a case, inkscape does not allow me to unzoom as much as I would like too (I cannot have the full drawing on screen). Is there as reson for this and a workaround? I know many maps and GIS use SVG somehow, how do they choose their basis unit? A Cheers

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Rotating the Axonomgrid
by Shawn H Corey 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

I want to use Inkscape to draw some hex-maps and the axonomgrid is perfect for this except I want it rotated 90 degrees. Is the a way to do this, or better yet, rotate the entire page? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.

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Download Stats
by Josh Andler 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hey All, I just thought people would like to know that we breached over 1 million downloads in a single month on sf.net in January. Note that their tracked downloads since the project first posted files is at ~14.4 million total. I'd say that makes January quite a significant month. :) For those interested in more download stats (this is per month since the beginning): https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/stats/timeline?dat… Great work community! Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Single SVG file to multi-page PDF
by crjw 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

This can be done with a ViewBox. 1. Create your file in Inkscape. 2. Save the file; this is your master. 3. Create one copy of the master file for each page you wish to print. 4. Open each of the copies in an text editor (do this one file at a time). 4a Using the text editor adjust the width and height to be the size of a printed page. 4b Still using the text editor, add a ViewBox with an appropriate offset. 4c. Save the modified file and exit the text editor. 5. Open up each of the modified copies in Inkscape and convert to PDF (do this one file at a time). ###################################################### e.g. The following file is 25.5 inches by 11 inches (assuming 90px per inch) (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "master.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="2295" height="990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> ###################################################### Now here is a modified version that renders the middle of the drawing on an 8.5x11 inch page. (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "page2.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="756" height="990" viewBox="765 0 765 990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> Note: If you carve up the drawing such that drawing elements are sliced by page borders, you might want to consider adding margins. Margins can be generated by clipping the area you want to print with a clipPath that is slightly smaller than the size of a printed page.

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