September 2011 - Inkscape Users

TSP (traveling salesman problem) art WAS shaded hatching
by Tom Sparks 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

I have tried TSP art[1], but inkscape redrawing was slow while rotate and resize the TSP image cause me to miss rotate and miss scale even with snap to gird on I am wondering if there is another tool that can do the rotating and resize the tsp image? [1] http://wiki.evilmadscience.com/TSP_art -- tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do" Please use ISO approved file formats excluding Office Open XML - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 3 x (x)Ubuntu 10.04, Amiga A1200 WB 3.1, UAE AF 2006 WB 3.X, Sam440 AOS 4.1.2 Roland DXY-1300 pen plotter, Cuttok DC330 cutter/pen plotter Wanted: RiscOS system, GEOS system (C64/C128), Atari ST, Apple Macintosh (68k/PPC only)

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Continuing with svg on the web.
by john Culleton 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I know that Google and perhaps others try to analyze the text in PDF files for purposes of SEO. Does the same hold true for svg? Since the svg file is essentially plain text it seems to me that it would be easier for a web crawler to scan svg as compared to pdf. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Plain versus inkscape enhanced svg and SEO.
by john Culleton 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I have been experimenting with inkscape output for use as web pages. Most browsers will handle inkscape but some earlier browsers on Mac systems won't. Does anyone know whether the use of plain svg or inkscape svg affects the acceptability of the svg file as a web page? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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How to change toolbar positions?
by Lars Behrens 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi there, is there a way to dock the "New document/Open/Save,..." toolbar to the top of the working space instead of the "far east" right side? It doesn't seem to work here with 0.48. -- Cheerz, Lars

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Imprting book cover.
by john Culleton 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

I want to display a book cover. It is currently in pdf form but I can save it in any of a number of other formats. When I saved it in svg (from Scribus) the file was huge and the image was distorted. so that is out. That leaves PDF or a variety of bitmap choices. I am thinking of png or tiff. I want fidelity and reasonable size in the final svg file. Any recommendations? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Tracing bitmap multi-scan
by Tom Sparks 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Q1: When using multi-scan options (from the tracing bitmap dialog) a box is saved around the image when the file is saved to HPGL, how do I stop the box from being created? Q2: Is there a way to invert the traced image? -- tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do" Please use ISO approved file formats excluding Office Open XML - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 3 x (x)Ubuntu 10.04, Amiga A1200 WB 3.1, UAE AF 2006 WB 3.X, Sam440 AOS 4.1.2 Wanted: RiscOS system, GEOS system (C64/C128), Atari ST, Apple Macintosh (68k/PPC only)

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Problems with text.
by john Culleton 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I am having no luck flowing text into a text frame. Instead I will just create an ordinary rectangle as a shape, highlight both and try flowing into a shape. It would be nice if text could be flowed in from an external file, a la Scribus. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Linked Image Not Found
by Isidoro Legido Martínez 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi I am generating PNG from SVG using the command line (WXPSP2) inkscape.exe -e <imgFile> <svgFile> My SVG file looks like <svg> <defs> <pattern id="myPattern".....> </pattern> </defs> <path.... style="fill: url(#myPattern);"/> </svg> When I generate the PNG I get the "Linked Image Not Found". If I open the SVG file with Inkscape I get the same error, but if I replace the http:// by a local path (file:/// because I run the Web server locally), it shows the image. I can not embed the image and the URL is ok. In fact If I generate the PNG using Batik it is working fine. Is ther any problem using http:// form images? Is there any additional argument I must pass to the command line? Thanks a lot Isi

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Inkscape in html
by john Culleton 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

I have Inkscape working as a standalone, using Firefox as the test bed. Now I want to put together an hybrid file, html but with svg embedded. I found this toy online but it doesn't work on Firefox: <html> <body> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"> <circle cx="100" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="red"/> </svg> </body> </html> When I tried adding a more elaborate file created by Inkscape the text came through but the graphic elements were missing and the text passages were jumbled together. Various other options like <object or <embed either didn't work or didn't allow linking etc. At this point is svg in html too fragile to fool with? Are Inkscape extensions to svg getting in the way? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Layers in 48.1
by john Culleton 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

I opened up the layers dialog and tried to shut off visibility to the current layer etc. but that seemed to have no effect. Is it supposed to work as in Gimp or Scribus layer dialogs? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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