January 2012 - 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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Create outline texts only when saving/exporting?
by Felix E. Klee 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I am currently comparing Illustrator and Inkscape for creation of SVG documents for the web. What I like about Illustrator is that it is possible to "Save a Copy..." of a document and specify that all texts should be converted to outlines *only for that copy*. So I can have all the texts editable in the document, and only in the end they will be converted to outlines. Is a similar workflow possible with Inkscape?

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Are the performance improvements of 0.49 already in trunk?
by Alexander (AddisMap) 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

We are using Inkscape to edit SVGs generated by the Maperitive OpenStreetMap renderer. Those files are very complex and Inscape is practially unuseable in the latest stable version. We found on http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49 that there are performance improvements upcoming. So we installed the package from the PPA 1:0.48+devel+10922+30~natty1. Build 10922 is the latest build in the trunk branch as I see. But using this version, there were no performance improvements notable. Are those announce performance improvements already in trunk or do be have to use some other branch? Best Regards, Alexander

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change color of arrowhead
by Peter Schürch 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, How do I change the colour of an arrow head from black to (e.g.) red? I can change the line colour but it seems not to affect the color of the arrow head. Any ideas are much appreciated ! Peter Inkscape Version 0.48, Windows 7 -- Meier und Partner AG Freiestrasse 26 8570 Weinfelden Tel +41 71 626 51 15 Fax +41 71 626 51 26 p.schuerch@...2929... <mailto:p.schuerch@...2929...>

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Inkscape deletes whitespace from my xml attributes?
by Andi McClure 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I am using Inkscape 0.48 (on Mac OS X under X11) to create resources for a video game. A feature I am making heavy use of is the ability to add custom attributes to the XML elements within the SVG document-- I have defined a bunch of attributes like polycode:density="" which are meaningless to Inkscape but my game code knows how to interpret, and I add them to the document using Inkscape's "xml editor" window. This works fine but I am having a problem. Some of my custom attributes contain very long blocks of multiline text, specifically they contain scripts written in Lua. What I find is that Inkscape allows me to put multi-line text into an xml attribute; and I can save as many times as I want, and the multi-line text remains multi-line; but when I *open* a svg document in Inkscape, at that time *all multi-line xml attributes in the entire document get collapsed down to single lines*, and the next time I save all of my xml attributes are single line. This is extremely inconvenient, it confuses my source control and also it could break my code at some point. Why is Inkscape doing this, and how do I make it stop? What I've tried so far: I tried setting an xml:space=preserve attribute on the toplevel svg:svg element in the effected document, but this did not help, it did things to the whitespace * between * elements and broke the display in the XML Editor window, but it did not change Inkscape's behavior wrt whitespace in attributes. Previously, I had a problem where at the same point in time that Inkscape is now eating my whitespace (document open), it was also stripping my custom polycode: namespace prefixes. I eventually fixed this by adding a xmlns:polycode="http://msm.runhello.com/local/svg/polycode0" attribute to the top of each document containing polycode: attributes. (The URL listed is not a valid URL, it's a 404.) Looking on the internet, I got the impression that if I can get Inkscape to load a "DTD" for my polycode: namespace, I can mark in the DTD that the attributes for which I do NOT want whitespace eaten are "CDATA" and this is supposed to make Inkscape leave those attributes alone. However, the document explaining this<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx> also suggested xml parsers like Inkscape should assume any attribute they do not recognize to be CDATA. Will creating a DTD solve my whitespace problems? How do I get Inkscape to load the DTD? And are there any examples of Inkscape-compatible DTDs of this sort out there, since I do not have experience with DTDs? Thanks all.

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