December 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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Re: [Inkscape-user] Shrinking the results of JPG to SVG conversion
by Pranav Lal 30 May '13

30 May '13

Hi all, Just a quick note to say that I need to batch convert the files so I can't open inkscape and do things like trace the bitmap as shown on sites like http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/convert-a-png-to-a-svg-file works-for-jpg-too/ -----Original Message----- From: Pranav Lal [mailto:pranav.lal@...155...] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:23 AM To: 'mailing list!' Subject: Shrinking the results of JPG to SVG conversion Hi all, I have a number of *.jpg files that I need to convert to svg. I am using inkscape for the conversion. The problem is that the resulting svg is almost 5 times the size of the jpeg file. I have tried saving the file in compressed plain svg but with no success. The file is still very large. Is there anything I can do to shrink the file? I have run an open source cleanup tool called cleanSVG downloadable from codeplex but that has not helped. I am open to using other JPG to SVG converters if inkscape is not the right tool for this exercise. Natively creating SVG is not an option at this point. Pranav

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3D image using Inkscape
by ishi soichi 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

I want to draw 3D objects efficiently. Do you have any idea how to draw the icons of men shown in the image http://androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Social1.jpg ? Do you think they drew them one by one from the path with shadows? Or they can draw them using "Motion" functionality of Inkscape? soichi

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BSpline + SpiroLive branch is ready for testing.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Hi to all. The branch BSpline is on. https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline It has the SpiroLive code refactored and the new code BSpline. It has a new button near spiro, It work in pen and pencil mode. For developers: I have a problem in code commented in bspline function. Please anybody can fix? This code is for use continuing existing curves in CUSP node. I lost my terribol history of this proyect in bzr because i kill the "bzr merge" command and it corrupt a file in the branch. Please test. Feedback are welcome. Hi, Jabier.

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Inkscape 0.48.4 Release
by Ted Gould 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

It is pretty cool to be announcing the 0.48.4 release of Inkscape. It's a great bug fix release, which will hopefully tide people over until the upcoming 0.49. There are a ton of bug fixes in this release including one security fix, so it is recommended that everyone currently using 0.48.3 or older upgrade tho this release. As per custom please avoid announcing this widely until platform packagers have a chance to make binaries for people to download. Details Launchpad 0.48.4 Release with bugs Sourceforge Download Page Checksums SHA1 5f26f6ad191d1e7c2a9fb69a438722beb172224c inkscape-0.48.4.tar.bz2 3342235973330ae580ec0323dd3be239b2fa4ae8 inkscape-0.48.4.tar.bz2.asc ce453cc9aff56c81d3b716020cd8cc7fa1531da0 inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz c16832575638ad704e4ae4ce406947cbec88c9d0 inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz.asc 63cb7d00a940d0b2c5fa05adc994a9a5bd7e24ae inkscape-0.48.4.zip 89f07f9b3c0f22a265af409fce8cfaf36bcf799e inkscape-0.48.4.zip.asc MD5 47bd8546e42ba396624eef9eb66b9b6c inkscape-0.48.4.tar.bz2 b84f4dfa508492135ab4dee042d751e0 inkscape-0.48.4.tar.bz2.asc 2c7149e877609f3f7e7a9d4e6f510d2b inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz efb3094de55b730d223c5f5b15c6049c inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz.asc 1245682c5f4b2dc284eb8ed0c5059271 inkscape-0.48.4.zip 211c44f00cff50eeb3a29a8f61fb718c inkscape-0.48.4.zip.asc

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Acknowledgements
by Alessandro Rossini 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear all, You may like to know that I acknowledged the Inkscape community in my PhD thesis (Preface, last paragraph): http://alessandrorossini.org/2011/12/08/the-last-four-years-of-my-life/ Keep up the good work! Best regards, Alessandro Rossini http://alessandrorossini.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.48.4 Release
by Ted Gould 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:26 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 10:05 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > > > > It is pretty cool to be announcing the 0.48.4 release of Inkscape. > > It's a great bug fix release, which will hopefully tide people over > > until the upcoming 0.49. There are a ton of bug fixes in this release > > including one security fix, so it is recommended that everyone > > currently using 0.48.3 or older upgrade tho this release. > > > > As per custom please avoid announcing this widely until platform > > packagers have a chance to make binaries for people to download. > > Who do we thank for this new version? Oh, there are lots of people. By just looking at the bugs you can see the wide variety of contributors: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.4 Pick one (I'll do two) as always thinks go to ScislaC for herding and ~suv for ensuring that the bugs stay in good shape and land on the release branch. Ted

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Help needed and website redesign update
by Ian Caldwell 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

All, Sorry for the lag in updates regarding the site. It has been a bit depressing and I also have been extremely busy. In all honesty we had a great design and some extremely motivated people who started the project of redoing the website. As with all open source projects time and experience got the best of us (myself included). The website design was completed long ago and it looks great. It can be seen here http://en.dev.inkscape.org/ . We started the migration portion and that's about as far as we got. We had one backend mostly complete when we realized that that dev was unable to complete the project without a rewrite and sadly lacked the time due to school commitments etc. Next we had a second developer start rewriting the code and unfortunately due to time constraints is unable to finish. That being said I am open to suggestions but we need a strict time line to at least complete the basic portion of the inkscape site. That being said, We need help. Here was the original projected todo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LLpPSPIrbgsXTJSK56hHBwu6iaTpp7EWguxMgkP… Here is the more in depth description of each component: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2O-gRdbkP0XATykk6LcPo6O5-JdQzK4QmPpuLo… That being said It would be nice to have the bare minimum in place for the site to allow submission of news, user profiles, admin privileges etc. At this point I am fairly open to consideration on what languages we might use. The project was started both times in django, however was never completed. I also may even be open for consideration of Content management systems that would allow us to build in these features fairly easily and allow the site to contain the same functionality and UI. If you have any talent in the web development world. Please get back to me and lets get the ball rolling! I know the holiday's can sometimes allow time to tinker but they also can be difficult times as well. Please feel free to make suggestions on how you're able to help us complete the website redesign. Really the part we need help with is the backend to the website. Thanks, Ian Caldwell ("Inc") -- Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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Relative Paths
by François-Xavier Thomas 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hi all, First time posting on the Inkscape mailing lists, so I hope this is the right place for a small feature discussion. I've been trying to move around .svg files created with Inkscape, only to find out that paths are by default absolute when linking external images. Manually editing the XML files or using the image property window works, sure, but it's tedious if you have a lot of images. It seems to me that Inkscape *should* understand that I'm trying to link files from the exact same directory as the .svg file, and automatically use relative paths. I've found a wiki page about this and more (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image_links_manager), as well as somebody else with the same issues (https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/77201) since 2009, and I wondered : what is the status on that feature? Now, this is slightly above the "inkscape user" level, but if nobody's working on it and you don't mind me trying, I can submit a patch in a few days for the "automatically use relative paths" feature, at the very least. Cheers, François-Xavier

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