March 2012 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

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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Jessyink renumber effects order
by Johnny 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi all, Jessyink [1]is really a very nice extension to Inkscape to enable doing dynamic presentations, I can really recommend it! There are two versions, I use the latter, Jessyink 2.0.0-alpha1. However, I usually end up adding effects and manually setting the order and eventually running out of numbers. E.g. I start to number the effects by 10, 20, 30, etc. but soon end up having orders 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and wanting to insert a new efect between e.g. 2 and 3. Therefore I wonder, is there some way to renumber the effects to make some space that I have missed? As the svg-files are just text files, I am considering a script to do this to find and renumber the effects; the finding part can be achieved by e.g. ,---- | cat my_svg_file_with_jessyink.svg|grep "sodipodi:role=\"line\">[0-9]*</tspan></text>"|grep [0-9]* `---- This gives all the lines with effect numbers, maybe sed or awk can be used in a loop to renumber in order and increment by a desired step (e.g. 10). Now, my skills are not really up to the task, so before embarking, the question is is this really the best route to go or are there any better ideas? Thanks and cheers! Footnotes: [1] http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ -- Johnny

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SVG font feature
by S Barmeier 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I am trying to collect an number of characters to generate a font file (for oracle bone script). I am importing (inkscape) SVG files into inkscape to assign the path to a particular character. My characters are usually 700 x 1000 inkscape units large. In the Preview Text some are the right size, some are substantially smaller than expected, looking more like a superscript. The characters in the attached screenshot are all the same size on the inkscape page. Is this a problem with the preview feature, or a problem with the SVG font feature? Thank you for any help. Severin

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Splash screen gone
by Lars Behrens 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi there, somehow my splash screen is gone (Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819), can't remember if I disabled it :-) And what's worse: can't find how to renable... Could someone help me? TIA! Cheerz, Lars

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Can't change color of a clone
by Vincent Tschanz 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi, I'm using Inkscape 0.48, ubuntu 11.10. I can't change the color of a clone without unlinking it. I tried to reproduce the steps here : http://maururu.net/2007/using-clones-in-inkscape/ But Inkscape don't let me change the color. I can change the blur level, the opacity, but not the color, or the stroke.

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Setting the Coordinates of Gradient Nodes
by Ole Ersoy 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to set the coordinates of gradient nodes. If I click the node tool while the gradient handles are visible, I can see the X,Y coordinate fields in the toolbar, but they are blurred out. TIA, - Ole

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Google Summer of Code 2012
by Josh Andler 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi All, I just wanted to shoot out a message to let people know that we've been accepted as a mentoring organization again this year. If you know any college or graduate school students who would qualify and be interested, please let them know, we would like to talk to them. :) Cheers, Josh

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Blending one photo into another.
by john Culleton 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Before I spend a lot of time trying the impossible: In Gimp it is possible to take two overlapping bitmap images (like photos) and blend one into the other using a gradient on the topmost bitmap? Inkscape has the ability to blend two vector objects in this manner. But what about bitmaps? If I vectorize the top image will that make it possible? (Unfortunately vectorized photos often come up huge.) John Culleton

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Arrow end markers and stroke length
by Daniele Nicolodi 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hello, I use Inkscape to draw diagrams, however I have some problems to draw nice looking arrow end markers. The problem is that when I have an arrow pointing to a box, the arrow gets overlapped to the contour of the box. That can be solved quite easily defining a marker which has its anchor point at the proper distance from the end of the stroke to which it is applied (such that the cuspid of the arrow is stroke width / 2 from the end of the stroke segment it is applied to). However, this solution leaves a small segment of the stroke past the arrow marker (see atachment, I would like to get rid of the small red segment on the right of the black arrow). The "manual" solution is to draw the connecting stroke lines a little shorter than required to connect the boxes. However, this is very tedious and error prone to do, and makes the connection tool useless. There is a way to obtain what I have in mind? Does the plugin interface allow to define new tools, like the connector tool, in which I can embed the behavior I would like? Should I look into extending the connection tool? How difficult would that be? Thank you. Cheers, -- Daniele

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