July 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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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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alignment question
by Gergely Buday 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi there, I would like to do the following: --- I would like to align elements: e-mail address and phone number to be equally far from the vertical equator of the card, and their center be on the same vertical line. How can I do that? --- The latter thing, namely, to align the centers of two text objects can be done according to "Align horizontal centers to center of anchor" of http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Align.html but it is not clear how I could do the mirroring of two text objects to the equator of the card. How could I do that? Cheers - Gergely

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Bad cursor movement while dragging
by Carlos Alegría 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, I am facing an issue while trying to drag an element to move an object or change an object dimensions. The cursor jumps to a random position after dragging a couple of seconds. This makes the objet to suddenly change its dimensions or its position, preventing me from making my drawing. I am using Arch Linux + XFCE. I have searched on the bug database but could not find anything referring to this behavior. Does anyone facing the same (or a similar) issue that knows a workaround to solve it? Thanks a lot Carlos Alegria

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Is there a way to avoid CSS style attributes?
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hi, inkscape usually puts a lot of attributes into a CSS style attribute, for example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" style="fill:red;stroke:blue;stroke-width:2" /> Is there a way to tell inkscape to never use the style attribute but instead use SVG attributes? For example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" fill="red" stroke="blue" stroke-width="2" /> Regards Marco

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Cutter recommendations?
by Terry Brown 07 Jul '12

07 Jul '12

Any recommendations for those paper / card cutters that can be driven by Inkscape / an Ubuntu environment? Cricut and CraftRobo are a couple of brands. We're using Inkscape to design and print buttons, the round mylar coated things you pin to your shirt, it works very well, clones and clones of clones make it easy to control the number of each design printed per sheet. We have a manual circle cutting device but aligning it with the accuracy required is a pain, and it only cuts 1-3 circles at a time (for more than one you stack pages, but that creates alignment issues too). So the immediate use for a cutter would be simply cutting 12 circles in a sheet of regular weight paper, but something more versatile would be good. Thanks, Terry

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Insert nodes via command line
by Antonio Roberts 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Is it possible to insert nodes in an SVG, in the same way that the "Insert new nodes into selected segments", via the command line? Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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