Is there a good way to do map regions?
by Paul Whipp
I'm making SVG game maps where a region on the map is a closed path. These
regions usually share boundaries with one another so they often form a
'mesh' (consider a grid of squares or hexagons as examples, although for
the maps the regions are rarely regular). To create them I have to copy and
paste bits of path so that regions have nicely overlapping boundaries which
works but is very tedious, particularly as I'd like to start building maps
with large numbers of regions (>500).
I'm thinking I'd like to be able to start with a closed path (e.g. a
continental outline) and treat it as a 'region mesh' - this would be like a
normal closed path except that I could add a 'branch' node to it that would
connect to another 'branch' node, creating two regions - these would be
maintained as separate closed paths for export and the shared boundaries
would always exactly overlap.
However, it seems likely someone has faced this problem before - there are
lots of SVG maps out there that have regions defined in this manner. Can
anyone point me towards a good solution for rapidly building a layer of map
regions?
8 years, 4 months
Granularity along inch rulers.
by john Culleton
I am working on a book about covers using the Perfect Cover Generator.
This works in inches. I need to tell how to draw some additional guides
at distances of 0.25 inch from the generated guides marking the spine.
However the rulers along the sides only measure in inches with 1/4 inch
tick marks. I need at a minimum 1/8 inch marks to approximate the
correct positioning.
How can I refine the rulers to show these 1/8 inch subdivisions? I can
draw my own ruler along a path or convert temporarily to pixels and
count off 18 pixels but either of these techniques seem a bit
clumsy.
--
John Culleton
Wexford Press
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus"
available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
8 years, 4 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Illustrator complains about too many nested groups
by Maarten van der Velde
Just wondering: are you using layers in the Inkscape file? Because Inkscape
layers are not real layers, but also just groups (at least: in the SVG-file).
Maybe Illustrator gets confused about that.
If any program ought *not* complain about too many nested groups, it's
Illustrator...Groups in clipping paths in layers in composite paths in
groups in groups in groups in groups in layers...
Other brainfart: might there be 'clones' in your Inkscape document that
Illustrator doesn't like?
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Maarten van der Velde <
m.h.vandervelde@...155...> wrote:
> Just wondering: are you using layers in the Inkscape file? Because
> Inkscape layers are not real layers, but also just groups. Maybe
> Illustrator gets confused that.
>
> If any program should *not* complain about too many nested groups, it's
> Illustrator...Groups in clipping paths in layers in composite paths in
> groups in groups in groups in groups in layers...
>
> Other brainfart: might there be 'clones' in your Inkscape document that
> Illustrator doesn't like?
>
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Antony Lee <antony.lee@...329...>wrote:
>
>> I only had 5 levels, which doesn't sound crazy...
>> Thanks for the suggestions.
>> Antony
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/18 Hendrik Boom <hendrik@...2611...>
>>
>>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:25:56PM -0700, Antony Lee wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > One of my colleagues would like to use Illustrator (Adobe CS6, i
>>> think) to
>>> > edit some SVG files I created with Inkscape, but Illustrator complains
>>> > about there being "too many nested groups". Any hints on how I could
>>> "fix"
>>> > the SVG? (Perhaps I could convince him to switch in Inkscape too, but
>>> > well...)
>>> > Thanks in advance,
>>> > Antony
>>>
>>> Sounds like time to file a bug report, whatever else you do.
>>>
>>> -- hendrik
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8 years, 4 months
DNA-swirl
by Jurgen Gaeremyn
Hey all,
seeing some great feedback on this list, I'd like to ask you some help
on my DNA-swirl...
I'm trying to generate a DNA-swirl that I can then put along a path...
Anyone knows how I can solve this problem? I would like to create a
DNA-string that follows a path (not a straight line)
Thanks,
Jurgen.
8 years, 4 months
Illustrator complains about too many nested groups
by Antony Lee
Hi,
One of my colleagues would like to use Illustrator (Adobe CS6, i think) to
edit some SVG files I created with Inkscape, but Illustrator complains
about there being "too many nested groups". Any hints on how I could "fix"
the SVG? (Perhaps I could convince him to switch in Inkscape too, but
well...)
Thanks in advance,
Antony
8 years, 4 months
Improving the diff-ability of inkscape
by Yannik Völker
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First of all: I am not exactly shure if this belongs into -user if it
should be put into the dev mailing list please tell me to do so
Today I ran some experiments on collaborative work Inkscape.
I put a file in a simple Hg-repository, created two branches, made
some changes to each of them and afterwards tried to merge them back
together.
while doing so I ran into 3 Problems:
The first one can't be changed by Inkscape: when you add objects to
the same layer in both branches you need to tell the diff tool to
insert them after each others so no big deal
The second one is that Inkscape saves the zoom and view position;
while its a bit annoying and i don’t relay see the advantage of saving
those its easy to resolve.
The third one is the reason for this mail: the svg format was designed
not to waste too much bandwidth for path definitions
(http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html#PathDataGeneralInformation) so it
was allowed to put skip some whitespaces, have relative and absolute
formats and so on. While its not necessary to use it Inkscape actually
uses some of those optimizations for size. That is where it gets
problematic:
No line based diff algorithm will ever be able to understand
d="M 94.560583,882.94114 202.33942,447.30755 149.72092,186.54185 C
322.59461,172.3981 497.26518,91.769646 666.84911,199.34693 l
44.50099,59.86379 6.19919,124.61 -138.89214,182.52301
- -292.02038,376.68278 z"
it would be way better if Inkscape would save all the commands in
their own line with the correct command in front so you can put other
lines in between without breaking everything:
d="M94.560583,882.94114
M202.33942,447.30755
M149.72092,186.54185
C322.59461,172.3981
C497.26518,91.769646
C666.84911,199.34693
l44.50099,59.86379
l6.19919,124.61
l-138.89214,182.52301
l-292.02038,376.68278
z"
would allow adding a point to the line by just adding a line without
creating a huge diff.
Additionally it would be good to never use relative coordinates (l) as
changing one point would change two lines otherwise
Please note that this suggestion is for the so-called Inkscape-SVG
only (as that is the one people will use to work ), it should
obviously be optimized as much as possible in the plain svg format.
- --
Yannik Völker
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8 years, 4 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] Noob question about shapes
by Arlo Barnes
OK, should work now. And now working off mailing list rather than forum.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM,
<inkscape-user-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net>wrote:
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> From: "Arlo B." <arlo.barnes@...155...>
> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 23:01:55 +0200
> Subject: Re: Noob question about shapes
> I did not trust myself not to flub the path, so I googled for
> 'parametric egg' (because I had previously messed around with
> Extensions>Render>Parametric curves) and got
> http://bsidneysmith.com/images/writings/2006-2010/egg%20equation.jpg
> which I entered - and got half an egg. Oh well. I copied it and joined
> the two paths (Which reminds me: If I want to make alterations to a path
> symmetrically, is there an easy way to do it or do I have to figure out
> what the reflected coordinates would be? No, never mind, I will ask that
> in a new thread as the red text tells me to). Just thought this might
> help / interest somebody.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
-Arlo James Barnes
8 years, 4 months
Problem with drawing - bkacp square on export
by Johan Vromans
Hi,
I'm using Inkscape 0.48.4 on Fedora 17.
I have a drawing that I save in SVG format that I want to embed in an
OpenOffice (LibreOffice) text document.
When imported in OpenOffice, I get a black rectangle covering part of
the drawing. It does not matter whether I save in Inkscape SVG or plain
SVG.
When I use display (from ImageMagick) to show the SVGs, I also get the
black rectangle. In FireFox, both SVGs show fine.
When I save in OpenOffice Draw (ODG) format I loose all texts in the
image.
Help is appreciated.
You can find the drawing and sample dislay in
http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/uploads/3C1j41IOGG39BYF99PyBAiaw.zip
Thanks.
-- Johan
8 years, 4 months
Stroke Dialog
by Martin Owens
Hey Users,
I was doing a bit of design for the symbols dialog when I got distracted
and had a few ideas about the stroke dialog. In any case, the ideas kept
nagging until I wrote them down and I've put them here in the wiki for
discussion:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Stroke_Dialog
I will NOT be working on this yet as I'm currently working on symbols.
But I would still like to hear your ideas about how to make our dialogs
smarter, smaller and smoother (the three sm'ers of design ;)
Best Regards, Martin Owens
8 years, 4 months
