May 2013 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Is there a good way to do map regions?
by Paul Whipp 21 May '13

21 May '13

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?

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Granularity along inch rulers.
by john Culleton 21 May '13

21 May '13

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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Illustrator complains about too many nested groups
by Maarten van der Velde 20 May '13

20 May '13

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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete >>> security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and >>> efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls >>> from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inkscape-user mailing list >>> Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete >> security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and >> efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls >> from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-user mailing list >> Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >> >> >

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DNA-swirl
by Jurgen Gaeremyn 20 May '13

20 May '13

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.

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Illustrator complains about too many nested groups
by Antony Lee 19 May '13

19 May '13

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

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LIve Preview in Perfect-bound cover extension.
by john Culleton 16 May '13

16 May '13

When using the Perfect Bound Cover Template the last choice is a checkbox labeled "Live Preview". What does this choice do? I don't see any difference. -- 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

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Improving the diff-ability of inkscape
by Yannik Völker 12 May '13

12 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRilZAAAoJEDqk81AiCyXKzNwQAJP2BwXDVJ0ASIc+0Pw6TjsW yF3s6nGm4/5cWHbXXDUosCJNu4VH9bccFyEfwfoUHgPXoPWM7XQJWF+Imj+W5rTJ XfrCEyrLC/8fcqZpS301vfjv0492J4UZi+mMuIVVQQwa3djCISDg3GQHkOgiEPxw Gu7KJSDGvmct6sW+vKsErHLBgjh+NeE8d8ySEIXXryEi5boBO3+4Ai9IVEfkOCs7 qvDIXgmkePaLvFukLnAvOVJxSeXnTFRyQyozX5IQE+M7tTL6HQKf7qhDTXuJOkuJ tSdoCIcTE4Ksy0h+7wRgvZ/+rMcle+cZg9gt8YzAypsdSewLYDLljM0geIAfkxvp K8eVZs6f7Fmsqzb/hlVZrQLzb/oA+WR7iLcWuKGa3dtIYR1udvTA+UYzUNvjXn4t p50eqZ4a4yreg34GsM9dOuvEcy2RrVzvRxX0+Y5whzvx1ndj+XJwmrudOykfyip6 Xg6o9wtqYN4FCnEPTwcixUSl3uyCUN0QnjJtZLwlL6wSvOTJyCedsGv5Sh3lrIMr UUnK6kQoGKlmvWBdXB3eBqTJSUUC+NZdPZMCXD0TEm04SdaYS1901JpTyJMT0TXU NFz42yVz/pbU5y/j/zMDLhrmdPeAmDMqazyqwEXRTBOaxFvec/upyixuwNRPqsDO bpx80Tt5vkz4YA5+MT/W =o356 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Noob question about shapes
by Arlo Barnes 09 May '13

09 May '13

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: > Thank you for posting to the Inkscape User's list. However, due to > problems with spam, the list members have closed the list to posting > from people not subscribed to the list. Please join the list, and > re-send your email. Sorry for the trouble! > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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

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Problem with drawing - bkacp square on export
by Johan Vromans 08 May '13

08 May '13

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

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Stroke Dialog
by Martin Owens 08 May '13

08 May '13

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

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