October 2014 - Inkscape Users

Getting Inkscape to work with a graphic tablet (XP-pen)
by Michael Grosberg 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

So I just bought this cheap pressure-sensitive graphic tablet for my home rig. It doesn't do all that the big league tablets (i.e. Wacom) can do - no tilt detection for example - but who needs that? it's the pressure that I care about. Anyway, it works admirably with Photoshop, Krita, and Blender, But I can't seem to get it to work with Inkscape. I can see it's recognized in the Input Devices dialog: tablet and pen are there. I enabled the pen and set it to use screen coordinates. moving the cursor works, no problem. But drawing doesn't. When I try to draw something - anything, pen, pencil, rectangle, circle - nothing happens. Well, not quite nothing. using the pen is supposed to be equivalent to a left click but it seems to invoke the right-click menu sometimes. Other times it seems to shift the view, zooming in and panning to the left. Yet other times it does nothing. Anybody got suggestions as for what I could try to do to fix it? If it helps, this is the model I have - http://www.xp-pen.com/products/960.htm And I'm using Inkscape 0.91 pre-2 on a Windows 7 64bit machine.

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Can Inkscape convert PNG into true SVG?
by Ian Yang 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

I tried converting a PNG into a SVG. But what Inkscape did was just embed the PNG into the SVG. That isn't what I want and the created SVG can't be re-sized appropriately on web browsers like a true SVG. Can Inkscape convert PNG into true SVG?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Can Inkscape convert PNG into true SVG?
by Jon A. Cruz 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Yes. Once the PNG image is loaded in, select it and then perform a "trace bitmap" on it. Ian Yang <ian.html@...155...> wrote: >I tried converting a PNG into a SVG. But what Inkscape did was just embed >the PNG into the SVG. That isn't what I want and the created SVG can't be >re-sized appropriately on web browsers like a true SVG. > >Can Inkscape convert PNG into true SVG? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer >Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports >Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper >Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-user mailing list >Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Suggestions for tiling a car wrap
by John Fisher 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

I am building a tiny electric car, and it has bikini-level fiberglas body components, about 30 sq ft. We've settled on a fish-scale graphic design to be done with vinyl car-wrap. I've never done a big tiling job, and I'd like to have a lot of color&detail variation, very much like a real fish. Any suggestions, or a tutorial I missed? -- John Fisher Znyx Networks

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About Screen Contest - 3-way tie for third!
by Josh Andler 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hey all, There was a 3-way tie for third that needs to be broken... more voting is needed from the community to wrap this up this part of the contest. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/487392705/ For the record, the two entries which have solidified their place are as follows. 1st - http://grassydeviant.deviantart.com/art/Splash-contest-entry-482486783 2nd - http://jfbarraud.deviantart.com/art/InkMotelBlinking4-480823055 It's a shame we don't support animation because if you go to the second place entry's page and click the download link to the right you get to see the full effect. Cheers, Josh

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Translate flowed text boxes
by Vasco 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi, I discovered some strange things when moving textboxes around. I will first describe this behavior and then describe what my problem is. I create a text box, with flowed text. In the XML this looks like <parent> <flowid> <rect /> </flowid> <text /> </parent> When I move this box around, not the position of the rect that is changed, but a global translate is applied to the parent entry. I discovered this, because our printer somehow renders the text box, and hiding whats behind. This is not a problem when the text is at the same place as the box, but it is a problem when you moved the text and the box did not move along. This behavior seems strange at the first glance, however, it is somehow logical from the internal XML structure. I wrote a little extension to shift these boxes arround: https://bitbucket.org/vascotenner/inkscape-fix_text_boxes/overview Groet, Vasco

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Inkscape 0.91 About Screen Contest - Community Voting
by Josh Andler 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hey all, The submission period for the About Screen Contest has closed. It's now time for voting to take place. Please help decide the winner of the contest. After this round of community voting the top 3 entries will be passed on to the developers for a final vote. As usual, the voting is taking place on DeviantArt and you will need to be a user there to cast a vote. To vote please go to the voting journal entry at http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/485998934/ . Good luck to all who entered! Cheers, Josh

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