November 2014 - Inkscape Users

Get Previews from the Open Clip Art Library
by E. G. A. 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Just an absolute newbie running Inkscape 0.48.2 in a well working, really beautiful, vintage declared but loved computer (2.1 GHz PowerPC G5 & Mac OS X.5.8). To get Previews from the Open Clip Art Library*, it is needed to be registered at the openclipart.org site and fill up the user account data in the Inkscape Preferences**? * File > Import from Open Clip... ** Import/Export > Open Clip Art Library Username & Password. Thank you. -- Eneko Gotzon Ares

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Inkscape svg vs. plain svg.
by john Culleton 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

I know that some features of Inkscape svg go beyond the official svg standard and hence may not be interpreted properly by web browsers etc. Is there a list of these features somewhere? -- 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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file that opens in 3 seconds in Google Chrome takes 10 minutes in inkscape
by Albert Cardona 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hi all, I wonder whether the file is formed in such a way that inkscape has a hard time with it? Google Chrome's file dialog can preview the file instantly and then renders it within 3 seconds, wheres Inkscape hangs for minutes when trying to preview it or to open it. What inkscape does successfully is, in a few minutes, to save it as PDF from the command line using the -A switch. Saving to PDF shrinks the file from the original 8 MB down to ~800 KB. As a PDF Inkscape has no problem previewing it instantly, and opening it within 20 seconds or so. It's the only way I managed to open the file with inkscape. Given that we generate this file ourselves from our own software ( github.com/acardona/CATMAID/), I would appreciate if someone could look at the SVG example file and let us know what would be best for Inkscape regarding formatting, choice of svg vs g elements, and styling. Example files (original SVG and also the PDF as saved with inkscape -A): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d10pxph6b1kd77c/AABXs0TJhxDtlBPr6GZ_3bSQa?dl=0 Thank you. Albert -- http://albert.rierol.net http://www.janelia.org/lab/cardona-lab http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:27:37AM +0100, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote: > hi all, > > I'm Elisa. Initially part of doc writer. I'm still here. I can help in > translating into french. Let's see how i could help. > > Elisa Welcome Elisa! Perhaps an initial task for you could be to list some French news sites and add them to the end of the wiki page Josh set up for us: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning091 Bryce > 2014-11-23 9:15 GMT+01:00 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...>: > > > Hi all, > > > > As the developers put the final touches on the 0.91 release, it's high > > time to plan a media blitz to get this announced to all our users. > > > > I'd like to recruit and organize a formal team to do marketing for > > Inkscape. This'll involve writing copy, planning announce strategies, > > notifying news sites, coordinating with parallel fundraising efforts, > > and more. We'll be organizing an online IRC meeting soon to coordinate > > these activities. Sound like fun? > > > > Ryan Lerch, Josh Andler, and myself are already signed on; we've been > > through the release announcement process before so we're old hands. But > > we're looking for new ideas and fresh blood, so that we can go beyond > > what we've achieved in the past. > > > > Interested? Reply to this email and introduce yourself! > > > > Bryce > > > > P.S. Inkscape's past marketing teams have left us a wealth of notes we > > can use to build from. Two items in particular: > > > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Announcing_Releases > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage > > > >

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Next Inkscape board meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, We'll be having an IRC meeting today (Wednesday, November 26th, 20:00 UTC). The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. We'll continue the discussion of the Hackfest we'll be holding before the LGM meeting in Toronto as well as discussing fund raising, testing, etc. You can read more about the Hackfest at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 Hope to see you there, Tav

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Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing
by Bryce Harrington 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi all, As the developers put the final touches on the 0.91 release, it's high time to plan a media blitz to get this announced to all our users. I'd like to recruit and organize a formal team to do marketing for Inkscape. This'll involve writing copy, planning announce strategies, notifying news sites, coordinating with parallel fundraising efforts, and more. We'll be organizing an online IRC meeting soon to coordinate these activities. Sound like fun? Ryan Lerch, Josh Andler, and myself are already signed on; we've been through the release announcement process before so we're old hands. But we're looking for new ideas and fresh blood, so that we can go beyond what we've achieved in the past. Interested? Reply to this email and introduce yourself! Bryce P.S. Inkscape's past marketing teams have left us a wealth of notes we can use to build from. Two items in particular: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Announcing_Releases http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage

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View mode in Inkscape
by Ooker 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi everyone, I have an idea: add a view mode in Inkscape. That means with one click, you will hide all menus and panels; another click, everything appears again. Easy come, easy go. This has some advantages: * Load time of Inkscape and Inkview are not so different. * Inkview is lack of feature. Especially zooming. * Easy to modify the svg, instead of viewing it in Inkview or in browers. * Personally, I would like to have a separate app to view it, rather than implement it into browsers. What do you think? -- Ooker.

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Autofill
by Gary Hawkins 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi, I wonder if we could have a auto fill option. if the page is set to A4 we create a shape or text or whatever and then select it, then copy it and then have an option to paste as many copies as possible that will fit on the page size for users that don't have a page then maybe they could draw a rectangle the size they want and auto fill could be set to use that size. handy for labels with logos but also for repeat cuts of the same sized objects. Gaz

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Website Menus
by Martin Owens 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Dear Website Users, Some of you may have experienced the menu explosion bug that the website has come down with. I've put in place a fix for both javascript (so it won't cause an infinite loop) and for the menus themselves which were getting progressively worse as the caches refreshed. Please test and don't hesitate to make a bug[1] if you notice anything wrong. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web

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Live Effects and Images
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hello, im member from a group of people interested in libre graphics called "Grafica Libre", one member ask me for a new effect. The request is for made triangulation delaunay from a image. I think could be ?easy made from extension -there is existing code- but i want to do from a LPE because: I want to put a KNOT in each extemium of a triangle -shared with continuous triangles- who act as modifier of the final result. The thread[1] give me a brunch of links but to me the one i like more is this[2] I want to put similar controls to the LPE + ability to touch triangles, maybe could remove knots -and triangles- The problem: I ask previusly by IRC about using images in LiveEffect for use in the perspective LPE with something as "original-src", i take a response about in IRC "not a good idea inkscape strore hacked versions of images like illustratos do", but this case is diferent, because only obtain data from the image. So there is a objection about this use? Finaly... There is a multiplataform image libray bundled in inkscape for c++ or python? Regards, Jabier. [1]http://listas.usla.org.ar/pipermail/grafica-libre/2014-November/003912.html [2]http://snorpey.github.io/triangulation/

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