October 2015 - Inkscape Users

Converting the movement and change of an object into a smooth animation
by Philip Rhoades 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

People, I have put a note on the developer list for a more difficult problem but I wonder if there is a solution to a simpler bit of the puzzle: Say I have a first drawing with a short, vertical, straight line and I drag it into a long, horizontal, straight line and save it is a second drawing ie it would be nice if I can have an initial object and a moved / changed object and a plugin or an external program that will be able to smoothly animate the change from the first drawing to the second - is that possible? I had a look at some of the animation plugins but it is not clear to me that they will do what I want. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Font for vertical writing
by 服部頼義 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Vertical writing of Japanese to switch some of the fonts in vertical writing for font. However , there is no ability to switch fonts to inkscape. I made a font for vertical writing. Font is intended as an interim for vertical writing. it is no longer necessary if the correspondence to the vertical writing of Japanese inkscape. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw6vYjcFltUVYW0wXzExRDVQZXM https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw6vYjcFltUVcmlTTlh1ZmNBNUE

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Measure improvements
by Jabier Arraiza 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi to all. I just propose for merge a branch to improve measure tool. I made a video to show it working. Think is not a bad idea to get reviewers :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0cVDGCzbM By the way, all the best. Jabiertxo.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Website Feedback
by Martin Owens 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi Will, This is a great question and as the Website administrator I would normally ask you to post this in the appropriate channel. But to help get an answer (especially to your question about how to help to the features you want) I'm posting it to the developers mailing list. If you reply to any of the messages, you should subscribe to the mailing list first by looking at the email footer of that message. Developers and Users: see the message below and reply. Best Regards, Martin Owens Volunteer Website Administrator On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 15:30 +0000, Anonymous User wrote: > willprot@...12... > > There is only one thing that stops me from using Inkscape over > Illustrator and I have been waiting on it and checking on it for > literally years now and that is gradient meshes. > > Coloring an image is he most basic and integral part of graphics and > it is just way too easy & convenient to accomplish in AI to pass up, > > That said is there any time line for Gradient Meshes in Inkscape? > > Years ago the SVG2 specs for it were to be finalized Aug 2015, can't > see now where that is at. > > I also see there is a way to help certain project, but > A. not sure how? and B. If the SVG 2/Grad Mesh specs are not finalized > does that mean there can be no movement regardless for that?

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Corners?
by Abrolag 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

For some reason when I try to make rectangles and squares I get rounded corners. I don't recall any settings. How do I stop this? -- W J G

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when importing pdf/eps there are compression artefacts in bitmaps embedded in the pdf/eps
by Enno R. Oldewurtel 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Dear all, maybe this is a feature request, bug, or simply a question, so I put it onto this mailing list: When I import an eps that contains a bitmap (e.g. an eps generated from a MATLAB figure, that also has an image displayed), the bitmap in the imported form does not show the original pixels anymore but suffers from compression artefacts. These artefacts are not very visible for large image with small pixels relative to the total image size. However, I often need to display zoomed regions of microscopy image, where those compressions are having quite a detrimental effect on the import. As an example I created a MATLAB figure with 10x10 random pixels. I attach the svg file where I imported the MATLAB figure after saving it as a PNG within MATLAB and another import of the eps file that I saved with MATLAB. The artefacts are clearly visible. ;) Most times the compression is probably great to reduce overall file size, but in occasions like the ones described above it would be great to have a different or no compression of the bitmaps during import. Many thanks, Enno

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While copying lines the end marks (arrows and others) are not copied
by Bernhard Kleine 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

I have some strange experience while copying: I copied all the elements in a figure and lost the full node marks(?, Knotenmarkierung). This is hopefully not an intended behaviour. I never encountered it. Select over all layers copy insert and the arrows etc were gone. I can put them back but I find it strange and maybe a bug. The yellow background is one layer, the arrows are the next and text is the other. regards Bernhard

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node tool control bar icons missing (not urgent)
by Brynn 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Hi Friends, I had an odd experience earlier today. I opened Inkscape from my Windows 7 Start menu, like I usually do. Many of the Node tool control bar icons are missing, and showing that same red X icon, that the Undo and Redo buttons have been showing for 0.91 (instead of the real icons). I opened a new doc from Inkscape, and I opened another from the Start menu again, and those icons appear normally, as expected. I made a screenshot to show (attached). I don't think it's a permanent problem, but I'm curious what happened. I only have a vague understanding for how Inkscape handles icons. I have the idea that Inkscape calls for them from another folder. So does this mean there was some kind of problem when Inkscape called for them, and couldn't get them, for some reason? Not an urgent problem. I'm just curious :-) Thanks, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Trouble compiling Inkscape on Ubuntu 14.04
by Eelke Spaak 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Hello again, Sorry, I think I fixed it myself. I missed some dependencies here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu#Installing_dependen… After installing those, autogen.sh and configure ran fine. Best, Eelke On 6 October 2015 at 10:24, Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak@...155...> wrote: > Hello all, > > Because I had been issues with extremely sluggish text editing in > complex SVG files (see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1219794?comments=all) I > thought I'd get the source code and apply the (very simple) patch > provided in that bug thread and compile it myself. > > I was able to get a working copy of the trunk, and I read the INSTALL > file. However, the "./configure" file was not present (even though > INSTALL seemed to assume it should be there). I managed to generate > the configure-script by running "./autogen.sh" (after installing the > required dependencies). > > When I try to run ./configure, however, it does some stuff, and then > gives me an error: > > ./configure: line 5995: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' > ./configure: line 5995: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)' > > Checking a bit further back, it actually seems that although the > autogen.sh ended with "Done! Please run './configure' now.", there is > an error there as well. I am attaching the full output of both > autogen.sh and the subsequent call to configure to this email. > > Hopefully someone can help me to compile Inkscape, so I could apply > the patch for mega-slow text editing and get back to designing my > poster :) > > Thank you, best, > Eelke Spaak

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Trouble compiling Inkscape on Ubuntu 14.04
by Eelke Spaak 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Hello all, Because I had been issues with extremely sluggish text editing in complex SVG files (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1219794?comments=all) I thought I'd get the source code and apply the (very simple) patch provided in that bug thread and compile it myself. I was able to get a working copy of the trunk, and I read the INSTALL file. However, the "./configure" file was not present (even though INSTALL seemed to assume it should be there). I managed to generate the configure-script by running "./autogen.sh" (after installing the required dependencies). When I try to run ./configure, however, it does some stuff, and then gives me an error: ./configure: line 5995: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 5995: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)' Checking a bit further back, it actually seems that although the autogen.sh ended with "Done! Please run './configure' now.", there is an error there as well. I am attaching the full output of both autogen.sh and the subsequent call to configure to this email. Hopefully someone can help me to compile Inkscape, so I could apply the patch for mega-slow text editing and get back to designing my poster :) Thank you, best, Eelke Spaak

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