March 2015 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

only 1 filter possible when grouped?
by Perry Kappetein 14 Mar '15

14 Mar '15

When you group several items, Can you do only 1 filter? I tried it, and I can only do 1, until I ungroup the items.. then I can apply several filters to it. (I have 25 squares, and wanted Button and Bloom) All selected then it works, but if I am grouping them first, then I can only apply 1, and I don't see The effect of the other ones. Is there a way to do it, without having it ungrouped ? Thank you

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Turning a clone into a regular object?
by Brian Burger 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Is there a way to turn a cloned object back into a regular individual object? I've got a set of symbols that I've copied, duplicated, cloned, copied to new documents, moved to other new documents, etc etc so many times I've got no idea what the "original" would be. If I use Shift+D to "discover original" in all of the several documents I'm currently working in, all I get is "original is in defs and NOT VISIBLE" - and if I try to copy one of these symbols from that document to a new one the cloned parts straight up won't cut and paste over to the new Inkscape doc. I could redraw these symbols, they're not all that complex, but I'd really rather not have to. Is there a way to turn a clone object into a freestanding regular object? Thanks, Brian

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New extension to edit objects from string
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hi to all. Here are my last two extensions, with a download link -inkscape.org- and a video. First it's for get svg from a selected element as string no parameters Second overwrite a element whith the conents of a string, use two parameters "id" thinking in console scripts and "new content". both are required http://www.jabiertxof.tk/2015/03/objects-to-and-from-string-extension.html Best regards, Jabier.

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copy / paste?
by Perry Kappetein 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

I feel stupid. If I have a part of a button that I created. Can I grab a piece from it, and copy/paste it ? Thanks

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New feature "Interactive Smooth Pencil"
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hi to all, I just finish my last feature to in a interactive way, add smooth to pencil strokes. Here are the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDef4hU4tNc Here the branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/simplify-lpe-pencil-toolb… Best to all, Jabier.

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A couple of questions...
by Michael Dilvish 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Is there a way to reverse the coordinate axes so that y increases in a downward direction?

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new feature worth requesting - Find/Dropper/Selection ?
by Brynn 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hi Friends, Do you think it would be possible, for a new feature, to be able to use the Dropper tool to identify what one wants to search for, using the Find dialog? So for example. I want to find everything with a green fill #00ff00ff using the Find dialog. Would it be possible, with Find dialog open, to click on something with that green fill, with the Dropper, and have the proper info entered into the Find dialog? Or maybe instead of Dropper, use the Selection tool, since it can already identify everything? Just select one of whatever you want to find all of....and maybe context menu > Find, or a key shortcut, and all the proper info is entered into the Find dialog. Or maybe there's a button in the Find dialog, "take from selection"? Or something like that? Maybe this is "mission impossible" but I guess it can't hurt to ask :-) (....much!) This would just make finding things a little easier, because I can never remember, from one time to the next, exactly what I need to enter in the Find dialog. And I have to look up the manual every time. And because I don't know much about SVG/XML, there's often a lot of trial an error, figuring out exactly what to enter. (Now and then, I can't figure it out at all, and have to just give up.) So it would be nice not to have to know or understand those technical details. Just select one of whatever you want to find, and it's automatically entered. Thanks for comments, brynn

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View > Page Grid 0.91
by Brynn 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Hi Friends, Nothing serious, mostly just curious. But possibly a bug? When I open a new blank document, and decide I want to display a grid (rectangular, haven't tested axonomic/isometric), and I click the View menu, it shows a checkmark beside the Page Grid option, even though I haven't yet displayed it. Once I display the grid, the checkmark remains beside the Page Grid option, and when I click to....un-view the grid, (not sure if unchecking Page Grid option is the same thing as "hiding" the grid) the checkmark disappears, as expected. And after that, it works as expected. It's just curious to me, why it originally shows the checkmark, on a new blank document with no grid showing. I found this bug report which might either be the same thing I'm reporting, or related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1318318 I'm not sure about such technical details. So is this issue the same bug, or a new bug, or not a bug at all? If not, can someone explain? If it's a new bug, should I report, or should a developer report? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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Material Design icon set to use as inkscape 0.91 symbols
by Xaviju Julián 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hi! I just send you this email to let you know that I created a symbol set for inkscape with the *Google Material Design Icons* (at the moment only this set) that you may find useful for design and development. https://github.com/Xaviju/inkscape-open-symbols I also encourage you to collaborate as indicated in the readme to make it even better and make designers and front-end developers happier. Lets open source and share our own icon libraries as well. Hope you enjoy it. :) Xaviju

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Automatically adding xlink refs based on text in the .svg file
by Peter Brooks 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I hoped that it'd be possible with the inkscape command line, but I'm new to this, so I can't see how. I've got a .svg file that's from the OpenGroup's Archi application. It's got boxes and links with names. What I'd like to do is make the names clickable. So, for example, the box: ---------------------- | | | my_label | | | ---------------------- Would be clickable, as a box, and go to: http://mywebsite.com/my_label This will work because I'm using a wiki, so the 'my_label' will become a page on the wiki. Is there a way to get inkscape to add the link: <a xlink:href="http://mywebsite.com/my_label"> box </a> Or, in other words, to translate: <a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=Service_agreement"> <text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" /> To: <a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=My_Label"> <text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" /> </a> I'd be grateful for any suggestions - if there's something else that manipulates .svg files that could do this, it'd be good to know!

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