October 2016 - Inkscape Users

Answers section: Brazilian Portuguese question
by Maren Hachmann 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hi everyone, on launchpad, we now have a question in Brazilian. Would someone be able to help, by explaining a bit about photo vectorization / background removal? https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/403098 If you can help, please also subscribe to the question, in case the user wants to thank you or needs more help. Kind Regards, Maren

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Answers section: Spanish question about changing font size
by Maren Hachmann 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

Hi everyone, would someone help a Spanish-speaking user by explaining how to set defaults for the text tool? While I do understand the question, I don't think I'd be able to answer in Spanish in a way that the user will understand... Plus, I'd like to get more different people to answer questions there, until we can direct users somewhere else ;-) The question in question is here: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/403034 Thank you! Regards, Maren

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Free SVG ebook from Oreilly
by Victor Westmann 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi everyone, It talks about Modern SVG, it's free and Inkscape is in page 29, 30, 31 and in page 32 there's a screenshot of Inksape. Just wanted to share this. Sorry if it is off topic. http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/modern-svg.csp?download=yes&order=… Kind Regards, --Victor Westmann

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new inkscape extension - draw ratchet
by Kie 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hiya all, thanks for all your work on inkscape. Following the recommendation at : https://inkscape.org/en/develop/extensions/ here is a short message to let you know that I have uploaded a small extension to draw ratchets. - variable number of teeth - variable inner and outer diameter - curved or straight horizontal and vertical lines for teeth - optional inner circle Not sure if this is the right mailing list or if this little extension will be of use to anyone. I wrote it to fill a need that I had and it works as intended so enjoy... Kie

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Workspace rotation
by Jabier Arraiza 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hi! My last work. Still need a bit of work on exports... Maybe I need to add shortcuts to in/decrease 45 degree... https://youtu.be/utFQve7ofJk Enjoy!

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iinkscpe vecter typo into Gimp almost sudden loss of clarity yet not into Scribus!?
by David Burden 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

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Russian question in answers section
by Maren Hachmann 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hi everybody, is there anyone who could potentially help answer a question asked in Russian (I think it's about printing, if my Cyrillic reading abilities don't fault me) in the answers section on launchpad? https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/402755 Don't forget to subscribe yourself to the question to receive any answers ;-) Thanks a lot! Regards, Maren

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looking for a forum host
by brynn 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi Friends, As some of you know, a small committee has been investigating the possibility of creating a new "official" Inkscape forum. All along, we've been pretty much expecting that OSUOSL would host it for us (since they already host our website and wiki). However, after an initial request (nearly 6 weeks ago), an updated request (~10 days later), and a 3rd contact (which was just last week) we still have no response from them. Assuming they would notify us, even if the answer is 'no', we think they are probably still working on it, and have not made a decision yet. But we're starting to think the answer might well be 'no', and we're starting to research about other ways to host this forum. So we want to tap the resources of the whole community, and ask if anyone knows of any either open-source-friendly webhost besides OSUOSL, or maybe some kind of program which might pay hosting fees for an open source project (in the event we can't find a free host). Note that the so-called "free webhosting" sites would probably not be acceptable, since they usually accomplish making it free, by loading the site up with advertising. One idea which might be feasible, is setting up some kind of crowd funding, to create the capital for some kind of money-market fund or something like a trust, whose income would pay the monthly fee. The reason why it's such a big "might" is because it would take some time for this fund to reach the point where it could cover the fees (and we hope to get the forum online much sooner than that would take). I've offered, and I'm sure a lot of people in the community might volunteer to pay or help to pay the fees. But that puts us in a similar situation which we're trying to remedy with this effort (i.e. a single owner potentially disappearing). I would consider this to be a last resort. Has anyone heard of any webhost that might meet our needs; or maybe some kind of program which would pay the hosting fees? Thank you very much, brynn (for the committee)

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Placement of render extension output
by Carlos Pita 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi all, I'm using the render/latex extension and the output is usually placed at some position of the drawing area pretty far from the image. I would like to know: i. If there is a way to shrink the drawing area so that it just fits the image without extending "infinitely". ii. If there is a way to control the position of the output of render extensions. iii. If there is some rationale behind the way the output is currently positioned I'm missing out. Thank you in advance -- Carlos

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measure curved lines for pap or scatter
by brynn 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi Friends, Lately I've been attempting to use the Scatter extension to create a pattern along path type of effect, on curved lines. I use Scatter because it creates very little distortion while pap creates a lot of distortion around even mild curves. But there is something about the Scatter extension that doesn't work so well, and that's the offsets. Maybe it's because they are curves, that sometimes the normal offset behaves more like tangential, and vice versa. In any case, I'm trying to come up with some way to use it more effectively on curved lines, and I thought, if only there were some way to measure the curved lines, I could set the size of the pattern units, so patterned path perfectly fits the path (in whole pattern units). Of course I could make the calculations on something like a circle, because either I can remember the formula or look it up. I don't know any easy way to measure randomly curved paths in Inkscape. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who has run into this problem. I wonder if anyone has found any effective approach to this problem? I'd appreciate if you could share any tips! Thank you very much, brynn

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