new inkscape extension - draw ratchet
by Kie
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
4 years, 7 months
looking for a forum host
by brynn
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)
4 years, 8 months
Placement of render extension output
by Carlos Pita
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
4 years, 8 months
measure curved lines for pap or scatter
by brynn
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
4 years, 8 months
