November 2016 - Inkscape Users

installing on Windows, 32-bit vs 64-bit
by brynn 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Hi Friends, I'm not sure if this is something I just don't understand, or if it's particular to Inkscape. I recently learned that part of my understanding of 64 vs 32-bit was incorrect. So maybe I have this part wrong too. I'm installing Inkscape on a new 64-bit Windows 7 Pro computer (my old one is also 64-bit, but Win7 Home). Generally, for programs which are made for 64-bit systems, they usually are installed in C:\Program Files. And when I install a 32-bit version of a program, it usually goes in C:\Program Files (x86). First I installed 0.91 for 32-bit, because there's a particular issue with 64-bit that I want to avoid (for the short time until 0.92 is released stable). I used the EXE installer, and I let the installer put it where it thought was best, and it went into Program Files (x86), as I expected. But I also want to play with the gradient mesh tool, so I decided to install 0.92pre3. I think the problem that I want to avoid with the 32-bit version of 0.91 is now fixed. So for 0.92pre3, I chose the EXE installer for 64-bit Inkscape. When I first started the installation, it warned me that I already had Inkscape installed. I thought that was odd, because the 32-bit version was in Program Files (x86) and I thought the 64-bit version was supposed to go in Program Files. So I went past that part, and next there was a more specific warning, naming the folders and showing the filepath. I went on through that part too, and I specifically was watching to see where the installer wanted to put it. I was surprised when it actually did want to put it in Program Files (x86). So do I have some kind of misunderstanding of how 32- and 64-bit programs are installed? Or is it a correct understanding, but Inkscape does it differently for some reason? Thanks for your patience with my perrenial newbiness :-) Thanks for your help, brynn

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Missing arrow heads
by Raymond Wan 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Dear all, I'm just starting out with Inkscape but I have this feeling there is something wrong with my installation. I'm running Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu 16.10 (i.e., I installed from a package and not source). I'm trying to draw an arrow. After I draw a line with the Bezier tool, I hit Shift+CTRL+F and select the Stroke style tab. From there, I think if I want an arrow head, I would select it from one of the 3 pull-down lists next to the word "Markers". However, I have no choices to choose from. I just have a horizontal line. When I click on them, I have nothing to choose from. A colleague is using the Microsoft Windows version and can confirm that he has arrow heads to choose from using the same steps that I'm using. Am I missing something? A setting perhaps? I've tried looking for instructions online to "activate" the markers but can't seem to find anything...though, in truth, I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Thank you and sorry for the very basic question! Ray

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Launchpad issue
by Brynn 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hi Friends, I used to be automatically subscribed to any bug report in which I have commented (or started the report myself). But I just made a couple of comments and noticed I wasn't getting an email. Then I looked at the reports again, and it showed that I was not subscribed. I went to my profile in LP and saw an option to "Change email settings". Not sure if that would give me a way to be subscribed to any report where I post a comment, I clicked on it to find out. Even though I'm already logged in (I just posted comments), I'm prompted to log in to something called Ubuntu One. I'm currently a Windows user ,and already logged in. There isn't any option to bypass this Ubuntu One login. So how can I get to the email settings? Thank you very much, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Winner: About screen contest
by Brynn 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Congratulations arelnjeru01 !!! And thanks Martin for all your hard work making the website working to handle the contest. I know there were some glitches along the way, but it's all worked out in the end. Well done!! I have some vague memory from last time, that the 2nd place entry becomes the about screen for the next dev version. But I could be wrong. All best, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 3:21 PM To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Winner: About screen contest >Thanks for everyone's vote, the results are as follows: 1. https://inkscape.org/en/~artelnjeru01/%E2%98%85about-092-2-good (#4) 2. https://inkscape.org/en/~Mikhael/%E2%98%85space-inkscape (#1) 3. https://inkscape.org/en/~artelnjeru01/%E2%98%85about-092-11 (#2) 4. https://inkscape.org/en/~bajinra/%E2%98%85draw-freely-in-sticker-sty le (#3) Congratulations to artelnjeru01! Please pass around the good news to all. The entrants this year were really VERY good, even those that didn't make this round of voting. I'm going to leave the committing of the winning entry to the repository to someone else. If you'd like to do this job, please download the svg directly from the above link. We can select a developer's about screen for trunk too, any of the entrants can be considered and I don't think we need a vote on that. Or we can keep the machine robot we have now, both are good. Best Regards, Martin Owens Voting details, instant runoff vote: { 'tie_breaker': ['4', '2', '3', '1'], 'winner': '4', 'voters': 16, 'quota': 9, 'candidates': set(['1', '3', '2', '4']), 'rounds': [ { 'tallies': {'1': 5.0, '3': 3.0, '2': 3.0, '4': 5.0}, 'tied_losers': set(['3', '2']), 'loser': '3' }, { 'tallies': {'1': 6.0, '2': 3.0, '4': 7.0}, 'loser': '2' }, { 'tallies': {'1': 6.0, '4': 9.0}, 'winner': '4' } ] } > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] New Extension and video showcase
by C R 27 Nov '16

27 Nov '16

Looks awesome Jabier! I can see this being useful for cell-shading comics, and it masks the issue Inkscape has where a small gap is rendered between adjacent fill edges. Thanks for the demo! -C On 26 Nov 2016 10:25 pm, "Jabier Arraiza" <jabier.arraiza@...2982...> wrote: Hi all. I just do a tiny extension on inkscape.org extension page. The extension is called:stroke-color-as-fill and do this. But it bring posibilities to cool efects, so i do a large showcase video. At the start I add a show case to add Delaunay triangulation in 2 steps to any inkscape art. Also you can use after my extension to fix the rouding precission triangles. I try now to fix the problem with custom markers to alow using it in a saved document (middle of the video problem) Take acount you can use a base biger than ~40px to allow more resolution (more pieces,triangles...) -bus slowest- to the output https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85stroke-color-as-fill Bye , Jabier. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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New Extension and video showcase
by Jabier Arraiza 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Hi all. I just do a tiny extension on inkscape.org extension page. The extension is called:stroke-color-as-fill and do this. But it bring posibilities to cool efects, so i do a large showcase video. At the start I add a show case to add Delaunay triangulation in 2 steps to any inkscape art. Also you can use after my extension to fix the rouding precission triangles. I try now to fix the problem with custom markers to alow using it in a saved document (middle of the video problem) Take acount you can use a base biger than ~40px to allow more resolution (more pieces,triangles...) -bus slowest- to the output https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85stroke-color-as-fill Bye , Jabier.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.92pre3 - error with 7z version
by Victor Westmann 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

If I knew how to make a super detailed step by step video I would... but I don't. :( Would love if someone did this. :) On Nov 22, 2016 12:16 PM, "Brynn" <brynn@...3089...> wrote: Hi Friends, I've just downloaded 0.92pre3, 64-bit, 7z version, for Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1. After extracting it, when I click on inkscape.exe, I get the following error message. "C:\Users\.....inkscape.exe is not a valid Win32 application." Same thing with 32-bit, 7z version. For both, 7z gives me a long string of Diagnostic Messages. I don't see any way to save this list of messages. (There are over 4000.) There is no option for saving or exporting. The only available option is Close. There is no context menu for the contents of the window. I can't highlight anything either. (Well, I can highlight the message numbers, but if Ctrl c is copying them, then Ctrl v is not pasting (into Notepad).) Oh, but every single one of them starts with "Unsupported compression method for....." It's possible my version of 7z is old. I could try upgrading, if it's possible that could be the reason. Let me know if I can provide any further info, files, docs, etc. Or make a bug report. Thanks, brynn ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: Contest Results and Developer Voting
by Jabier Arraiza 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

A cool animation os a non selected 0.92 about screen contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wjRgp8ZPdM

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0.92pre3 - error with 7z version
by Brynn 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi Friends, I've just downloaded 0.92pre3, 64-bit, 7z version, for Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1. After extracting it, when I click on inkscape.exe, I get the following error message. "C:\Users\.....inkscape.exe is not a valid Win32 application." Same thing with 32-bit, 7z version. For both, 7z gives me a long string of Diagnostic Messages. I don't see any way to save this list of messages. (There are over 4000.) There is no option for saving or exporting. The only available option is Close. There is no context menu for the contents of the window. I can't highlight anything either. (Well, I can highlight the message numbers, but if Ctrl c is copying them, then Ctrl v is not pasting (into Notepad).) Oh, but every single one of them starts with "Unsupported compression method for....." It's possible my version of 7z is old. I could try upgrading, if it's possible that could be the reason. Let me know if I can provide any further info, files, docs, etc. Or make a bug report. Thanks, brynn

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fill pattern to explicit paths
by unknown＠example.com 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi, I'm looking for a solution to convert my fill pattern which looks like this: <pattern id="diagonalHatch" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="4" height="4" patternTransform="rotate(45 2 2)"> <path d="M -1,2 l 6,0 M 2,-1 l 0,6" style="stroke:#000000; stroke-width:1" /> </pattern> and then: fill="url(#diagonalHatch)" to explicit paths, cause in my use case I cant use the fill argument, everything must be paths. For now I convert my svg to pbm and back to svg, this is quick'n'dirty but was the only solution I found til now. I want to do this automated on linux, so I'm looking for a cli solution so I can integrate it into my process. Is this even possible with inkscape or are there other tools I could use? Regards Matthias

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