March 2016 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Thanks for your votes! We have our new "Draw Freely" font!
by C R 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

And the winner (by quite a bit, actually) is Euphoria Script! Thanks to everyone for the votes and helping us choose a new open font. The new font will be deployed to the website and relevant graphics. You can start using it now in your inkscape-related materials by downloading it here: (includes font and ofl license files). http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/euphoria_script.zip Have fun, and thanks again for the help! -C

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Web Chat Review
by Martin Owens 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Dear Users and Developers, I've put together an integrated tutorial for the irc chat on inkscape.org and I'd like a few users and support contributors to give it a review: https://inkscape.org/en/*users/chat/ You should see a few things are different now: * You must be logged in to use the chat, previously you could be anonymous. You even must have an email configured, so facebook and twitter logins must update their user profile before chatting. * There is the above guide which add the can_irc permission to a user's account. Confirming they've seen every page (I shorted it to 4 pages). * There's a new IRC bot that offers these new commands: - webbot: whois [username] ; will tell you who a user is and a link to their website profile, in case someone joins the chat asks a question and then leaves without waiting. - webbot: tell [username] [msg] ; will send an alert to the user with a possible response. The default for website message alerts is to email them too. So you can respond to someone who just left. - Get Latest Art ; a bit of fun to return the latest item in the Artwork category on the live site. Returns the link. - If you want further integrations between irc and the website, this is now possible. (maybe good for meetings in the future) I'm hoping these tools will allow users to feel comfortable chatting with us and also provision support contributors with what they need when in chat. The exact text of the above tutorial is up for review here. Please let me know your suggestions by email on list. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New extension: isometric projection converter
by Jeroen Hoek 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hello, I have created an extension for Inkscape that transforms a flat two-dimensional object to one of the three visible sides of an isometric projection: https://github.com/jdhoek/inkscape-isometric-projection I was drawing some woodworking plans using an isometric grid, and wanted a way to transform an object drawn in 2D to the top, left-hand side, or right-hand side of an isometric projection. Learned a bit about affine transformations along the way too. The utility methods in simpletransform.py where really useful! Thanks for providing these. Should I add this extension to the list at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository ? -- Kind regards, Jeroen Hoek GPG: 44D4 1D39 535A 1F9A 9509 92C5 A7A8 B913 D40D D022

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Re2:Font for vertical writing
by 服部頼義 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

I'm sorry , we have to change the permissions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw6vYjcFltUVYW0wXzExRDVQZXM https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw6vYjcFltUVcmlTTlh1ZmNBNUE

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support for gcode extensions
by Brynn 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Hi Friends, I provide support for Inkscape daily, in bb style forums or occassionally in LP Answers. A couple of things are missing across the community. 1 - tutorials for using gcode tools, and 2 - support for questions and problems with those extensions. I know that the extensions all reference a single, 30-page topic in a Russian forum, as a place to get support. But we still are getting questions posted in other forums, that we just can't answer. Is there any other place where people can find support? Thanks, brynn

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Guillotine, but to svg?
by Tom Lechner 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Is there an easy way to chop up an svg, like with the guillotine extension, but export to svg files, not png? If a path object spans multiple sections, only the sub-paths within the section should be included in the output. -Tom tomlechner.com laidout.org

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Questions about "Draw From Triangle..." Extension
by Arlo Barnes 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

As the subject says, my questions are about the utility accessed from the menus: Extension > Render > Draw From Triangle... and specifically about whether one of the several 'circle' options is what I want, which is what I am thinking of, which is the following: Nodes in a path are ordered, right? So an SVG renderer knows how to connect them up. Therefore, the individual lines or Bézier curves (not B-*splines*, as a spline is multiple curves connected together at their ends, and having the same slopes [for Spiro, which is just a subset of B-splines, curvature also] at the points of those connections as their neighbors; polylines are not splines since they are meant not to have the same slope as their neighbors [or else two such connected lines could be replaced with a single line]) can also be ordered: the curve between nodes 1 and 2 is curve 1, n2 & n3 = c2, and so on. If the path is closed, node *last*'s connection to node 1 is the last curve. So far so good (if all I have said above is technically correct). I have happily drawn circumcircles and incircles around triangles before in Inkscape. Geometrically speaking, they do not have to be triangles in the literal sense, since: - they can be closed or open - a quick test just now shows that using nonlinear sides for a three-sided, three-node closed shape produces a circumcircle (for instance, selected just for the test), although it neither encompasses the path nor contains the points where the nodes are at. I tried, but three lone nodes (or any number of nodes not connected to any other) cannot be created in Inkscape, not sure about SVG itself. Anyway, now I realised I wanted something else. Given three points, in either a closed or open triangle, I want a circle for which the two sides connected to the 'middle' node (they are ordered, remember) are both tangent to said circle: tangent at the first and last nodes, to be specific. There are infinitely many circles tangent to two true (that is, infinite) lines, see something like http://i.stack.imgur.com/2NFBD.png <http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/146942/inscribing-multiple-incircles…> but without the intervening lines if you want proof :P but as far as I can tell, only one of those infinitely many circles fits the description I just typed, because either one of the sides connected to the middle node establishes a *distance* from said node, which selects a unique circle. Is there a mathematical name for this circle in relation to the triangle that generates it that I simply have not learned yet? If so, is it already in 'Draw From Triangle'? If not, could it be? Another feature request in respect to that module could be informative error messages. Often it just fails silently, either producing no objects or something different from the description, especially when multiple desired shapes are requested. In any case, if that ramble if readable, I would love some thoughts. -Arlo James Barnes

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Rotate copies LPE on trunk
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi to all. I just commit the branch Rotate Copies LPE this improve a existing LPE adding fuse paths. Here are a CRogers video showing in action http://opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/LPE_rotate_copies_fusioned_paths_jabie… Thanks to all test it specialy ~suv, CRogers, Martin and Krzysztof CRogers. I hope next weekend I could fix mirror symmetry LPE with Krzysztof review. All the best, Jabier.

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New style to seamless pattern extension
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Here are the "Look" of the extension in trunk. https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85new-seamples-pattern-extesion-… Thanks to Tav for his checkboard background work.

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How to install 0.91 on Debian Jessie?
by Man_Without_Clue 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Hi all, Can anybody provide step-by-step instruction to install Inkscape 0.91 on Debian Jessie? I have been unable to install 0.91. Thank you.

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