April 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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Difference difference
by Brynn 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi Friends, It seems like I should know the answer to this. But I don't recall hearing about it. Starting with these 2 rings, which have fill and no stroke: http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff1.png I duplicate both, and then Difference. At 100% zoom they look ok. But zoom in (in this case, all the way, for best view) and you can see that the Difference wasn't correct. http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff2.png It's not a huge amount, but I would expect there shouldn't be any difference at all. This on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit, exe installer. Is that a bug? Or is there some reason it's expected not to be precise? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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combine paths within a group
by Brynn 02 May '16

02 May '16

Hi Friends, I needed to add some new paths to existing paths which were in a group. And I hate nested groups. So rather than group the new path with the original group, I decided to combine the new paths with one of the paths inside the group. And I found that combining the new paths to the paths inside the group, removed the new compound path from the group. Should that happen? Steps: 1 -- create 3 paths (or create 1 and duplicate twice) 2 -- place the 3 paths side by side (with or without space between) 3 -- group those 3 paths 4 -- draw a new path 5 -- drag it over beside the left path 6 -- with the Node tool, select the left path and the new path 7 -- Path menu > Combine 8 -- deselect all 9 -- switch to Selection tool and select the group Notice that the original Group of 3 is now a Group of 2. The newly created compound path has been ejected from the Group. The same thing happens if you enter the group before combining. Should that happen? I don't know why Inkscape should assume that I don't want this new path in the group anymore. I can't say for a fact that this is different behavior than in the past. But it seems like it is. If this is expected, why? If not, this is on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, with Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) and 64-bit (7z version). Should be reported? Thank you very much :-) brynn

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erase
by Joanne Rancourt 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

I have a logo that I created in 2010 when I was confortable using inkscape. I have not used it for a while but would like to delete the date on it and keep the rest. A lovely user of this forum did it for me once but do you think I can find the file ? of course not, lol. Is there any way I can just use a shape, circle perhaps, in white and lay it over the date so it will not show ? I could then save it as a jpg rather than a png and use it. thanks for any advice,Joanne

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Inkscape Hackfest News
by Martin Owens 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Inkscapistas, Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/ You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css. There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest News
by C R 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Thanks for the update! The interactive picture additions are really cool too! -C On 28 Apr 2016 4:31 am, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> wrote: Inkscapistas, Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/ You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css. There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch. Best Regards, Martin Owens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Filters -> Color -> Greyscale default values
by Sophoklis Goumas 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello. I've messed a little bit with Inkscape's: Filters -> Color -> Greyscale values and now I'm looking for the default ones. Would anyone care to share them, please? And, shouldn't there be a button to RESET those values to the default ones, what do you think? Thanks in advance, Sophoklis

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Website access in China - Fix applied
by Martin Owens 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear Inkscape Users and Developers, After a lot of backwards and forwards between osuosl and fastly.net we have put in place a solution for our website's access in China. The problem was that our chinese visitors would be able to get the website, but not any of the media (or downloads) because of their great firewall. The solution was a CNAME from media.inkscape.org to fastly and some special dns configuration which I barely understand to solve the issue with access to fastly caches. (I copied and pasted what people said in two tickets and acted as a manual ticket express for the professionals) This solution is now live and I invite people in China to test the website and please report back if they can see any issues. (and also if they would like to translate pages) :-) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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erase?
by ToddAndMargo 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi All, Since I am running Scientific Linux 7.2 (RHEL clone), I am probably not running the latest Inkscape: $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I tried Inkcape out to create a graphics for a tech manual. I managed to find everything I need in DuckDuckGo (Google without the spying). I was impressed. One thing I never figured out (and had to use GIMP) was how to erase a section. All the stuff I found on the web made no sense to me and I couldn't find things. Exactly how to I erase something? (I don't mind over writing with a while brush, as I did in GIMP.) Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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