May 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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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] New video three features.
by Jabier Arraiza 25 May '16

25 May '16

A old post.. sorry for the late. Not sure if reply at time. Is dificult add mass to pencil tool. In eraser tool is only activate a widget but pen tool work totaly diferent. Cheers, Jabier. El lun, 07-03-2016 a las 13:45 +0000, Todor Imreorov escribió: > Hi Jabier, > I noticed that there is now a "Mass" value in the eraser tool. Would > it be > possible to also add it to the PENCIL tool? It would make things > much > better for me if we had that feature for the pencil tool as well! > > Kind regards, > Todor > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz < > jabier.arraiza@...2982...> wrote: > > > > > Hi, here are my last video. Is a kind of showcase of three > > features: > > > > * Eraser tool with no width now in trunk. > > * Randomize color extension now with a limit slider, also in trunk. > > * Optional auto fill Delaunay triangles with color and thin stroke > > in > > the same color. The code of this are in this bug:https://bugs.launc > > hpad > > .net/inkscape/+bug/1553497 > > > > Anyway, there is better/faster ways to make Delaunay based in a > > image. > > So this is just a example. > > > > http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/03/no-width-eraser-mode-limit-rand > > om.h > > tml > > <http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/03/no-width-eraser-mode-limit-ran > > dom.html> > > > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >

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Inkscape crashes when importing an image
by Sridhar M A 24 May '16

24 May '16

I am using inkscape on my debian system. On one machine, it crashes when I try to import an image or drag and drop it from a file manager. I am attaching the log captured in a terminal. This happens with all images---type, size, color. My installation details: $ apt-cache policy inkscape inkscape: Installed: 0.91-9 Candidate: 0.91-9 Version table: *** 0.91-9 800 800 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 600 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Sridhar

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Drawing display
by Olivier BATARD 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hello, I’m running inkscape 0.91 with XQuartz 2.7.9 on mac OS X 10.11.4 I’m having a problem. When I create a new document, I select a shape like ellipse, I draw but nothing appears on the screen, the shape won’t draw. The outline is by default, black on white. Can anyone tell me what’s going on ? Thanks ! Rodolphe.

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New feature to eraser tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi to all. A new feature born in Hackfest 2016 thanks to the idea of Martin Owens to improve the eraser tool. This is a 0.93 feature. Here are the video: http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/05/new-eraser-mode -in-inkscape.html And here the branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/clip_eraser Cheers and dance!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] New feature to eraser tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi Todor. Yes it could be implemented. Maybe... Bye and thanks for the link. El dom, 22-05-2016 a las 15:50 +0100, Todor Imreorov escribió: > Do you guys think that this: > http://imovethings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/feature-proposal-vector-era > ser-that.html?m=1 > Could be implemented? It would certainly maje the eraser tool way > more > powerful > On 22 May 2016 13:15, "Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz" <jabier.arraiza@...3208... > r.es> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Martin: > > > > El dom, 22-05-2016 a las 00:58 -0400, Martin Owens escribió: > > > > > > This looks really good Jabier, > > > > > > Thank you so much for spending the time on the feature. > > > > > > My main question is: does this feature work on the selected items > > > or > > > on > > > all items in the layer? I noticed the code loops through all > > > items to > > > apply the clip mask. > > If no selection, use bounding box of the eraser tool -red- > > contained > > items, if there is selection use only selected items, retaining > > selection after it. > > > > I also think it works throught layers, but not tested yet, maybe > > need > > to switch 2 or 3 lines from current layer to top most. > > > > > > > > (at some point we should look at the speed of the eraser tool, > > > because > > > it's a bit slow even on fast machines (I mean the apply speed, > > > not > > > the > > > drag speed)) > > Not sure about the speed, I try it in a very slow machine in the > > video. > > I think I can speed a bit I need to put time marks to get the > > slower > > processes. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees > > who > > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition > > of MDM > > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only > > the > > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data > > untouched! > > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >

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custom grids ("outside the box")
by Brynn 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi Friends, I have a couple of questions about custom grids. I'm more or less familiar with the various extensions, and the 2 regular grids (rectangular and axonomic/isometric). But I was thinking about a couple of....well, probably silly things....but very unusual grids. One thing I want is the axomonic grid, but rotated around....I think would be 30 degrees, so that if you use it to draw a hexagon, the 2 vertical sides are horizontal. And the tiny triangles point up and down instead of side to side. Or a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees. So instead of tiny squares, it's tiny diamonds. And the other thing I was wondering. Would it be possible, somehow using Guides, to make a grid like that, or even with a star shape? For example, see http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/sg.png. There I made 3 stars, centered on the same spot, each 50 px larger (or smaller). Then I used Object to Guides. But this would be a tedious process, to say the least, to make a page-size grid. Plus, for the star shape, it makes 2 guides for each of the 5 sides. I understand why, it's just that makes it even more work, to deal with the extra ones....if you were actually considering doing it with guides. Questions: 1 - Would making, let's say an a4 page-size grid, using guides, start to create performance issues, like it would if you used paths? 2 - Otherwise, would making this kind of grid require an extension, or other coding? 3 - Or is there any other way to get an unusual grid like these examples? I mean, a grid that can be snapped to. I realize I could get a photo or other image of a grid and import it. But it wouldn't be snappable. Thank you very much :-) brynn

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ImageMagick vulnerability
by Brynn 10 May '16

10 May '16

Hi Friends, I know Inkscape does not use or depend on ImageMagick. But a lot of graphics or graphics-related apps do use it. So just in case anyone hasn't heard about this, I wanted to share. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/easily-exploited-bug-exposes-huge-n… I don't think the Inkscape website gallery uses IM, does it? (I learned about it because I use a Coppermine gallery on Inkscape Community, and CPG uses IM.) All best, brynn

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