January 2017 - Inkscape Users

Ubuntu ppa now with 0.92
by Maren Hachmann 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Alex Valavanis has updated Inkscape's stable Ubuntu ppa at https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable for the 0.92 release, so you can now install / update to the latest version on Ubuntu and derivatives via package management. Instructions about how to add a ppa to your software sources can also be found on the web page linked from above. Have fun drawing! Regards, Maren

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Hilfe
by gruhler 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

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Settings as command-line options?
by Christoph Raab 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear fellow Inkscapists, thanks to the "Larger" option for icon sizes in the 0.92 version, more of the icons are now usable on my laptop's high-DPI display. Using an external monitor, that makes them too large of course, and changing the setting means starting Inkscape, going into the preferences, and restarting. Since everything else works fine, I didn't want to try compiling with GTK3 enabled since it's marked "experimental". But can I give these these icon size preferences as an option when starting Inkscape? Then I could just start a different script depending on what monitor I'm using. Of course it would be ideal if that's already an option, since then I could eventually switch to a binary distribution. But I don't mind compiling it myself either, if it's something I can add in myself. Does somebody know how this could work? Best, Christoph

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Data-visualization extension ?
by Pierre Massat 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear all, I know I should be sending this to the dev list, but I'm not a member and I'm feeling lazy. In Illustrator there's a tool to import data in a spreadsheet, and create basic charts from that. It's very handy for people who do data-visualization. I would think that Inkscape is just as good as Illustrator for tweaking existing svg charts (colors, text, layout, etc.). But due to the lack of this tool Inkscape currently requires an extra step to create the charts with another application (e.g. the R project for statistical computing). I looked at tutorials to create extensions. I think that the logic could be quite easily implemented (i.e. calculating scales, displaying the shapes). But there doesn't seem to be a spreadsheet widget for the UI, which makes it a no-go if users can't input a few simple numbers manually. Any idea how difficult it would be to create this extension ? Cheers, Pierre.

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Fill between strokes
by Robert Funnell 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

I've been trying to figure out how to use the 'Fill between strokes' path effect in 0.92 but I can't figure out what sequence of operations to use, or what the 'Link to path' and 'Select original' buttons are supposed to do. I've searched for instructions or tutorials without finding anything that matches what I'm seeing in 0.92. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you. - Robert

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Question on text colors of info boxes ...
by Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Dear listmembers, I am quite happy with Inkscape (V 0.91 on openSUSE 42.1 with kde) with one single exception I could not find a solution for until now: Whenever I move the mouse - curser over an icon say on the left upright bar with different symbols (for example the selection icon) a help text is displayed. Unfortunately this text is white on a light gray background: long text short answer: one can hardly read what is shown in the box. Could any kind soul shed light on this and (maybe ...) tell me how to fix this problem? Any pointer is greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 76131 Karlsruhe

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traceback from Interpolate extension
by brynn 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hi Friends, Trying to use the Interpolate extension, I'm getting an error, including Traceback, and no results. Here's the traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "interp.py", line 333, in <module> e.affect() File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 283, in affect self.effect() File "interp.py", line 156, in effect basestyle['stroke-width'] = self.tweenstyleunit('stroke-width',sst,est,0) File "interp.py", line 114, in tweenstyleunit ep = self.unittouu(end[property]) / scale KeyError: 'stroke-width' I notice the last line which is something about the stroke width. But neither of the 2 original objects have a stroke at all. When I searched Launchpad, I found this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1586568. It seems to be related to stroke width, but as I said, there are no strokes in this case. Inkscape 0.92 stable, 64-bit, exe installer, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. Shall I add a Comment to that bug report, or is this different? If it's the same thing, how can I make use of the file which suv provided? Thank you very much, brynn

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How to uninstall Inkscape 0.91 +Xquartz on Mac to install 0.92?
by Victor Westmann 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Or even better: how can I update Inkscape 0.91 + XQuartz on Mac to 0.92? I followed the instructions in the download page to install 0.91 few months ago and it went fine! But I have no idea on how to uninstall 0.91 to install 0.92.. but I'm very happy we have it available in the MacPorts... seems like an elegant, and yet simple, solution. Sorry for the silly question. --Victor Westmann

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how to uninstall
by brynn 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hi Friends, I recently installed Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit, exe installer on a brand new Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit computer. However, it doesn't show up in Programs and Features or the Start menu. So I can't figure out how to uninstall it. I looked in the installation directory, because in some programs, I've seen an uninstall.exe file. But I don't find that in this case. How can I uninstall this? (Note that I recently was discussing about having multiple versions installed, but that's on an old computer. This is happening on a new computer, where this is the only version I have installed. I do have a 7z version of another version, but it's my understanding that the zip file programs are not technically installed.) Thanks for your help, brynn

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Inkscape 0.92 is Released!
by Maren Hachmann 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

(originally sent by Bryce to devel list) The Inkscape project announces a new version 0.92 of its popular vector drawing software. New features include mesh gradients, improved SVG2 and CSS3 support, new path effects, interactive smoothing for the pencil tool, a new Object dialog for directly managing all drawing elements, and much more. Infrastructural changes are also under way, including a switch to CMake from the venerable Autotools build system. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c Download 0.92 from: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesh gradients enable artists to create photo-realistic drawings more easily - a feature we would love to see made part of the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard; if you find this feature as cool as we do, please request that your favorite web browser adopts support for it too! Inkscape works closely with the SVG standards committee, and thanks to our many generous donors the Inkscape project sponsors an engineering representative to attend SVG working group meetings over the past few years; a welcome outcome of this participation is the improvement and addition of over a dozen SVG and CSS properties, such as paint-order, white-space, and mix-blend-mode. Live Path Effects are proving to be a vibrant ecosystem in the Inkscape project, and many innovative new ideas have been percolating over the past couple years since our last release. Spiro Live, BSpline, and Roughen essentially provide new drawing modes. The Simplify LPE cleans up vector elements non-destructively by smoothing paths, shapes, groups, clips, and masks. Perspective/Envelope and Lattice Deformation 2 enable artists to interactively deform/transform drawing elements. Other new features enable interactive mirroring, interactive rotation of copies along an arc or circle, and dozens of other additions and enhancements. All software must evolve with the times, and Inkscape is no different. To maintain consistency with the CSS standard, Inkscape's default resolution has changed from 90dpi to 96dpi; Inkscape will detect files created with previous versions and offer to convert them. A number of infrastructural changes are in process to help Inkscape keep up with progress. For 0.92 we are changing to the CMake build system, which builds faster and is easier for developers to work with. (Future infrastructure changes include switching from bzr to git, shifting from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and moving to the C++11 standard.) The above barely scratches the surface of all the new stuff included in this release. For the full story, including examples, screenshots, and videos, please see our detailed Release Notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92 If you're on Linux, you'll soon be able to install Inkscape 0.92 from your distribution via normal methods. We also intend to publish a distribution-independent snap file for Inkscape 0.92. If you're on Windows, we have a set of packages that we hope will let you maximize performance on your platform. For Mac OS X, no packages are available -- our old (X11/XQuartz) packaging was long overdue to be updated to current standards and is no longer being maintained. If you wish to compile Inkscape yourself, then of course, the Inkscape source code is also available from our website. The Inkscape Project thrives due to your support. We are a volunteer-driven community built from thousands of contributions of time, skill, and funds, to create a powerful open source tool that is made available for free to everyone in the world. We invite you to join our community and participate in helping advance Inkscape towards new objectives. Come help us chart out the new directions that Inkscape needs to take! Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community. Your donations also help further Inkscape's mission. You can donate to Inkscape's general fund, or target your donation to support our SVG Standards work or Hackfests. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/community/ Become a donor at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ Download Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/download/ Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c --------------------------------------------------------------------

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