February 2017 - Inkscape Users

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by John Culleton 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

It's been years since I used Inkscape. But I remember a facility where one could create a push button by entering about four parameters and this push button would address another entity using I think a URL address. I have the Bah book Fourth edition but I don't know what the function is called. Can someone help me out? All replies appreciated. John Culleton Wexford Press

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Development Project Management System Gsoc 2017
by Rohit Lodha 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hello, I am Rohit, a sophomore pursuing B.E Computer Science . I have been developing websites and managing them for the last one year for my college and a start-up that I had worked with. I have a huge interest in Python and Django and have build almost all the websites using them. I want to contribute to Inkscape by working on the Development Project Management System during the summer. I have gone through the Janitorial task documentation and also have started searching for patches to fix. I also had a look at the Django Website Development, the inkscape-web repository. Can you please tell me how to proceed or any task you expect me to carry out to be a part of the community ? -Rohit My github profile: https://github.com/rtgdk

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0.92.1 macOS unofficial test build
by Tim Sheridan 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi all, I (with lots of help from su_v) have been working on getting the macOS DMG build working again with a view to having an official DMG ready for the future 0.92.2 release. The current _unofficial_ test build of 0.92.1 is available here: https://inkscape.org/en/~tghs/★inkscape-0921-tghs_2-x11-107-x86_64dmg Included in this build is a new feature to automatically set the recommended XQuartz configuration. You'll be prompted about this on launch if you've got XQuartz running in its default configuration. This used to have to be set manually, as documented here: https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/. Any feedback is welcome. Since it's a test build, please don't file any bugs; reply in this thread, or contact me directly by email. I'm also around in both the #inkscape and #inkscape-devel IRC channels. Cheers, Tim

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repeated crashes on gradient mesh
by brynn 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi Friends, I'm working on a fairly small, fairly simple file with a fairly simple gradient mesh. It's a somewhat high zoom, and maybe I should scale it so I can work at 100%. But I'm not sure if that should matter. Anyway, it keeps crashing (taking out all open Inkscape files with it) when I try to move one particular node. 8 times in a row now. https://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/2nd-av-ani.svg I'm attempting to use the gradient mesh to ultimately make an animation of a light passing through an endless knot (see it in the hidden first layer). On the canvas, I've indicated 2 places where I have 3 mesh nodes on top of each other (to facilitate the light going around the corners with a trailing glow). It's the top node of the left-most stack of nodes. Steps to reproduce. Try to drag the top node of the left-most stack of nodes. Since the 3 nodes are stacked up, I need to move the top 2 off of the 3rd, to be able to select it individually. Whenever I try to drag the top one - BAM! Crash. There are no errors or message boxes. Just bam. (A backup was saved in the first crash.) Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.92. If you want me to upgrade to 0.92.1, I can. It's just I'm not aware the mesh was changed in the upgrade (so it seems like it wouldn't matter). Any kind of logs or files I can get for you? I don't know how to use the command line or terminal. But if you tell me what to do, I should be able to do it. Would you like a bug report? Thank you very much, brynn

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Movable Chain
by Hans Carlson 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

I'd like to create a movable chain of sorts... I'm not sure how or if this is possible with inkscape (0.91)... There seems to be lots of tutorials that show how to create a chain using Pattern along Path, the problem is, once the chain is created that's the end of the tutorial. I need to go a step further and actually move/manipulate the chain without deforming the links or changing the length of the chain. Maybe the "Pattern along Path" examples are completely wrong for what I want to do. To put it another way, take a real physical chain... 10' long, sitting on the floor. I can move the chain around, pull on one end, push the chain in the middle, shape it into an S curve, form a circle with the chain, etc. All the while, the individual links are exactly how they started -- they haven't been stretched or bent or deformed in any way. And while the actual length of the chain can very a little bit it's limited by how much slack there is in the individual links. Now, I want to do the same kind of thing in inkscape. I want to create a line long enough to hold exactly 60 circles, 20px in diameter with 5px space between each circle. Then, and this is the important part, I want move and reshape this "chain" around the canvas, just like I can do with a path composed of lots of nodes. But, I don't want the circles to change shape. The space between the circles can change a *little bit*, but should be limited... like the links in a real chain. I'm very new to both vector graphics and inkscape, so I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is easy, difficult or impossible. I would appreciate some enlightenment.

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inkscape 92.1 screwing up svg
by Gary Hawkins 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

HI, I am trying out inkscape 92 and downloaded 92.1 for windows 10 I just spent over an hour manually tracing a file I was hoping to use on my digital cutter - but it seem inkscape has changed the svg lines to an image - as useful as a chocolate fireguard or teapot - and I don't now how it did it but effing annoying!!!! Steps I did I loaded in an image with the design on I manually traced the outline, using black stroke for cutting and red stroke for any folding (non cut) lines I moved the traced lines to a new layer above the current one turned off the eye on the cut lines layer moved the actual image to the centre of the page locked the image layer opened the eye on the cut line layer selected the svg lines and at the bottom of the screen it say it's an image if I go into view>outline my svg lines show and a whwite square with a X - so it HAS changed it to an image so that was a waste of couple of hours as I now have to start all over again. and it WON'T be using inkscape 92!!! in fact inkscape 92 might well be dumped off the system as it's useless if it convert svg lines to images for no reason. NOT IMPRESSED and before anyone asks, I cannot use trace bitmap as that gives double lines and I need single lines and inkscape does not have a centre line trace. Gaz

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maximized window extends beyond screen area 0.92 (bug?)
by brynn 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi Friends, I almost posted a bug report on this, but on 2nd thought, maybe it should be discussed whether it's a bug or not. I'm not sure if this is going to be an Inkscape bug, or something about Windows os. But I've never seen this in any other program, and I never noticed this in Inkscape before 0.92. When the Inkscape window is maximized, a small strip of all 4 edges of the window extend past the edge of the screen. Screenshot: https://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/inkswin.jpg It particulary is a problem for the bottom edge for me. That's because I keep my taskbar auto-hidden. So if my mouse strays to the bottom, the taskbar comes up, and then I can't even see the status bar at all. Then I have to wait for it to go back down. So for example, if I want to use the zoom field and spinbox in the bottom-left corner, it's really hard to do. If I want to use the Style Indicator in the bottom-left, you can see that the bottom of almost half of "Stroke:" is beyond the edge. And "Fill:" is overlapping the palette scrollbar. Compare that to the....I guess it's called restore size window. You can see that all of "Stroke:" is showing, and there's even some space below that, like a buffer, before the edge of the window. In the maximized window, you see the toolbar buttons and snap control bar buttons are justified to the edge of the screen, with no space between them and the screen. But in the restore size, you can see there's a buffer there, before the edge of the window. The top, left and right edges don't cause me any touble. But the bottom edge is problematic. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, and this is a 15 inch laptop screen, non-touch, lcd, 1366 x 768 resolution. Should be reported? Thanks, brynn

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Inability to update a Windows installation
by Robert Funnell 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

On the Inkscape download/windows/ page it says 'exe and msi installers are equivalent but not compatible (i.e. one can not update the installation of the other)'. This seems to imply, for example, that a new msi installer can update a previous msi installation. However, when I try to install using the msi installer, I get a message saying 'Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue', and the existing version needs to be removed before installing the new version. This happened before for 0.91-x64.msi -> 0.92.0-x64.msi and has just happened again for 0.92.0-x64.msi -> 0.92.1-x64.msi. This is under Windows 7. Is this behaviour expected? - Robert

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SVG Questions and Inkscape Forum
by PipingDesignCentral . 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Is it OK if I post an SVG-related question both at http://www.inkscapeforum.com AND here? Paul

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Resizing an SVG
by Kai Hendry 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi there, Given an SVG that seems bounded to 100x100 which looks small when embedding into a Web page, how do I alter the SVG from Inkscape to make it take 100% of the space? E.g. https://s.natalian.org/2017-02-16/Compute_AWSLambda_LambdaFunction.svg I did try a few things in the Document Properties without success. Scale seemed to move the object around instead of actually scaling the graphic. I am using Inkscape 0.92 as packaged by Archlinux. https://s.natalian.org/2017-02-16/inkscape.png Many thanks,

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