September 2018 - Inkscape Users

Doubt
by AAPP 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

Hello. I have a Windows Surface. My problem is that the icons like shapes and Bezier and more are very small and I don't know how to enlarge it. Thank you! -Alejandro Perez

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Inkscape can be extremely frustrating
by K B 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

All I want to do to begin with is draw a simple Line Circle. (white background with white inside the circle). But instead it draws a dashed-rectangle with (4) little squares. Two squares are on the rectangle and the other two are outside. So, I go into: Edit, Preferences and the Circle it not even listed under Shapes! Crazy. Does anybody know what I should do? Thank you. Ken

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Vectors Meeting in 11 hours!
by Ryan Gorley 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

Hello All, I'm on my way back from the GNOME Libre Applications Summit in Denver, having showcased Inkscape, alongside other free creative software, as part of a professional workflow. It was a great experience and was very well received. As I am in an airport please pardon the lack of an agenda and the late reminder. Our Vectors meeting will be at the usual time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…) (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…) and usual place (https://teams.freecreatives.org (https://teams.freecreatives.org)). It will be great to chat with those of you who can attend! Ryan

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improve organization of Extensions menu
by brynn 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Hi Friends, As part of my project to get all the known external extensions listed in one place, and trying to organize them (using the current Extensions menu as a starting place) I've realized that how the Extensions menu is organized might need some improvement. I've also discussed it privately with a couple of other users. So I thought I'd bring up the subject with developers. For example. 1 -- Should Stylesheet be a submenu under Web? 2 -- Should Typography be a submenu under Text? Currently, many extension makers seem to be making their own submenus for their extensions. For people who use a lot of external extensions, I wonder if their menus are harder to use. If we had the menu already organized, it might inspire extension makers to put their extensions into the pre-existing submenus, rather than make their own. 3 -- Should there be a Gcode submenu under Export? (more about Export submenu below) In my list, I've created a separate Gcode category. There are lots of external extensions which produce gcode (approx 20). I don't know where they would show up in the Extensions menu, yet (since I just now learned how to find out). But as I said, it might help keep the menu clean, to have submenus ready for the external extensions, even if there might not be any built-in extensions for some submenus. 4 -- Should the current Gcodetools submenu appear within this proposed Gcode submenu? 5 -- To accomodate external extensions, both Render and Export need to be divided into several submenus. 6 -- I've also created a new category (for my list) Animation/Presentation (currently 10 or 12 of them). It seems like the existing JessyInk submenu should go under there (assuming we were to agree on adding such a submenu). 7 -- There are 3 external extensions which comprise a Boolean category. But shouldn't Boolean be under the existing Modify Path submenu? 8 -- And once I get all the external ones organized, I guess other instances of potentially improved organization might come to light. If anyone else has any observations about improving the organization of the Extensions menu, please feel free to make comments :-) Yes, I realize a lot of developers are getting ready to go to Hackfest. But I wanted to mention this, in case it might come up. Otherwise, it can still be discussed, now or later. Thank you very much, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] improve organization of Extensions menu
by brynn 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Ok, here's the feature request: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1790927 So those of you who have other suggestions, you can describe them there :-) Thanks again! brynn -----Original Message----- From: brynn Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 11:34 AM To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ; Mark Schafer Cc: Andrew Kurn Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] improve organization of Extensions menu Hi Mark and all, Wow, a user-configured menu! That never occurred to me. I wonder if that would be hard to do, I mean for developers? I've only recently learned how extensions are placed in the menu (by code in the INX file). To me, it would seem logical to use the user directory structure to form the menu. So for example, if a user wanted a Skateboard submenu, they would put a Skateboard folder in their user extension directory. But again, I have no idea how hard that would be to do. But I think it's a good idea worth considering. Someone else replied to me privately, who suggested that with so many extensions that we have now, and considering the approx 300 external ones, it might be useful to have something like an extension manager, where there could be a search or filter type of feature, for locating the one you need. I guess they mean like with tags to aid the searching/filtering. Well, I guess I was hoping by having a discussion about this, it might be possible to bypass the feature request route, where it sometimes seems like we put things that need a nice long nap. But I suppose I should go ahead and open a formal feature request. I'll reply again shortly with a link. Thanks for the discussion! All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Mark Schafer Sent: Monday, September 03, 2018 9:54 PM To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] improve organization of Extensions menu Hi Brynn, I agree the current set is overloaded in some areas. E.g. Render (where most of them are) There's a good reason for allowing people to make their own. E.g. I have a few under Skateboarding now. In the past I have suggested adding: - Folded forms - for sheetmetal, envelope, and construction approaches involving sheets of some kind. - Music - Drawing - by which I mean technical drawing as well as more figurative tools. (which are generally under Generate from path atm.) Its my opinion that Custom and Render are too generic and that an extension should try harder to determine what its good for. However I acknowledge that an extension might be so generically useful that it belongs there. I'm still moving house (seems interminable) and still hoping to get back to this and the extensions gitlab project. On 9/4/2018 12:36 PM, C R wrote: Thanks for the work, Brynn! I'd like to suggest that the "Render" category be changed to "Generate", because "Render" in graphics is most often the generation of raster graphics from data (such as vectors). The rest of your proposal sounds good to me. -C On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 1:11 AM brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote: Hi Friends, As part of my project to get all the known external extensions listed in one place, and trying to organize them (using the current Extensions menu as a starting place) I've realized that how the Extensions menu is organized might need some improvement. I've also discussed it privately with a couple of other users. So I thought I'd bring up the subject with developers. For example. 1 -- Should Stylesheet be a submenu under Web? 2 -- Should Typography be a submenu under Text? Currently, many extension makers seem to be making their own submenus for their extensions. For people who use a lot of external extensions, I wonder if their menus are harder to use. If we had the menu already organized, it might inspire extension makers to put their extensions into the pre-existing submenus, rather than make their own. 3 -- Should there be a Gcode submenu under Export? (more about Export submenu below) In my list, I've created a separate Gcode category. There are lots of external extensions which produce gcode (approx 20). I don't know where they would show up in the Extensions menu, yet (since I just now learned how to find out). But as I said, it might help keep the menu clean, to have submenus ready for the external extensions, even if there might not be any built-in extensions for some submenus. 4 -- Should the current Gcodetools submenu appear within this proposed Gcode submenu? 5 -- To accomodate external extensions, both Render and Export need to be divided into several submenus. 6 -- I've also created a new category (for my list) Animation/Presentation (currently 10 or 12 of them). It seems like the existing JessyInk submenu should go under there (assuming we were to agree on adding such a submenu). 7 -- There are 3 external extensions which comprise a Boolean category. But shouldn't Boolean be under the existing Modify Path submenu? 8 -- And once I get all the external ones organized, I guess other instances of potentially improved organization might come to light. If anyone else has any observations about improving the organization of the Extensions menu, please feel free to make comments :-) Yes, I realize a lot of developers are getting ready to go to Hackfest. But I wanted to mention this, in case it might come up. Otherwise, it can still be discussed, now or later. 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The one Inkscape frustration affecting me
by Steve Litt 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hi all, Inkscape is one of the best pieces of software I use. It's sometimes hard to use, but the concept of drawing is very complex, so there's only so simple Inkscape can be made. The one Inkscape thing that gets me is switching between having the stroke grow or shrink with the object, when the object is grown or shrunk, as opposed to having the stroke width stay constant. I've given up and just scale rectangles in rectangle mode, or if I need to grow something big (perhaps because it's in a group), I just have to manually change the stroke width EDT (Every Darn Time). I know there's a toggle for this somewhere, but I can't find it in the docs or in experimentation. Wherever this toggle is, it should be shouted from the rooftops in the Inkscape documentation, and also made very obvious and prominent in the menu system, which is the best route toward discovery. By the way, help->Inkscape_Manual fails to bring up a web page on my system. It would be great if you had a copy-and-pasteable (and perhaps clickable) URL of the manual on the Help->About window. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

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organizing external extensions - need a little help
by brynn 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Hi Friends, I'm working on a project to list all the external extensions, on the same page where I have all the best tutorials listed (https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php) I already have a list made -- approx 300 of them. And I've made an attempt at organizing them. I'm using the current Extensions menu as a starting place for categories. That seems like the most logical way in which users might search for them (or expect to find them). The Render and Export categories have so many that I've made sub-categories. Plus I made a new one called Animation, which holds both animation and presentation type of extensions. But I'm stuck with approx 45 of them which I'm not sure where they would belong. Plus, I might not have gotten the ones I did organize in the proper place. Often extensions might fit in more than one category, but usually one is better than the other. I wonder if anyone might have some time, to help me out with this? I've uploaded an ODT file as an attachment in this forum topic (which I've also requested any forum members who might have time to help). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1261.0 For clarity, these are specifically what I need help with: -- At the bottom (last 3 pages) is a category called "Unsure". Those are the ones I need the most help with. Ideally I'd like all of them categorized....except that there are several extensions I found which don't have descriptions, and their titles aren't very helpful with knowing what they do either. So there could realistically be a few left over which can't fit into a category. -- There are subcategories in Render and Export called "Other" (among several other subcats). There should be several extensions from "Other" which can fit into other subcategories. -- Generally if you notice any that I put in the wrong place, please move them to the correct place. For anyone who can help, please just edit that file, and upload it somewhere. (The file itself is just my working list. It's not going on the webpage, so don't worry about the formatting or font. I'll deal with that when I code the page.) I really appreciate any help which anyone can offer. And I think it will benefit the community as well, to have sort of a master list available, so users don't have to spend so much time searching the internet. Thank you very much, brynn

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