January 2019 - Inkscape Users

First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!
by C R 30 May '19

30 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1r8a0emYc Future podcasts will be shorter, but hey, at least all the technical difficulties were edited out. :) Enjoy! -C

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new post - wish list
by Andrew Kurn 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

I would like to post a wish list item. I'll tell you the topic. You tell me whether I can post it to the new forum (possible?) and whether I should (advisable?). The current user interface for drawing and editing splines (Bezier) is bad. I like the Gimp one much better, but partly because I'm used to it. We can go into detail, but this introduces the topic. Let's improve the spline interface. How to do it? Andrew

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new forum, what happened? make a plan?
by brynn 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hi Friends, As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I've lost my patience over this whole "new forum" issue. I've been given the impression that we're (as a community) going back into limbo with the forum situation, and holding our breath that there are no more black eyes resulting from the lack of (effective) management of InkscapeForum.com. I don't understand why. Why risk yet another black eye? Do most people just not realize everything that's happened due to the lack of effective management, over the years? Or everything that could still happen? Shall I elaborate? Or maybe most people just don't care, since they don't use forums anyway? What yet needs to be done to make the new forum live and close the old one? To me, it has all the features it needs. As far as I know, the only thing that's still needed is load testing (lots of users at the same time). If we can start it within 6 months, I'd like to propose that we make a concrete plan (as much as possible, given that this community doesn't function well with deadlines). Of course I'd be glad to help create such a plan. If it requires more than 6 months more work, I would propose installing a php forum (SMF or phpBB) and start it right away. Then some day, if the Django-integrated forum is ever ready, we can switch over to it. Thanks for any clarity on this issue. All best, brynn

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internship using Inkscape
by brynn 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

Hi Friends, I've offered to make this post for someone who is offering a paid intership with their company, using Inkscape. They didn't want to subscribe to the mailing list just to make one post. But they've posted in the forum. So if anyone is interested, please see this message: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1518.0 All best, brynn

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Different Behaviour on .PDF export
by xadaux daux 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Hello, How to know if is it posible to make work pdf export via command line as in previous versions. Now Inkscape exports all the content on each layer when exporting id items and generates pdf's which mismach the document height and width. I've lost in new command line options :S Any clue? Thanks!

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Inkscape 0.92.4 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Inkscape has launched version 0.92.4 with increased stability. This update delivers some notable performance improvements for filter rendering, saving and moving paths (with a live path effect), and the measure tool. Download Inkscape 0.92.4 packages here: https://inkscape.org/release/ The key improvements in this version will enable Inkscape users to do or experience the following: * Align multiple objects as a group relative to a single object * Write image data to standard output * Experience extensions working faster within complex documents * See improved speed when deselecting a path with many nodes * Ungroup text elements won’t result in changed font size of children * Able to print and / or print correct paper size with printers (especially Canon, EPSON, Konica Minolta) * See improved performance of the measure tool when grids are visible * See proper opacity of partially transparent embedded bitmap images in PDF export * Able to Shift/Ctrl-click on control handles of shapes without crashing * Build Inkscape with up-to-date poppler library 0.72.0 – useful for Mac users building with Homebrew Translation and documentation updates ------------------------------------- The Icelandic and Brazilian Portuguese user interface (UI) translations have been updated. Inkscape’s Ukranian and Hungarian documentation translations have also been revised in this version. Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- There is always room for developers, especially those who can help with the following: * Package version 0.92.4 for Mac * Prepare the upcoming Inkscape 1.0 to be usable on MacOS * Help with programming a great UI for some of the new features in 1.0 * Help fix bugs and implement new features * Wrangle Python Head here https://inkscape.org/contribute/ to find out more about joining the ranks. Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors to help complete documentation and other elements of the project that are translated into many different languages. The project is seeking support with interface, documentation and other content translation. If you would like to contribute, head to https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ Another great way to help Inkscape is through Vectors, who are the marketing, outreach, and promotion team for Inkscape. Designers, artists, marketers, writers, and anyone enthusiastic about bringing Inkscape to more people in more places, is welcome to join. Inkscape alpha version 1.0 seeking testers ------------------------------------------ As the project advances towards an alpha release of version 1.0, the Inkscape teams are seeking developers interested in testing the alpha ahead of release. Download 1.0 alpha at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0alpha0/ Report new issues in Inkscape's Inbox: http://inkscape.org/inbox Watch Inkscape.org https://inkscape.org/ and social media channels for the latest details on the progress of the 1.0 development work. Mac OS: Inkscape needs your help -------------------------------- As few Inkscape volunteer developers use Mac, the project needs someone who knows how to automatically package a .dmg file, to enable Mac users to test the alpha version, along with Mac equipment to run continuous integration jobs. If you're interested in working on this, please introduce yourself on one of our discussion channels, and keep an eye out for other Mac volunteers to work with on this important task.

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Issue tracking for Inkscape moves to Gitlab
by Bryce Harrington 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hi all, As of this week, the Inkscape project is shifting to Gitlab for issue tracking in place of Launchpad. https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues We've been using Gitlab for our code hosting and other purposes for a year and a half now[1], and have found it to be reliable and convenient. We didn't migrate Issue Tracking until now, so we could take time to make sure we had a plan: 1. Going forward, new bug reports should be filed only in Gitlab. 2. Launchpad will remain available as a historical archive of our bug reports. Filing bugs there will remain possible for now, but discouraged. 3. Bugs in Launchpad that are still reproducible in Inkscape 0.92.4 or newer can be re-filed on Gitlab and closed on Launchpad. We are planning efforts to help organize the migration work and keep track of progress. More info on this will be coming soon. Eventually, when the necessary bugs have been migrated, bug reporting in Launchpad will be shut off. We're enthused about this change, and hope you too will find gitlab a more user friendly way to report issues, and we'd love your help triaging and solving Inkscape bugs. Bryce 1: https://inkscape.org/news/2017/06/10/inkscape-moves-gitlab/

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PDF import broken?
by Johannes Bauer 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

Hi there, I've been using PDF import to get stamps printed by the German postal service and include them into my custom labels for a while now. Always worked perfectly. Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu Mate Cosmic (Inkscape Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)) and suddenly I noticed that there are some bugs with it. First, when I choose "internal import" when opening the PDF in question, some text (not all interestingly) is messed up and replaced by black diamonds with a while "?" in its center (similar to the character that shows up when there's unknown Unicode characters). When I instead choose the "poppler import" the imported data looks perfect first. However, when I then copy and paste the image into a freshly created Inkscape document, the text becomes very small and messed up. I've a package which includes the original PDF with which I can reliably reproduce the behavior on my system as well as screenshot of how it's supposed to look (looks perfectly in evince), and what the two failure modes look like in inkscape. It's available here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=23794298134224596755 -- I've never used that hosting service so in case it's junk and you cannot access it, please let me know. If anyone could have an idea on what might cause this, I'd be super interested to know. Thanks a bunch, All the best, Joe

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Setting CSS layer/object blend modes within Inkscape
by Antonio Roberts 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I've tried asking this question on the inkscape forum but couldn't find a resolution. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34362&p=107468 I'm not sure if I'm not forming my question properly, but here it goes anyway. I'm trying to get inkscape blend modes recognised in Firefox and Chrome but like many I've noticed that the way that Inkscape does it (via filters) isn't recognised in browsers. After some research I've found that blend modes can be set via css https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-mode Amazingly these can be read by Inkscape as well as in a browser! Aside from opening the xml editor and adding in the CSS manually is there any way to set the blend modes using CSS within inkscape? Kind regards, Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Text extensions
by Hildegard Bingen 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

I'm relatively basic Inkscape user trying to learn some new functions. There are two extensions for text that I can't figure out at all: Extract and Merge. I haven't been able to find any directions. Can anyone tell me what these do or where to find information? Thanks!

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