February 2021 - Inkscape Users

Wacom tablet question
by Dirk Gently 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

greetings netizens... I have a question regarding the use of a wacom tablet, specifically key presses that are mapped via GNOME settings on the Wacom section or if somehow wacom is the culprit in this case. I'm uncertain if the issue is as a result of mapping the keys in the GNOME settings or if Inkscape needs some time to interpret those mapped keys. So to get into it, I have mapped the three buttons in GNOME settings to use inkscape shortcuts and they work a good 85% of the time. The issue is that crops up is that, sometimes when pressing those keys Inkscape brings up another dialogue box, which I'm guessing is Inkscape interpreting me pressing those shortcuts keys and me getting the wrong resulting command (the dialogue box). Here is the exact scenario. I have a set of multiple images that need to be clipped, duplicated, and converted to a bitmap then continuing along the task of clipping those images from the various areas on the image. How can I avoid this happening? Or is the only way to press the mapped keys at a slower rate?

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Updates to my SVG Clickmap Landmines page
by Steve Litt 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

Hi all, As you know, SVG clickmaps inside of HTML are complicated, so I made my "SVG Clickmap Landmines" page in 2017. Yesterday I completed some updates to this page, to clear up some ambiguities, add some needed content, and update which browsers do what. The URL is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/svg_clickmaps/landmines.htm Hopefully this will prove useful for some of you. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until February 28
by Maren Hachmann 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi everyone! The community voting for the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen has started! You can learn more about it at https://inkscape.org/news/2021/02/22/your-choice-counts-vote-your-favorite-… and cast your vote at https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ (it's really, really difficult to choose one this time! I have 18 favorites, lol.) Thanks + enjoy all those cool pictures we got from the community artists! Kind Regards Maren

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Inkscape presentation
by Steve Litt 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi all, Wednesday at 7pm New York time I'm giving a presentation on Linux authoring tools, with an emphasis on Inkscape. Meeting details and URL are available at http://golug.info. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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Calling German-speaking Inkscape Community members (and those who don't mind to communicate in English with German Linux users)!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi everyone, the Inkscape project is going to host a virtual booth/stand at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage, on March 13 and 14 this year! We have already gathered a small booth team of 4, possibly 5, but the CLT (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) are all-day events and we could use your help answering user questions about how to work with the program, how to contribute to it and about what is going on in the Inkscape community. We might even do some short, up to 20min topic-focused sessions, if someone would like to organize (one of) them. So, if you're a developer, a forum member, a regular user support provider in our chat channels, an Inkscape translator, or are contributing to the project more or less regularly in any other way, and you have some time available to spend helping the Inkscape project on that weekend in March, please introduce yourself at the GitLab issue report where we're discussing the event organization! We would also be glad to have someone on board from any of the maker labs or similar communities, who are proficient in helping with maker topics, or who can demo something interesting in a short session (or both :) ). Or if you'd like to present the top 10 Inkscape extensions that people must know about, or do a quick drawing session, or want to tell people how to compile Inkscape and get started with development or ... whatever you can think of. ****************** Please get in contact with us as soon as possible and find more info at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192 Let us know how you can help make the booth an interesting place for visitors to drop by! ****************** We're going to have a meeting with all those interested in about a week, so it would be good to hear from you before that. I'm going to announce the meeting time in a separate message. Hope to see you - and if you are not able to join us at the booth, consider visiting us there! Kind Regards Maren

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