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Vinyl cutters, Direct control, Suggested models
by Patrick 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hey Everyone There is a discussion taking place on the developers list right now pertaining to adding control of Vinyl Cutters to Inkscape. It is in the very early stages, the developers are not sure whether to add direct support to Inkscape or to an upstream printing application such as CUPS. Although I am on the developers list I have contributed precisely nothing to Inkscape, so I can hardly call myself a developer. I don't know what is the best way to approach these issues but I feel confident that I can decipher the command set used to control a cutter. I would like to do so and then turn this over to our talented developers. I would like to buy a cutter for this purpose. What would be the most ideal model to start with? I am hoping to spend under $500 U.S for this. Once we determine a good model to start with, I will likely search for a used one. If anyone has a popular model that they no longer need perhaps I could purchase it from you, could you please post the model number in this thread? I am short of money this month but I should be ready sometime in July or August. Thanks in advance-Patrick

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inkscape shortcuts on non-qwerty keyboard
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

I searched the archives for some solution to my problem, but couldn't find any, so if I overlooked it, please point me to the appropriate thread. I'm using inkscape on KDE with a qwertz (german) keyboard layout. Some shortcuts, like "#" to toggle the grid, don't work, as the corresponding key differs from the US qwerty layout. As the default.xml contains the right bindings (didn't change anything there), I think it's gtk that doesn't get tha mapping right. Is there some viable way to adapt the gtk settings to my keyboard layout? Of course I could learn the US layout for the shortcuts or alter the keybindings in the default.xml, but both workarounds seem to be a bit of an overkill just to use the default shortcuts. And I'm not quite fond of installing a whole Gnome just to have a Control Center where I can change the keyboard layout. thanks in advance

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Clipped bitmap --> closed path filled with patterh
by Hedley Finger 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

I have been producing a series of diagrams illustrating the effect of the various rendering intents. I found an SVG of the CIE 1930 chromaticity diagram and dismantled it to provide a background for my purposes. The familiar (closed) horseshoe shape is clipped from a rectangular bitmap of the radial colours of the visual spectrum: going around the outside border anti-clockwise, the rays from the white point (centre) to the border are R, Y, G, C, B, M and back to R (i.e. RGB and CMY interleaved). Trouble is this doesn't translate to PDF via the Cairo processor, or to PS and PDF via Ghostscript. The clipping of the bitmap is lost and the the border path just appears as an object on top of the full rectangular bitmap. The text labels are aliased in a very ugly way when I try to output to PNG. So I thought to convert the bitmap to a pattern, then fill the horseshoe path with the pattern. No joy. The bitmap turns into a slightly smaller rectangular pattern that is divided into four unequal quadrants, that is, it is tiled. It looks nothing like the demonstration on page 190 (204 of 341) of //Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program//. This shows a picture of a 1920s couple getting into an early MG sports car, then the same picture used as a fill in a circular object, then the pattern translated to change the details included in the fill. If that pic was mine, after changing to a pattern, the pattern would be smaller than the pixmap, and part of the RH and Bottom sides of the pixmap would appear as thin bands extending the LH and Top sides of the pixmap, i.e. the couple and sports car cut up in a way where it would be impossible to show the full graphic as a pattern fill in any object. What I really wanted was the bitmap to turn into a single tile pattern, i.e. a repetition of 1 both vertically and horizontally. Then I could fill the horseshoe border with the radial colours. It didn't look anything like the pattern on page 189 top. So what should I have done? Regards, Hedley Windows XP SP2; Inkscape 0.46; //Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program//, Tavmjong Bah, ed. 0.13 (documenting Inkscape 0.45.1) -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <hfinger@...2483...>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] convert pdf to svg from command line
by Matei Stroila 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Thanks a lot bulia! This is exactly what I was looking for. Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:12:45 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] convert pdf to svg from command line On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> wrote: > Are there any command line options for the inkscape executable to convert PDF to SVG? I just fixed it in SVN (rev 18892) so now this will work: inkscape file.pdf --export-plain-svg=file.svg It will take the first page of the PDF and all the default import options. Before, it crashed because it tried to open the PDF import preferences dialog and could not do it in the command line mode. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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convert pdf to svg from command line
by Matei Stroila 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Are there any command line options for the inkscape executable to convert PDF to SVG? Thanks, Matei

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PDF open: problem with one musical font.
by marce 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi! First post in this forum, but long time inkscape user now, even for basic things. I have a problem. Im printing from a musical score program to pdf. I want to open that PDF in Inkscape (0.46, last version), but even the preview of the document is fine in the import dialog, when Inkscape open it, the font is not showed properly. The font is called "SToccata" and is in the windows\fonts folder properly installed, but Inkscape dont show it in the fonts menu. I tried the workaround of the faq for issues with fonts (even it says that .46 solved the problem). Beyond that, the font is embedded in the pdf. Below are some pics to ilustrate what i say, and the PDF itself http://stashbox.org/136375/Dia-de-la-bandera-Interludio-Violin-Piano-02.pdf I tryed with other musical fonts installed in my system, and same issue. Here is the preview Inkscape shows me when i will import the PDF, all is fine with that preview: [img]http://stashbox.org/136368/Inkscape-pdf-01.jpg[/img] But when i press ok, i get this mumble-rumble: http://stashbox.org/136370/Inkscape-pdf-02.jpg Here is how is it supposed to be displayed: http://stashbox.org/134579/Distribution2.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PDF-open%3A-problem-with-one-musical-font.-tp17789194… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9
by James Smith 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi Michael, Thanks for the tip. Making the directory worked. Thanks! -James On 11-Jun-08, at 1:41 PM, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > ----------------------------- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:55 +1000 > From: Michael Wybrow <michael.wybrow@...131...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Startup problem in OS X > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <20737E93-E9C0-475A-9D62-AF5099B720A3@...131...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > On 09/06/2008, at 11:01 PM, James Smith wrote: >> >> I've upgraded my computer and reinstalled Inkscape but it doesn't >> seem >> to run. I haven't installed the OS X developer kit, but X11 was >> installed when I setup Matlab. I have installed the latest version >> of >> XQuartz (v2.1.4). > > FWIW, the latest is actually 2.2.1. > > >> When I click on the Inkscape icon I get the "While Inkscape is open, >> its windows can be displayed... The first time this version of >> Inkscape is run it may take several minutes before the main window >> is >> displayed while font caches are built." After I click "OK" nothing >> happens. I've waited, rebooted and started again and there has been >> no display of the main window. > > If you are on Leopard and you see this font message each time you > start Inkscape, then do the following: > 1. Open Terminal.app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the > following > > 2. mkdir ~/.fontconfig > > 3. Close Terminal, and restart Inkscape. It should work. > > If you don't see the font caches message anymore, but the Inkscape > window never appears, can you please run Console.app, start Inkscape > and then reply here with the relevant error messages output by > Inkscape to the Console app. > > Cheers, > Michael

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Kern, baby kern
by Cole Henley 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi First greetings all - am new to the list but avid Inkscape (ab)user and advocate for a few years now using it in most of my graphic and web design work. Had a question someone on list might be able to help me with. I'm aware of kerning individual letters in Inkscape, but is there a way of applying global kerning to a block of text (so that each letter in the group undergoes the same amount of kerning?) Diolch in advance, Cole PS posted this also on the Inkscape forums so apols for cross-posting if you hang out there too

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Effects->Render->Latex
by Adrian Lupascu 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Posted by Adrian Lupascu (adi) on 11.06.2008 10:33 Hi everybody, I just installed Inkscape 0.46. I would like to use the Latex utility (searching on the web, I believe it should be in Effects->Render->Latex). I do not see any entry "Latex" under "Render". I use Windows XP (French version). Any help is greatly appreciated. Adi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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calling bbox on every SVG element
by M dtm 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hey, I'm trying to read in all the elements in an SVG file and call the bbox method on each shape. Is there a simple way to do this? Thanks --Marguerite

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