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Can't reach www.inkscape.org
by John R. Culleton 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

If you have tried the site in the last hour or two did you get through OK? I haven't been able to. If others in the US haven't had that problem then I will climb all over my ISP. But if it is a shared problem then I will be patient. :<) . -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Question, for the Scrapbookers who love inkscape.
by Bibi Morris 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I am currently running inkscape.45.1 I am a scrapbooker who uses inkscape to generate DXF Files that we convert to files that cut on the personal die cutter machines, We use these as scrapbook titles and die cuts. We found a "Bug" a few versions back that worked great for us, but I think it was tightened up in this version, so I will explain what I need, and see if you wonderful developers can help, yet again. When we want to do a title, it is so much easier to "connect" our letters before we cut, therefore simplifying the assembly of it. In a previous version of inkscape we could type in our title, then kern the letters to our liking, and hit "control j" and then "control l" and have our title all connected and the centers of the letters preserved. This is so much easier than converting to path, then having to break apart, and select the outside paths only and doing a union, However in inkscape.45.1 the control j and control l no longer works, as where the letters overlap, instead of unioning the letters, the overlapped part, the overlap has a path, that would cut on the cutters, and we would have individual letters, instead of a connected word. Is there any way of adding a "Letter Union" function where we can just kern, our letters, and do a letter union, thus preserving the centers, and connecting all the outer parts of the letters, and generating one path for them? (When we do this we always work in outline mode) Thanks, you designers have been fantastic for us. This would really save us lots of time. Bibi Morris -- Inkscapes by Bibi Morris All cutter files designed exclusively in Inkscape Find my Cutting designs at http:\\inkscapesbybibi.cuttersmarket.com www.Cuttersmarket.com Private Inkscape, and WB/CR/Silhouette classes available

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How to create a circular pattern
by Dan H 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I feel completely stupid. Maybe I'm just not seeing that "Get your free circular pattern here" button in Inkscape. What I need is a circular arrangement of clones of an object where I can select an object, set a center point, an increment angle and number of clones and just get some clones along a circle or arc. There's this ultracomplex thingy for "tiling" things but I don't think it does what I need. Thanks, --D.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by Cedric Sagne 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

David, Re my previous post, your question also implies a workflow that will go to Indesign, and well such a workflow is always a source of problem - I got good results nonethless even on transparency, and transparent gradients, with PDF export from Scribus, and import into InDesign. Nonetheless I was unable to check whether CMYK colours remained in the case of Scribus PDF imported in InDesign. Direct PDF export from Inkscape was not so good with the loss of transparent items when imported in InDesign. Such PDF can be imported in Illustrator but not modified! As a matter of fact, creating a gradient where the second colour ONLY has a transparency seems not supported by Illustrator (and very simple in Inkscape). Even creating a gradient fill with only ONE transparent colour in the gradient seems unsupported by InDesign (my latest investigations). Therefore if it was specifically what you intended to do, you may be trying to get InDesign to do what it does not support, even when designing objects from scratch. In the case of the Scribus PDF imported successfully, transparent gradients lead to blending with the background, which of course is not acceptable for a logo, but may still be what you want to achieve. I hope you find this information useful. Cedric > My advice is the following workaround : create your SVG, import it in > Scribus, in Scribus, redefine your colours as CMYK and save as EPS (remove > unused colours).

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Inkscape cannot correctly render LaTeX formula
by Paul Smith 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Dear All, Inkscape 0.45 can render correctly the formula $\pi$ (Effects --> Render --> LaTeX formula). However, the formula $a^2$ and many others cannot be rendered. Do you confirm this? Paul

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Bucket Fill
by Axiom X11 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Playing around with the new flood fill in the nightly builds (Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Aug 7 2007, Windows) I notice that it will sometimes fill only to edges visible on your screen. I would expect it to fill all the way until it hits a line, even if that line is off screen. Is this a bug or a "feature"?

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Problem exporting to png
by Prasad H.L. 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Inkscape is a wonderful software. Using it to develop vector graphics is a breeze. I have prepared one inkscape SVG file which is of A3 size for the purpose of a wall poster. I wanted to get it printed. So, I was exporting it to PNG format with 600 dpi. (Please let me know of any other approach to print SVG file with good resolution) Inkscape took a lot of time for exporting it. In the process, I was getting some warning messages in the shell in which I ran inscape. The error messages were like ** (inkscape:20742): WARNING **: 249003000 bytes requested for pixel buffer, I won't try to allocate that. The SVG file has a large rectangle as background spanning almost the entire A3 size with some linear gradient. I suspected that the above warning is because of this large rectangle which turned out to be true when I saw the resulting PNG file. The large rectangle was having only the border and no gradient inside it. Kindly somebody suggest an approach to be followed exporting this SVG file. Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469

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inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
by David Christian Berg 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hey everybody! While I'm regularly reading the development list, I've not been signed up for the users list so far. However, I now really got a problem, I just don't manage to solve and hope that you can help me. I created the attached knight to be part of the new logo of TIMES, a case study tournament organised by the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) -- www.times.estiem.org. Now to go on after having weeks of discussing the logo is moving towards the poster. For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though. But maybe you can help me out with this? That'd be perfect. Thanks in advance! David

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Problem with swf extension
by Juho Viitasalo 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hey! I just subscribed to this list because I have a problem that I can't solve myself. I have following .inx file in extension directory swf_output.inx ------------------------------------------------------ <inkscape-extension> <name>SWF Output</name> <id>org.inkscape.output.swf</id> <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.pdf</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</dependency> <dependency type="executable">pdf2swf</dependency> <output> <extension>.swf</extension> <mimetype>application/x-shockwave-flash</mimetype> <filetypename>Flash SWF (*.swf)</filetypename> <filetypetooltip>Flash movie shape</filetypetooltip> </output> <script> <command reldir="extensions">pdf2swf.cmd</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.pdf</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension> ----------------------------------------------------- In same directory I also have pdf2swf.cmd ----------------------------------------------------- pdf2swf %1 "%~dp1%~n1.swf" pause ----------------------------------------------------- It creates the .swf file but it's empty. I think that it's not running my cmd file or it doesn't get the input. Can anybody tell me what is the problem? pdf2swf.cmd works nicely when dragging a pdf file on it. -Juho-

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gradient dithering
by Francois du Toit 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Don't know if this has been discussed before. Gimp has options for dithering and supersampling in gradient blends which prevents banding on some displays and printers. Anything like this in inkscape?

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