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restoring aspect ratio of text objects after they have been scaled
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

>Hey people, Bulia, Gijsbert, > >What _I_ would like to know is: how could you _restore_ any object, >most >particulary a text-pbject, to the orignal aspect ratio (1:1) after you >scaled it without ctrl and worked with it for a while? Especially for >text it would be helpfull to be able to restore it to the original >aspect ratio, while keeping other changes (such as rotation or color or >... ) >Well, you should never use text in another aspect ratio as intended by >the font desinger,... But anyway..., >Kind regards, >Maarten Right, that is exactly my problem. If often need to scale a number of objects, including text objects. For design reasons, it is easiest to scale all objects first, then select the text tool with the same objects selected, and then setting the ORIGINAL font size in the text tool bar. And often, I need to scale the drawing as a whole in a non-aspect-ratio-keeping way. Because the original aspect ratio is not kept, it would indeed be extremely helpful to be able to restore text objects to the original aspect ratio. The way I do this now is going into the SVG file, but that is inconvenient. One of the 'dangerous' things is that right now, text objects with the same font size can be of different sizes, depending on their set aspect ration in the 'transform scale(a,b)' part of the xml text object. The way to solve it is to take the 'transform etc' part out of the xml. Maybe one could write an EFFECT for this, or write a simple shell script. I say that this is dangerous because I think it is a little bit counter intuitive that a text object with the same size can have different actual sizes. It is really easy for a user to get confused. For example, if you have two text objects that APPEAR to be the same given their font size, as shown in the tool bar, there is no way to tell which one is in the original font aspect ratio and which one is in the non 1:1 aspect ratio (unless you look at the transformation part in the xml, I guess). This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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more on text object scaling
by Gijsbert Stoet 09 May '07

09 May '07

On 5/8/07, Gijsbert Stoet <Gijsbert.Stoet@...2082...> wrote: > > I have recently asked how to easily scale multiple objects, including > > characters, and then later scale only to a particular font size. > > Somehow, this is difficulty to do in inkscape (but I hope there is an > > easy trick!). It is much easier to understand the problem if you see > > what I mean by example. I have put the question in an svg with an example. > > > > http://volition.uwe.ac.uk/example-font-scaling-issue.svg >I don't see any problem. For the unscaled one it shows about 41px font >size, for the scaled one about 28. I don't see a discrepancy between >toolbar and dialog either. You can select all text labels and set any >font size for them. Thanks for picking up on this. It turned out that what I described was due to the particular development version of Inkscape. After I checked the stable version 0.45 it works as you say. As you say, rescaling fonts in inkscape correctly changes the font size in the font-toolbar. What I do not understand is how you get the 'original' aspect ratio of a text object. For example, if I do the following: 1) Make text object in fontsize 32px 2) Select the text object, make it very wide, for example 3) Select it with the text tool again. Now set back the font size to 32px, and it will still not have the original aspect ratio. Is there a way to deal with this? Thanks a lot, it is fantastic to have such a helpful forum! :) (sorry for not replying correctly, I get my messages in digest and cannot reply to a single post in the digest list, I guess) This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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how to delete all the guides at once?
by Seweryn Kokot 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello, I have a problem with several guide lines which I want to remove but doing it manually is a tedious work. Is it possible to do it at once? XML editor doesn't help here since I can only select one guideline under <solidpodi:namedview id="base"> node. I thought to open the xml file in an external editor and then remove the guides while the file is open in inkscape. But then how to update the canvas and is it safe to change an xml file from outside while it is loaded in inkscape? regards, Seweryn Kokot

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L-System, Whirl, and System Requirements
by Aaron Elmquist 08 May '07

08 May '07

First I'd like to say that I'm very impressed with the level of talent and artistry in the inkscape community. Makes a hobbyist like me feel like a definite poser. The L-System I really like this feature. I was just using it to draw the the teeth on a gear. I don't fully understand how it works though. Obviously A though F will draw a line forward the specified number of steps. G though L move the cursor without drawing. + and - designate a right and left turn respectively and | (i think it's the pipe symbol) is 180 degree turn. I am having a hard time with the "[" and "]" that designate remember point on stack and return to point on stack, what's meant by Axiom, and what happens if an X or Y is thrown into the function definition. Also, does anyone know a good page/reference for most of the famous fractals? Whirl Whirl also has me a little stumped. I would think that x,y coordinate specified in the dialog would define the axis of rotation. I've tried several times to make an object whirl around it's center of mass/symmetry without any luck. I've use the points designated by the selection dialog which didn't seem to work. I'm guessing it's one of the corners of the bounding box. The I tried putting guides through what I thought was the center and using those values. No luck there either. My System My system seems to get really bogged down when ever I have any significant amount of nodes/objects for inkscape to keep track of. I'm running Windows XP with a 2.4 GHz Celeron and 640 MB of ram. I think this is going to become a significant source of headaches for me in the near future. I want to upgrade. Thoughts about minimum requirements for working comfortably on a Mac? I was thinking of trying a Linux system, but decided against it after installing Fedora Core 6 on my PC. I ran into too many compatibility issues with modems, monitor, printers, and other input devices. But, that's a discussion for another forum. Thanks for some great software. I hope I can contribute in the project in the near future. ~Aaron

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Blood Splat
by Tony Vigil 08 May '07

08 May '07

Greetings, all! Not much was "done by hand" in this case. I used 3 very "disturbed" stars with various settings (Unioned together) to create the basic shape. The highlights and shadows are merely a matter of making offset copies of my base shape, doing a difference of an offset and the original for each effect, blurring the results, then grouping and clipping the two lighting effects. This allows me to change the base color to resemble ink or paint or even glowing toxic waste. Also, I've made some improvements to the results of my technique. The new splat is much smoother looking than my initial posting! More liquidy-looking gooeyness!!! I'll definitely put a tutorial together over the next few days. - Tony

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Comparing Inkscape to Krita
by John R. Culleton 07 May '07

07 May '07

Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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URW Chancery L font needed
by heathenx 07 May '07

07 May '07

does anyone know if it's possible to get the "URW Chancery L" font loaded in winxp? this font is loaded on my ubuntu 7.04, opensuse 10.1 and 10.2 systems. from what i can tell it's a ghostscript font of some kind. i don't think it's a truetype font. btw, i have ghostscript installed on windows, if that does any good. thank-you, heathenx ps. shame on me for using a non-truetype font. live and learn.

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Presentations in Brazil
by ValessioBrito 07 May '07

07 May '07

Looking at now as the presentation of our friends was made: "Ted Gould"[1] and "Bryce Harrington"[2], in LGM I would like to share the presentations[3,4] that I made here in Brazil on Inkscape, different of that he exists I I used Layers. To facilitate the presentation in layers, I made a request[5] and reported one bug[6]. Two photos of the participants if find in a notice(pt_BR)[7] published in the InkscapeBrasil, other photos are for the InterNet in flirck for example. [1] http://gould.cx/ted/presentations/lgm/ [2] http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07 [3] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/ApresentacaoInkscapeDesen… [4] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/QuemEOInkscape/PalestraFL… [5] sf.net / inkscape / request #1714270 [6] sf.net / inkscape / bug #1714277 [7] http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/Noticia20070501002020 -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Question on Taking Part of An Image
by Grey 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hello, I'm trying to draw something for my webcomic and have come across a problem. I have several images of flags and I want to just take a section of them. For example, I would like to be able to draw a shape (a circle) on top of the flag, then remove all of the flag that sticks outside of the shape so I'm left with just a circular section of the flag. Is there any way to do this? Thank you for your time, -Grey http://www.WellingtonGrey.net/

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scaling fonts
by Gijsbert Stoet 05 May '07

05 May '07

I have a problem with scaling fonts (I am using Inkscape .45 on Ubunty Feisty). 1) Imagine you write some text in fontsize 32. 2) Then you scale the text object without keeping the aspect ration the same. For example you make it smaller 3) Then you select the text object. You will see that the size is smaller, it might be, say 30.2. 4) Then you decide that the text object should be 32. Then you select the text icon on the left and select 32. 5) NOW THE PROBLEM HAPPENS: Inkscape says that the text is 32, but it still keeps the wrong aspect ratio. Of course, you might wonder why this is a problem. What happens is that I need to rescale multiple objects (in step 2, not just text objects) and then afterwards select all text objects and set them to the intended point size. Inkscape seems to keep track of the transformation scale matrix and the aspect ratio. I am sure that has a purpose. But what if I want to say that a text object which has been scaled and transformed multiple time should have a particular font size. That seems impossible right now. Can anybody help me how I could resolve this problem? Thanks for your help! This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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