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NEW: faster blur
by bulia byak 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I committed the patch by Jasper which implements a faster blur algorithm, so now the Gaussian blur must be noticeably faster in the SVN trunk. Everyone using gaussian blur, please test the new code with regard to: - any especially bad artefacts? (as before, lowering quality in Preferences > Filters introduces some artefacts, but they look reasonable, I think even nicer than with the old algorithm) - how much faster it is on your images? (test on different zooms and with export; we need some estimates to put into the release notes) - is the range of quality/speed settings adequate? or would you like to have a still faster/lower quality step? - any other problems? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Help with the
by Michael Grosberg 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I'm currently using this great extension (yes, it does work fine for me on both the development and stable versions, on a Windows XP machine). It's great for exporting a large amount of icons from a single file - I used to have to export from inkscape to photoshop to break a single file into slices, but now I can skip that, which is a great help. Now the way I work with it, is like this: I'm creating a grid of icons on a single file. So, I open a new layer and name it "slices". On it I draw 16x16 pixel rectangles and give them appropriate icon names. now on the layers dialog I lock this layer and change its opacity to 0%, and I'm free to draw anything I want on a layer above that. Just before export I group all the stuff on the top layer, so when I run the extension I get PNG files for all my icons plus one large file with all of them at once, which I can delete. So it's all well but I was wondering if there was any way I could edit the python script so it would only look for objects on a single layer named "slices". I'm not looking into any fancy change in dialog, I was just wondering if a quick hack of the python script could do that. I'm not a programmer, but I do have some background in scripting, so I tried to look a the script and the correct place seems to be the for loop at the end, but I'll be damned if I know what to put in there to make it do what I want. So, if anyone can help me and it's not too much of a bother, I'd be really hankful!

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Baffling UI
by Olivier Lefevre 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I've been trying to use Inkscape but its UI seems designed to foil attempts. Specifically when I select the rectangle drawing tool and create a shape by dragging I get one width a dashed contour that vanishes as soon as I click anywhere on the pane. There does not seem to be any way to make it stick and thus to actually get a rectangle. How dumb is that? If you need assistance just to draw a rectangle, never mind more advanced operation, something's really wrong with the UI. Likewise the need to use a CTRL modifier for the arrow keys to work runs counter to th expectations developed in users by every other software I can think of and is inconvenient to boot. -- O.L.

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the vertical ruler starts from below!?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I wanted to switch the vertical ruler to show the lowest number at top but there was no such option. For things like layouting a business letter this is the better way because the definition of a business letter begins at the top of the page. Dennis

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connecting flowtext to further shapes?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I have found out how to link shapes for flowtext. However, it seems that I have to re-connect all shapes if I want to include or append another one. Is there an easier way except the XML-editor (if that's easier at all)? Dennis

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Can't do 2 simple things
by Dave M G 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Inkscape Users, I've climbed up and down the interface, help files, and the web, and I can't find out how to do these two simple tasks: 1. Unhide objects. When one selects "Object->Properties", one can select a check box to "hide" the object. But, once hidden, the object is no longer selectable, and nowhere is there a general "unhide all" option, or any other option to get access to hidden objects. It's almost like I've deleted them, except I can't even get them visible again with "undo". How do I unhide objects? 2. Put text along a Path. Sure, I know I can go to "Text-> Put On Path", but nothing happens when I do. I select the text first, then the path. I select the path first, then the text. I put the text below the path, above the path, I group them, I ungroup them... how does one actually get the text onto the path? Thanks for any help or advice. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2

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troublesome flowtext
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hello I read in the docs that flowtext boxes can be linked so that text flows from one box into another. However, the docs do not show how that works and I couldn't find out. Could please somebody tell me how to do that? If I create an empty second text box for the text to be flowed in from the first text box, after clicking into the first text box, the second text box is gone. How can I create text boxes that stay even if the are empty. This is also important for creating templates. There seems to be no option for defining pages. A page could be just a layer that blends out all layers below it and all layers above the next page (including it). This would be a nice feature because switching from page to page wouldn't mean turning off visibility for one text layer and turning on visibility for the next layer to work with. Fiddling with the text boxes is quite annoying. One has to click exactly on the letters to get the box. Also, if there are empty lines below the text--possibly to copy in some part from somewhere else-- there is no way to directly get back to there after having clicked into another text box. Selecting some text is annoying too. The tool doesn't behave well --especially when selecting from the end upwards. However, the last line seems to be hardly recognized when selecting text. A select tool only for text (an arrow with an A at the right) would be nice to help using inkscape like a text layout tool or a word processor. This tool should always highlight all textboxes for the quick overview of the page layout and allow the user to click into a text box anywhere where text or free spaces are given. If one clicks outside the given text in the box, the cursor should find the nearest position at the text automatically. When two boxes overlap, the highest is chosen. When the text selection tool is used, inkscape interprets a text box as opaque because overlayed text boxes are of no use in text layout mode and transparent boxes would have to pass clicks through instead of the behaviour written above. Hope you can make use of this Dennis Heuer

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Fwd: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po
by ValessioBrito 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ValessioBrito <valessio@...155...> Date: 01/02/2007 14:19 Subject: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po To: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ( I'm not subscribe? ) No render simbol " º " = 90º in: 90° #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2170 msgid "Rotate 9_0° CCW" msgstr "Girar 9_0° graus" #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2171 msgid "Rotate selection 90° counter-clockwise" msgstr "Girar a seleção 90° graus no sentido anti-horário" I believe that all the languages. view attach. -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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PDF -> pstoedit -> SVG -> Inkscape scaling problem
by Phil Rhoades 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

People, I quite frequently need to convert PDFs into something convenient to edit and SVG + Inkscape is the obvious choice. I use pstoedit with either the plot-svg output or the shareware svg output but in either case the output of converting a US letter file seems to be scaled down to 80% when opened in Inkscape. Of course the page can be dragged up to the correct size again but it would be better not to have to do this. >From the pstoedit developer: "I did some investigations and it looks like this scaling issue is caused by different interpretations of the numbers in the SVG file. Somewhere I read that Inkscape has an internal factor of 0.8 "Inkscape pixels" per "Point". I have not found out yet, what pstoedit could generate so inkscape interpretes the numbers as Points (except maybe adding a pt to every coordinate - but that would blow up the SVG file a lot). Is there anyone who can shed some light on this? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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cna gradient transparency be applied to a bitmap?
by momo 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, I have a small question about the gradient tool in Inkscape: can transpency gradients be applied to bitmaps imported into Inkscape? It seems that I cannot apply gradient transparency to bitmaps. Alpha transparensy woks fine, blur too. I there such a feature in Inkcape? Thanks! Molumen

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