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Inkscape Book question
by Tavmjong Bah 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, There is a publisher who is interested in the book that I have written (http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php) but needs to be convinced that there is a real market for the book. In the proposal I have already quoted the growth in downloads from SourceForge and the inclusion of Inkscape in most major Linux distribution. Can people on this list think of other ways to document Inkscape's growing popularity? I believe I am up against poor performance of previous books on Open Source drawing programs (which may account for the fact that there are over 1000 Photoshop books versus about a dozen on Gimp, all but one published four or more years ago. Thanks, Tav

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Re: Autosave and "lost connection to X server"
by Phil Endecott 22 May '06

22 May '06

> Look for an SVG file in your home directory. None found. So I conclude that Inkscape doesn't autosave when it loses its connection to the X server. Is this right? Can this be changed? --Phil.

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Strange PDF
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi list, I tried to export my drawing to pdf filetype. I attached the way it is and the way it exports in pdf filetype. I didn't noticed it before. What I did wrong people ? Regards... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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Autosave and "lost connection to X server"
by Phil Endecott 21 May '06

21 May '06

Dear All, Does Inkscape have an autosave feature? I thought not, but searching finds some oblique references to such a thing. Generally I have found Inkscape reliable enough that autosave is not necessary, but I've just lost about 40 minutes work with this message: The application 'inkscape' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. Any idea what's going on there? It could be that the fault is with the X server, which suggests that Inkscape needs autosave even if it is itself bug-free! One of the search results for "inkscape autosave" mentions something about autosave in response to SEGV and similar. Perhaps what's necessary is for an unexpected X server disconnection to be treated in the same way. Cheers, Phil.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Measuring distances and angles
by bulia byak 21 May '06

21 May '06

On 5/18/06, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...> wrote: > > Ah, that I added it long ago. Try dragging with Ctrl+Alt in Node tool. > > Cool, thanks. One has to be carful, otherwise it jumps around, though. There was a bug in this, resulting in unstable behavior, which I just fixed. Now it strictly sticks to the two straight line segments' from the dragged node and their perpendiculars (which may be 2 or 4 directions in total, depending on whether the segments are perpendicular or not). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape on Spanish / Inkscape en Español
by Juan Miguel Ramirez 20 May '06

20 May '06

First I want to thank you (developers, translators, designers, etc) for your brilliant effort to improve Inkscape. I'm a designer, member of differents free software associations like Iniciativa Focus <http://www.iniciativafocus.org> or Linux-Malaga <http://www.linux-malaga.org> who some time ago chose to bet for free software like present and future on the world of graphic's design. Until now i only have contributed to the inkscape's community with some works and designs and some presentations and workshops around Spain: 2ª Jornadas Tecnológicas Andaluzas de Software Libre <http://jtasl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=99>(How to begin to design with free software: Inkscape and Gimp), Congreso Hispalinux 2005 <http://congreso.hispalinux.es>(Collaborative design with Inkscape) and Jornadas de Software Libre de Linux Malaga 2006 <http://jornadas.linux-malaga.org> (How to begin to vectorial illustration and make websites and corporate identities with Inkscape). Even though i want to promote inkscape on spanish and help with this task. This is the cause i want to help not only the project itself but to look for more interested people (there is some volunteers on the spanish's mailing list). I would to do it officially through the website because do it apart it would harmful for all and this is all i propose: * Translate the entire website (there is some parts without translations): o Translate all the news (old an new) o Translate the FAQ o Translate all the documentation (nowdays there is only translated the tutorials that comes with the program) o Translate Tools Section * Translate the interface (nowdays it is at 100% but i think the new version has going to have new terms) * Translate the mailing list(there is a spanish's mailing list but when you, for example, have to register all the messages are on english) * Generate new content for the website: o Create new tutorials o Create a planet inkscape on spanish o Insert new screenshots o Insert new elements into the gallery (illustrations, designs, etc) * Improve Inkscape's website trying to do it more autonomous on certain aspect (for example users can upload new designs, news,etc even though has to be supervised by another) To do all this i need to know who are the people in charge of the differents sections (i think it would be useful to create a section with the differents names and mails to contact them) and begin to coordinate with them on how we can do all this. (some sections like galleries, screenshots, some tutorials, presentations,etc are already made) Regards, Juan Miguel Ramirez (yomizmo) And now on Spanish ... Y ahora en español ... En primer lugar agradecer a todos y cada uno de los desarrolladores, colaboradores, diseñadores, traductores, etc por vuestro brillante esfuerzo en mejorar Inkscape. Soy un diseñador, miembro de diferentes asociaciones relacionadas con el mundo del software libre como pueden ser Iniciativa Focus y Linux-Malaga que hace ya algún tiempo decidió apostar por el software libre como presente y futuro en el mundo del diseño gráfico. Lo poquito que he aportado hasta ahora a la comunidad de inkscape han sido algunas presentaciones y talleres sobre inkscape en diferentes eventos en España: 2ª Jornadas Tecnológicas Andaluzas de Software Libre <http://jtasl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=99>(Iniciación al diseño gráfico mediante software libre: Inkscape y Gimp), Congreso Hispalinux 2005 <http://congreso.hispalinux.es>(Diseño colaborativo con Inkscape) y Jornadas de Software Libre de Linux Malaga 2006 <http://jornadas.linux-malaga.org> (Iniciación a la ilustración vectorial y Creación de páginas webs e identidades corporativas con Inkscape). Sin embargo después de llevar un tiempo suscrito a la lista de correo de Inkscape en español me he dado cuenta de la necesidad de promover inkscape en mi lengua materna, el español, y ayudar a la comunidad de inkscape en ello. Por eso me he propuesto no sólo a ayudar al proyecto sino a buscar más personas interesadas en hacerlo para ir sumando día a día(hay algunos voluntarios en la lista de correo española). Me gustaría hacerlo de manera oficial a través de la web de inkscape puesto que hacerlo de manera independiente sería perjudicial para todos los usuarios y por ello propongo: * Traducir la web de inkscape completamente al castellano (hay partes sin traducir): o Traducir las noticias (las ya existentes y las que vayan apareciendo) o Traducir la FAQ al español o Traducir la documentación al español (tan sólo están los tutoriales que vienen con el programa) o Traducir la sección herramientas * Traducir la Interfaz al español (ahora mismo está traducido pero hablo pensando en la nueva version, la 0.44 que sé que trae nuevas novedades que habrá que traducir) * Traducir la lista de correo al castellano (ya existe una lista de correo en castellano pero por ejemplo los mensajes a la hora de suscribirte están en inglés) * Generar nuevo contenido para la web: o Crear nuevos tutoriales o Crear un planeta inkscape en español o Insertar nuevas capturas de pantalla o Insertar nuevos elementos en la galeria (ilustraciones, diseños, etc) * Mejorar la web de inkscape intentando hacerla lo más autónoma posible en ciertos aspectos(que los propios usuarios puedan subir diseños, noticias, etc aunque estas tengan que ser aprobadas por alguna persona) Para todo esto necesito saber quienes son las personas encargadas de las diferentes secciones (creo que sería interesante no sólo para mi, el crear una sección con las diferentes personas encargadas de las diferentes secciones y como contactar con ellas) y empezar a coordinarme con ellas cómo realizar todo este proceso. (algunas cosas como graficos para la galeria, capturas de pantalla y algunos tutoriales están ya hechos) Saludos, Juan Miguel Ramirez (yomizmo)

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NEW: node sculpting
by bulia byak 20 May '06

20 May '06

http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-nodesculpting.png An entirely new way of manipulating paths in Node tool is added in this version: Node sculpting. Normally, when you have several nodes selected and you drag one of them, all selected nodes move by the same amount. Now, if you Alt-drag one of the selected nodes, only that node is fully displaced; other selected nodes are moved less than the full amount, so that those farthest from the drag point remain stationary. So, for example, if you select several nodes on a straight line and Alt+drag the middle selected node, the path will bend into a smooth bell-like curve. Nodes' handles are also adjusted correspondingly to keep the overall shape smooth and natural. (If you don't have enough nodes on a path fragment that you want to reshape in this way, just select the end nodes of that fragment and press Ins a few times to populate it with nodes.) Moreover, node sculpting is sensitive to pressure of your tablet pen. If you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. the nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you press hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest neighbors will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop dragging without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the tip of the pen.) There are many possible applications of the sculpting technique. To take a simple example, selecting all nodes of an ellipse-like shape and Alt+dragging one of them will smoothly and naturally stretch and skew the entire shape in any direction. Doing the same to a complex path, such as star or spiral, will twist and punch it without destroying its intricate structure - this is the way to get squashed or self-intersecting stars, eccentric spirals and other shapes not easily doable before. Selecting only part of all nodes allows you to smoothly reshape parts of the figure without disturbing the rest. Especially useful node sculpting is for complex natural paths, such as calligraphic strokes or bitmap traces, where you often want to do large-scale pushes and bends without destroying the small-scale features. Things like making a calligraphic stroke narrower in one place and wider in another, or extending the ear or flattening the nose of a head, or any other reshaping of complex paths - all this is now much faster and more natural to do using sculpting. Starting from en ellipse with added nodes, it takes just a few Alt+drags to tweak it into a silhouette of a head, or a map of Australia, or an Inkscape logo! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Border under filling on text
by lodzik 20 May '06

20 May '06

How to set filling above border on text? I have problem, because I need use big border on small text. P.S. Sorry for my english...

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new website design
by j michaelson 20 May '06

20 May '06

hello all, i've just seen the new and improved inkscape website. very nice. i like the minimal pallete and it's clean and proffesional. good work. john michaelson.

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Personnal Palette
by ＠ntoine 20 May '06

20 May '06

Archive http://yudeo.free.fr/inkscape/yudeo-palette.zip Screenshot http://yudeo.free.fr/inkscape/inkscape/apercu.jpg Few colors I oftenly use. It's usefull for me, let's see for you ! Good week end. Yudeo

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