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Inkscape at LGM 2007 Montreal
by Bryce Harrington 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

May 4-6 is the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal. Mark it on your calendars! http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ We hope to gather a huge number of Inkscape developers and users to talk face to face about Inkscape, new features, ideas, and so on. See It would be useful to know who all will be there. Can you email me off-list if you are thinking about attending? (Sponsorship will be available, so if cost is an issue let me know.) Bryce On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:30:41PM -0500, Louis Desjardins wrote: > Dear Inkscape team! > > I'd like to post a few info here for the benefits of all travellers to LGM. > > 1. I know the website of LGM is outdated. I expect things to be > straightened up in the coming days. :) > > 2. Meanwhile, the Create wiki has been updated : > > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference > > 3. Visa. Please review the VISA info as it might apply to some of you > when travelling to Canada. > > 4. Rooms. We have dealt a LGM special price on rooms at the Student > Residences of the uni hosting the LGM. All info is on the wiki. What has > guided me is to allow LGM participants and especially the devel teams to > be together most of the time (remember we only have 3 days), have > internet access and enough room to organize meetings. All that into a > calm environment. The residences are on the site of the LGM at less than > 5 minutes from the main auditorium. Arrival date : May 3 (Conference > starts on May 4). We may be able to arrange things if you want to arrive > earlier. Please let me know. > > And we also want to avoid getting people lost in the city (Montreal is a > North American city, quite extended...) and taking up most of their time > getting from their hotel to the LGM site and back. I have made a > reservation on 50 Single rooms + 5 Cosy Suites (with large bed) and > there are lots more room there if needed. On each other floor of the > residence people have access to a Salon that can hold a good 10 to 12 > people meeting and we also have access to another 3 large rooms for > meetings with more than 20 persons at a time. > > 5. Sponsorship. I am deeply concerned by sponsorship. We have to be able > to help people get to the LGM. So far, I am still waiting on > confirmation but sponsors have shown clear interest in helping us again > this year. It's a matter of time until we know for sure the exact amount > we going to get from the sponsors. Please stay tuned. I will post the > info as soon as I have something to say. > > 6. LGM speakers. I would appreciate that people interested in making a > talk at LGM show up on the Create wiki. Some people have contacted me > early by e-mail. Please fill the wiki as well. This is the only sure way > to help me put the schedule together. Also, if you know someone that > would be a good speaker, don't hesitate to propose his/her name. And > don't forget the subject suggestions as well. > > 7. LGM Brochure (see wiki for details) : we'd like to have each project > described. Cédric Gemy should be able to take care of Inkscape's > description and maybe more. At the same time, if anyone on this list has > images created with Inkscape that we could use to show what the program > can do, please contact me off list. We don't need that many images but > since we're distributed in the graphic designers magazine, the higher > the level the better the effect, imo. > > 8. If anyone has a question or comment or suggestion, please don't > hesitate to get back to me. > > Hope to see you again at LGM2 and of course meet new people! > > Louis Desjardins > LGM 2007 organizer > > -- > Louis Desjardins > Mardigrafe inc. > T 514 934 1353 > F 514 934 3698 > http://www.mardigrafe.com

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Perspective 0.45 and numpy
by Donn 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi, wondering how to get 'numpy' installed on my Kubuntu Dapper system so I can muck about with perspective tool. I installed 'python-numeric' via apt-get but that puts 'Numeric' into the system-wide Python directory, not the Inkscape one. I have not had much luck with making links from /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric either. I also remarked: self.q['y'] = docheight - self.q['y'] - self.q['height'] in summersnight.py as per Tav's suggestion. Any help? /d -- When you allow legends to rule your life, your world is based on fiction -- Segio Aragones (Groo the Wanderer Number 99)

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changing background colour
by Peter Eaton 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

HiI, I just started using inkscape. It seems very good, but I want to draw in white. How do i get the background (alpha channel) to be displayed in another colour? thanks,pete. ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Peter Eaton e-mail : petereaton@...9... _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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0.45.1pre0
by Aaron Spike 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 0.45.1pre0 is upon us! Packagers, please package. Testers, please test. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF9v+v1wsJX4VXgboRAtScAJ9HjD+Meaiai/KIOGPGJTPamfl7KQCfQHu2 P/U9hfPk3PV2uSAfSrkben4= =h1A2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Font size: Pixels vs. Points
by Jed Frechette 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I've written a simplistic Python script [1] that will change all of the font-size units in an SVG file from pixels to points. The script doesn't actually do a conversion it simply replaces the unit suffix of px with pt. If you create some text in Inkscape with size 10 and save it; font-size:10px Run the script on the file; font-size:10pt Open and edit the file in Inkscape; font-size:12.5px This is a workaround for the bug that the UI never shows the units (pixels) associated with font size numbers and it is difficult to specify sizes in units other than pixels [2]. This is the quickest hack I could put together when I realized that the text in all of the figures for my thesis was the wrong size, therefore it hasn't been tested much, so if anybody uses it you should take appropriate precautions (e.g. backup your data). Clearly this is an ugly hack, but if there is no interest in fixing the underlying issue, or it's to painful, I could put together something similar as an effect. It seems like a better solution would be to, at a minimum show, what unit font size is in. When setting the default font size in the toolbar specifying a unit results in the correct conversion, so maybe a more general fix wouldn't be to hard. Unfortunately, trying to specify a unit when changing the size of existing text or doing anything with a unit in the text dialog doesn't work. In any case, I would be interested in getting some input from others. Best, [1] http://www.unm.edu/~jdfrech/svg_font-size_px2pt.py [2] See bugs 161347, 1619753, and 1657337 P.S. Sorry about the cross-posting but this seems like a somewhat nonobvious issue that has tripped up at least a few other people before me. -- Jed Frechette http://jdfrechette.alturl.com 3203 Dead, 23,417 Wounded

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Google Summer of Code - Student applications now being accepted!
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

If you are a student that is eligible to qualify as an applicant for the Google Summer of Code, and have an interest in getting paid to contribute to Inkscape, well, this is for you. We do ask that if you are not really committed to seeing a project through to completion that you please not waste anyone's time (including your own). The link for applicants is: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-… (wow, that's a long url) Just so all applicants are aware, we do have an additional condition (above Google's) for all applicants. The condition is that two patches are contributed via our patch tracker prior to acceptance (doesn't need to be anything major). The patches can be bug fixes, filling feature requests, or even scratching some itch of your own for Inkscape. Please know that this condition is standard for our project for all new contributors to get SVN commit access, we've just extended it to the applicants this year as well. Good luck everyone and we look forward to hearing from you! -Josh

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About Installer on Windows
by Elfi Heck 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi all, I just downloaded the latest packages for GIMP on Windows. GIMP and GTK have two separate installers and GTK installs itself in the Common Files directory. Now: I was wondering if it would be possible for Inkscape to use that GTK installation. I'm not a friend of duplicate files even if they're small. Regards, Elfi

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[OT] Contest XMMS2, first $ 400 !
by ValessioBrito 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

XMMS2 Team officially announced its graphic competition today. The competitions goal is for the popular media player to gain a new look and to increase awareness of the project. The competitions will be split up in two parts: the first will be for a new logotype. The second part, which will be launched after the conclusion of the first, will aim for a new look for the wiki with reusable elements for client authors to use. First prize in both competitions is an Amazon.com gift certificate valid for $400. The prize money for this contest came from last year's Google Summer of Code program. The competition will start today and last submission date will be 2007-04-13. To compete or get more information please visit http://xmms2-contest.blogspot.com/ --- é para quem gosta de participar destes concursos... :D -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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Cannot Email Inkscape created PDFs as attachements
by tron 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello. I have successfully created PDFs of my Inscape projects and they look/work perfectly on my PC, however when I try to email them as attachements to someone else the recipient just sees a plain text batch file and code. Does anyone know what is happening to the PDF by being emailed? Thanks so much!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-Email-Inkscape-created-PDFs-as-attachements-tf… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Turning of Anti-aliasing
by Chris McCormick 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, I would like to have fonts and shapes with sharp edges in some instances. Is there a way to turn off anti-aliasing on a per-object basis? Thanks for your time. Best, Chris. ------------------- chris@...2138... http://mccormick.cx

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Draw from Scratch or Import and Trace?
by Aaron Elmquist 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

This is a newbie question. How do most people use inkscape and other illustration programs? Do they draw from scratch directly in the program, or do they create a rough sketch to scan and import to provide some guidance?

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12 Hours Left in the Open Font Library Logo Competition!
by Jon Phillips 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

That's right, there is only 12 hours left in the Open Font Library logo competition. Make sure to get your submissions in before the end of server time at 11:59 PST today on March 14. No entries are allowed after that time, so now is the time. When the deadline is hit, there will be 5 days for the 3 judges to come to a decision, so it is a great time for us all to comment/review what has been submitted, rate it, and let the judges hear loud and clear what we all think :) Note, you can still judge after the deadline... http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo/ On the heels of this competition, which I want to have us launch tomorrow, is the Create Project Logo Competition. This will be on Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/wiki/Contests One other note, it would be great to think up font competition to lead into after the OFL.o logo is selected, to help build up the community :) Cheers! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, Thank you for your answer. bulia byak wrote: > On 3/5/07, Jochen Deibele <jmdeibele@...26...> wrote: > > What I want to do: I have an irregular (so non rectangular) shaped > > object, which has points which should snap to the grid, when I move the > > group (so I can easily lay another object of another shape but same kind > > next to it and the points meet). These points are not on one of the > > center-lines and are also not the edges. Is there a way to do this? > > You cannot do this in Selector tool because it only snaps the outer > nodes of a shape (in the "snap nodes" mode), not all nodes. But you > can do this with Node tool. Just select all nodes of a shape and drag > any of them - all the shape will move, snapping by all its nodes. > > That works fine if I only have one shape. If I for example try to have a group of one rectangle and one line it doesn't work. I can't select all nodes if the objects were grouped, so I tried to combine them. Then I can select all nodes, but still I'm not able to make them snap to the grid. If I combine them and select all the nodes of only one shape (either the line or the rectangle) I can move the shape while snapping works, but not if both are selected. Jochen

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Open Font Library Logo Contest Closes March 14 + Please Review Submissions
by Jon Phillips 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

We are in the final days of the Open Font Library logo contest. If you have something to submit, now's the time! Also, please help review the current submissions, because that is having a big impact on who refines their content and uploads new content. http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo/view/contest/entries After this contest is up, then the 3 judges will have 5 days to figure out the best logo. At the close of the current contest, Open Clip Art Library has a logo competition queued up for the Create Project to get a logo/facelift: http://create.freedesktop.org Cool! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Anybody know how to add randomization to existing objects
by Tony Vigil 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Bulia, It just occurred to me that I've mixed up some terminology. When I've said "filter", I really meant "effect". Can an effect be created that would randomize rotation, size or transparency of selected objects based on the pixel color of a bitmap below each object's origin? - Tony

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Was : Wondering why Ink is running slow.
by Donn 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hello all concerned, sorry for not getting back to you on the issue of a while back -- I could not, my machine got fritzed by a spike and after almost 3 weeks I am on a totally new machine, so guess that's all over. Regards, Donn -- He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt

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color rendering intent
by Dwain Alford 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

i don't remember if i asked this question before, but what is the color rendering intent of inkscape; is it perceptual, relative colorimetric or absolute colorimetric? thanks again for the answer for the color profile inkscape uses. dwain -- dwain alford p.o. box 145 winfield, alabama 35594 u.s.a. tele: 205.487.2570 cell: 205.495.5619

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V0.45, exporting PDF => result without images
by Holger Wiechert 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi, seems like the never ending story. After spending about a day for the drawing, I finally found out, that I can't get it to the print service just like that, because all images are not included within the created pdf. I looked up the mailing lists, googled like hell, read wikis, tried the hand made "effects-extensions" via ghostscript, used the command line option "--export-pdf". Same result: no images in the pdf. Great program, but if I only can see the result on the screen, the whole thing is questionable. However, maybe I've just missed *the* hint, that will do the job. So, the way for best results would be File => Save As... => PDF? I just need any way, to get that thing out as it looks on the screen! Any help appreciated. Cheers, Holger

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Anybody know how to add randomization to
by Tony Vigil 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

----- Original Message ---- >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 01:00:48 -0400 >From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> > >> I've just discovered the stamp tool. One thing that is missing... >> randomization of the object's attributes. It would be nice if this tool > >allowed for randomization, kind of like the Tiled Clones tool. > >Actually we don't have "stamp tool", it's just one function of the >Selector tool. But I agree that randomization with stamping might be >useful. I did submit a feature request at SourceForge a few days ago. Microsoft Expression has something along this line. You simply select your object then set the randomization parameters for size, rotation and line/fill values (including transparency) and stamp away. >> Until something like that comes to be, is this something that could be cooked up >> as a filter? Could a filter be created that randomly rotates each >> individual object in a selection within a given range of values? > >Not for rotation, but for randomizing positions we have a button in >Align and Distribute dialog. Are you saying that a filter can't be created or that one doesn't exist? >> How about this... could a filter be created that sets the rotation of the individual >> objects in a selection based on the brightness of an image's pixel value >> underneath the object's centerpoint? Any thoughts on the subject? > >That's a good idea for the Tile Clones, Trace tab. Please file a RFE >on it and I'll work on it when I have time. > Please excuse my ignorance... what does "RFE" stand for? Is this the same thing as making a feature request at SourceForge? - Tony

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Selector's scale handle modifiers
by bulia byak 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Currently, when you scale an object by its scale handles in Selector, you can use the following modifiers: Ctrl+mouse drag scale preserving aspect ratio Shift+mouse drag symmetric transformation (around center) Alt+mouse drag slow movement The "slow movement" mode with Alt simply scales the object by 1/10 of your mouse movement, the goal being increased precision. This mode is inherited unchanged all the way from Sodipodi. In my opinion, however, it is weird, counterintuitive and not at all useful. It also has no analogs in other tools. So my question is, will anyone complain if I remove the "slow movement" mode? On the other hand, one useful thing that's missing is the ability to scale the object to 2, 3, 4 and 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc of its current size. (This is possible from keyboard by Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< but not by mouse). So I'm thinking about enabling the Alt modifier to do this "quantized scaling". Among other things, this would enable the often needed transformation: flipping an object around one of its bbox edges (by Ctrl+Alt+dragging a side handle). Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Anybody know how to add randomization to existing objects?
by Tony Vigil 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Howdy! I've just discovered the stamp tool. One thing that is missing... randomization of the object's attributes. It would be nice if this tool allowed for randomization, kind of like the Tiled Clones tool. Until something like that comes to be, is this something that could be cooked up as a filter? Could a filter be created that randomly rotates each individual object in a selection within a given range of values? How about this... could a filter be created that sets the rotation of the individual objects in a selection based on the brightness of an image's pixel value underneath the object's centerpoint? Any thoughts on the subject? Thanks, - Tony

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How to copy these features from Adobe Illustrator
by Marco Shaw 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

**First time Inkscape user** I'm trying to create an SVG file for a 3rd party product. They provide instructions on how to properly create an SVG file for their app, but specify the following: "Make sure the Font Subsetting is set to "None (Use System Fonts)", Encoding is set to "ISO 8859-1 (ASCII)" and CSS Property Location is set to "Style Attributes."" I can't seem to find any comparable settings in Inkscape. How can I know if I'm "compatible"? Also, they talk about a "layer palette": "...layers palette allows you to see all grouping levels on your map. This will allow you to make sure all objects are properly grouped before exporting. [...] all dynamic objects must be grouped with a text while all static objects must remain ungrouped." I couldn't find similar functionality in Inkscape to view the layers (or at least I don't think so). Marco

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Dropper not working
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

For some reason, since I upgraded to the second Beta of 0.45 the dropper tool hasn't worked. I'm running the final version 0.45 and the issue is still present. With both "Pick Alpha" and "Set Alpha" set it always picks the RGBA value, 00000000. With "Pick Alpha" disabled I get ffffff. Selecting an average stroke colour works. It's only when attempting to pick a single pixel does it not work. For some reason, if I search long enough, I can find stray pixels that can be sampled. Not often can I get their true colour though. I can sample colours from bitmaps I use in the drawings. Any ideas how I can fix this? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dropper-not-working-tf3361246.html#a9350267 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tablet - Panning doesn't work with Pen
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I have a button on my Wacom Intuos3 tablet assigned to "middle click" with the intention of using it when I need to pan the canvas. When I hold the button and move the pen, nothing happens. If I hold it and move the mouse the panning works fine. Is there something I can do to fix this? I'm running XP SP2 with the latest Wacom driver 6.02-1. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet---Panning-doesn%27t-work-with-Pen-tf3361270.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi! Is there a way to select a node as a snap "target"? What I want to do: I have an irregular (so non rectangular) shaped object, which has points which should snap to the grid, when I move the group (so I can easily lay another object of another shape but same kind next to it and the points meet). These points are not on one of the center-lines and are also not the edges. Is there a way to do this? I tried some combinations of snap options and searched the mailinglist archives and the net but didn't find anything about that. Thank you very much in Advance, Jochen

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